The Warriors’ fate seems, yet again, to hinge on the guy it tends to hinge on.
We’re a little less than a week in to the first round of the NBA Playoffs, and so far things are progressing mostly as anticipated. Teams that were expected to dominate their first-round opponents—Denver, Boston, and Philadelphia, for example—are thus far doing so, while both 4–5 series are knotted at 1–1. The top-seeded Milwaukee Bucks lost their first game to the Miami Heat, although after the Bucks’ emphatic trouncing of Miami on Wednesday, Milwaukee appears on their way to righting the ship.
, who was suspended on Wednesday for stomping on Kings center Domantas Sabonis during an under-the-basket scrum in the fourth quarter of Game 2.Make no mistake: It’s completely possible that Golden State wins both of the next two at home and ends up winning this series in six or seven, and from there gets their groove back and ends up running through the Western Conference like they did last season. But right now, that seems very unlikely.
Through their first two games, Golden State has appeared both unmoored and outmatched in ways we’ve never really seen from a healthy playoff version of these Warriors. Golden State has struggled with consistency and focus all season, as evidenced in their brutal 11–30 road record. Still, many of us assumed that they were simply coasting or otherwise taking it easy after last season’s grueling championship campaign. Once the playoffs arrived, the real Warriors would emerge.
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