Houston Rockets: Five Keys To Winning Game 2 vs Golden State

May 19, 2015; Oakland, CA, USA; Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry (30) gestures to the crowd in the second half in game one of the Western Conference Finals of the NBA Playoffs against the Houston Rockets at Oracle Arena. Mandatory Credit: Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports

Containing Steph Curry

You can’t entirely stop him, especially considering the Rockets don’t have an elite one-on-one defender, but you can at least try to contain Stephen Curry. And that’s something the Rockets failed at horrendously during Game 1.

Curry finished with 34 points, including shooting 6 for 11 from 3 — and many of those attempts were of the wide open assortment.

If the Rockets are going to let Curry run wild and drop 30 points whenever he so chooses — and that might not even be up to Houston to decide — then this is going to be a very short series.

Next: King James