The Golden State Warriors now find themselves on the verge of elimination, down 3-2 in their Western Conference Series against the Golden State Warriors.
It's times like these when veteran presences like Shaun Livingston could have a major effect putting things in perspective for the team. As the Warriors let Game 5 slip from their grasp after entering the fourth quarter leading by a point, Livingston didn't need to deliver a rah-rah speech, rather just giving his team a brand-new perspective to keep for Game 6.
“It was as soon as I walked in. It wasn’t anything profound or anything to write a movie on,” Livingston told Marc J. Spears of The Undefeated. “It was like, ‘Look, this is the time right here. Notice this moment. This is the time where we have to come together. Be tight. This is where we have to be tight.’
“’It’s easy to disband. It’s easy for Kevin [Durant] to say, ‘Man, I got to get 50 [points] now. We got to trust each other. Trust each other.’ We will be all right. We need more of that positive [energy].”
Oddly enough, the Warriors came shy of winning two games playing potentially their worst basketball of the postseason, a trend they'll be looking to change by having a much better outing at home with the help of a roaring Oracle Arena.
“They will remember this when we back [in Houston] and win,” Livingston said of his teammates. “We got to have amnesia, but it’s hard because these nights haunt you. They do. [Makes you] think about what you could do better.”
The Warriors can still even up the series by riding momentum from a home win and taking that into a Game 7 at the Toyota Center, but they will have to make the necessary adjustments to reduce their turnovers and hope for a more even contribution, as the starters combined for 90 of their 94 points of offense.
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