They believed

And so it happened, Golden State recorded the biggest upset in NBA playoffs history. Sure it has been done before by Denver over Seattle in 1994 and New York over Miami in 1999 but both were a best of five series. Golden State defied the odds beating Dallas in a four games to two in a best of seven series. How could have Golden State defeated Dallas who had 25 more wins in the regular season? Easy the answer is control the tempo and make Dallas play your own game, which is the run and gun style.

All season long Dallas had all the weapons from their big three (Dirk, Josh and Jason) the one coming off the bench (Jerry Stackhouse). But when they faced the Warriors they had no answer for Baron Davis who just scored every chance he got. And then there’s Stephen Jackson (who infamously involved in brawl with Ron Artest in Detroit two years ago) rained 7 out of 8 three pointers in game 6 where they clinched the series.

It seems so ironic that the coach the led them to their last playoffs appearance in 1994 was also the same coach who steered them to this monumental upset. And guess which team he last go coached before going to retirement, yes Dallas. He had a misunderstanding with Mavs owner Mark Cuban so they parted ways but claims they are stills friends. After all those 12 years of agony of not making the playoffs it was only Don Nelson is what they are lacking to bring them back to promise land.

And don’t forget the fans who endured 12 straight losing seasons before this year’s playoffs. With their ‘We Believe’ slogan they gave Golden State morale booster especially in the second half of the sixth game when the Mavs made their move to win the game. Where can see 20,000 thousand fans standing the whole second half to cheer their team? It was one of the situations where you can count the fans as the sixth man.

Now that there are in the second round where they are going to face the Utah Jazz, let’s see if their Cinderella run would continue until western conference finals.