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“We have a good nucleus of guys, and we’ve been right there the last three years. “We know our identity and what we have to do,” he said. Tucker said the Rockets need to keep plugging away with what they’re doing. The Warriors won in seven games, in what now looks like it might have been D’Antoni’s closest shot to a title with the Rockets.ĭ’Antoni said after Saturday’s game he’d go back to his hotel room and mull Game 5 before turning his attention to his future. Van Gundy wondered, too, if the Rockets were supposed to beat the Golden State Warriors in the conference finals two years ago, with Golden State in the middle of a dynasty behind Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant. The Rockets had little success with that formula against the Lakers. “You’ve got to be able to take charges and things … do the little stuff.” “Anytime you play small you’ve got to be tough, you’ve got to be grinding,” Tucker said. Houston area tennis teams clash in regional quarterfinals “… We’re they supposed to beat this Lakers team?”Īfter trading center Clint Capela for forward Robert Covington in February, the Rockets adopted a small-ball approach in their title quest.

“You can’t find any fault with the job he’s done,” ESPN analyst Jeff Van Gundy said during the broadcast. His future in Houston is to be determined. Rockets coach Mike D’Antoni’s contract is up, too, and he has failed to make the NBA Finals in his four seasons in Houston. The Rockets were not helped by the absence over the final three games of the conference semifinals of sixth man Danuel House, whom the league booted off campus for violating health and safety protocols in the bubble. The Rockets are known as the NBA’s team that will launch 3-pointers without a conscience, but it was the well-rounded Lakers who stole the show from long range on Saturday, in making 19-of-37 3-pointers. The coupling has resulted in the best record in the Western Conference (52-19) and an 8-2 record so far in the postseason. The Rockets had edged the Oklahoma City Thunder in seven games before facing the Lakers in the postseason for the first time since 2009.Ībout the same time the Rockets acquired Westbrook, the Lakers traded for perennial All-Star Anthony Davis to pair with one of the league’s all-time superstars in LeBron James.

#P. j. tucker houston rockets roster series

The Lakers duplicated their opening-round series against the Portland Trail Blazers, dropping Game 1 before winning the next four. The most fight the Rockets showed over the final four games of the series came with a little more than seven minutes remaining in Saturday’s game, when they trailed by 24 and the two sides spent considerable time jawing at one another. Only the Boston Celtics have won more titles with 17, and the Celtics are in the Eastern Conference finals against the Miami Heat. The Lakers made their first Western Conference finals since the late Kobe Bryant led Los Angeles to its 16th NBA title in 2010. The Rockets lost in the conference semifinals for a third consecutive season. The Rockets sliced the deficit to six points at 65-59 almost two minutes into the third quarter, but soon ran out of steam in their comeback bid. The Lakers blasted to a 22-point lead in the first half before many of the virtual fans had found their seats at home.