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Houston Rockets vs. Warriors: The tale of two halves in Game 5

The Houston Rockets surprisingly fell to the Golden State Warriors 104-99 after an industrious effort to take over the game down the stretch. Now the team has an uphill battle to climb and now their backs are against the wall.

These aren’t your daddy’s 1994-95 Houston Rockets were they responded admirably whenever there was adversity, we’re talking about the 2018-19 Houston Rockets, where there’s absolute uncertainty over what we’re going to see tomorrow night at Toyota Center.

But a peculiar thing happened late in the third quarter. The Houston Rockets were trailing by one point, 66-65 and Kevin Durant just nailed a fadeaway jumper with 2:11 left.