The NBA is TERRIFIED of the Houston Rockets...

This was insane to watch if you were a Rockets fan. The intensity was high, elbows were thrown, clamps were laid down, and at the end of the day, the Houston Rockets come out on top and now have a huge advantage when it comes to this upcoming postseason. Hello, everybody. I am Donovan Redondo. I am your host for Rockets. digest we'll break down all the latest news rumors and updates regarding your H-town team and if you're a Rockets fan you're you're in a good mood today after seeing last night's game there there's really no other way to feel and the implications of that are this the Rockets have beaten Golden State to secure home court advantage in the first round of the playoffs this is great news for the Rockets this was a very very intense game and as we all know the Rockets have a you know very difficult stretch of games and so to play a game like this and come out on top is huge when it comes to your momentum heading into the postseason I want to break down a little bit on the standings why do we have home court advantage well as you can see here we are currently the second seed in the Western Conference with only three games left in the uh regular season the Houston Rockets could if we lost let's just say i'm not saying fingers crossed knock on wood if we did lose the rest of our games the lowest we could possibly drop is to the third seed so that guarantees that we will have that home court advantage in that first round of the Western Conference so congrats to the Rockets a goal that we've set on uh our short-term goal that we set on has officially been accomplished We have three more games. We have games against the Clippers, Lakers, and the Nuggets. All tough games. Hopefully all those we come out on top. But as it stands, the Houston Rockets are a second seed. And about last night's game, it was very intense. It was probably the most intense game that we've played all season. Or at least it's definitely up there. Playing up against a guy like Draymond Green and the Golden State Warriors, that's certainly to be the case. And it definitely was last night. And it all started in the second quarter. It started, you know, with Draymond making some contact before the inbounds play on Shen Goon and, you know, the ref kind of warning him, hey, if you make contact like that, we're going to call you for the foul. Draymond said, hey, call the foul. I don't care. And then Shen Goon, he pushed Shen Goon again and it ended up, you see on the right side there, hitting him right in the chest, right in the face. And that led to a technical foul. And so right after that, just led to an insane sequence between both teams of fast break points going both ways a three-pointer from Steph Curry a Shen Geng getting a bucket the emotions were high and you can tell both teams had something to prove especially the Warriors who are currently in a i don't even know what to describe it like it's as close as they can get in that bottom half of the Western Conference standings that that that three to ten you anyone can drop down to anything i believe three to eight are only separated by 1.5 games so you could tell that they wanted this game but so did the Rockets the Rockets did not back off and as you can tell by the way that second quarter ended they did not Van Vliet was literally trying to draw a foul on Draymond with two seconds left in the half he did and they got free throws off of it and so they played the rest of the game with that intensity the only quick quick note that I want to mention about you know all of this is that yes the Rockets came out on top but we did fail to capitalize on some of these things we we took a lot of technical free throws and we surprisingly missed a lot of them i know Jalen Green missed it like which missed a free throw Fred VanVleet it wasn't technicals but he he missed the two free throws to end the first half uh much to you know Draymond's uh happiness and so it's little things like that that when you play those games on the road and postseason you got to convert those and that's something that this team i'm sure Donka has told them to work on and not get in their head as much i know draymond's very easily to have let that happen but going back to this this did not stop here this actually just continued throughout the game as in the third quarter Draymond Green went up uh for a layup elbowing Alperen Sengun right in his nose uh causing him to bleed and this was eventually uh reviewed and labeled a flagrant one which led to some free throws which again i think uh Sengun missed one of these technical free throws he went one for two and so it's things like that where we have to capitalize on but going back to this specific play i considering his track record i don't believe he was just kind of going up willy-nilly like usual i felt there was some bit of purposeful movement with the elbow you know as you can see here he's sideways to the basket which you know isn't the most normal way to shoot a layup uh usually you're you're you're parallel but that elbow sticks out and so i i get the feeling that this wasn't i'm not saying he did it like fully on purpose but i'm i'm sure he wasn't afraid of contact and he wasn't too worried about it he played it off like it was like a regular shot but nevertheless uh this led to Alperen Sengun taking those free throws and quite frankly just let the team to play with even more intensity as you can see they play with that more intensity and this all also falls back on how much we got into under the Warriors skin last night Steph Curry and Ime Udoka had you know an exchange of words heading into halftime and you know they were upset on some foul calls that should have been made and Steph Curry and Ime Udoka they said something Ime Udoka described it as you know he said something then i said something it eventually boiled down to this uh from a quote he had last night after the game he said when people start complaining about foul calls crying about physicality you've done your job that's the first step in winning the battle so i told my team when this team starts crying about it up the intensity up the aggressiveness and make the rest adjust to you and i love this quote from Ime it kind of just shows that he don't really give a damn what teams think or what he only cares about his guys and he knows how to get under people's skin he knows how this league is uh reffed and so he's using all of that to his advantage and it worked it worked amazingly this this rockets team last night held the golden state warriors to 26 points and under for each quarter which is phenomenal to do that to against the golden state warriors who have the best scorer of all time in Steph Curry is insane and the fact that they all did it with Steph Curry only scoring three points his only his only shot that he made was at the end of the second quarter which was kind of like a you know i know he does a lot of heaves from the three-point line but it was kind of like a desperate heave in my opinion that was his only points Amen Thompson did a tremendous job defending uh defending Steph Curry last night as you can see i want to bring up this box score real quick real quick kudos to Dylan Brooks for being last night's leading scorer 24 points Amen Thompson with 19 Jalen Green with 21 all those guys stepped up Jabari Smith had a great second quarter which helped spark this team uh with the intensity that we played within the second along with all of those all occasions of course but i want to bring up Amen Thompson right quick look at his plus minus plus 26 on the night beyond anybody else's plus 26 that mainly is due to his ability to play some of the best defense in this league Amen Thompson effectively locking down Steph Curry last night it's got the entire NBA community talking about it and to me this just puts Amen Thompson in the upper echelon of defenders in the NBA and granted he's a two-year you know player this is his second year in the league and he's playing like he's been a veteran in this league for 10 years and playing locked down defense and to give you a better insight on what I'm saying Alperen Sengun had these quotes to say last night he said Ahmed wasn't smiling all day he he was locked in couldn't even talk to him he was locked in last two games he's locking the best players in the world best players in the league that's impressive in just his second year he's putting names over there and the defensive player of the year and he's not wrong they played the thunder on friday night and he locked down i wouldn't say locked down but he held Shai Gilgeous-Alexander to 22 points which may sound like a lot when you realize Shai is a front runner for MVP scoring 31 points a game that's 10 under his scoring average we'll take that any day he's because he's going to get his buckets regardless but to hold him to 22 it's just it's just insurmountable to describe on on the effect that he's had uh you know defending guys like him and Curry you know you know chasing off all those screens being right up in front of them it's worked to perfection last night was near perfection besides those three points from Steph Curry and giving you more of a update on on our quote on that aspect Steph Curry mentioned it last night he said that's why he's out there for 30 plus minutes a night because that's how he helps them win he's kind of relentless he's a supreme athlete and just found his lane how he can be impactful so you gotta tip your hat to him and he's gotten a lot better every every time that's every time you kind of come up you face them and that's coming from you know the best scorer in NBA history and so probably the one of the best compliments you can get as a defender i mean kudos to Amon Thompson and the way he's been playing recently and the way this whole team has been playing recently everyone seems to be locked in despite you know kind of pulling away from those other teams you're playing some really hard teams to end the season and you know you things can easily slip and so far they haven't let it slip they played the Lakers they lost the Lakers but it was competitive but they beat the Jazz since they beat the Thunder since and they beat in the Golden State Warriors last night and so that that shows that this team is in fact locked in and i'll bring up the quote again because Dylan Brooks said it after their win against the Jazz he says we're playing against playoff teams so it would be great chances to test where we're at and play our hearts out so we can end the year on a high note and this seems to certainly be what the Houston Rockets mentality has been heading into these last few games and they are some important games uh a chance to lock down the two seed uh with another win uh within these last few games but we'll see how it goes there's there's a lot to look forward to heading into these last three games uh an exciting game against the Clippers coming up we'll see how that turns out you know potential first round matchup in itself as well so it could be a quick preview but yes amazing day for the Rockets a little chippiness but it was certainly fun to watch let me know what you guys think about the implications of from the Golden State Warriors game and if you've made it to this far in the video that means you've enjoyed this content go ahead hit that subscribe button this is going to be a great platform for all Rockets fans and so we will see you next time on Rockets Digest