Enjoying a full eight days of rest between series can be hard to withstand, as the Golden State Warriors and the Utah Jazz took two completely different roads in order to meet in the Western Conference semifinals.

In quite a serendipitous way, the two teams will meet again at this very stage after 10 years, with Golden State getting there through a sweep, while Utah gutted out a Game 7 win on Sunday.

Warriors forward Matt Barnes, who has missed the team's last six games with a foot/ankle injury, revealed his team was rooting for the L.A. Clippers to be the winners of the series for not-so-obvious reasons.

While Golden State has dominated the rivalry since the 2014-15 season, Barnes and the rest of the team was more focused on where they'd spend their free time when the series shifts to Games 3 and 4.

Asked to compare between the nightlife in Los Angeles and Utah, the 37-year-old forward was his usual blunt self.

“No comparison. There's no such thing, man,” Barnes told ESPN's Chris Haynes. “There's no nightlife in Utah. Obviously as players, you want to be able to have a little bit of a nightlife, but the main focus is winning games. Me personally, I want to get out there because I want to beat the Clippers. That's my former team and my kids are out there. But as far as nightlife, there's no comparison to nightlife in Utah and L.A.”

The Warriors did not have their wish granted and now they're headed for a best-of-seven series with nothing but focus on the line.

“The problem with Utah is that you're just sitting there and your mind is like dead, because in L.A., you still got energy for the game,” Warriors sixth man Andre Iguodala said. “Because you're in L.A., you're like, ‘Man, this is just the vibe in L.A.' but in Utah, it can kind of lull you to sleep. And then you've slept too long or I'm bored out of my mind and now you got to try to pump yourself up for the game. You know you're in the playoffs and you're supposed to be pumped anyway, but the vibe is just like, ‘Man, let's just get out of here.'”

“We kind of embrace it like, ‘Yo, we got to do something together because it ain't nothing else to do,'” Iguodala said. “So it actually works for us. So that's kind of how that works. Similar to OKC, it's the same way. Matter of fact, I don't think I've ever been to a movie in OKC.”

The Warriors would be smart to keep Barnes as far away from any nightlife, as he was involved in an alleged physical dispute during a night out at a New York nightclub during his stint with the Sacramento Kings. The incident forced Barnes to turn himself in to NYPD authorities earlier this year to give his side of the story.