[NBC]: For a historically good team, Warriors are losing historically badly

Os Trigonum · May 25, 2016

interesting article on nbc

http://nba.nbcsports.com/2016/05/25/for-a-historically-good-team-warriors-are-losing-historically-badly/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

For a historically good team, Warriors are losing historically badly

By Dan FeldmanMay 25, 2016, 11:15 AM EDT

When the 62-win Jazz followed a Game 2 loss with a 96-54 setback to the Bulls in the 1998 NBA Finals, Utah coach Jerry Sloan offered a blunt assessment:

“They ate us alive.”

If that was the case, what should we say about these Warriors?

We’ve never seen anything like Golden State, which won a record 73 games. So, obviously, we’ve never seen a team so good lose so badly in the playoffs – by a combined 52 points in its last two games.

We’ve also never seen a 67-win team stumble so badly in consecutive postseason games. Or a 65-win team. Or even a 60-win team.

In NBA history, 85 teams have won 60 games in a season or the equivalent with a shorter schedule. None had lost consecutive playoff games by a combined 50 points until the best of the bunch – the 73-9 Warriors – did it Games 3 and 4 of the 2016 Western Conference finals.

Golden State’s 133-105 and 118-94 losses to the Thunder undercut the 1998 Jazz, who lost by a combined 47 in their two games against Chicago.

The next-best team to lose consecutive playoff games by 52 was the 2014 Thunder, who went 59-23 and dropped 122-105 and112-77 contests to the Spurs.
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SunsRocketsfan · May 25, 2016

guess they continue to break records..

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