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Welcome to Locked-on Warriors, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network.

It's Tuesday. May 29th.

I'm your host, Aliko Carter.

Well, the Dubs did it.

They did it in Game 7, made it back to the finals for a fourth straight year.

You all know that.

Let's get right into it.

As Game 7s tend to be, this one was ugly. The Warriors couldn't hold on to the ball in the first half,

and the Rockets couldn't hit the broadside of a barn in the second. Seriously, some very open shots that they just clunked.

I've seen on, you know, Facebook, Twitter, people

talking about it's rigged, people are talking about if they had Chris Paul. I'm just like,

y'all, slow down. I mean, if it's rigged, it's been rigged for a long time. And I'm not saying

it is, because I don't believe it is. I believe that refereeing is a very, very tough thing to do. I think James Harden was definitely

hit on a couple of those three-pointers that he went up for, but you got to make shots. He didn't

make shots. And if you look at the free throws, which I will after this extended introduction,

you'd see that the disparity isn't that crazy. But also, as far as not having

Chris Paul, I don't think that's an argument that the Warriors would ever make, but you had people

postgame, PJ Tucker, James Hardin saying, if Chris Paul had been there, it would have been a different

story. Whatever happened to the next man up mentality? Whatever happened to we're the team that we're going to be and you're just going to have to face us

as we are. And if we win, we win and if we lose, we lose. That's the mentality that the warriors have

always had. If Stefan Curry wasn't good to go and they lost in the second round or lost in

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