Disappointed Warriors vow to get back to NBA Finals stage
Would they prefer that the Warriors break the Bulls’ 1994 win-loss record and win the championship, preventing LeBron James from winning his third chip, bringing him within three of Mike’s?
Love was one point shy of a double-double in Sunday’s finale with nine points and a team-high 14 rebounds.
The first unanimous MVP, Curry knocked down a record 402 3-pointers this season before his up-and-down playoffs began with the frustration of a first-round ankle injury and then a sprained knee.
“Yeah, you talk about vindication, this is the main reason that I came here and wanted to come here because I knew we’d have a great shot to win a title”, Love said.
On top of that, in the two days following the Cavs’ championship, fans bought more gear than Warriors fans did for an entire week when the team won in 2015.
An Ohio-based clothing company was cashing in on a surprise National Basketball Association subplot Sunday night, selling T-shirts with the words “Bye Ayesha” in reference to the wife of Warriors guard Stephen Curry. Along with the misses, he was the defender on what turned out to be Kyrie Irving’s tie-breaking 3-point basket with 53 seconds left.
Word is the Warriors are interested in signing either Kevin Durant or Dirk Nowitzki to team with Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green to form a Big 4 in hopes of stopping LeBron come next June. For some unusual reason, it took Kerr six games to figure out that his team should stop switching Curry onto James during picks.
Although he was unanimously voted the league MVP, Curry and the Warriors, the best of the Western Conference, dominated the league throughout the season. Under the ownership of Joe Lacob and Peter Guber, these far fetched ideas are more and more plausible. He s made some great plays for our team.
It does not. Curry understood more than anyone. I liked telling that story, and it said something about me.
“I was searching for a three”, Curry said, “and I rushed and didn’t take what was there, which was probably better to go around him and try to get into the paint”.
Golden State’s draft successes since 2009 – when Curry was drafted seventh overall by the Warriors – has them in a ring of salary cap constraints and unflattering draft position, and that doesn’t seem likely to end soon. Cleveland’s celebration was getting cranked up, a celebration that the OH city had waited for more than 50 years to unleash. You could say that those minutes highlighted the Warriors most glaring soft spot in their glittering package – the inability to score inside when needed.
The next question is what they’d be offering a team to move up: since they traded their 2017 first round pick, they do not have another draft pick to trade because they can’t trade away picks in consecutive years. They could not find a way to get the ball through the basket once.
“One marathon ended, got a drink of water and now we’re moving on”, Myers said Tuesday, later noting, “Even if we were sitting here right now with a parade, it doesn’t change who we draft and it actually shouldn’t change a ton of other things either, but it’s hard not to get swept up in that current”.