After the first three games of the two teams on the Eastern side, the Pacers temporarily led the Cavaliers with a score of 2:1. The plot on the west side is much more tortuous than the east side, after losing to the Warriors in the first game, the Rockets are even more energetic in the second game, playing very well, although the Warriors occupy the home court advantage but still not let the Rockets suffer consecutive defeats.

At the beginning of this game, the Warriors had the upper hand, in the first quarter of the game, although the Rockets scored points, but they still lagged behind the opponent because of Stephen Curry's supernatural play, the Rockets scored 28 points in the first quarter of the game, and the efficiency cannot be said to be high, but Curry's perverted quasi-name is not called in vain, 7 times outside the three-point line, 4 of which were hit, plus a two-plus-one, and a high score of 15 points in a single quarter, Led the Warriors to a 36-28 lead over the Rockets in the first quarter.

Soon after the start of the second quarter, the situation on the Warriors' side took a sharp turn for the worse, Curry missed two consecutive shots, and the Rockets attacked one after another, and the difference was quickly approached in just a few minutes. And because the interior is more dominant for the Rockets, the Warriors' secondary offense is relatively less, and the Rockets' side relies on the second offense in a single quarter to have 5 more opportunities than the opponent to shoot, and finally the second quarter of the game, the Rockets returned the opponent a 27:19, and the Warriors' single quarter score is only 20, which is also a very rare thing.

After the two teams played a 55:55 in the first half, they began to seek a breakthrough in the second half, and the breakthrough point on the Warriors' side was the Rockets' big forward position, using Green's ability to open up space, luring Josh Smith out, allowing Curry and Thompson to impact Howard without teammates to cover, but the effect was not very good, although Howard successfully carried 2 fouls, but because Howard only had one foul in the first half, these two fouls did not hurt the Rockets.

But the offense on the Rockets' side also fell into a bottleneck, Harden went crazy in the second quarter of the game, scored 12 points in a single quarter, and the game withered instantly, only 5 points in a single quarter, and the Rockets relied on Howard to use his rebounding ability on the inside to support him, and 3 frontcourt rebounds in a single quarter were enough to snatch back 6 points for the Rockets, so that the Rockets could bite the score tightly when Curry began to soar three points again. In the end, they only trailed the Warriors by two points and entered the final quarter of the game.

In the last quarter of the game, both teams played very tangled, as if the roles of the first quarter of the game were reversed, this time it became the Warriors blooming everywhere, but in the same way, the two cores of the Rockets began to go crazy, Howard continued to put pressure on the inside, so that the Warriors' defense had no way to take care of others, and Harden's three-point pursuit also made the Warriors very uncomfortable, until the last half minute, the Warriors and the Rockets played 96:96, at this time Howard had contributed 8 points in a single quarter, And Harden has already contributed 10 points.

The Warriors possessed the ball, Curry controlled the ball and came to the frontcourt, slowly pressed the time, and waited until there were only 10 seconds left in the offensive time to start, using Green's blocking and pick-and-roll to directly pass Harden who defended him, and then hit the ball with a small throw under Ariza's supplemental defense, 98-96, and finally only left the Rockets with 7 seconds of offensive time.

Unfortunately, the story is not over here, just when the fans at Oracle Stadium are beginning to prepare to celebrate the victory, Harden stepped up again, received a teammate's sideline serve, first passed the ball through Ariza's hand, and then used his running position to run out of the crowd to catch the ball, and then the three-pointer was decisively shot, the lights were on, the ball went in, Harden killed the game with a three-pointer, 99:98, the Rockets won a tough victory on the road.

After that, it was their third game back at the Toyota Center, which came the day after the Pacers' victory over the Cavaliers at Conseco Arena, which is a bit farther away from Texas than Indiana and Ohio, and with the exclusionary nature of Texas, it would be impossible for the Warriors to borrow a stadium to train here.

In the third game, the two teams still played very intensely, but the problem of the Rockets was exposed again, that is, there were too few people they could use, and the last game was won by one point, which was won by Harden and Howard for more than 40 minutes, although the physical strength of the two main players in this game has basically recovered, but the bench of the Rockets has not been able to give any help to the modern combination like in the last game, and the first three quarters were played. The Rockets trailed by eight points heading into the final quarter.

In the final quarter, the Rockets once chased the difference to only two points, but the shameless Warriors began to play at this time, and Howard's free throws were indeed a bit miserable, in such a critical game in the final quarter, his free throw shooting rate was only a pitiful 45%, and he hit 4 of nine free throws. As a result, the Rockets' momentum of chasing points was curbed by their opponents, and in the end they could only reluctantly swallow the bitter fruit of the home defeat.

After the whole game, in fact, the two cores of the Rockets have performed very well, Harden 38 points, Howard 29 points, plus Josh Smith also contributed 15 points, these three people played well enough, but the rest of the people only scored a total of 25 points, which is a bit embarrassing, you must know that the rest of the people shared 35 shots, but only 25 points were scored, which is the most critical reason for the Rockets' loss in this game.

While the Western Warriors took a 2-1 lead, they also snatched back the lost home-court advantage, and they will continue to play the next game at the Toyota Center, but it is estimated that one of the role players of the Rockets has been able to bear it in the past two days. After the game, Ye Xuan also called to comfort Howard and Harden, unlike Howard's somewhat dull appearance, Harden was very open, and after greeting Ye Xuan, he also wished Ye Xuan in advance that they could enter the finals, and they didn't seem to be worried about their own prospects at all. This made Ye Xuan not know whether to say that Harden was optimistic or cynical.