The Warriors cooked Russell Westbrook and the Clippers in a vintage performance.
to maintain their precarious spot in the tightly contested Western Conference standings, fans might almost feel sorry for how badly Golden State broke Russell Westbrook on Thursday night.
It's not just that Westbrook scored eight points on 3-of-12 shooting and coughed up four turnovers in a 115-91 loss. It's how it happened. During the Warriors' peak world-beating years from 2014 to 2018, every team faced the wrath of the infamous Dubs third quarter, where an already ultra-talented squad would find another gear to embarrass opponents in a head-spinning 12 minutes.
Few were more familiar with this than the Westbrook-era Thunder. It was an explosive third quarter that completed the Warriors' 3-1 series comeback against the Thunder in the 2016 Western Conference finals — the most famous 3-1 comeback in basketball before, well, you know. Thursday night didn't exactly reach the dizzying highs of that series. But the embarrassment for Westbrook began early, with the Warriors deploying the dare-the-chucker-to-chuck defense. During multiple points in the game, when Westbrook had the ball outside the 3-point line, defenders would simply sag way, way off the 29.5% 3-point shooter. Rather than attacking the canyon of open space, Westbrook often just dumped the ball off.
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