Bored Warriors Become Closeout Quarter Warriors

All season long the Golden State Warriors has played condescending basketball. They’re too good, a little too old, and very much too arrogant to try harder than neutral in any regular season basketball game. Come postseason time, one would think that games with larger significance would trigger a much more engaged and killer instinct style of basketball. Sort of. Game 5 against the New Orleans Pelicans was the Mona Lisa of their attitude all year long. They came out a little stagnant, found out they could get a big lead with some decent effort, gave that lead right back before halftime due to sloppiness and boredom, then completely crushed their season by the middle of the third quarter. Closeout Quarter Warriors.

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