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,

I was surprised I got a technical. When somebody’s leg is on the back of your head, I don’t understand exactly what they wanted me to do.”