These Golden State Warriors were supposedly too small, too thin and too offensively focused after the signing of Kevin Durant to maintain their status as an elite defensive team.
Emphasis on supposedly.
Draymond Green, rather predictably, loved soaking up all that preseason nay-saying.
"Obviously when you hear that noise, you want to shut it up No. 1," Green told me in our SportsCenter talk last week. "So coming into the season, what everyone’s saying -- 'They lost this guy; they lost that guy; their defense isn’t going to be good, and that’s where their downfall is going to be' -- it motivates you.