How the Warriors got to the Finals
Heat Check with Trysta Krick
The 8 Side
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🗓️ 1 June 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
It wasn't that long ago that the Celtics and Warriors looked like teams that needed to break up their rosters and look towards the future. A washed up has been and a never was. But, that was before the 2 franchises took divergent paths on their way to the Finals. Here is how they went from ham & eggers to contenders.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:08.1 | How in the world does it shock anyone that a team that made five consecutive finals and had three rings in five years. |
| 0:26.0 | How would they be shocked that that same team would make it to the finals again |
| 0:32.2 | after their top two guys got healthy again? |
| 0:36.7 | I mean, I don't know. |
| 0:38.2 | This team had the fourth best odds to win it all, but... |
| 0:42.8 | Let's be honest. |
| 0:43.7 | This team looked like they were different than that team. |
| 0:47.2 | They team looked like trash. |
| 0:49.8 | They were in the watery two years in a row. |
| 0:52.3 | And you wondered if they would ever be, like, as healthy |
| 0:55.6 | or as dominant as they were after Clay's injury, right? Clay's up there in age. Clay got an ACL |
| 1:02.4 | and an Achilles tear in back to back years. Come back, thinking he's going to get back under the |
| 1:07.0 | court, go scrimmage. Suss scrimmage wasn't supposed to be doing it. Tears his ACL, boom, boom. |
| 1:13.0 | Steph Curry breaks his hand. |
| 1:15.2 | I think he played six, seven games that year. |
| 1:17.9 | Don't quote me, but I think it's about that. |
| 1:19.7 | Two solid years off for Clay, two years in the lottery, |
| 1:22.9 | and people started to question, |
| 1:25.1 | is this Warriors team the same Warriors team without Kevin Durant? I started to question, is this Warriors team the same Warriors team without Kevin Durant? |
| 1:29.5 | I started to question. |
| 1:32.8 | And that's when Warriors Twitter decided that they were going to hate me. |
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