I'm telling you, some Golden State fans are angry that I and a zillion others didn't respect the Warriors enough to pick them to beat the Mavericks. Yesterday, I asked, essentially: well, who did?
Let's assume that between all the newspapers, magazines, websites, message boards, and blogs in this world, probably about one million people made some kind of predicion. So far, these are the correct Golden State picks I know about:
Golden State of Mind, a blog of ravenous Warrior fans, interestingly didn't really call it. Neither, that I can find, did any of the major local newspapers (before game one was done). One of the GSM writers, Hash, wrote this:
If the Warriors, god willing, make it to the Promised Land and end up toe to toe with Dallas, Avery and his boys had better be seriously concerned. Because the only thing more dangerous than a team with a record like the Mavs is a team like the Warriors. A group of ballers that have nothing to lose and everything to gain in the postseason.
Which, to me, almost makes news because it is from a Warrior fan and nevertheless stops well short of a prediction.
Hash's Golden State of Mind colleague Atma Brother #1 was in a similar zone. He wrote 10 reasons why an upset is very possible, and filled out a bracket with the Warriors going to the Western Conference Finals. But when it came time for an actual series prediction, on the Basketball Jones podcast, he said the playoff starved Warriors fan in him was saying Warriors in seven, but the basketball analyst in him declared Mavericks in six.
What do we learn from all this? Some people really nailed it. Nice going.
Also, sports are great, precisely because it's hard to know what's going to happen! This one was a surprise, and that's not bad, that's good.
