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Ted Sillanpaa looks at the San Francisco Giants, other Bay Area sports and gives a dad's-eye view of Empire prep and youth sports trends

Game 3 Warriors’ help defense saved victory

Saturday, at 2:01 by

From the arena in Oakland Ted Sillanpaa The Denver Nuggets won Game One of their NBA playoff series against the Golden State Warriors, in large part, because the Warriors failed to help on defense and allowed Andre Miller easy access to the rim for the game-winning hoop. The Warriors learned from the mistake and used helping team defense to preserve a victory in Game Three on Saturday night. Festus Ezeli’s quick reaction to pick up Ty Lawson when Klay Thompson… Read More »

Warriors finally hit inevitable slump

Saturday, at 1:07 by

By TED SILLANPAA Last month, it started to seem as though the Golden State Warriors were actually in a position to push their way into the third seed in the NBA Western Conference playoffs. They’d defeated the Los Angeles Clippers again and it just seemed like these Warriors could over-achieve, get the No. 3 seed and enhance their chances of postseason succes Things have changed after three straight losses, heading into a gave where the Dallas Mavericks jumped to a… Read More »

’74-’75 Warriors hint that we don’t know what today’s Warriors can accomplish

Friday, at 12:26 by

By TED SILLANPAA We’ve gotten a little too used to believing that we know in advance who’ll win the game and, then, reach the playoffs. I don’t need to go back to my youth, decades ago, to give an example of how the most unlikely champions emerge, but I will because the most unlikely championship team of my lifetime were the 1974-75 Golden State Warriors. It’s actually instructive to take a quick, if long, trip down Memory Lane to briefly… Read More »

Warriors have their star, defensive tenacity … just need rim protector

Tuesday, at 1:46 by

By TED SILLANPAA The Warriors’ Stephen Curry has become the go-to, clutch-shooting star that every really good NBA team needs. It’d be foolish to think Klay Thompson can’t become a star, too, despite his early season woes. David Lee’s having a career season. Golden State has been winning consistently because head coach Mark Jackson and assistant Pete Myers are throwback NBA tough guys who finally put together a Warriors’ team that plays defense, plays it well and doesn’t back down… Read More »