Through the looking glass
Wow, the Warriors, the greatest this or that depending on who you ask or better yet when you asked it, are on the brink of elimination.
Their basketball mortality is as surprising for a number of reasons:
It happened more quickly than Russell Westbrook to the rim.
It has hinged on the complete collapse of Draymond Green, who is a shocking minus-73 in Games 3 and 4. (The plus/minus is an analytic stat that shows the scoring difference when a player is on the floor. And for Green, an All-NBA player who was the runner-up for defensive player of the year honors to be a minus-73 makes everyone involved in this series say, “That’s NUTS.” Sorry.) Golden State would have been better off with Green suspended for Game 4 instead of that clunker he dropped.