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OT - Hard to Cheer for Blue & Gold from East Bay - Farm93 - 05-23-2015

I wish the Warriors had a different color combination.  Most of me struggles to find joy in a team from the East Bay in blue and gold beating a team wearing red & white.  And yet, the Warriors style of play is just so delightful that I can routinely overlook the blue & gold.


Their game is such a contrast to the static brick city style of play seen at Maples over the last 5+ years.  Someday...someday.

Re: OT - Hard to Cheer for Blue & Gold from East Bay - rudruff - 05-23-2015

Jarron Collins is on the coaching staff. Hope that helps.

Re: OT - Hard to Cheer for Blue & Gold from East Bay - winflop - 05-24-2015

It's a VERY different blue - does that help?

Re: OT - Hard to Cheer for Blue & Gold from East Bay - Leftcoast - 05-24-2015

Poor fashion choice aside that team is exceptional and plays the brand of unselfish, up-tempo ball that could bring a surge in NBA interest beyond its hard core fanbase.

I like 'em too and don't let the blue and gold bother me more often than once a game.  Cognitive dissonance be dam*ed.

Re: OT - Hard to Cheer for Blue & Gold from East Bay - OutsiderFan - 05-24-2015

If you are a Bay Area resident and hoops fan, you couldn't have two more incredible guys to watch than Steph Curry and Draymond Green.  Both of them are true role models as well, just outstanding young men.  I love that Green played four years in college and graduated.  And Curry is just the epitome of a humble self-made superstar. 


Throw in the fact they play a fun and entertaining style, and it's hard not to root for the W's!

Re: OT - Hard to Cheer for Blue & Gold from East Bay - ca245 - 05-24-2015

I can -- sort of -- understand hating a particular color when used in association with one's primary rival. But hating that color in any and all contexts? I can't wait to meet a fan of that school across the Bay, who would refuse a blood transfusion even if his life depended on it, on the ground that the stuff is red.

Re: OT - Hard to Cheer for Blue & Gold from East Bay - Mick - 05-24-2015

(05-24-2015, 09:17 AM)OutsiderFan link Wrote:If you are a Bay Area resident and hoops fan, you couldn't have two more incredible guys to watch than Steph Curry and Draymond Green.  Both of them are true role models as well, just outstanding young men.  I love that Green played four years in college and graduated.  And Curry is just the epitome of a humble self-made superstar. 


Throw in the fact they play a fun and entertaining style, and it's hard not to root for the W's!

I've been following the Warriors since 1968.  I remember when I was 12, my stepmother was returning from Phoenix and the Warriors were on her flight.  They all came off, Beard, Smith, Wilkes, Ray, Johnson & Johnson, Dickey, Mullins...and of course, Rick Barry.  He had on a knee length rabbit coat (love the '70s), so he was stylin.  Six assists, six rebounds, three steals and 30.6 points per game.  I used to turn a friend of mine apoplectic when I claimed Barry was better than Larry Bird (he wasn't, but I liked to watch my friend's face go purple).
But these Warriors...they are sublime, something to behold.  In some undefinable way, I think they will be regarded like Jordan's Bulls or Bird's Celtics when it's all said and done.  They have a lot of great elements, but most importantly, they have an incredible front office, who works wonders with personnel, and a rookie coach who just won 67 games (yes, with much help from Gentry and Adams and the other three).  What if, next year, the Warriors manage to replace Lee and perhaps Bogut with a world class center who wants to be here?  Could you imagine, say, Marc Gasol or Roy Hibbert or DeAndre Jordan or Brook Lopez or Tyson Chandler or on the Warriors?

Re: OT - Hard to Cheer for Blue & Gold from East Bay - ThePassionOfTheChryst - 05-25-2015

(05-24-2015, 07:41 AM)winflop link Wrote:It's a VERY different blue - does that help?
And a different yellow as well, I think.