While many started to count them out, the Golden State Warriors never took a step back. Without their best player, they entered a rocking Toyota Center and defeated the Houston Rockets, ending their season for the second year in a row.
It was a gutsy performance that will forever be a staple of this generation. It’s proven, for yet another time, that team-style basketball trumps the Rockets isolation-heavy offense. However, it wasn’t given, the Warriors earned it.
They entered the fourth quarter down four and were down by as many as seven before Stephen Curry came alive.