After their victorious trip to Sacramento yesterday, the Warriors move on to Portland on Sunday before… returning to Sacramento in a few days? It is indeed possible that the Kings, sure to finish 3rd in the West, welcome the defending champions, currently 5th but who can finish 6th, for the first round of the playoffs.
Like his teammate Draymond Green, Klay Thompson would be in favor of it. “ That would be wonderful. I don’t know when it ever happened. Has this already happened? The Kings have great fans, so do we. Mike B (Brown) makes the guys play hard. It would be really great for Northern California, which is a basketball hotspot right now. And it would be good to travel », develop the reartop scorer of the game tonight with 29 points.
He takes up here the argument invoked by his interior on the logistical question. The two clubs, which have never met in the playoffs, being very close geographically, such a series would be less physically demanding due to less significant travel.
Sacramento, which is about to make its return to the finals after 17 years of drought, will have home advantage no matter what. Where the Warriors, in the event of a confrontation with them, could assert their years of experience at the highest level.
We are afraid of no one
” They are the defending champions. It will be difficult to be neck and neck, but we will go into battle and we will attack head on. We are not afraid of them, we are afraid of no one. We think that by being healthy, we can go and beat them, and that’s what we’re going to do. “, Displays full of confidence Chimezie Metu, leading scorer of his team this night with 15 points and 8 rebounds.
The interior considers that last night’s game has nothing to reveal about a potential series of playoffs. His team had put four major players in the fridge: De’Aaron Fox, Domantas Sabonis, Kevin Huerter and Malik Monk. Where, as Mike Brown recalls, Andrew Wiggins was also absent for the Warriors.
“ About the opponent in the first round, at the end of the day, if you want to win a championship, you have to beat whoever is in front of you. If we want to get where we want, it’ll be a fight, so it doesn’t matter », puts the Kings coach into perspectivewhose team lost three times in four games against Golden State this season.
And the coach to recall having been part of ” teams that we went 1-3 against in the regular season – one win and three losses – or sometimes we got swept away, but we beat them on a playoff series. We try to learn from the regular season games, but we don’t attach too much importance to it because, at the end of the day, trying to win four out of seven games is a completely different experience. »
