* Warriors-OKC Game 5 officials: Ken Mauer, James Capers, Marc Davis. Warriors fans are understandably very happy that they avoided Scott Foster and Tony Brothers for this one, but I’d semi-caution you that Foster is now set up for either Game 6 or 7, if the series goes that far. With Monty McCutchen as the crew chief for the other one. I know, one game at a time.
-Let’s just state it one more time, with the Warriors’ dream season on the brink of extinction tonight, and some people murmuring that the chase for the 73-win record has helped push them here by tiring them out…
No, I disagree, not only with the conclusion but with the premise that the Warriors gratuitously went after this number over a long period and wore themselves down mentally and physically by doing it.