Plucky Littles Don't Disappoint (but yeah, I was a bit worried)

OK, I admit that watching the Warriors go down 18 last night I was thinking to myself 'I can't believe I let the Warriors sucker me in to believing again, I am Charlie Brown, they are Lucy with a football', but ultimately they did put together that kind of great 4th quarter the truly good teams do, and won a game in which they were for long stretches significantly outplayed.

And you know what? That's what seriously good NBA teams do. They win games with 4th quarter runs over teams they are supposed to beat. For the last 15 years these were exactly the kinds of games the Warriors would lose. They'd be the team leading most of the game then somehow walking away with that frustrating loss. They'd be the ones thinking 'We had that game and we just gave it away'.

Not anymore. These aren't your father's Warriors. Or my mom's.

Oh, by the way, the Sharks won their 4th straight last night to move in to the division lead. You may not know that of course, since as hockey gets no respect the game wasn't on locally. But they did. If a tree falls in the forest....