Andre Iguodala said of a playoff game. April 19, 2016Iguodala is talking about taking on a bigger offensive role amid Curry's absence and he's comparing the experience of having a large offensive role to how it works in practice. But in saying the game -- a competitive playoff game -- feels like a practice scrimmage, he's making it deadly clear how seriously the Warriors take the Houston threat, which is (rightfully) not seriously at all.
Hubris among NBA players -- stars and subs alike -- is nothing new, exciting or worth fretting over. All hubris does is fuel schadenfreude and Crying Jordan memes when failure eventually arrives. For Golden State, that could be this spring or it could be in 2027. For the Warriors are indeed great and built to last unless they are undone by their own success, unless they start believing their own hubris, unless they get a little too cocky and start to suggest they are exceptional by virtue of their own brilliance.Uh oh.
Warriors franchise owner Joe Lacob] boasted that the Warriors are playing in a far more sophisticated fashion than the rest of the league. "We've crushed them on the basketball court, and we're going to for years because of the way we've built this team," he said. But what really set the franchise apart, he said, was the way it operated as a business. "We're light-years ahead of probably every other team in structure, in planning, in how we're going to go about things."No Steph Curry 35-footer packs more hubris than Bruce Schoenfeld's
New York Times Magazine profile of Lacob and the Warriors' venture capitalist management. When the story hit Buy NBA Live Coins before the playoffs, it drew attention for an overall tone of mild condescension and for two quotes: the light-years nonsense (the Spurs will take your call when you have 14 more 50-win seasons in a row) and this one about Buynba2k.com Steph himself.
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