Spurs Rout Warriors in Season Opener

The much awaited debut of Kevin Durant’s AAU Super Team in Oakland left much to be desired as the San Antonio Spurs destroyed the Golden State Warriors by a 129-100 count on Tuesday night inside Oracle Arena.

Durant was actually decent as he led the Warriors with a 27 point night. The rest of his new team in a word…sucked. Golden State looked awkward, confused, and thoroughly outcoached by one Gregg Popovich. It wasn’t just that Curry, Thompson, Green, and other Warriors were off, more to the point they looked nothing like the team which won 73 games last regular season.

The Warriors turned the ball over sixteen times and gave up 129 points at home in their much awaited ‘super team’ opener. All summer we’ve had to listen to Kevin Durant’s immature references to Russell Westbrook, Billy Donovan, or the OKC Thunder culture in general so it’s more than ironic his new super team looked this bad on the national stage in their debut. I won’t go any further.

I’ll circle this though, teams have bad shooting nights–it happens. But with ZaZa Pachulia as the Warriors’ new rim protector the Spurs did whatever they wanted near the rim whenever they wanted to do it. Andrew Bogut wasn’t an All-Star, but he clearly was better than ZaZa Pachulia.

Granted–it’s only one game out of eighty-two, but what the Warriors showed on Tuesday night is that winning an NBA championship with ZaZa Pachulia as their starting center might be challenging.

In closing–Kawhi Leonard led the Spurs with a career 35 point night and showed why he’s the second best overall player in the NBA only behind LeBron James.

Maybe Durant will end up a Spur after this season exercising his option year. If Nike and his handlers tell him to do it–maybe we’ll see Durant playing with Leonard next season.

Hope Jerry West and Ron Adams tucked Kevin Durant in and kissed him on the forehead when they told him his bedtime story tonight.

Hey–KD, Steven Adams is in Oklahoma City, ZaZa Pachulia is in Oakland.

Just sayin’.

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