It’s always a joy for those interested in the story, or fascinated by the potential for revenge when the season’s first NBA Finals rematch takes place. golden state warriors Host the Boston Celtics for the first time since the 2022 NBA Finals. Of course, this trend draws out differences for both champions and runners-up. One team rises like a kraken, ready to annihilate every corner, while the other is treading water. that day.
But Golden State’s culture, especially one that’s often crossed with arrogance, can’t save its gameplay on the court.The Warriors have to do it themselves. And so far the returns have not been very good.
How did they get to this point? World champions led by Stephen ‘Destroyer of Worlds’ Curry are seen as underdogs At home To a team the Warriors unexpectedly sent a few months ago? Simply put, the Celtics embarked on a new path and the Warriors refrained from choosing one or the other.
Boston moved in the summer. It got another scoring threat and playmaker in Malcolm Brogdon for Florsum and Jetsam. The team has signed Danilo Gallinari. Both acquisitions make an already dangerous team even more offensive in light of C being bounced back in a hard-fought NBA Finals series by one of the game’s most powerful offensive juggernauts. It was intended to be enhanced with powerful weapons. Their millennial interim coach, Joe Mazura, has already practiced his Coach of the Year speech, transforming a defensive juggernaut into an offensive steamroller and disgraced Ime Udoka. In exchange for the authoritarian denial of , he adopts a softer approach that empowers his best players to go out and play. Trust yourself and each other without asking.he saves contempt for his gum.
The results speak for themselves. The Celtics are frankly an attacking team. Boston has a problem. All teams do. An injured shooter, Gallinari’s wasted season, menacing heavyweight Robert Williams’ lengthy recovery, and the bizarre Udoka scandal… but the Celtics are doing even better than last season’s team.
Needless to say, the Celtics gave their real reaction to losing the NBA Finals. The Warriors didn’t. Yes, they paid Jordan Poole and Andrew Wiggins rightfully Scrooge McDuck money, and Kevon Looney was thankfully retained (and underpaid — i love you loon dog). But the logic of their title defense is essentially that their youngster turns into a magic bean and somehow manages to replicate last season’s unlikely grand slam of winning the perfect bargain-bin free agency. The Warriors didn’t swing or miss, they refused to swing at all.
Part is about tightening Joe Lacob’s purse strings, but part is built into the Warriors’ much-admired culture, especially their arrogance. Arrogance is one of the organizing principles of the team, and has always been. Examples of this arrogance abound. That Lacob declared the championship his banner before winning one playoff. A team notorious for missing first quarters, and sometimes even second and fourth quarters. Regular season sleepwalking.Add to that obvious disrespect for Curry’s shimmy (and now his night owl), Draymond Green’s trickery and Incredibly sharp trash talk.
This passionate humility is inseparable from their identity. It’s not just negative. It’s vital to the team’s soul and has often served as the fuse to Golden State’s great wins, though it’s otherwise likely to show up as an unintended friendliness in his fire, allowing confidence to run wild. There is a nature. We are Warriors. We have 4 championships in 8 years. We are special and we know that and we are not going to apologize so it will work out. It created a strong and flirtatious Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde team that managed to pull back a 3-1 deficit and squander a 3-1 lead in back-to-back playoff rounds.
There is an interesting symmetry in the fortunes of these teams over the past two seasons. Last year, the Celtics were in turmoil until around the New Year, but then flipped the switch in Revenge to become the most dominant and fearsome defense in the league and an absolute nightmare for the team. Boasting an 18-2 record, he started the season dominatingly before serious injuries and a lack of urgency prevented him from finishing the regular season.
This year the roles are reversed. With their bench depleted and Steve Kerr losing faith in more than a few Warriors, we see the limits of this Ramsferdian.go to war with the army you have” Mentality.There’s something magical about the Warriors Coveted Spurs big man Jakob Poetr, which makes so much sense it’s incredible (cross your fingers).Until I saw Gregg Popovich haranguing James Wiseman As for why Merlot is bad, it’s hard to imagine the Warriors seriously targeting the No. 2 pick early this season. Not because they don’t know something, but because this is akin to admitting that they have made a grave mistake… make such a big mistake. They make mistakes by hiring Patrick McCaw and Jacob Evans, and by continuing to hire Bob Fitzgerald, and those are minor mistakes. Wiseman could very well be a franchise-altering mistake (I hope not, poor kid!), and accepting their failures with dignity may be a bridge too far. No way.
Sometimes the rich get richer, sometimes the rich decide they are already rich enough and wing it. While the Warriors are currently enjoying the screened returns of the latter option, the Celtics aggressively pursued an opportunity to get revenge against a team that had just disrespectfully closed the door on their championship hopes. Saturday night will be a clash of philosophies, with a game that highlights the different lessons that winners and losers learned from winning and losing. The Warriors’ arrogance and the Celtics’ hunger are broadcast together on national television. It’s a game that, if it doesn’t do well enough for the home team, could cause real panic in the front office to seriously consider a new approach. addition Give something to the team instead of subtracting from it.
The Warriors, on the other hand, have always enjoyed the prospect of hitting the curb, so they will probably win by 30. Weisman gets his 100 points. Green and pool hug.car does not play Anthony LamYou don’t have to spend $25 on hot dogs and beer. A victory could be the beginning of their comeback, a boost to their arrogance of spirit and recalibrated on-court confidence.
Or it could be the beginning of nothing. It’s in the front office, and if it’s serious, or if it’s run like a basketball team, it’s just playing around.
