How he performs this season will not only decide how far Golden State progresses, but how much they’ll have to pay to keep him. Harden believes he was the “real” Most Valuable Player last season, he doesn’t necessarily come at Curry directly, but his slightly excessive confidence denotes that he still believes Curry didn’t deserve that award as much as he did. “(Kerr) always was telling us that second, third year is when you really take off. So if we did what we did last year and we’re still learning about the system and how we’re going to go out and play it, I like our chances going into this year, too”.
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The Golden State Warriors have a right to feel disrespected.
No longer able to remain politically correct about the post-championship criticism they’ve been hearing from their National Basketball Association rivals, the Warriors are returning fire. It’s simple. (Spurs coach) Gregg Popovich didn’t say that.
“I’m just trying to be more explosive in what I do, create more space with the dribble, getting stronger and trying to hold my lines more when they’re attacking the basket and things like that”, he said. And you haven’t heard anybody [there] make that statement.
I apologize for us being healthy, I apologize for us playing who was in front of us.
The Warriors now have targets on their back this season, and an improved Western Conference should only make things more interesting. And you haven’t heard anybody in their camp say that.
And another one, Stephen Curry went over to Mike Malone before the game, all smiles, for a handshake and hug.
Thompson started the flurry the other day when, informed of Rivers’ comment, he said, “Ha ha, that sounds pretty bitter to me”.
Added Thompson, who also has been dealing with Internet drama involving life, love and sleazy websites: “Didn’t they lose to the Rockets?” Golden State’s 67 wins were 11 more than the Los Angeles Clippers a year ago and a quick look at the National Basketball Association futures odds for this season shows that a similar situation is expected for 2015-16.
Walton figured Golden State’s first time back in Oracle since Game 5 of the Finals would bring an electric environment. Don’t gas me up.’ And he was, like, ‘No, for real.
The talent is there for the Kings to be a fringe playoff team but the more likely scenario is that they fall well short of that goal and are forced to once again reevaluate their long-term plan at a few point in the near future. In the second round, they faced a Grizzlies team with an injured Mike Conley, while the Clippers blew a 3-1 series lead to the Rockets.
“I’ve never been this close to a championship team before”, Gordon said.
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“I don’t want to get caught up in the moment and leave Steph in for 36 minutes”, Walton said.
