Splash Brothers Wake Up; Dubs Destroy Rockets in Game 6

Before Golden State had a super-team, they had a kinda super-team.

Seems like they remembered this in the nick of time.

Make no mistake, Kevin Durant's been a huge addition, but the Dubs' wealth of talent hasn't really been mined since Game 1 of the Western Conference finals, mostly because dude's been playing his game and it's not been in peak form.

 

The ex-Texas Longhorn's field offense has been anything but super in the prior three games:

	FG	3PT	FT	Tot
Gm 3 ...	9-19	3-8	4-4	25
Gm 4 ...	8-22	3-6	10-10	29
Gm 5 ...	9-24	1-5	8-8	27

 

Figure that most of those free throws came from inside attempts, and dude's been saved from even more empty possessions by working harder to get inside, which takes its own toll over the course of a series.

 

Accuracy attrition on a team that should have more than enough weapons to worry about it shouldn't be an issue.

This is a reality that James Harden should accept.

Dude's become annoying. Beyond annoying.

 

Sure, there are roles on teams, but dude! At what point does it become so predictable that you've become a black hole that you've made your fellow Rockets irrelevant on half the court?

 

Ultimately, this series' version of a space-time singularity came during halftime of Game 6 when Dubs coach Steve Kerr clearly found a way -- and Durant realized it -- to remind his crew who they were and who Houston wasn't. With or without Chris Paul.

This revelation that the Splash Brothers need to rise again morphed an early 17-point deficit into a 29-point blowout, 115-86:

 

Being outscored 33-16 in the third quarter should've been a foreboding sign. Being embarrassed 31-9 in the fourth should've been a lesson.

The odds were against Houston before the finals began. At first, the Rockets defied them, but then, they flaunted them.

They've now got one game to realize the error of their ways.