I watched every single minute of last night's Warriors-Rockets game in full analyst mode and still cannot make sense of that embarrassing loss.
Twelve minutes in, Golden State appeared a lock to avenge those two ugly losses at Houston's fiery hands earlier this season.
They did what they set out to offensively. James Harden and Jeremy Lin did next to nothing. In fact Harden had three of his four first-quarter shots rejected. The Rockets registered just one inconsequential offensive rebound, a weapon employed to wear down the Warriors' bodies and psyches repeatedly this year.
Of course, for most of those twelve minutes, All-Star David Lee had been ravaging the Rockets' big men like a dinosaur up against Wayne Knight. Wayne Knight is the actor best known for playing Seinfeld's Newman, but I'm not here to talk about the distant past.
That is, until Lee banged knees with counterpart Thomas Robinson (I believe) and became a spectator for the half's duration.
Now, banged knees always hurt. Sometimes they heal within minutes, while they are also often season-ending (see: Shawn Bradley). I don't know the extent of Lee's injury yet, but ...
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