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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Warriors Season Finale

So we've come down to the final game of the season, and behold! As many 'experts' predicted, the Warriors end up becoming the odd man out of the Western Conference Playoffs. Disappointed? somewhat. Interested? very. Reasoning? How many teams win 48 games in a season, and still have a shot at the #1 overall pick in the 2008 NBA draft? Never the less, that's a topic for another discussion. This one is about Seattle SuperSonics vs. our Warriors.

With absolutely nothing on the line here, I was expecting Nellie to pretty much pull all the stars and the starters, to let us fans here know that we've got some talent developing in our rookies. After all, Seattle was playing their top rookie and front runner for Rookie of the Year, Kevin Durant. Albeit, he's their star player as well. To my surprise, Nellie played it like a regular game, although with more substitutions and contributions by the bench that was hardly used all season. Earlier in the season, we posted some pretty ridiculous numbers and never had a hard time beating the 2nd worst team in the NBA. Yet, this time, well, they came to play and although they were down in the 3rd quarter, you just had a feeling they had the control and the confidence that they should rightfully win this contest and it showed in their play. They simply beat the Warriors. You can't make excuses, "Oh, because the Warriors didn't play their best line the entire night." Guess what?! They shouldn't have to!


-Seattle throwin one down on us

How come Seattle plays the Warriors so well?! I don't want to believe that its the mojo from our friends up there secretly chanting for their team has to beat ours so they can have something to brag about. Yet, the W's give up 126 points to the 2nd worst team in the league! My god! When you're down in the dumps, you're losing because you either don't have offense, or you don't have defense, or both. A team that finishes 15 games above .500 says that they have at least 1, if not both of those attributes. So, how do we lose? One thing for sure, This pic of Jeff Green dunking on us, pretty much sums up the sums up the finale of the Warrior's season... sour.

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