OKLAHOMA CITY — After a pair of losses placed the Golden State Warriors' special 73-win season at death's door, Draymond Green was left searching for broader, deeper whys and hows following Tuesday's 118-94 Game 4 blowout.
"Obviously they wanted it more than us," Green said after the game. "Now, is that them not having a championship and us having a championship? All of a sudden we're relaxed? It's possible."
With a 3-1 lead in the Western Conference Finals, the Thunder have dominated the past two games so resoundingly that it's difficult to envision the Warriors pushing back with three consecutive life-saving victories, even if two of the games are in Oakland, California.
Golden State's repeat bid was always going to be determined by too much complacency or just enough confidence—a dangerous tightrope—but there are subtle issues at work beyond just that.
What sense is there to Oklahoma City, 18 games worse in the standings, rising up to turn the Warriors from basketball gods into mortal men?
There were signs we missed.
For all the hullabaloo over the War ...
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