Kevin Durant isn't surprised by the Utah Jazz having a commanding lead on the Oklahoma City Thunder after four games, now up 3-1 on his former team, despite the coalition of talent joining it during the offseason.
“We got our a**es kicked by them twice,” said Durant. “I don't think of that as a surprise.”
“Not saying that OKC is that bad or worse, but I know from personal experience how good that Utah team is and OKC. It's the playoffs, you're playing at home and those guys take care of home.”
KD said the Jazz's powerful 3-1 lead, performance can't come as a shock: "We got our asses kicked by them twice." GSW lost by 30 + 40 in Salt Lake, two worst losses of season. pic.twitter.com/0qRtQgiQZU
— Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) April 24, 2018
Golden State memorably suffered its two worst losses of the season in 30 and 40-point massacres to the Jazz, who boast the best defensive lineup in basketball with Ricky Rubio, Donovan Mitchell, Joe Ingles, Jae Crowder, and Rudy Gobert on the floor.
The Warriors already have their opponent lined up in the New Orleans Pelicans, who were the first team to come out of the first round after sweeping the third-seeded Portland Trail Blazers with relative ease.
But if they get out of this round and the next, they could potentially face a Jazz team that seems to have figured out how to disrupt team's offenses and could make the series much tougher on the Houston Rockets, who went up 3-1 against the eighth-seeded Minnesota Timberwolves on Monday.
Durant and company are watching the playoffs as fans, but they're surely doing their due diligence analyzing strengths and weaknesses of these teams, hoping to put the information in play when time comes around.
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