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The Warriors finally had another game. They played the Utah Jazz won 10694 in game one of their second round series.

And I thought this was a particularly impressive win because of how comfortable it was, despite the jazz having some really nice moments and the

Warriors, you know, that was a great game, but not a spectacular earth-shattering type of performance

for them. And I wanted to talk about it with Adam Lordson of the Fast Break blog. Also one of the

few wonderful people who was still up late enough to do this, but I love talking to Adam no matter what.

And the conversation runs about 20 minutes. I think you'll enjoy it.

Thanks so much for coming on.

Thanks for having me.

I think what surprised me the most about this game was that, you know, there were some real

rough stretches for the jazz, you know, especially the second and fourth quarters, the beginning

of those. But overall, I thought they played reasonably well, but yet they still didn't really threaten the Warriors other than a

really brief stretch. I think that that's right, that it has to be pretty discouraging if you're

the Jazz, because the Warriors didn't play particularly well, and it never felt like Utah was

really all that threatening. They hung around. They didn't collapse entirely.

They're a well-coached team. They play good defense, so they're going to stick around a bit.

But there was no moment in this game where it felt like they were actually pushing the warriors

and threatening them.

And that's what made it fundamentally different from yesterday's game. I'm not sure if you watched it when the rockets just absolutely eviscerated the spurs, which was, you know, it was a worst case scenario. I think in many ways, that's easier to shake off because it's just if everything goes wrong, then you're like, okay, well, we'll just have to do better. But when you do a lot right, like I thought their pick and roll, Utah's pick and roll offense was pretty

inspired. There were a couple times where they put like Javille McGee through multiple staggered

screens and they were able to get good looks for Hayward, good looks for George Hill. And also

the Warriors missed a ton of open threes. I mean, Andre Guadal is still O for the playoffs from long

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