Golden State Shocks Houston in Playoff Upset Victory

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00:00Will the regular season mean a lick of anything in the association moving forward?

00:05Well, only if the team that has home floor advantage can beat up on a team that had to

00:10emerge out of the play in tournament.

00:13Well, it was that play in tourney team with all the playoff experience in pedigree.

00:18That being Steph Curry, Draymond Green, and now Jimmy Butler and

00:22the Warriors kind of beaten up on the two seed.

00:2595-85, the victory for Golden State taking game number one on the road to start the set

00:32last night.

00:33Basically, 14 cents of difference in a money line price, but the Doves were an ever so slight

00:38underdog, catching a point on the road in H-Town, minus 102 on the money line.

00:43By the way, you see it there.

00:44Neither team getting to the century mark.

00:47A total of 213.5 does stay well under.

00:51Well, that was the worst part about seeing that final score.

00:54There's some things you can say, like, okay, the number two seed, boy, it was a great hard

00:57fall game.

00:58Yes, number two seeds have lost the lower seeds a couple games in a series before.

01:01That's not the surprise here.

01:03It's the fact that that score was 95-85.

01:05Like, the Rockets are the two seed and mustered 85 points in a playoff game at home and lost

01:10by double digits.

01:11Like, coming in to me, this was the focus series.

01:13This was okay.

01:14Young and up-and-coming team worked hard during the regular season, earned that number two seed,

01:19and the rest of the, let's just say, sports books and handicappers and oddsmakers are telling

01:23us, you know, it doesn't matter at all.

01:25You know, it's a nice little shiny season for the Houston Rockets, but wait till they

01:28play a team with playoff pedigree, they're going to go down.

01:30And it just so happens it's the Golden State Warriors in the seven seed here, easily dispatching

01:34them of double digits.

01:35And honestly, 21-18 first quarter, okay, Houston, you're in the playoffs now.

01:39You want to get the jitters away.

01:40That's the quarter that you expect them to lose by 10 points just to find their footing.

01:43They didn't.

01:44They won the first quarter.

01:45They fell completely apart in the second quarter.

01:47That game was a wrap after it.

01:48So just looking at the totals, you expect Jimmy Butler to have a high usage rate, 19 shot attempts.

01:53You expect Steph Curry to do the same thing, 19 shot attempts, 31 and 25.

01:57But the expectations for Houston was, this is a good young team specifically on offense

02:01and only able to muster 85 points.

02:04They should have been rested.

02:05They should have been ready for that game.

02:06And they weren't.

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