Warriors are Done

Golden State scored 14 points in the 4th and still had plenty of opportunities to win the game ... Roady is right that they went ice cold ... the question is why/how?

What stood out to me watching the game was that OKC was baiting Draymond Green to beat them with his scoring. They were defending him with smalls like Randy Foye at times trying to get him to post up and kill the GS ball movement or getting bigs on him with the idea that he'd try to drive to the hoop. In either event, that's a shot not coming from Curry/Thompson. If you look at the numbers, Green had 20+ shots and basically the same as Curry/Thompson. That's not GS basketball.

The other HUGE difference in the game was that GS really didn't get anything from their bench in Game 1 compared to OKC getting some fairly substantial contributions. Generally speaking, I'd expect the GS bench to outplay OKC's bench probably 5 out of 7 times in a series.
 
I think both sides are right on this. The Warriors have assembled a damn near perfect roster that compliments one another very well around the best player in the game, and the Thunder have two transcendent superstars.

Pure talent I think OKC has more, at least where it counts players 9-12 don't matter in the playoffs at any point in the Season baring injury). Actual skill GS has more, probably a lot more. Basically everyone on GS has overachieved their natural gifts whereas you wouldn't call anybody on OKC an overachiever except maybe Westbrook and Adams.
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Westbrook and Durant fuel game 1 upset on the road with raw talent advantage.
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Durant 10-30. Westbrook 7-21. 17-51 combined. 1-8 in crunch time. Westbrook was great in the third quarter, but that's really it. They had bad games otherwise.

The Warriors lost because they went ice cold and because the Thunder's bigs dominated GS's.
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Imagine if they played to their ceiling. Would have been a fucking blowout. You can't have it both ways.

If Westbrook and Durant play to their ceiling, nobody in the world can beat them. They never do consistently, thus no rings, but top end talent second to none.
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Westbrook and Durant fuel game 1 upset on the road with raw talent advantage.
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Durant 10-30. Westbrook 7-21. 17-51 combined. 1-8 in crunch time. Westbrook was great in the third quarter, but that's really it. They had bad games otherwise.

The Warriors lost because they went ice cold and because the Thunder's bigs dominated GS's.
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Imagine if they played to their ceiling. Would have been a fucking blowout. You can't have it both ways.

If Westbrook and Durant play to their ceiling, nobody in the world can beat them. They never do consistently, thus no rings, but top end talent second to none.
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Bump.
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Curry is the goat, but you do have this to fall back on.
 
Westbrook and Durant fuel game 1 upset on the road with raw talent advantage.
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Durant 10-30. Westbrook 7-21. 17-51 combined. 1-8 in crunch time. Westbrook was great in the third quarter, but that's really it. They had bad games otherwise.

The Warriors lost because they went ice cold and because the Thunder's bigs dominated GS's.
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Imagine if they played to their ceiling. Would have been a fucking blowout. You can't have it both ways.

If Westbrook and Durant play to their ceiling, nobody in the world can beat them. They never do consistently, thus no rings, but top end talent second to none.
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Bump.
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Curry is the goat, but you do have this to fall back on.
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The argument is if he plays at this level for 4 straight, he has to legitimately be considered. The knock on Curry is he has to play at such an absurdly high level skill wise that it is very improbable he maintains it.

He doesn't have the Westbrook mold that can just take over. He needs to do video game shit. If KD/RW keep playing like this and Curry goes 7 for 19 or whatever, the Warriors are toast and the conversation is over.

The Thunder are the most talented team, I was right.
 
You set your idiotic argument up fine. Thunder are the most talented, so anytime they win you pop off but you also said they're not consistent so anytime they lose you're still right.

The problem is you keep talking. Instead of just winning you keep blabbing, making it more and more obvious that you're a fucktard. Race and Damone perfected this move years ago. You have a long ways to go.
 
You set your idiotic argument up fine. Thunder are the most talented, so anytime they win you pop off but you also said they're not consistent so anytime they lose you're still right.

The problem is you keep talking. Instead of just winning you keep blabbing, making it more and more obvious that you're a fucktard. Race and Damone perfected this move years ago. You have a long ways to go.
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Such butt hurt, this one.
 
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I know I picked the Cavs, but I can't help pulling for the Thunder. What a cool day it would be to see them pick up their 2nd ring. It's been such a long wait for that franchise. It would be cool if Cleveland won, but LeBron already won it and Durant is a good guy.
 
If Durant loses he's a good guy. Lebron loses and the haters cum in their pants.

Durant is playing better than ever and Westbrook is really buying in.
 
If Durant loses he's a good guy. Lebron loses and the haters cum in their pants.

Durant is playing better than ever and Westbrook is really buying in.
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Also worth a mention:

Billy Donovan is a really good coach and/or Scott Brooks is the worst coach in NBA history.
 
If Durant loses he's a good guy. Lebron loses and the haters cum in their pants.

Durant is playing better than ever and Westbrook is really buying in.
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Also worth a mention:

Billy Donovan is a really good coach and/or Scott Brooks is the worst coach in NBA history.
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The Thunder would still be starting Kendrick Perkins if Brooks was still there.
 
Warriors can't board and can't score right now ... that's a recipe to get run off the court in this series.

Hard to see them winning 3 in a row to finish off this series with the way it is going.
 
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