Post-game: Steph pours in 34, Chris Paul closes it out, exhausted Warriors gut out win in Detroit
Every win is a good win
Also in other news, the Warriors signed Gui Santos to a three-year contract to take up the 14th spot on the roster.
Celebrate!
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I missed all the fun (my best friend was in town; had all the fun with her instead)!
I'm glad we won this game because everything about it was so underwhelming it just makes me question the NBA and scheduling choices in particular.
Both teams looked exhausted from the tipoff. The Dubs, of course, have basically not had a break from traveling all season long, and both were on the back end of a b2b. Detroit has some skilled young players but their roster isn't really built to win games—too many bigs, no veteran leadership (Bogdanovic, maybe, if he were healthy).
But even more sad, it felt like they didn't have fans. The crowd wasn't exclusively Warriors-leaning but I could believe 50/50 with how the gasps and cheers went, when you could hear any. It was pretty different than Cleveland. Hell, Sacramento brought like 5x this energy level for a freaking preseason game.
In the end, Steph Curry and friends (considering Chris Paul, frenemies?) mustered enough give a damn to actually come away with it, despite looking like they'd rather be napping. It's good the team that wanted and needed the win earned it, but overall this one looked and felt like work more than fun.
I'm not optimistic about our odds against the final boss of this road trip, the Denver Nuggets, in their high-altitude arena. The only reason I can think of to not write that one off as a loss already is that the Warriors have a history of stepping it up for high-profile games, and the first encounter of the season with the defending champs seems like it should qualify.