After Loss, Warriors Are Bullish as Ever in Pursuit of a Record

Wonderful teams, wonderful coaches, the best of what basketball can be.

Three-pointers are killing the game.

What a pleasure to watch basketball at this level and appreciate both teams. Contrast that to the article about the Knicks being tired and Carmelo with a headache etc etc. Mr Keh basically is apologizing for a team with a $10 million a year GM and a bloated payroll. I read the article and chuckle at the writers name, which sounds like the Spanish "Que?". What?

The real story here is that we are witnessing some of the best basketball in NBA history. Records made by past legends are dropping and teams like the Warriors and Spurs and their players are re-defining the game.
Strategy, on-court communication and time utilization have reached new plateaus of sophistication.
TV play coverage has been an unsurpassed source of education and understanding of the nuances of the game.
Basketball today is a living and moving chess match.
Never more exciting.

Regular season wins in the NBA are often tainted. Playing a team in the second game of a back to back, when they're in the middle of a long road trip, or when their stars are sitting for minor injuries gives you an advantage. This cuts both ways, off course. But setting the record for regular season wins is not nearly as meaningful nor as important as winning in the playoffs. Playoff basketball is a lot more intense than regular season games. Winning in the regular season is a sign that you excel when everybody is going 75%. The Warriors are surely much more intent on winning the championship than beating the 1995-96 Bulls.

A great game but both teams can loose to the other and still be good.

This game was an example of late 90s/early 2000s basketball at its finest. The Spurs have realized that they only way to beat Golden State is to force them to play slow, grind-it-out and pound-it-inside basketball, combined with stifling anti-Curry perimeter defense. They will never blow out the Warriors that way, but they will make every game close. Aldridge is just too big for small-ball. If these two teams meet in the playoffs it will be a series for the ages.

Golden States presents as playing smarter than the other guys. Not last night; Boris Diaw was in the house, and when, as in the case now, he is fit, he elevates the Spurs to a whole other level.

All I've read and heard from the experts was Aldridge and Leonard. All I know is is that, without Diaw,had no chance. The defense was superb, but it was the Spurs ability to get what they wanted on offense, to create easy chances in the half court off multiple passes, unscripted riffs off a schematic, impossible to game for, that beat Golden State at its own game. It just might be that what we we saw last night is what Pop has decided to go with.

If so, it will be a work in progress, and all the taking thus far becomes irrelevant. Next play.

The Warriors will be fine and I thought Kerr's comments were right on the money. That said, I wonder why Kerr didn't play Speights more minutes, if for no other reason than to put a body on Aldridge who pretty much had his way throughout the game.

The object is not to send a message. It is to win the match.

There have been several teams, some with losses far exceeding their wins, that have played the Spurs close in San Antonio.

Secondarily, the Warriors should have cashed all their chips by resting players the night before in Dallas to prepare for a victory down I-35.

I admire the Warriors quest for greatness. Let us pray that confidence doesn't devolve into damning pride.

The Warriors are the so hard to beat but credit Pop with finding a strategy that worked this time. Imagine the difficulty taking the Warriors four games out of seven, but you just have to believe..... and I believe in the Spurs. If any team can, we can.