Greetings, Hoops Heads, welcome to Locked Warriors. Part of the Lockdown Podcast Network. It's Tuesday. May 15th. I'm your host, Aliko Carter.

Kerr did it. He started the Hamptons 5 against the Houston Rockets and it worked.

The lineup was able to score and for the most part contained Clint Capella while playing staunch defense on the role players, forcing them into a pretty poor shooting

night from three other than James Hardin.

No one shot particularly well.

So the offense was there, the defense was there, and the Warriors

have taken game one in Houston, seizing the home court advantage and setting them up nicely for game two.

We're going to get into all that, but first, you can get this podcast on Spotify, iTunes, iOS, and

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in my credentials. Great show today. We're interested in my credentials great show today we're talking

dubs all day and we're going to start with kevin durant because kevin durant did it again

14 of 27 from the field three of six from three 37 big points and he scored over everybody

p j tucker james hardinen Trevor Areza the Warriors only managed 24 assists on the night lower than their average lower than their playoff average but when you have a talent like Kevin Durant especially he can get to his spots in the one-on-one and you know they keyed in on him they sent multiple defenders at him it didn't

matter he shot over the defense for the most part he didn't even have to pass the ball only one

assist on the night even when he was doubled he didn't pass out of the double teams he scored

because he's a scorer that's what he does oh and i forgot to mention he hit shots over Chris Paul, Clint Capella.

And he was assisted a little bit too.

Stefan Curry turned into an assist guy, only one of five from three, but he was still very

good, 18 points, and he had his way in the paint.

People forget Stefan Curry is very, very good in the paint, and he has

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