Some quick-hitting thoughts on the brilliant game that just concluded on national TV, with the Golden State Warriors spoiling an incendiary 47-point Stephen Curry outburst to lose to the Boston Celtics by a final score of 119-114:
- Sometimes, the bounce of the basketball just doesn’t go your way. And while the Warriors had plenty to rue (more on the exact circumstances later), to take the Celtics down to the wire sans a true center, with Steph hobbling around on a sprained ankle and Juan Toscano-Anderson receiving stitches after an incredible save and subsequent scary fall over the scorer’s table, with Jayson Tatum cooking, Kemba Walker looking rejuvenated, and Marcus Smart hitting clutch shots – it goes down as another loss in this up-and-down season, but the Warriors and Celtics traded haymakers for 4 full quarters at playoff intensity, and the rules of sports say that some team has to go home the loser, no matter how undeserving said loss may seem.