How do we calibrate GSW's virginess?

[JtotheIzzo]

I started thinking about this today as the world and ISH has gone topsy turvy over Bran's legacy.

Last week it was JA Adande and a few other scribes letting Bran off the hook when Kyrie went down, then after los Cavs (la Rasa represente!) jumped out to an improbable 2-1 lead it was back to being thoroughly and completely on Bran's johnson (only taking a brief respite to give Delly a little bit of brains).

But what we haven't discussed much is the fact that not only is GSW a virgin in the finals, but it is also largely a late-round neophyte as well as a traditionally loser organization.

In the old days, you had to lose a couple of times before you won it all (once in the conference finals and once in the finals), but GSW went straight to the top without looking back, we expected them to be ready, but it is obvious from the first four games that they hadn't gotten into finals mode until game 4.

How much of Bran's glory in games two and three can be negated by the GSW virgin factor?

Not a hater, just a calibrator.

[BlackWhiteGreen]

I'm always a bit sceptical when it comes to Finals experience. The '08 Celtics had 0 Finals games experience in their starting 5, and was their first season together, but they were the best team so won the series. The '99 Spurs, similarly, the '94 Rockets (unless you count '86)...

Given that of the best 7 players in the series, the Warriors have 5, that should really negate any experience difference. And it's only LeBron and James Jones who have any Finals experience to speak of anyway, with Moz, Thompson, Delly in their first playoffs.

[FultzNationRISE]

OP is the single most corny human imaginable.

[Full Court]

OP is the single most corny human imaginable.

Yet you bumped this thread 6 1/2 years later....