There is a truth like a temple: the Warriors with the Warriors. Do not underestimate that, nor what Rudy Tomjanovich defined as the heart of the champion. Nor is it a dynasty, its components, protagonists, stars, players. And while a win against the Rockets doesn’t necessarily have to be brilliant, the dynamics that Steve Kerr’s team has been building have gone from miserable to passable at first, and then very good. And it cannot surprise us: last year they already started in a rather questionable way and ended up winning the ring, the Western Conference, Immersed in a level crisis that we had never seen, it allows a bad start and has everything very even. And the defending champion, who started with a 3-7 record, is now 13-11, sixth in the West and just three wins … out of first place. There it is.
It is not something that can surprise us: most teams have a structural and tactical complexity to analyze, they give rise to many conversations and a huge amount of enormous analysis. Nevertheless, As soon as they improve, the Warriors win without being subjected to this type of scrutiny. They are a team that, as long as Klay Thompson hits a few more shots than usual and Draymond Green focuses, they get victories. It is like this: they are so good that it is enough for them to make the slightest improvements to achieve maximum results, correct the basics to add positive things. It’s what you get when your coach has never lost a Western Conference playoff series, your star is an absolutely generational player and the greatest exponent and representative of the era of triples and your team, the last great historical dynasty that the best League in the world has had: 4 rings, 6 Finals and a story of delicious narrative.
Against the Rockets, the Warriors reached their fifth victory in their last six games, continued their good dynamics and continued advancing in a West in which no one could beat them a few months ago at the moment of truth, those playoffs in which they advanced almost unopposed. And, this time, a Curry who has sustained his team during the first phase of the season was not alone.. What’s more, one of those players who became an All Star last year appeared on the scene and was also one of his team’s key players in the final phase: Andrew Wiggins. 36 points in less than 34 minutes with a +34 with him on track; a 14 of 19 in field goals and a spectacular 8 of 10 in triples. A fantastic performance, the best for him in the whole course. A titanic match, an example of what this player can be. And one more step forward for a team that, although there is still a long way to go, will be at the foot of the canyon at the moment of truth. Why do we know? Because it is a historical fact.
Jordan Poole accompanied Wiggins with 21 points (5 of 8 on three-pointers) and Curry was not far behind: 30 points, 10 assists and 8 of 17 from the outside. Between Wiggins, Poole and Curry they scored 21 of 35 from the outside, a spectacular figure. The game had no history: a 39-23 in the first period left everything tied up for some Warriors who dedicated themselves exclusively to managing the advantage for the rest of the night. They hardly received any stings from an unserious and uninspiring rival, who had 20 points from Kevin Porter, 13 from Jalen Green and 4, with 10 rebounds, from Usman Garuba who continues to have a certain regularity in Stephen Silas’s rotation. Very little to compete in the West (6-17, penultimate in their Conference) and, of course, to compete against some Warriors who this time did not have a Klay Thompson who had a rest, although they did with Draymodn Green (3+6+6). Finally, what we have already said: the warriors are the warriors.
