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Warriors-Rockets 2018 Western Conference Finals Game 7 with Joseph George - Remember That Game
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Joseph George (Silver Bulletin) and host Thomas Emerick drop in on Harris County May 2018, for this Game 7 showdown between the Golden State Warriors and Houston Rockets for a trip to the NBA Finals. If Houston advances, it would be their first escape from the Western Conference bracket since the days of Olajuwon and Drexler.
Joseph George is a sports analyst for Silver Bulletin and basketball analytics consultant for the NBA G League’s Mexico City Capitanes. This episode of Remember That Game made for a really fun chat about analytics in politics and basketball, particularly that revolution in the 2012-2020 period. What better game as a jumping off point than an interesting night for the three-point discourse, as two catalysts of this movement take the stage and one of them goes historically cold.
Also check out:
- Joseph George's work on the Silver Bulletin 2026 March Madness predictions
- COOPER mens’ NCAA basketball ratings
- COOPER women’s NCAA basketball ratings
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More episode threads:
- Perception of analytics in politics and basketball after Trump’s upset win and while the NBA transformed into a league more reliant on the 3
- How the Rockets and Warriors of the 2010s ushered in the current era
- Evolution of the American public’s relationship with analytics in both politics and basketball this decade, now seven NBA titles and two presidential elections in
- Whether these the two best teams of the 2010s
- How Daryl Morey’s obsession with spacing started way before James Harden
- Is compiling stats and wins December-February less instructive than it used to be for identifying the best teams and players, in the era of tanking and load management.
- With various popped Achilles in the 2025 postseason, what to do about regular season length
- Would the Rockets have won if Chris Paul stayed healthy, and did this game impact the load management discussion both over a season and within a series
- Morey’s idea to pair Chris Paul with James Harden
- Harden playing off Clint Capela was working a bit, should they have pulled off the gas a bit with the 3s and worked that two-man game for high percentage shots?
- Houston goes 7-for-44 from three
- James Harden 2-for-13
- Eric Gordon 2-for-12
- How important was Eric Gordon in this series? Does it get to 7 without him?
- Gordon deal in 2016 turned out great for Daryl Morey and the Rockets
- How influential that 2016 offseason was with the money going around that summer
- Did Houston need to lean more on Gordon getting to the rim in Game 7
- Impact on the discourse: All the missed 3s that game + Game 7 on the other side of the bracket w/ Celtics going cold from deep against Cleveland
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