As I was sitting down to watch the late night telecast from Oakland, the repetition of comments from Pounders who were facing the game with hopeful, yet realistic expectations of how this game would end kept running through my mind. This is the Warriors. Double-digit loss was already expected. A Kawhi-less Spurs did not truly have a chance against Durant and company.
But the Spurs came to play. As the game started, I found myself making excuses- the Warriors are missing shots, they’ll come back. Even when Stephen Curry went out with a twisted ankle, thoughts of they still have so many tools at their disposal rang through my head.