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Should anyone be surprised at what happened in tonight's #GSWvsHOU #NBAPlayoffs series-clincher? I believe coaching makes a bigger difference in a post-season situation, and that intangible is more important with evenly matched teams.
On one side, you had @SteveKerr, a 5-time @NBA champion as a player who learned from two of the greatest NBA head coaches ever, Phil Jackson and Gregg Popovich, for whom he won those five titles, and now he's going for #4 as a head coach himself.
On the other side, you had Mike D'Antoni, who's always had talented teams, but who's always fallen short when it's counted, either when he was in Phoenix or now in Houston. So tonight's win by the @warriors should have come as no real surprise.
In addition, there was the aspect of the other players stepping up their game in Kevin Durant's absence. They played a little bit harder for their injured teammate to try not to have to play a Game 7, where anything would be possible, w/o arguably their best player. #NBAPlayoffs
For old-time fans, a similar thing happened in a G6 nearly 39 years ago (could it have been THAT long ago?) when Magic Johnson and Jamaal Wilkes led a Kareem-less Lakers team into Philadelphia on May 16, 1980, and took the title back to Los Angeles against all odds. #NBAPlayoffs
