Blacknbengal
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This is so funny :lol:, but there is alot of truth to it.
Davis, Nellie, Mullin among Warriors' heroes
How to satisfactorily explain Golden State's 111-86 thumping of Dallas?
Perhaps identifying the close-out game's heroes and goats would be useful.
HEROES
Leading the list is Baron Davis, who returned to action after straining a hamstring and then proceeded to hamstring the Mavs' title hopes. Even though he was obviously still in pain, Davis bagged several triples and limped his way through the toothless Dallas defense for layup after layup after ?
Indeed, it was a half-driving-half-hopping layup midway through the third quarter ? boosting the Warriors' lead to 14 ? that made the Mavs unofficially throw in the towel. That one shot let all the leftover air (or was it gas?) out of the Mavs' bloated self-esteem.
Andris Biedrins also gets to wear a hero's wreath, for giving a convincing ? albeit brief ? impersonation of Bill Russell. Biedrins' early shot-blocking, rebounding and dunking helped get the Warriors up, up and away.
Stephen Jackson demonstrated once again that he's most effective as a catch-and-shoot long-range bomber. His seven home runs helped knock the Mavs out of the box.
Still, Jackson continued to have difficulty dribbling when pressured, and he did miss a total of six layups. Also, his overreaction to getting accidentally bonked on his bean by Austin Croshere was strictly juvenile. So let's give Jackson a wreath and a single horn.
Chris Mullin's radical reconfiguring of his team in mid-stream was also heroic.
And, of course, there's Nellie, who lets his guys do what they do best. Run berserk. Shoot first and never ask questions. And play with perpetual chips on their shoulders.
The Mavericks also had a hero: Jerry Stackhouse, whose trio of triples early in the game kept his team in touch with the runaway Warriors, and at least delayed the inevitable humiliation.
Stackhouse also proved his courage at the beginning of the fourth quarter: There was Dirk Nowitzki, ensconced in the pivot with Jackson perfectly sealed and barely visible. There was Nowitzki, madly gesticulating for Stackhouse to pass him the ball. But there was Stackhouse, taking a long look at Nowitzki before calmly looking away and passing elsewhere. Credit Stackhouse for recognizing what was really what.
Read here for the Goats