West Conf. Finals - Game 5: Golden State Warriors 94-98 Houston Rockets - 5 Talking Points

#4 Both offenses continue to struggle

Kevin Durant and James Harden

After 3 blowouts, in which each offense took turns in showing up, both have gone off the boil in the last two games. It's a bit bewildering how the two best offenses in the league have just gone into a shell the last two games. A lot of it for Houston has to do with just missing wide open 3s really. It was the story in this one as well as they probably should have been out of sight by the First Quarter but went 3/14 from deep, which kept the Golden State Warriors in touch.

As for Golden State, these isolations have to come down. They're not an isolation based team, but for whatever reason seem to have chosen that gameplan and it's not working. They went back to their ball movement offense after the 1st Quarter and it seemed to work, but the careless turnovers meant the offense never got into any rhythm.

D'Antoni, however, must be worried about the fact that Houston has shot under 40% from the field in the last 3 games. They won the last two thanks to Golden State's turnovers, but you're not gonna win too many games shooting this poorly. The Rockets are due an explosion from beyond the arc and he would be hoping it happens in one of the next two games.