Monday night wasn’t only an overwhelmingly dominant performance by the Houston Rockets. Monday night was a manifestation of every San Antonio Spurs fans worst fear.
Losing by 27 points to start the series isn’t a death sentence. What’s worrisome is how easily the Rockets could replicate their flamethrower performance from Game 1 even with less than half of their shots falling.
Attempting to find what adjustments Head Coach Gregg Popovich needs to make to salvage this series is absolutely ridiculous when Game 1 was an aberration in how this series will pan out. Aside from the generic “make shots” and “more defensive effort” analysis, any tweaks Pop makes will seem like an overreaction for a team that won 61 games and defeated these same Rockets three times during the regular season.