Warriors vs. Rockets Odds & Picks

The Houston Rockets accept already accurate they will not go quietly, as axiomatic by their 131-116 win in Bold 5 over the Golden State Warriors. The activity accouterment aback to San Francisco for Bold 6 on Friday and it appears there’s a lot of absorption surrounding Steph Curry’s thumb. Can the Rockets force a Bold 7, or will the Warriors handle their business at home? There is affluence of plays to attending at as one of the best alternations in the 2025 NBA playoffs resumes.

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Houston Rockets at Golden State Warriors

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Since the Golden State absolutism began in 2015, the Warriors accept played in 12 altered alternation that accept gone at atomic six games. They accept alone absent both Bold 5 and Bold 6 in one of those series, the abominable 2016 NBA Finals, but remember, Draymond Green was abeyant for Bold 5.

They are accordingly 11-0 beneath those affairs with both Green and Stephen Curry in the picture. I anticipate there are a few affidavit for this, but the simplest is that Golden State about consistently has added abhorrent pivots than its adversary because of its beatnik arena style. If the adversary solves Steve Kerr’s motion, the Warriors can acclimatize to arena normal, pick-and-roll abundant breach and abash the adversary all over again. Anticipate of Bold 6 amid the Rockets and Warriors in 2019 as an example.

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Curry was aside absolutely in the aboriginal half. He erupted in the additional back he and Green started active pick-and-roll over and over again. Bethink back he denticulate 50 in Bold 7 adjoin the Kings a few years ago? Similar concept: Curry doesn’t like arena hero ball, but he can do it. He has added answers for you than you except for him. I accordingly apprehend him to able this arch Houston aegis in Bold 6 added than I apprehend the Rockets to accept new concepts to bandy at the Warriors on the added end of the floor. The Pick: Warriors -5.5

I anticipate Golden State‘s breach works in Bold 6. I’m not as assured in Houston’s. Their Bold 5 breach relied on unsustainable shooting, and their Bold 4 breach relied on Green accepting into abhorrent agitation and accordingly not actuality on the cloister to apathetic bottomward Alperen Sengun. The breach has contrarily struggled mightily, and with the Warriors abiding to their home attic for Bold 6 with a renewed urgency, I apprehend them to bolt the Rockets to allowance the series. The Pick: Beneath 207.5

I best Steven Adams over 6.5 rebounds in Bold 5, and had the bold been competitive, he would accept gotten there. He had six in about 17 minutes, but the bolt is that he had far beneath affairs for abhorrent rebounds because the Rockets fabricated all their shots in the aggressive allocation of the game. The added they miss, the added affairs he gets. If you agnosticism their offense, bet their abhorrent rebounding. The Adams-Sengun calendar has been their alone reliable weapon in this series. They’re assertive those account and accepting dead with any added calendar on the floor. They’ll go bottomward relying on it, so cycle with Adams. The Pick: Adams Over 7.5 Rebounds