Pressure? It’s on Rockets, not Warriors, in Game 4
Houston coach Mike D’Antoni may not have been serious. Maybe he was just trying to ease the mood around his team. But he was dead wrong Monday when he declared that “the pressure’s all on them.”
The Warriors won’t feel an ounce of pressure in this game. They’ve got a 2-1 series lead, they’re on a 16-game playoff winning streak at home, and they’re used to performing at peak capacity in big games. There’s some urgency to Andre Iguodala’s likely absence and how the Warriors replace him, but you get the feeling they’ll find a way.
The pressure on the Rockets is enormous, suffocating. The series is effectively over if they don’t prevail.