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SAN FRANCISCO — Stephen Curry, who said he lost sleep after the Golden State Warriors‘ Game 1 collapse, can toss and turn less when he goes to bed Sunday night following the Warriors’ 107-88 win in Game 2 of the 2022 NBA Finals.
Coming off a 34-point outing in Game 1, Curry once again showcased his devastating combination of long-range marksmanship and constant motion, tallying 29 points on 9-for-21 shooting from the field, 6-for-7 from the foul stripe and 5-for-12 from behind the 3-point line. While it wasn’t his most efficient game, Curry eluded a typically strong Boston Celtics defense in the half court. His handle and step-back off the dribble were well-tuned, and he initiated an unusual number of the conventional pick-and-rolls the Warriors generally forgo. Curry’s dance partner, Draymond Green, kept the Warriors’ dribble-handoff game humming.
As has been tradition in their eight-season run, the Warriors staged their most vigorous rally in the third quarter, outscoring the Celtics 35-14, their best point differential in any Finals quarter in franchise history. Unlike their prolific spurt in Game 1, Golden State didn’t squander it on Sunday.
Green, who suggested the Celtics’ Game 1 exploits would be impossible to sustain, proved correct. Whether it was a regression to the mean, the Celtics couldn’t match their historic 21-for-41 performance — including the eye-popping 9-for-12 fourth-quarter output that ignited their comeback in Game 1 — from 3-point range, though they still shot at a healthy 40.5% clip.
The Celtics generated more turnovers (5) than successful field goals (4) in the third quarter. With more than 10 minutes remaining in the fourth quarter and the Celtics trailing by 29 points, Boston coach Ime Udoka emptied his bench.
Though turnovers have long been an Achilles’ heel of the Warriors, it was Boston that was infected in Game 2 by the turnover bug. Careless half-court passes plagued the Celtics, particularly in the first half, all but canceling out their continued scintillating shooting from beyond the arc. Overall, they finished with 18 turnovers in 96 possessions Sunday night.
Game 2 will not be placed in the Warriors’ time capsule beneath one of the 32 private wine cellars at Chase Center. Their patented elegant offense appeared at times ordinary. Klay Thompson struggled for the second consecutive game from the field, and the Warriors desperately need more scoring outside of Curry. Golden State calibrated its defensive rotations, but there were a handful of noticeable breakdowns in its pick-and-roll coverage.
Fortunately, the Warriors’ defense provided the margin in the win. If Golden State struggled with its accuracy at the rim, the Celtics didn’t even show up. Content to launch from distance and midrange, the Celtics attempted only six shots directly at the basket, and drew three fouls there.
The Warriors enjoyed the return of one of their most capable defensive aces, Gary Payton II. Payton, who fractured his elbow in the conference semifinals when he was pummeled by Memphis Grizzlies forward Dillon Brooks, played 25 minutes and scored seven points without missing an attempt from the field.
The Warriors averted a potential disaster in San Francisco, but they have some work to do as they prepare to enter the hostile environs of TD Garden. Game 2 won’t cost the Warriors any sleep, but there’s certain to be plenty of racket outside in Boston.
June is prime time for berries, with fruits like peaches and nectarines just a few days or weeks in the future. Wonderful when eaten raw, these fruits also make terrific pies. But while I love blueberry pie-especially when it’s served with ice cream-my list of great summertime activities doesn’t include rolling out a pie crust. Luckily, there are a lot of other options.
Crisps and crumbles, like their kissing cousins-the grunt, slump, buckle, crunch and cobbler-are part of an extended family of homespun fruit desserts that have been part of the American culinary tradition since colonial times. Oddly enough, old recipes for the desserts are a rarity, since the dishes were considered too simple to require written instructions.
Attitudes changed by the end of the 19th century. The country was more urban and less homogeneous, and Americans were eager to explore their culinary heritage. By the 1920s, recipes that had historically been passed from one generation to another on an informal basis began appearing in cookbooks and mass-market publications.
Like so many other aspects of popular culture, the recipes and terminology are open to individual interpretation. One cook’s “crisp” may be another cook’s “crumble,” and even today, exact definitions remain elusive.
In “Classic Home Desserts” (Chapters Publishing Ltd., $29.95), for example, author Richard Sax writes, “I think of a real cobbler as made with biscuit dough, but pie crust is often used. For me, it’s dough on top, fruit underneath. But plenty of Southern peach cobblers have bottom crusts or two crusts with fruit in between.” So, he concludes, “Who is to say…that these traditional Southern cobblers are not true cobblers”?
Rather than argue the point, let’s just agree that with all that’s happening in the world, it’s a pleasure to focus-even for a minute or two-on the exact definition of a “cobbler.”
In general, the fruit in a crisp, crunch or crumble is topped with a simple mix of butter, sugar and flour before it’s popped into the oven. Stick to the basics, and it’s a crisp. Add nuts, and it’s a crunch. Substitute rolled oats for the nuts, and it’s a crumble.
Grunts and slumps were originally cooked in pots suspended over and open fire. Updating the technique, modern cooks usually simmer or steam the desserts on top of the stove in tightly covered pans. The 1992 edition of “The Joy of Cooking” (Scribner, $30), says slumps are cooked and then served dumpling side up. Grunts, on the other hand, are steamed in a mold place inside a covered kettle filled with boiling water. The cooked grunt is inverted and served dumpling side down.
A somewhat different interpretation is offered in Linda Zimmerman and Peggy Mellody’s “Cobblers, Crumbles & Crisps and Other Old-Fashioned Fruit Desserts” (Clarkson Potter ). This time, the grunts are made in cast-iron skillets, the slumps in either a saucepan or a skillet. Berries of one kind or another are the fruit of choice for a grunt, according to the authors, while slumps-they contend-can be made with any kind of fruit.
Some theorize the grunt is named for a sound the dessert makes as it cooks; others say the name refers to the contented sounds people make when they eat it. As for the slump, the dish was immortalized by author Louisa May Alcott (“Little Women”), who named her Concord, Massachusetts home “Apple Slump.”
A final (at least for now) variation-the buckle-is usually made with berries, which are folded into a cake batter and then topped with a mix of flour, sugar and butter. Buckles cake be baked in either a square pan or a gratin dish, but like the rest of the desserts, they should be served warm with heavy cream, a complimentary sauce or ice cream as an accompaniment.
Peach and Blueberry Crumble
serves 4-6
Fruit
4 cups peeled and thickly sliced peaches
2 cups blueberries
1/2 cup sugar
1 tablespoon lemon juice
2 tablespoons flour
Topping
11/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup rolled oats
1/3 cup packed brown sugar
3/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon salt
6 tablespoons cold, unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
Preheat oven to 400-degrees
Combine the fruit with the sugar, lemon juice and 2 tablespoons flour and spread in greased 2-quart casserole.
In a food processor, combine the flour, oats, brown sugar, cinnamon, and salt.
Add the butter and pulse just until the mixture is the texture of coarse crumbs.
Sprinkle the topping over the fruit.
Bake until the top is golden brown and bubbly, 30 to 40 minutes.
Serve warm with ice cream or heavy cream. Note: Six cups of apples, pears, apricots, rhubarb, plums or berries can be used alone-or in combination-in lieu of the peaches and blueberries.
David Joachim, “Brilliant Food Tips and Cooking Tricks” (Rodale, Inc. $29.95)
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Not one uniformed member of the Boston Celtics had played in an NBA Finals game before Game 1 on Thursday night. Much was made of this, partly because of the vast Finals experience of the Golden State Warriors but mostly because storylines at this stage must be truffle hunted until no soil is unturned.
There has to be something to this experience thing, right? The lights are brighter, the stakes are higher and the Warriors’ core is in its sixth Finals in the past eight years, attempting to win their fourth. The question was asked, in just about every form possible, and the Celtics players responded by shrugging and repeating some versions of “basketball is basketball.”
The one exception was their coach, Ime Udoka. When asked before Game 1 to do his part to further the narrative, he said, as gently as possible, “Well, our staff has some experience. I’ve been to two myself … but I’d say [experience] is overrated in general.”
Those two sentences are related. Udoka’s experience — to a degree — negates the inexperience of his players. He played two seasons with the San Antonio Spurs and was an assistant coach under Gregg Popovich for the Spurs’ trips to the Finals in 2013 (a loss) and 2014 (a win).
Udoka clearly paid attention.
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Arms folded, he stands on the sideline exuding a calmness that approaches serenity, as if there’s nothing that might happen in a basketball game that would either surprise or confuse him. His most difficult moments of his first season as a head coach came when his team was foundering (with a record of 16-19 at one point) and everyone around him wondered why he wasn’t screaming at his players and throwing things around the room. It turns out he didn’t destroy the room because he was too busy reading it.
It’s Udoka’s ability to project calm — as much as Al Horford‘s wide-open lunch run 3s, Marcus Smart‘s defense and Jayson Tatum‘s ability to pivot from shot-maker to playmaker — that has changed the conversation and put the Celtics up 1-0 in the series heading into Game 2 on Sunday (8 p.m. ET, ABC and on the ESPN app).
“In general, we have guys who stay even-keeled and don’t get rattled easily,” Udoka said during Saturday’s media availability.
They proved it in Game 1, running their opponent off the court with a fourth-quarter onslaught that wilted the experienced, battle-tested Warriors.
The Celtics started the fourth down 12 — and no longer interested in missing shots. At one point, they scored 17 unanswered to run their lead to 14. It was many things — remarkable, stunning, seemingly unending — and Udoka never once changed his expression.
Celtics coach Ime Udoka led his team to a game-winning surge in the fourth quarter of Game 1 of the NBA Finals against the Warriors. Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images
“He’s obviously had to work his way to get here,” Tatum said of his coach. “He carries that sense of toughness with him and does instill that into the group every day.”
During Boston’s fourth-quarter run, Udoka made two unconventional moves: He called timeout, and he did it twice in 30 seconds while his team was rolling. At the time, it felt like Udoka was doing Warriors coach Steve Kerr — a man in possession of one measly timeout — a favor, playing the role of a cooler at a craps table.
With Udoka’s team up six at 109-103 with 3:47 left (nine points into their 17-point run), he responded to a missed Stephen Curry 3 and a Payton Pritchard rebound by calling the first timeout. He called another one 30 seconds later, after the Celtics had scored again and Draymond Green had missed two free throws.
The Celtics had four timeouts before he called the first, so Udoka was going to lose both in the final two minutes. Still, it’s counterintuitive to stop the flow of a massive run — twice! — by pulling your team aside to reassess the moment.
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But it was Udoka’s way of making sure his team knew the job wasn’t finished as well as an obvious sign of respect for the opponent. Everyone knows how the Warriors operate: They’re never more than a quick miss and a turnover away from stringing together a few 3s of their own and reenergizing the crowd. Any lapse of concentration can spell trouble. It’s one thing to make a ton of 3s — the Celtics hit seven in a row to start the fourth — and another to start expecting it. By disrupting the cadence of the game, the man whose first name means “patience” did his part to keep the floor from becoming scattered and allowing the Warriors back into it.
The message was clear: The heavy lifting is done; don’t squander all that hard work.
The Warriors walked away attempting to convince themselves that they “dominated the game for the first 41, 42 minutes,” as Green put it. But from there, when it mattered most, the Celtics dominated while Udoka orchestrated it.
“He coached with the greatest ever to do it in Pop,” Smart said. “He’s a sponge. Every place he went, he soaked it all in, put it into his game and brought it over here to us.
“It’s all about energy. If the energy’s right, you’re going to rock with it. If it’s not, then you’re not. It’s plain and simple: I think the energy has been contagious to us all.”
It might seem unconventional, but sometimes it’s best to direct that energy toward controlling everybody else’s. It’s the kind of move that looks a lot like the product of experience.
SAN FRANCISCO — The Golden State Warriors have ruled Andre Iguodala out for Game 2 of the NBA Finals against the Boston Celtics.
Iguodala will be sidelined Sunday night by inflammation in his right knee. He returned from a neck injury to play 12 minutes in Game 1 on Thursday. Prior to the NBA Finals, the veteran hadn’t played since Game 4 of the first round at the Denver Nuggets because of a neck injury.
Golden State coach Steve Kerr said Iguodala’s knee swelled up on Saturday, adding that he will be considered day-to-day moving forward through the series.
This likely clears the path for Gary Payton II to make his NBA Finals debut. Payton did not play in Game 1 — a 120-108 Celtics victory — even though he was available to play.
Kerr said he was going to use Payton only for special circumstances in Game 1. But Kerr said on Saturday that Payton is feeling better and that he anticipates using him more for his defense in Game 2.
The point guard has not played since fracturing an elbow in Game 2 at Memphis in the second round.
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Something about automobile commercials drives me to vexation. (I’ll get to PBS later).
In the polished TV commercials for –let’s say, using but one example– Lincoln, I hear the authoritative-toned voiceover (frequently an accomplished actor) address me –acting under the assumption that I am a reflective adult—with a healthy measure of respect for my powers of comprehension.
On the other hand, in the radio and TV spots produced by the prototypical Lincoln dealer ,the voice blasting from the announcer is coated in condescension. It is the nagging bleat one elects in speaking to a barely sentient nitwit. Yet, both potential Lincoln consumers–national and local– are one in the same, aren’t they?
So why aren’t their messages delivered similarly? My postulate on this: The marketing/ sales relationship between manufacturer and dealer is structured for collision. The dealer’s elastic pricing policy–cheered on by the manufacturer– ends up arranging an adversarial haggling duel, hence a climate of mutual distrust. The showroom salesperson’s aim is to earn the highest commission possible by squeezing out the highest price possible from the customer, thus certifying –as the dealer is convinced– that the customer is irretrievably dim. And so the system produces two different identities in the same human being.
And now to turn the page to PBS in the interests of uncovering a similar cognitive disconnect between viewer and station. As a teen ager I was weaned on the soothing, patriarchal presence of Alistair Cooke as he hosted Masterpiece Theater in his matchlessly courtly manner. After Cooke, there was professorial Russell Baker to make me want to turn out even half as learned as he. And who could forget the fetching vocal instrument of Masterpiece Mystery host, the surpassingly sophisticated Diana Rigg, who–even at middle age–revived my Emma Peel infatuation. And it’s easy or me to set in motion a crush on Masterpiece host Laura Linney with her rich melding of winsomeness and intellect. Other hosts as well have demonstrated a gift for making me feel I was being addressed as an intelligent grownup.
Contrast those extraordinary hosts with the ordinariness of those WTTW spokespersons who, as you probably recall, periodically break into programming , trying–with synthetic exuberance– to wheedle donation pledges from us. You say none of them exactly reminds you of any Masterpiece host, do you, eh? Yes, in a different manifestation of condescension, they persistently address their pleas to the below-average seven year old. Just as in the example of automobile advertising, WTTW all at once drives the dizzied audience in two opposite directions, first to sanctuary of adulthood, next to the sand box of morning TV. None of their patronizing blandishments, though, deter me from forking over my annual donations. But I do it as I imagine Alistair Cooke politely coaxing me to do so.
Oh, and if you’re looking to me for another illuminating postulate that untangles the twisted WTTW contradiction–sorry, I’m stumped for any kind of rational explanation.
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How many politicians who said he’ll make sure of something, actually “made sure” that what he promised actually and surely happened? How many actually meant that he was going to make sure of something? Get rid of it. Cast it into lingo hell.
Some others:
Google turned up 1,000,000,000 hits in .47 seconds of this time-worn warning. Don’t you think that this is somewhat arrogant? Especially when what follows “make no mistake that…” is more empty promises.
The perfect dodge. When a pol says “we have to find the root cause of” something, it means he’s “kicking the can down the road,” (another cliche that should be dispatched). When a politician invokes “Let’s examine the root cause”, it is supposed to look like he’s serious, thoughtful, comprehensive (another cliche) smart. What it actually means is that “I don’t have a solution to this immediate, pressing problem.” Hear that Kamala?
Oops, this should not be on the list. President George H.W. Bush cremated this cliche when he said his lips were saying. “No new taxes.”
Duck. Take cover. Disaster is approaching. Kind of like Jamie Dimon JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon warning that an “economic hurricane” is spinning our way, caused by inflation. And by the Fed’s policy that inflation is only transitory.”
It all comes down to a stumped commentator not knowing what to say next, as a substitute for the honest answer: “How the hell should I know?” Might as well pronounce, “We’ll have to wait and see.”
Never mind that the climate has always changed, from the moment Earth’s atmosphere formed. I just wish they’d say what they really mean: “Global warming caused by human activity.” Another euphemism for actually describing, something, just as pro-abortion groups have successfully defined the killing of a pre-born person or a potential human being as a “choice.” I saw a Chicago Tribune story that posited that “climate change” was causing Lake Michigan waters to lower (while the oceans are rising), causing lakefront erosion, thanks to climate change. The story suggests that “scientists” agree that any bad weather or natural phenomenon is the fault of climate change. Did climate change cause Covid-19?
If I might digress: Notice that every rebranding by the political left makes the language less accurate. Substituting “they” for the singular third person “he,” fogs the meaning of “they.” Now we have to find another term that explains that “they” really means a single person.
As long as we’re discussing cliches, I have to mention one that really riles me: “at high risk of….” Google took less than half a second to come up with about 7,120,000,000 uses of “at risk of.” That cliche shows up not just in political discourse, but just about everywhere. E.g. Climate change puts humans at high risk of….(fill in the blank). Why not say “jeopardizes”, imperils or endangers? E.g. Climate change imperils or endangers mankind? Shorter, more direct, stronger.
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It’s time to get serious about sunscreen — and you can help the endangered bee while you’re at it.
Bees could certainly use your help. Forty percent of the bee colonies that beekeepers oversee die each year because of toxic pesticides and development that destroys bee-nourishing plants.
Yet bees serve such vital functions, not just by pollinating plants, but also by making propolis, or bee glue, from poplar and cone-bearing trees.
Propolis — a sticky, reddish-brown glue — comes from beeswax combining with resin, pollen, balsams and tree sap that bees collect while they flit from plants to tree buds.
The glue holds beehives together, and research has shown its components can be effective as broad spectrum UVB and UVA photo-protection sunscreens. UVA exposure penetrates the skin more deeply than does UVB and contributes to wrinkles by degrading collagen.
Sunscreen with propolis got a boost in 2021 when Black-ish actress Tracee Elllis Ross told Marie Claire magazine that her favorite was Epicuren’s X-Treme Cream Propolis Sunscreen SPF 45+.
But be careful. Test a small amount first if you are allergic to bee stings.
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There were hurricanes before there were names for hurricanes. But each year, the world Meteorological Association makes a list of the storm names for the hurricane season, which begins officially on June 1.
This year, NOAA predicts an active season with La Niña persisting, and warmer than average temperatures in the Atlantic. As I write this, a tropical storm is battering Cuba, Key West, and South Florida. Even if it has not yet strengthened to hurricane force winds, there are still torrential rains.
The storm is predicted to move up the Atlantic Coast of the United States, and if it strengthens to a hurricane, it will be the first named storm of the season–Hurricane Alex.
Here are the names for the Atlantic Hurricanes for 2022—
AlexBonnieColinDanielleEarlFionaGastonHermineIanJuliaKarlLisaMartinNicoleOwenPaulaRichardSharyTobiasVirginiaWalter
Storms that are especially destructive have their names retired. You may remember Dorian, Katrina and Sandy. These are some of the 96 retired Hurricane names.
But why name the hurricanes? And how did they get their names? Naming the storms seems like a good way to keep track of them, especially if there are several storms or potential storms active at the same time. At first they had military names–Abel, Baker, Charlie. Then, in 1950, they were given women’s names.
The story goes that the meteorologists first named the storms after their wives, an attitude of the time that women were unpredictable–moody, temperamental as the weather. It was funny, and disrespectful in a way.
But maybe storms got female names the same way ships were and still are called “she, ”
Then, in the 1970’s, when women were fighting for equal rights, respect and recognition, hurricanes got men’s names, too.
While naming the storms may seem frivolous, a name is a way of relating to them in a personal way–a more human way, much as our ancestors named the forces of nature, the mystery, beauty and terror, and called them goddesses and gods.
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Not one uniformed member of the Boston Celtics had played in an NBA Finals game before Game 1 on Thursday night. Much was made of this, partly because of the vast Finals experience of the Golden State Warriors but mostly because storylines at this stage must be truffle hunted until no soil is unturned.
There has to be something to this experience thing, right? The lights are brighter, the stakes are higher and the Warriors’ core is in its sixth Finals in the past eight years, attempting to win their fourth. The question was asked, in just about every form possible, and the Celtics players responded by shrugging and repeating some versions of “basketball is basketball.”
The one exception was their coach, Ime Udoka. When asked before Game 1 to do his part to further the narrative, he said, as gently as possible, “Well, our staff has some experience. I’ve been to two myself … but I’d say [experience] is overrated in general.”
Those two sentences are related. Udoka’s experience — to a degree — negates the inexperience of his players. He played two seasons with the San Antonio Spurs and was an assistant coach under Gregg Popovich for the Spurs’ trips to the Finals in 2013 (a loss) and 2014 (a win).
Udoka clearly paid attention.
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Arms folded, he stands on the sideline exuding a calmness that approaches serenity, as if there’s nothing that might happen in a basketball game that would either surprise or confuse him. His most difficult moments of his first season as a head coach came when his team was foundering (with a record of 16-19 at one point) and everyone around him wondered why he wasn’t screaming at his players and throwing things around the room. It turns out he didn’t destroy the room because he was too busy reading it.
It’s Udoka’s ability to project calm — as much as Al Horford‘s wide-open lunch run 3s, Marcus Smart‘s defense and Jayson Tatum‘s ability to pivot from shot-maker to playmaker — that has changed the conversation and put the Celtics up 1-0 in the series heading into Game 2 on Sunday (8 p.m. ET, ABC and on the ESPN app).
“In general, we have guys who stay even-keeled and don’t get rattled easily,” Udoka said during Saturday’s media availability.
They proved it in Game 1, running their opponent off the court with a fourth-quarter onslaught that wilted the experienced, battle-tested Warriors.
The Celtics started the fourth down 12 — and no longer interested in missing shots. At one point, they scored 17 unanswered to run their lead to 14. It was many things — remarkable, stunning, seemingly unending — and Udoka never once changed his expression.
Celtics coach Ime Udoka led his team to a game-winning surge in the fourth quarter of Game 1 of the NBA Finals against the Warriors. Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images
“He’s obviously had to work his way to get here,” Tatum said of his coach. “He carries that sense of toughness with him and does instill that into the group every day.”
During Boston’s fourth-quarter run, Udoka made two unconventional moves: He called timeout, and he did it twice in 30 seconds while his team was rolling. At the time, it felt like Udoka was doing Warriors coach Steve Kerr — a man in possession of one measly timeout — a favor, playing the role of a cooler at a craps table.
With Udoka’s team up six at 109-103 with 3:47 left (nine points into their 17-point run), he responded to a missed Stephen Curry 3 and a Payton Pritchard rebound by calling the first timeout. He called another one 30 seconds later, after the Celtics had scored again and Draymond Green had missed two free throws.
The Celtics had four timeouts before he called the first, so Udoka was going to lose both in the final two minutes. Still, it’s counterintuitive to stop the flow of a massive run — twice! — by pulling your team aside to reassess the moment.
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But it was Udoka’s way of making sure his team knew the job wasn’t finished as well as an obvious sign of respect for the opponent. Everyone knows how the Warriors operate: They’re never more than a quick miss and a turnover away from stringing together a few 3s of their own and reenergizing the crowd. Any lapse of concentration can spell trouble. It’s one thing to make a ton of 3s — the Celtics hit seven in a row to start the fourth — and another to start expecting it. By disrupting the cadence of the game, the man whose first name means “patience” did his part to keep the floor from becoming scattered and allowing the Warriors back into it.
The message was clear: The heavy lifting is done; don’t squander all that hard work.
The Warriors walked away attempting to convince themselves that they “dominated the game for the first 41, 42 minutes,” as Green put it. But from there, when it mattered most, the Celtics dominated while Udoka orchestrated it.
“He coached with the greatest ever to do it in Pop,” Smart said. “He’s a sponge. Every place he went, he soaked it all in, put it into his game and brought it over here to us.
“It’s all about energy. If the energy’s right, you’re going to rock with it. If it’s not, then you’re not. It’s plain and simple: I think the energy has been contagious to us all.”
It might seem unconventional, but sometimes it’s best to direct that energy toward controlling everybody else’s. It’s the kind of move that looks a lot like the product of experience.
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