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OAKLAND — After watching the Warriors blow out the San Antonio Spurs 120-90 on Monday night at Oracle, I asked the same question I’ve asked myself after most of their wins: How is anyone going to beat this team?
First off, the Warriors are a great team. There’s not just one or two things that you have to do to beat them. You need a comprehensive approach, from start to finish, offense and defense, and it needs to have multiple contingency plans.
You need to keep Stephen Curry under a little bit of control, you’ve got to lessen Draymond Green’s impact, you have to make sure Klay Thompson doesn’t beat you, you have to factor in Andrew Bogut’s elite rim-protecting, you have to take care of the ball, you have to execute offensively, you have to blah, blah, blah, etc., etc., etc.
You have to do it all.
The Warriors, who are now 41-4, have many facets to their greatness. They’re dynamic and explosive offensively, they’re long and tough defensively, and they can beat you in a fast game or slow game. But I keep coming back to the one thing that makes them historically unique, and it’s why I’m not sure they can be beaten in any seven-game series.
Matt Steinmetz 