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WOW

What an incredible perforamce by Barron Davis last night in the Warriors HUGE win in Dallas in Game One of the NBA playoffs. This was one of the greatest playoff performance ever (great reminder of Sleepy Floyds INCREDIBLE Game 4 against the Lakers in 1987 when he went for 29 fourth quarter points and 39 in the half) as BD took over the game in the second half and led this team to victory. However, I am still puzzled how Dallas can turn to putty when playing Golden State. They missed numerous lay up and in close shots, made too many turnovers and when is looked that they could turn the game their way mid-way through the fourth period with Golden State in foul trouble, they lost their smarts and bombed away. It shall be an exciting week when the NBA playoffs return to Oakland for the first time in 13 years. We are ready to revel in it all and are now entertaining the thoughts of a Golden State UPSET.

Believe

I think it is bad Karma or poor etiquette to respond to your own post in your own thread, but what the hay. The performance by the Golden State Warriors last night was simply electric. This seems to be the First Round team of destiny with the Dallas Mavericks on the ropes and stumbling backwards towards Dallas. But these are the NBA playoffs and the hardest game to win is the next one. The Warriors have done it three times now, but the Mavs sported the sixth-best record in NBA history this season and winning three games in a row, including one on the road, is well within the realm of possibility and maybe probability. Still, what the Warriors gave the Bay Area fans this past weekend has to rank up there in Bay Area sports history. The question is could we have a Game 6 in Oakland that can take this all a step higher. I certainly hope so.

BELIEVE!!!

COLLAPSE!!!

On the live theatrical stage that is athletic competition, it is incredible how thw storyline can reverse so quickly and so tragically. What an incredible finish to last nights Warriors-Mavericks contest. To be on the brink of a historic NBA playoff victory to the troughs of a historic NBA playoff collapse. This is why they play the games and this is why we watch : )

THAT'S INCREDIBLE

What a nut house the Oracle became Thursday nite and both the Warriors and their fans came for blood. This really should have been Dallas' series to take and create their own piece of NBA history. Instead, after one of the most monumental collapses in NBA Playoff history on Tuesday, the Warriors incredibly shook it off and came out fired up and ready to play Thursday.

Mickael Pietrus (which says volumes for team chemistry) led the team on to the court waving a "We Believe" T-shirt, which was Golden State's way of telling Dallas "Not In Our House"; not in front our Peeps: Not Here! And that is exactly what happened. The team dug in, played a solid first half and then, unlike Dallas, put it all on the court in the third quarter to B L O W Dallas away. I was not pretty at all. A 67-win team (sixth best in NBA HISTORY) was roughed up like the Boston Celtics on a bad night. And coming off the heels of their own collapse a year ago in the NBA Finals, Dallas will be left a whole off-season to answer a slew of questions. And NBA MVP Dirk Nowitzki (who can be thankful the voting occurs before the playoffs) will have to embarrassingly accept his award after disappearing during most of this series in an un-MVP like performace. The 'second sesaon" is when true All Stars shine and Dirk became a pitless black hole

Keep it up Warriors. We're enjoying every step of it.