{"id":440152,"date":"2025-05-01T08:56:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T06:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=440152"},"modified":"2025-05-01T08:56:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T06:56:15","slug":"amen-thompsons-monster-game-5-keeps-rockets-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/amen-thompsons-monster-game-5-keeps-rockets-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Amen Thompson\u2019s monster Game 5 keeps Rockets alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1156\" data-end=\"1336\"><strong data-start=\"1171\" data-end=\"1188\">Amen Thompson<\/strong> posted 25 points, 6 rebounds, 5 steals and 3 blocks in <strong data-start=\"1244\" data-end=\"1257\">Houston\u2019s<\/strong> 131-116 Game 5 win over the <strong data-start=\"1286\" data-end=\"1298\">Warriors<\/strong>, pushing the series to San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1338\" data-end=\"1490\">Thompson\u2019s defense on <strong data-start=\"1360\" data-end=\"1377\">Stephen Curry<\/strong> was elite, sparking a huge first-half run. \u201cHe took it personal,\u201d said <strong data-start=\"1449\" data-end=\"1466\">Dillon Brooks<\/strong>, praising his tenacity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1492\" data-end=\"1644\">The <strong data-start=\"1496\" data-end=\"1507\">Rockets<\/strong> shot 55.1% from the field and crushed Golden State on both ends. \u201cAmen ignited us,\u201d said coach <strong data-start=\"1603\" data-end=\"1616\">Ime Udoka<\/strong>. The series now stands 3-2.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Amen Thompson picks Steph \ud83d\udd12<\/p>\n<p>TOUGH AND-ONE \ud83d\ude24 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Z8Ldhz4MLM\">pic.twitter.com\/Z8Ldhz4MLM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/1917741094000844910?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 1, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amen Thompson delivered a playoff masterpiece to lead Houston past Golden State and force Game 6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":377622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-440152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/03\/Houston-Rockets.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440152"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=440152"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=440152"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=440152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}