The Houston Rockets are out of the NBA playoffs by the hands of Steph Curry and the Golden State Warriors as soon as once more.
The Warriors reigned victorious in Sport 7 on Sunday night time as they dominated their elimination sport to the extent that Draymond Inexperienced yelled a assured message with time left on the clock.
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Golden State entered the duel as underdogs with many NBA pundits anticipating the Rockets to win the decisive sport on their house court docket.
However stellar performances from Inexperienced, Curry, Buddy Hield and Jimmy Butler proved to be an excessive amount of for Houston.
It regarded like Inexperienced loved it probably the most as, with 1:28 left on the clock, he had a five-word message for followers at house.
“Goodnight. It has been actual,” mentioned Inexperienced with the digicam inches from his face.
The 35-year-old completed with 16 factors, six rebounds, 5 assists, two steals and a block as he proved instrumental on this crunch sport.
After the win Inexperienced additionally poked enjoyable at Barkley, who earlier claimed a Rockets a win was assured.
“I believe the Rockets are going to win tonight,” Barkley mentioned. “Steph [Curry] gonna be aggressive, nevertheless it’s not gonna be sufficient. I am guaranteeing the Rockets win tonight.”
“Assure it, then” fellow co-host Shaquille O’Neal challenged.
“Oh, assure!” Barkley shouted in response.
Inexperienced reposed the video with a two-word caption, writing: “Love Charles.”
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Followers on-line ripped Barkley for his prediction.
“All due respect, what a horrible take!” one posted on X.
“Thanks chuck. You by no means disappoint,” one other wrote on X.
The Warriors’ win will in the end be headlined by Hield, who put up 33 factors, taking pictures 12 from 15 and 9 from 11 from behind the arc.
“Being within the zone could be very religious,” Hield mentioned. “It is simply you and that rim and the web and the ball. And also you simply determine it out. Generally you place something up and it goes in. Simply being at peace along with your sport.”
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Curry added 10 rebounds and 7 assists to his 22 factors, 19 of which got here within the second half, as he got here alive when his crew wanted him probably the most.
“I assumed Steph was good tonight,” Golden State coach Steve Kerr mentioned. “I do know he obtained off to a sluggish begin taking pictures the ball, however the entire key to the sport was caring for the ball, and he managed the sport fantastically.
“The rationale we had the (12-point) lead at half was due to the way in which Steph took care of the ball, obtained us in our offense, and settled the sport down.”
The Rockets will rue the alternatives they needed to take cost of the sport, finest demonstrated by the 12 of 18 3-pointers they missed.
“It felt like we missed loads of point-blank pictures,” Houston coach Ime Udoka mentioned.
“Offensive rebounds, though we had 14, we did not actually have an important proportion on the second probability (7-for-14). We solely made 50 % of these.”
The Warriors advance to play the Minnesota Timberwolves, with Sport 1 set for Tuesday in Minneapolis.