Warriors vs. Spurs Final Score: Golden State Evens Series with 97-87 OT Win
By Josh Hill
The Golden State Warriors and San Antonio Spurs are locked in a bitter battle in the Western Conference, and out of all the ferocity many are deeming the Warriors the young team to watch in the NBA. They came in to the playoffs after their best season in years and inched past the Denver Nuggets, another young team on the rise in the conference.
But while the Warriors are the young team to watch, the San Antonio Spurs have been there and done that scene and they’re showing the NBA world what a young, upstart team looks like when it gets older, wiser and better.
The Spurs didn’t dominate the Warriors in that they blew them out, rather San Antonio played their style of basketball — a style that they’ve been playing for the last 10 years. Tim Duncan has never been a loudmouthed superstar, instead he’s always been the quite producer for the excellent teams the Spurs have thrown together over the years.
But the Warriors played the Spurs close in Game 4, taking the game down to the wire with some huge blocked shots and clutch jumpers from Golden State. Despite trailing for portions of the game, the Warriors used a late push in the final moments of the fourth quarter to tie the game but their lighting fast late game production came to a grinding halt when Jarrett Jack held the ball far too long on the Warriors final possession of regulation and failed to his a game winning shot.
The Spurs showed us what a young team looks like when it gets older, but while that’s a compliment, it also proved a detriment as part of being young entails stamina and endurance, which was something the Spurs ran out of as the game went into overtime.
It was looking like the Spurs were going to exert their dominance over the Warriors in Game 4 and take a convincing lead, but all the convincing was done on the other side of the court as the Warriors came out hard and evened this series with guts. It’s back to being anyone’s series at this point and both teams want to emerge as the Western Conference has proven to be a lot more wide open than anyone thought it would be at this point.