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'It was all Buddy Hield' Inside the NBA Talks Warriors Eliminating the Rockets in Game 7 · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Ninety Night.
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  Speaker 2: One O three to eighty nine.
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  Speaker 3: The Golden State Warriors take Game seven in Houston and
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  Speaker 3: healed with his thirty three curry twenty two to ten
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  Speaker 3: and seven.
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  Speaker 2: That was the only double double for a Warrior in
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  Speaker 2: the series.
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  Speaker 3: And for the Rockets twenty one from Sengun, twenty four
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  Speaker 3: from Tom and Thompson.
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  Speaker 2: And here is their head coach.
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  Speaker 4: Gammy Dooka, and what were the main source of the
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  Speaker 4: offensive issues that you guys had tonight?
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  Speaker 5: Uh, missshots, close range shots. I think twenty three for
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  Speaker 5: fifty five in the paint, a lot of really good
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  Speaker 5: looks there didn't get up them. Any threes only eighteen
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  Speaker 5: on the night made six of them. So that's a
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  Speaker 5: low number for the threes that we have been generating.
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  Speaker 5: And then the zone that they ran got us a
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  Speaker 5: little stagnant. But when we did find the openings in
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  Speaker 5: in the middle, missed the threes that would kick out
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  Speaker 5: or the close range shots. And so, as I said
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  Speaker 5: the other night, sometimes shots going and makes it it
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  Speaker 5: masks some things, and tonight stood out the other way.
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  Speaker 4: I know it's kind of hard to look at this
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  Speaker 4: immediately after the season ends, but how do you view
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  Speaker 4: this season as.
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  Speaker 5: A whole, some growth, some good, some bad, obviously poor
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  Speaker 5: ending it to play. You know, one of our worst
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  Speaker 5: games in the playoffs in game seven. We had a
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  Speaker 5: few bad ones early and kind of corrected ourselves from
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  Speaker 5: there in a lot of ways on both sides of
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  Speaker 5: the ball. And then to come out a little bit
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  Speaker 5: flat tonight. Obviously that's gonna leave us our taste in
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  Speaker 5: our mouth for sure. But you look at big picture
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  Speaker 5: of the growth that we made. You know, we just
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  Speaker 5: said no moral victories and whatever. We could be much
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  Speaker 5: more consistent, but getting to the two seed and fifty
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  Speaker 5: whatever wins and the growth that guys have showed kind
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  Speaker 5: of have a blueprint for where we want to be
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  Speaker 5: and the standard on the ear of your basis. But
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  Speaker 5: while that doesn't really matter when you go out with
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  Speaker 5: the chance to move on obviously in advance and you know,
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  Speaker 5: like I said, kind of laying an egg in our
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  Speaker 5: last game, it's gonna gonna sting for a minute.
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  Speaker 3: Rockets won points in the paint forty six thirty four,
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  Speaker 3: second chance points fifteen to nothing, fast break points ten
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  Speaker 3: to two, but the Golden State Warriors were plus thirty
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  Speaker 3: six from three and they end the season for the
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  Speaker 3: Houston Rockets, and it's just the third time in the
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  Speaker 3: last twenty five years and a number seven be to
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  Speaker 3: number two.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, they got some big decisions to make. Number one.
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  Speaker 6: That's Steven Adams. Man, if I'm a contender, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 6: go after him, because the Rockets are not contenders yet,
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  Speaker 6: but Steven Adams could help a contender pursuer. Obviously, they're
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  Speaker 6: probably gonna pick up the option on Van.
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  Speaker 2: Bleet, but before you think they're gonna pick up the
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  Speaker 2: forty four.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a big decision because.
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  Speaker 6: No, no, that that to me is not that to
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  Speaker 6: me is not the big decision.
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  Speaker 1: It's any pick up option. Give that's only one year
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  Speaker 1: and give him a longer deal.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know about that. Now, let's listen to Steve
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  Speaker 2: kirk a lot.
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  Speaker 7: They had a great season. Couldn't be more proud of
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  Speaker 7: our guys. That was incredibly impressive display of resolve, discipline,
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  Speaker 7: the defense was fantastic, the ball security, uh kind of
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  Speaker 7: game plan, discipline followed to a t and then multiple
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  Speaker 7: guys stepping up Buddy heeled. I don't know what to say.
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  Speaker 7: I mean that was that was really incredible watching him
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  Speaker 7: light it up in that first half especially and then
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  Speaker 7: down the stretch as well. But I can't say enough
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  Speaker 7: about our guys and you know, what they were able
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  Speaker 7: to do in this series and to pull this thing
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  Speaker 7: out on the road in game seven, pretty impressive.
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  Speaker 8: See they kind of fifteen point lead down to like three,
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  Speaker 8: Jimmy gets that corner three out of a double team,
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  Speaker 8: and then he finds ram On twice and then it
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  Speaker 8: looks like maybe in the huddle between the third and fourth,
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  Speaker 8: you guys make an adjustment to get Steph attacking the
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  Speaker 8: rim a little bit and you got them free. What
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  Speaker 8: did you guys do there?
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  Speaker 7: Well, it's always matchup based, and you know, so if
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  Speaker 7: if you can find an advantage with the personnel they
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  Speaker 7: have on the floor, you know, then you you try
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  Speaker 7: to get you know, Steph in pick and roll with
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  Speaker 7: with you know, a particular player or two.
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  Speaker 2: And I think it just.
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  Speaker 7: Kind of played out that way the way the game
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  Speaker 7: was going. You know, they've they've done a great job
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  Speaker 7: of taking away the Steph Draymond pick and roll all
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  Speaker 7: series by putting fred fan vlid On on Draymond and
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  Speaker 7: you know, putting their center on one of our wings.
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  Speaker 2: And so that was.
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  Speaker 7: Really a great strategic move for them, and I think
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  Speaker 7: in the fourth quarter because of the matchups, we were
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  Speaker 7: able to get Draymond back in the pick and roll
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  Speaker 7: with Steph a couple of times. I thought Steph was
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  Speaker 7: brilliant tonight. I know he got got off to a
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  Speaker 7: slow start shooting the ball, but whole key to the
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  Speaker 7: game was taking care of the ball, and he managed
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  Speaker 7: the game beautifully, and you know it's just a matter
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  Speaker 7: of time before his shot goes in. But the reason
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  Speaker 7: we had the eleven point lead at half or whatever
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  Speaker 7: it was twelve was because of the way Steph took
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  Speaker 7: care of the ball, got us into our offense and
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  Speaker 7: settled the game down.
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  Speaker 2: Steve, it took some effort. It did.
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  Speaker 3: Nineteen of his twenty two coming in the second half tonight,
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  Speaker 3: because because the first half was you know, it was
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  Speaker 3: not a big scoring half for him, and you thought, well,
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  Speaker 3: a night.
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  Speaker 2: I look at it now. I mean, he hit half
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  Speaker 2: his shots.
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  Speaker 3: He was eight for sixteen, he was four for ten
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  Speaker 3: from deep, twenty two ten and seven tonight.
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  Speaker 9: And he played a good game. You know, usually he
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  Speaker 9: plays a great game, but he played a good game,
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  Speaker 9: and the other played the great game. Everybody else followed suit.
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  Speaker 9: They played with poise. You know, they didn't panic, no
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  Speaker 9: antics tonight, and they played very well. I agree with
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  Speaker 9: everything that Steve's Curse said. He managed the game like
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  Speaker 9: a point guard ship. Now the question from Minnesota is
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  Speaker 9: are they gonna use similar tactics. I don't think they are.
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  Speaker 9: And because you know me and Chuck, we always talk
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  Speaker 9: about this. When Rudy's in the game, it's a different ballgame.
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  Speaker 9: So you know, Steve talked a little about matchups, but
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  Speaker 9: that they're definitely gonna be looking for the mismatches, looking
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  Speaker 9: for the pick and roll.
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  Speaker 1: Yep step basically for if you were in junior high school,
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  Speaker 1: high school, college and say he played against a boxing
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  Speaker 1: one for the games for the series. So there's two
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  Speaker 1: theories against a boxing one. That's what that was like.
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  Speaker 1: It's two theories. Either you're going to be ultra aggressive
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  Speaker 1: and take some tough shots, or you're gonna spread the
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  Speaker 1: floor to allow your other guys to get wide open shots.
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  Speaker 1: In the first half, he elected to spread the floor
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  Speaker 1: and let it guys get.
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  Speaker 2: Over as you did in your pictures that the.
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  Speaker 1: Said they played against a box at one they were like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't care where the ball is over there.
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  Speaker 2: I'm staying this way.
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  Speaker 1: You'll never see an NBA player with the back of
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  Speaker 1: his head to the ball that because he's got to
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  Speaker 1: see what's happening on the other side of the floor.
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  Speaker 1: They did not care, and Buddy Hill made them pay. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Final word from you, chuckster.
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  Speaker 6: Final word, just two words, Buddy Hill. That was spectacular
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  Speaker 6: and he was the difference in the game until Steph
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  Speaker 6: got going. It was all Buddy Hill and step step
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  Speaker 6: closed it. But Buddy Hill man, he was amazing tonight
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  Speaker 6: and all power to him.
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  Speaker 3: Yep, stuff closed it with some help from Butler and
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  Speaker 3: they went at one o three to eighty nine. And
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  Speaker 3: so the Golden State Warriors move on to take on
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  Speaker 3: the Minnesota Timberwoman.