OAKLAND — The Warriors opened up the 2018-19 season with a victory Tuesday, beating the Oklahoma City Thunder (sans Russell Westbrook) 108-100 at Oracle Arena.
It’s just one game — there are 81 left to play (plus playoffs) — but that doesn’t mean that there were no lessons to be gleaned from the contest.
In fact, the first game of the season provided prodigious insight into this Warriors team.
Insights like: Stephen Curry is really good at basketball.
(You can’t get this stuff anywhere else, folks.)
But seriously, here’s what we learned from the season debut:
These guys aren’t in shape
It’s the first of 82 games, and the Warriors certainly know how to pace themselves, but the dips in play Tuesday night weren’t byproducts of apathy or boredom — no sir, the Warriors looked out of shape against the Thunder, and that lack of conditioning showed all over the court.