Different from the big score gap in other games, the Warriors faced the Rockets in the playoffs, and the two sides fought defensive battles, and the slow-paced games brought about by fierce confrontation brought a wave of unique desire to win and lose.

Although the Rockets have the advantage of the restricted area and rebounding, the Warriors duo stabilized their position around the game experience, and with role players to step up and assist at the right time, they blocked the opponent's counterattack many times, and won 85-0 in the end, and the next gram reversed to steal the opening of the series.

Looking back on this game, it is different from the previous battles, and this game seems to go back to the eighties and nineties. At the beginning, the Rockets arranged Shen Jing to attack the restricted area, and with Fan Jordan to take a wave of 3-0 leads, suppressing the Warriors all the way. It wasn't until Curry got the opportunity to break through twice that the score gap was locked at 0 points to end the first quarter.

At the beginning of the second quarter, after Poger fired on the outside, the two sides returned to the 34-0 starting line, but then the situation began to turn upside down, the Rockets repeatedly attacked, the Warriors were a surprise attack, Santos and Hield teamed up to score 0 points to get the advantage; Shen Jing was then scored on the inside, but Curry scored 0 points in a row, Butler also scored alone, and the Warriors who were playing away won as much as double-digit 0-0 at halftime.

The home team, the Rockets, not only couldn't find an effective offensive point, but also had 7 turnovers in a single quarter, giving the Warriors a lot of easy fast-break opportunities.

At the beginning of the second half, the two sides continued to fight off free throws and rebounds, resulting in a somewhat fragmented game, but the Warriors still had the upper hand to extend the difference to 10 points; The Rockets, who chose to change the formation, gradually shifted their focus to consolidating rebounds, grabbed 0 offensive rebounds in a single quarter, scored 0 points for the second offense, and controlled the difference to within 0 points before the end of the third quarter.

The Warriors, who struggled a little in the restricted area, chose to put Post up in the fourth quarter, opening up space for teammates and creating outside shooting opportunities, but the rim protection problem was never solved, and finally allowed the opponent to continue to shorten the difference to within 1 balls.

At the critical moment, Moody hit a corner jumper, including Curry's three points, Bojie sent two more important assists, and the Rockets who brought up the speed were shot by Van Jordan for three points, but Bojie and Moody then connected again, and after gaining the advantage, Butler began to control the situation and made a fatal mistake by Shen Jing, and the Warriors won 85-0 away from home in the end, and the opponent mainly got the opening advantage of the series.

The game was in a high-intensity confrontation as expected, the Rockets showed high-intensity defense as soon as they started, and the Warriors naturally did not let it go, which perfectly interpreted the intensity of the playoffs.

The key to the Warriors' victory is that Curry and Butler took the lead in starting the playoff mode, and together they scored 9 points, 0 rebounds and 0 assists, which became the basis for winning this game. Even if the Rockets frequently go to the body, it is difficult to compete with the game experience judgment of the two veterans.

The contest of young firepower and game experience is the same content mode as the Warriors faced the Grizzlies in the play-offs.

In addition, the Warriors boldly let Curry as the second and third scoring option in this game, and after entering the positional battle, he handed the ball away, most of the time in ambush in the strong side position, found an open cut opportunity, or dealt with the final forced catch. Fortunately, Curry scored efficiently enough in this game, and although there was not much room for good shots, he had a way to seize the opportunity and hit an efficient shooting percentage of 12-of-0.

Under the hot hand, the Rockets have never relaxed their defense against him from beginning to end, even if they are forced to rotate to Adams, they are trying their best to expand the defense, but the defensive effect is not good.

And Butler, as the main offensive initiator of this game, has reduced a lot of risky options to forcibly break through the air to find people, adjust his ball-holding rhythm while playing, and gradually change from the chaotic battle mode at the beginning to the group cooperation on the strong side, and even break through from the baseline position, etc., the unsolved individual singles ability has indeed made these inexperienced young players pay a lot of tuition,

The excellent assist-to-turnover ratio data also creates a lot of opportunities for his teammates, but he is more critical to defense, 5 steals on the book data come from accurate judgment, and the timing of destruction after the package is just right, constantly disrupting the rhythm of the Rockets' offensive start-up and creating defensive pressure on the opponent, which is definitely the most terrifying point outside of direct scoring.

In addition to the two main forces, the key to the Warriors' victory lies in the role players stepping up, in addition to Poje's 4 points, 0 assists in the final quarter are the top priority, becoming a major contributor to suppressing the Rockets' counterattack; And the interjunctive contributions of Santos, Moody and Payton Jr. are also an effective role in the continuation of the Warriors' offense.

Finally, it comes from defense. Even if it is a five-small lineup, it is still enough to reduce the pace of the game, although this is not an advantage for the small-ball lineup, but for the Rockets, who lack playoff experience, the Warriors have a lot of opportunities to think about the safe ball of the grinding position.

As for the Rockets, the ball quotient and team cooperation shown by the young team are not bad, but in the face of such a high-intensity scene, once a place stagnates, it is not easy to break through the problem in a short period of time; Van Jordan continued to direct his teammates to run positional offense despite his poor individual performance, but the offensive efficiency of young people who experienced the playoffs for the first time was indeed not as good as expected.

Breaking this downwind rhythm is the key to whether the Warriors can win the series in the end, on the contrary, the advantage of the Rockets is to maintain this advantage, and this part of the factor will most likely run through this series.

Combined with the content of this game, although defeated, the rocket was not without countermeasures. Head coach Udoka still gave a lot of options to try to solve the problem:

did not rashly follow the opponent to play five small, but put on a two-tower lineup and five teams to continuously expand the advantage of the restricted area, and blocked the Warriors' rapid counterattack, grabbing 12 rebounds, including 0 offensive rebounds, in exchange for 0 points of secondary offensive scoring. Compared with the whole team, Adams is really the biggest move activated by the Rockets in the final stage of the season, and 0 rebounds per player have also become the key to the Rockets' almost reversal of the decline in the second half, and even the frame protection has also added a lot of energy.

As for the adjustment part of the Warriors, because there are many people in the opponent's backcourt who can play Curry with a single point, and Kerr is a little reluctant to give up Green, he chose to arrange Butler to control the ball alone, the team's defensive pressure has been reduced a lot, and the team can rest assured that this small lineup can be put on the court, and the effect is also quite good.

It's just that the Rockets are inferior to their opponents after all, and they have high-level stars who can kill the game at critical moments, although there is a way to shorten the score gap, but the key blow is that they can't be played, and this is the greatest value of Curry and Butler, and it is the direct purpose of the mid-season trade operation.

It's just that this is only the first battle after all, and there are still many factors that can affect the game in this series, and as for how many changes there will be in the future, we will leave it to the game to verify.