Rockets Get Out of The Bay (area) with A Win 117-116

This one will actually be fairly brief, as it’s very late for me. It almost got very late for the Rockets, too. Despite having a double digit lead in the 4th quarter, the Rockets almost (but didn’t!) lost it late. If you’ve ever seen most games where the Rockets play Golden State in San Francisco, with Steph Curry playing, you can be forgiven in the fourth quarter for thinking that you knew how this one would end.

Steph Curry would shoot a bunch of difficult three pointers late, make them, and the Rockets would be unable to match it. There would be gushing announcers, if a national game. (Check!) There would be some iffy calls. (Check!) There would be Draymond and his special, personal, set of rules. (Check!) There would be a Curry dagger to give the Warriors an improbable win. (Nope!)

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I signed up for this recap with a healthy amount of trepidation, but no one can say that I am not a glutton for punishment. I wouldn’t have done that, though, if I realized that

A. Steph Curry would be returning from a long absence.

In retrospect, of course he would. He would definitely return at home, against the Rockets, if such a thing was even remotely possible.

B. It was Easter Sunday.

I did know it was Easter of course, but I hadn’t put the two together. That Rockets fans were being set up to endure some sort of “He Is Risen! The Holy Gnawer Himself! The Bay Area’s Lord and Savior!” story line. It was very close, but fortunately this reverse miracle didn’t quite occur.

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What happened? Well, the Rockets had a fairly solid lead. Then they put in some weird lineups, and lost most of that lead to Warriors Randos. The the Warriors put in Steph Curry, the Rockets answered with still odder lineups, with even less shooting, but in theory (but not practice, as it didn’t get stops) more defense. Yeah, you’ve seen this movie before, right?

Well, not quite. The the Warriors took a 116-115 lead at 19.6 seconds remaining on a goaltend call on Amen Thompson that looked like it might not withstand a challenge. The Rockets didn’t have a challenge, so we will never know. The Rockets called a…

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