After the game, 2025 NBA Hustle Award winner Draymond Green said, "They weren't playing 'Whoop that Trick' but they may as well have been," per Anthony Slater of The Athletic. A brief Warriors run early in the fourth cut the lead, but the Rockets’ starters quickly eliminated any threat.

As the Golden State Warriors and Houston Rockets exchanged pleasantries late in the fourth quarter Wednesday night, Draymond Green looked on like a proud dad. The Warriors waved the white flag early in Wednesday's Game 5,

Draymond Green went directly to the camera and put his face mere inches from the lens. He wanted to tell the world that he was still its best defender. As if there was any question of that after he played picture-perfect defense on Houston center Alperen Şengün’s last-second isolation shot to seal a Warriors win and a 3-1 first-round series lead.