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This is certainly a different type of day for the Golden State Warriors, not only because they lost 105, 102 to the Miami Heat, but because of the way that it happened.

It was a fascinating game, interesting to see the Warriors in Crunch Time, and largely, actually, they

executed pretty well during that time, except for a few things that I'll talk about, but also

through the definitive performance of Dion Waiters. And the way that I thought about this game

is through an old legal idea of contributory negligence. So the theory of contributory negligence is that something

bad happens and a series of different things forces people, actions, whatever, contributed to it

and were what are called but four causes. So meaning that if that thing had not occurred,

the damage would not have happened. And yet no one of them bears the

burden of what happened. And to me, there were three different factors that are all kind of broad and

some of them intermingle a little bit that were big factors. And while the broadcast and numerous other

people will likely focus on the missed shots that the Warriors had. I have that third on the

list and there's a very specific reason why and I'll get to that when I get to the third section.

But the most important for me was a group that I call preventable mistakes. And the Warriors

had 14 turnovers in this game. 14 turnovers is not horrible, especially for a team that plays fast

and that moves the ball as much as the Warriors do. But the nature of the turnovers in this game

were largely unforced and absolutely devastating for them. So I draw a distinction between

forced and unforced, kind of going back to, for those of you who played

tennis, to the idea of tennis of how much did your opponent contribute to the mistake? And while Miami

did a great job on a few of them, forced mistakes, pressured the warriors in some ways that they're

not comfortable with. Miami played hard in this game. Many of the warriors' most egregious and

most devastating mistakes were completely of their own making.

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