JALEN GREEN ACKNOWLEDGED that he wasn't quite ready for the playoff stage.
For Green, the Toyota Center lights felt brighter than ever for Game 1 against the Golden State Warriors, a foe that features a few future Hall of Famers with long track records of playoff success. This was the postseason debut for Green and several other young core players for the Houston Rockets, a franchise whose painful rebuilding process that started with the trade of James Harden is just beginning to pay major dividends.
"The court looked huge," Green said a few nights later.