Saturday, March 19, 2016

Game Two Tonight Between the Spurs & Warriors Overshadows March Madness


While the best of the best teams in college basketball are colliding with each other to determine the national colligate champion, the future 2016 NBA champions go head to head tonight. Forget about any (L)eastern time seizing the title this year.
The Golden State Warriors are poised to win back to back championships, but the San Antonio Spurs my thwart those plans. When the two teams clash in Texas tonight, a streak will continue, or be broken for either team. The Warriors have not won in San Antonio since 1997, when Stephen Curry was 8-years-0ld. This fact is from Comcast Sports Network. The Spurs are 32-0 at home against the Warriors in that span.
Currently both teams have yet to lose two games in a row all season, a feat no NBA team has accomplished in a single season. (CSN) The five time champion Spurs are having the best season of their illustrious career with a 34-0 home record, and the team’s 58-10 mark is its best start ever.
Something has to give, The Warriors set the all-time NBA record this year with 50 straight wins at home in the regular season which started last year. The Warriors are the only professional team in all four major sports to achieve the 50 game home winning streak. (Baseball, basketball, football and hockey; CSN). The Warriors are currently 32-0 at the Oracle Arena. If the Warriors close out the season with an 11-3 record or better, the team will set another NBA record for most wins in one season.   


Since its inaugural season in 1946, no NBA team has finished a season unbeaten at home and this year, both the Spurs and Warriors are only 14 games away from doing so. The Warriors have nine more home games while the Spurs have seven left including tonight’s game.
The Spurs 5th championship was a mere two years ago, and when the team lost to the Los Angeles Clippers, 4 games to 3 in last year’s playoffs, many people, including LeBron James said the Warriors were lucky to win the title last season because they didn’t have to face the Spurs in the playoffs. Extremely unlikely that will happen this year.
Last Easter, the Spurs walloped the Warriors 107-92 in Texas which snapped a Warrior 12 game winning streak at the time. In January the Warriors returned the favor, smashing the Spurs at home 120-90.
The powers that be have clearly stated the importance of home court advantage, and the Warriors, despite their incredible 62-6 record have a mere four game lead over the Spurs for home court advantage thought the playoffs.
The Warriors have had so many blow-out wins this year, and that is why the team will win another title, their starters get plenty of rest. Stephen Curry has not played in 18 fourth quarters this year (CSN) and his partner in crime, Draymond Green is the only Warrior in the league who’s in the top 20 in minutes played. Green is 18th on that list. (CSN)

When these two teams meet in the Western Conference finals, the Warriors must always be wary of the Spurs forward Kawhi Leonard. I so wish Leonard was a Warrior, he is not in a class by himself, but roll call is very quick, and the same can be said for that one guy on the Warriors.  

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