SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Amid the pyrotechnics and flames shooting into the air of Golden 1 Center, there was a still on the sidelines — one that could've suggested after so many years of going through the playoff gauntlet the Golden State Warriors didn't recognize the severity of a Game 7.
— it would be fitting, some would say, for them to face the big brothers in Los Angeles to stoke classic memories of their own.
But that’s the standard he’s set and maintained even around a league that’s changing every day — because he’s seemingly mastered the game as opposed to breaking it and now he manages to maneuver around it and through it as everyone tries to catch up. It was then where it felt like Game 7 was no longer an opportunity for the Kings, and the Warriors began to use it to notch one more improbable win on their decade-long resume. Like Bane told Batman in “The Dark Knight Rises”: “You merely adopted the dark; I was born in it, molded by it.”
Before, their singular excellence could overwhelm opponents. They shot more, shot better and figured out how to make the game work for them. They knew they couldn’t beat the Kings in a track meet, not with the Kings’ youth, energy and lack of pressure. So they merely did the things to prevent the Kings from getting out and running.
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