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27 May, 2015

Warriors 104-90 Rockets Game 5

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The Warriors win 104-90. Curry scores 26 points and Barnes scores 24 points. Howard scores 18 points and 16 rebounds, Harden scores 14 points for the Rockets. Golden State win West Finals 4-1. The Warriors gets in the Nba Finals first time in 40 years and plays The Cleveland Cavaliers. Curry on NBA Finals:

Why not us? The Bay Area’s been waiting for 40 years. I think it’s time.

On two-year-old Riley:

I think she’s taking advantage of the moment for sure.

Harden on Game 5 loss:

Tried to do a little bit too much and turned the ball over and gave them easy baskets in transition. This isn’t where we wanted to end at. It’s a really good season for us. Next year we want to be better, and we will.

Coach McHale on Rockets:

The guys fought hard. One thing about the team is that they were battlers, and a lot of guys in that room you feel pretty comfortable going to war with.

25 May, 2015

Rockets 128-115 Warriors Game 4

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The Rockets win 128-115. Harden scores 45 points, Howard scores 14 points and 12 rebounds. Thompson scores 24 points, Curry scores 23 points and Green scores 21 points for the Warriors. Golden State leads West Finals 3-1. Coach McHale on James:

James had a phenomenal game.

Curry on concussion:

It was all minor stuff compared to how it looked. But I’ll get some good rest (Monday night) and be ready to go … since it happened to now, nothing has gotten worse.

Harden on Game 4:

I always want to take it out on my opponent in a good way. Just being aggressive, taking shots, getting to the basket, not really forcing anything and allowing the game to come to me.

Howard on possible game suspension:

I hope not. But there’s nothing I can do about it at this point. It’s never my intention to hurt anybody on the floor. My reaction was to try to get him off me, but I can’t react that way.

19 May, 2015

Warriors 110-106 Rockets Game1

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The Warriors win 110-106. Curry scores 34 points, six rebounds and five assists and Green scores 13 points and 12 rebounds. Harden scores 28 points, Ariza scores 20 points and Smith scores 17 points and seven rebounds for the Rockets. Golden State leads West Finals 1-0. Coach Kerr on team:

It really stretches people out. Houston does the same thing. It was an interesting chess match, because they like to go small and we like to go small.

Harden on Game 1 loss:

You can’t give a really good shooting team easy layups and confidence. That’s what we did in the second quarter.

Coach McHale on Howard’s injuries:

Hopefully Dwight is healthy and we can play big. We didn’t have that option with Dwight out.

14 May, 2015

Rockets 119-107 Clippers Game 6

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The Rockets win 119-107. Howard scores 20 points and 21 rebounds and Harden scores 23 points. Paul scores 31 points and 11 assists, Griffin scores 28 points and Reddick scores 15 points for the Clippers. The West Semifinals Series is tied 3-3. Howard on Game 6:

We kept saying, `We’re not going to quit. We kept believing. We never gave up on each other.

Griffin on Game 6 loss:

We took our foot off the gas, stopped defending, a lot of things.

On Game 7:

It’s about who wants it more.

Coach Mc Hale:

That group just went out there and they just scrambled, they fought and they played their tails off on defense. They had a great sense about them that they were going to accomplish something.

24 Apr, 2015

Rockets 130-128 Mavericks Game 3

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The Rockets win 130-128. Harden scores 42 points, nine assists, Howard has 26 rebounds, Smith scores 18 points and Brewer scores 15points. Nowitzki scores 34 points for the Mavericks. Houston leads 3-0 West First Round Series.

Harden on Howard:

He was a beast. He was a beast. Go ahead.

Howard:

Tonight wasn’t my night to score. I was OK with that. But the one thing that I can always control is the paint and just try to get every rebound.

Nowitzki:

It was an up-and-down game, shot-making and play-making all over the place. This ranks up there with the toughest playoffs losses I’ve had in my long playoff career.

Coach McHale:

It was a hell of a game if you like offense. If you like defense, maybe not so much.

15 Apr, 2015

Rockets 117-91 Jazz

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The Rockets win 117-91. Harden scores a triple-double (16 points, 11 rebounds and ten assists), Howard scores 14 points and Smith scores 13 points. Cotton scores 14 points for the Jazz. Howard on playoffs game:

We want to win a championship and that’s the goal. You can have a great regular season but the most important thing is what you do in the playoffs.

Coach McHale:

We came out and had good juice. We had a great second quarter and really got out running and got some stops.

Coach Snyder:

They were just better than us. They just outplayed us and there’s no shame in that for our group.

5 Apr, 2015

Rockets 115-112 Thunder

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The Rockets win 115-112. Harden scores 41 points. Westbrook scores a triple-double (40 points, 13assists, 11rebounds), Kanter scores a double-double (21 points and 17 rebounds) for the Thunder. Harden:

That’s my job, It’s what I do. I go out there and I take the big shots. My teammates did a great job the entire game of making shots, getting to the rim, just being in attack mode, being aggressive. In the fourth quarter, then, I’ve got to make shots.

On the team’s performance:

Guys are locked in, They’re focused on what we need to do to win, no matter who gets the credit, no matter who gets the glory.

Coach McHale:

The shots that he made were tough shots – step a guy back. But he’s been doing it all year. He works hard on those shots, and he makes them.

Westbrook:

It just says that we at least have some fight in us, Unfortunately it wasn’t enough.

29 Mar, 2015

Rockets 99-91Wizards

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The Rockets win 99-91 against the Wizards. Harden scores 24 points, Howard scores 11 points and 10 rebounds. Wall scores 25 points, 12 assists and eight rebounds for the Wizards. Wall:

We show a sense of urgency one game, and another game, we take it off. To be where we want to be and go as far as we did last year, we have to turn it around or … we’ll be done quick.

Coach McHale:

It’s nice to win the games, but it would be really nice to get healthy. That’s our biggest thing.

Howard:

I was surprised he got up there. He’s not known for blocking shots.

31 Jan, 2012

Kevin McHale interview

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Seacrest interviews McHale during On Air With Ryan Seacrest about Glee’s Michael Jackson special episode.

It was the most terrifying and incredible thing like being a kid in a candy shop, but the candy was MJ’s amazing songs. It was a privilege.