The Golden State Warriors are undoubtedly the best team in the NBA, and arguably the greatest team in regular-season NBA history with their 73-9 mark for the 2015-16 season.
Monday night, the Warriors were without Steph Curry, the soon-to-be two-time reigning league MVP. Despite his absence, it never seemed that the Warriors were ever in danger of dropping Game 2 of their first-round battle with the Houston Rockets.
It was apparently so easy, that Sixth Man of the Year runner-up Andre Iguodala compared the game to a scrimmage in practice during a halftime interview on CSN Bay Area:
“It kind of feels like playing a scrimmage in practice,” Andre Iguodala said of a playoff game. pic.twitter.com/fBWXRvMlgO
— Kenny Ducey (@KennyDucey) April 19, 2016
While Iguodala’s remark initially appears that to be a shot at the Rockets, that might not be the case. The small forward mentions that in practice, he gets the most shots as the leader of the second unit. Up to that point in Game 2, Iguodala had 14 points on 5-of-7 shooting, leading the Warriors’ charge going into the half.
But to even think of a NBA playoff game in that fashion certainly rubbed some folks the wrong way, and the Rockets can’t be happy about that idea either. This is supposed to be a contest between two of the best teams from the best conference in the league, and a player off the bench compares it to practice.
Even if it did rub the Rockets the wrong way, however, Monday night’s result — a 115-106 victory, and a 2-0 series lead — shows that there isn’t much that Houston can do about it. The Warriors are simply in a class of their own, and even without their best player, the consensus appears to be that there is nothing the Rockets will be able to do to stop them.
