Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors are one game away from the perfect postseason. It’s about time the team finally acknowledges that it’s on the brink of history.
Curry spoke to reporters on Thursday, a day after the Warriors stunned Cleveland to take Game 3 and potentially set up their fourth straight playoff sweep on Friday night, and after Steve Kerr and others had shrugged off the questions about a perfect playoff record, Curry could not avoid the questions anymore.
Curry was asked if going 16-0 was a goal of the Warriors this season, or if it mattes to him personally that they go through the postseason without dropping a single game, something that’s never been done in North American sports. Curry was hesitant to say the Warriors are thinking about it, but conceded now that it’s within reach that the thought of a perfect postseason is something the team can consider.
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“We always say ‘we just want 16 wins it doesn’t matter how we get there.’ But now that we’re in this situation, why not take care of business and finish the job?”
Curry said the Warriors have learned how to to do things right in their third straight Finals appearance, and it’s something that starts months before the playoffs.
I think we’ve grown and matured mentally in just how to pace yourself in this long year and take every day as a new experience. It’s something that you can take control of, so we’ve tried to control the narrative and the conversations and just our talk in the locker room and practice.
Especially the last three months in just understanding what our goal is and how we’re going to get there day by day. Being in this position now, obviously it’s working and we have to keep that keyhole mentality of what’s next.
And we’re right there so that’s a great thing. But obviously we’re not done yet. I think we’ve done a pretty good job of growing up as a team.
It’s interesting to hear athletes talk about the season as a whole at the end of a postseason run. It sounds like the Warriors are ready for it to end, and they’re just as ready to finish the job and not repeat the mistakes they made last season.
