Warriors Mav’s Game 4

If you thought the Warriors game 3 vs. the Mavericks was good on Friday Sunday night was even more ridiculous! It was me, Patrick and John at home each home alone chatting on IM and screaming through IM all night long! Congrats to Frank for being 7 rows from the floor at the game! It is indescribable how exciting it was to watch the Warriors!

Taking a step back as a regular spectator game 4 was one of the most fun games to watch ever. The score was neck to neck and it was a close game throughout! You have to admit that there is a strange appeal of watching a Dodge Ball like performance of the 8th place Warriors going up on the 1st place ranked Mavericks. How does a 67 – 15 team get taken down 3 games to 1 from a team with a 42 – 40 point record? Part of it is just home court crowd. You play a team and fans that haven’t seen playoffs for 13 years you are going to have a-lot to deal with in Oakland with a record crowd of ~20,000. Overall though this is not the same Golden State team at all. We got rid of Dunleavy and Murphy which were just dead weight and brought in some street balers from Indy. It took time to gel though and they have in the last 20 games. Don’t forget that Baron Davis and J Rich returned from injury! I can’t imagine what pain killers they are shooting up but its working!

The Warriors are playing with sheer desire and heart. If you watch sometimes there are some forced bad shots, too many missed three’s, no rebounding, horrible free throws but who cares! Despite all of that they hung in the game and played defence? Wow! Each time Dallas dished out their best the Warriors answered. Even if it was the half time mid court 1.1 second 3 point Baron Davis shot to tie the game 49 – 49! Or the 72 – 70 lead before the third and Baron Davis drives down to dunk to end the third quarter. The Mavericks were doing all that they could possibly do but could NOT stop the Warriors! 103 – 99 go Warriors! As predicted they would win at home, the crowd would not allow a loss. I think chances are that the Warriors will probably lose on Tuesday with a close game and close out the game on Thursday at home. The Mavericks are overdue for at least one good game on Tuesday at home.

Watching post a game interview Dirk was speechless and Johnson without any answers on what to do with the Warriors. They truly sounded defeated already. This team has dished out the best that they have and only deliver losses. Sometimes when folks have the hot hand and lady luck and desire on their side there is nothing you can do about it!
I am going to round up my boys and find a pub to watch the Tuesday game. Hopefully the Warriors open up the stadium for us to watch there for free like before! Charles Barkley hung his head real low and said “I was wrong; the Warriors are very fun to watch and the luckiest team in basketball.” Thanks for coming around Charles, thanks for fuelling the Bay Area fire it just helped us more to win!