While many are focusing on Golden State’s fourth quarter rally as the key point of Wednesday’s win against the Clippers (and they have plenty of reason to think so), the part of the game that showed the true potential of this Warriors team came about an hour earlier.
Early in the first quarter, Stephen Curry picked up two fouls in almost immediate succession, listed as six seconds apart but functionally instantaneous. Just two minutes and forty-five seconds into their most challenging game of the young regular season, the Champs had to play extended time without the MVP while the Clippers had the man Curry took the “Best Point Guard in the NBA” mantle from: Chris Paul.