The Rockets and Warriors are now in a situation where one sky and one earth, why do you say that? Look at the current situation of the two teams, under Curry's leadership, the Warriors easily eliminated the Denver Nuggets with MVP center Jokic in the first round 4-1, and their opponent in the next round is the Memphis Grizzlies led by Morant, if under normal circumstances, the Warriors should be able to advance to the Western Conference Finals, after all, the gap between the strength of the two teams is not small.
That being said, the Warriors are no longer the omnipotent Golden State Warriors of 3 years ago, and the Golden State Warriors of that year were unbeatable. That Warriors team not only has superstar shooters like Curry and Klay, but also front-line aces like Dream-Chaser Green and Durant.
Even if it is as powerful as the Rockets, it has lost in several years of "resistance to courage", and even after being defeated by the Warriors in 2019, the Rockets directly replaced Paul, one of the best point guards in history, to the Thunder in the summer of that year, and got the core of the Thunder Team Westbrook.
In a show, the Warriors' main big forward Chasing Dream Green specifically talked about this series when answering questions from netizens. Green said it was a favorite series of his career, and there wasn't one. Green said that the year before that, that is, in 2018, because Paul was injured in the Western Conference Finals G5, and then there were G6 and G7 did not play, so the Rockets believe that Paul's absence led to the Rockets out.
But Green doesn't think so, and he feels that the Rockets can't beat the Warriors at all. Green gave the example of durant in 2019 when the Warriors were injured in the second round of the playoffs with the Rockets, but at that time, the Rockets were Harden + Paul, and the lineup was extremely neat. What about the Warriors at that time? Injuring the main forward Durant is basically a "residual team", but the remnant Warriors can still eliminate the Rockets 4-2 in the playoffs.
And after that round of games, the Rockets directly dismantled the Harden Paul combination and became hardened and Westbrook's partner, and then lost 1-4 to the Lakers in the second round of the next year's playoffs, resulting in the "big change" of the Rockets lineup and directly entering the reconstruction stage. Therefore, Green believes that in the absence of Durant, the Warriors still have the ability to "break up" the Rockets, which is a manifestation of strength.
That being said, and Green seems to be only talking about the "past" between the Rockets and the Warriors, but in fact, we can also feel that dream-chasing Green is also hinting at the words - even without Durant, relying only on the "Kutang Chase" combination and a group of role players, the Rockets are still not opponents! Since without Durant, the Warriors can also defeat and eliminate the Rockets, so isn't Green implying that Durant's presence or absence is not important to the Warriors?
We know that chasing dreams and Durant as teammates, there are contradictions in the light and dark, and now the old things are mentioned again, this statement seems to be talking about the rockets, but in fact, people with hearts can hear the words of "voice outside the words", and they can also hear that dream chasing is a satire on Durant.