Eisengeiste: Gotta play Game 7 now

As a shameless professional frontrunner, I acknowledge that tonight, I thought the Warriors were done. After seizing home court advantage in their opening game against the Rockets, the Warriors began to go inexorably backward, losing home court advantage, and tonight, facing elimination, seemed unable to even play well at Oracle.

Rockets playing like they came to end this thing, right here, right now. Warriors playing like they're saving themselves for Game 8.
— Michael Lee (@MrMichaelLee) May 27, 2018

Down ten at the half, the Warriors looked ready to call it a night, wrap it up right here, skip that long trip back to Houston.

(Due to time limitations I have not completed my supercut of Warriors first half miscues set to the "Dead March" from Saul. Just imagine it instead.)

But, as the chess master Siegbert Tarrasch once said, before the end of the game the gods have placed the third quarter. And for the 2018 Golden State Warriors, the third quarter has been where they braced themselves and played their best. Well, once more into the breach...

But the Rockets had shown, at Oracle just two nights ago, that they could take the Warriors' best shot and still win. Could. Tonight, after the first quarter, they were outscored 93-47: