Jimmy Butler leaves game after difficult fall, Warriors offense struggles
Jalen Green stepped up– eight 3-pointers on his way to 38 points– getting better from a rough Video game 1 with a vengance. He was not alone, Houston’s Alperen Sengun had 17 points, 16 rebounds and 7 helps. Dillon Brooks and Tari Eason made plays. Houston got physical and can truly state this was a group win.However, Game 2 between the Warriors and Rockets kipped down the first quarter when Amen Thompson took out the legs of an air-borne Jimmy Butler and sent him to the ground with a nasty fall.Butler left after taking his free tosses but did not return due to a pelvic contusion. He will have an MRI on Thursday and his status for Game 3 is unknown, Golden State coach Steve Kerr said.”Ideally Jimmy will have the ability to play, however if not we have to go through our choices and put together a plan, “Kerr said. Houston came out Wednesday night with the desperation of a team that had actually lost in your home.
Without Butler much of the night, Stephen Curry faced the full force of a physical, aggressive Rockets defense and might not recreate the magic of Game 1. Curry scored 20 points on 6-of-15 shooting(4-of-9)from 3. He likewise didn’t get sufficient aid, with beginners Draymond Green, Brandin Podziemski and Moses Moody together simply equating to Curry’s 20 points.The result was a 109-94 Houston win that evened the series 1-1. Houston might well have won the game even if Butler had actually not been injured, considering how well
Jalen Green played– he was the best player on the flooring.
“From the beginning, my whole frame of mind from today was to enter and be aggressive and return to being myself,”Green stated, through the Associated Press.There are questions about method for the rest of this series, along with concerns about the Warriors ‘depth– we had a Jonathan Kuminga sighting– and the Firecrackers’youth.But all of that pales in contrast to
the question about Jimmy Butler’s status going forward. The Warriors are not the very same without him.