Post Game 3 Links (Round 2)

There's an old saying in the NBA that a playoff series doesn't start until a team wins one on the road.

So who cares that the Warriors are down 2-1?

This playoff series hasn't even started yet.

Yeah fellas-

your nightmare has just begun.

On to the linkage:

• Davis' dunk caps sound thrashing [Mercury]
  
  
• Nelson reflects on the mega-trade, Sacramento job (plus Bill Walton loves Nellie) [Talking Points with Tim Kawakami]
  
  
• Finally, J-Rich's shining hour on a national stage [SFGate]
  
  
• Thunder Stix Are For Dorks: About Last Night... [Deadspin]
  
  
• Nellie Was Right to Play Monta [Hoop Junkie]
  
  
• I'm An Idiot! [Hoop Junkie]
  
  
• Welcome Home (Warriors 125, Jazz 105) [Fast Break]
  
  
• Another magical Oakland night [ESPN]
  
  
• Wild emotion swings to Warriors in series [Mercury]
  
  
• Warriors win Game 3 [Salt Lake Tribune]:
  It's just like somebody coming into your house, unwanted," Golden State's Stephen Jackson said. "You're going to protect your home, and this is our home. We know we have to win here to be successful in the playoffs . . . and everybody has that in their mind."
  
  
  
• Warriors not going without a fight [Valentine's Views on Sports]
  
  
• Get in close [ClipperBlog]
  
  
• Warriors come out to play [With Leather]
  
  
• Saturday 05/12 A.M. (Very) Quickie [Dan Shanoff]
  
  
• 5/11 NBA Playoffs Triple Threat: In your sleep, Golden State hit 15 more 3's [FanIQ Blog]
  
  
• Three-mendous! Warriors Overwhelm Jazz, 125-105 [20 Second Time Out]
  
  
• I wonder what he has in the lab? [100% Injury Rate]
  
  
• The Basketball Diaries - Welcome to Baron's House [Foul Balls]
  
  
• Utah at Golden State: Game 3 Notes [SLAM]
  
  
• Fear the Beard [Deuce of Davenport]
  
  
• On Bruce Bowen, The Warriors, and Josh Hancock.... [Stop Mike Lupica]
  
  
• I Didn't Know that Baron Davis Owned an AK-47 Until Tonight... [100% Injury Rate]
  
  
• Hate to say I told you so: Warriors 125, Jazz 105 [utahjazzblog.net]
  
  
• On This Night, Utah Can't Hang with Golden State [True Hoop]
  
  
• Oak Town [Green Bandwagon]:
  
  
  It seems impossible to play there. I realize the fans are great. But are they spiking the Gatorade or cranking the heat up in the locker rooms? Cold showers? Something is going on there.
  It's the Hyphy Juice!
  
  
• Baron Davis Strikes Again! [LAKERS4LIFE]
  
  
• Welcome to Nellieville [Taking it to the Rack]
  
  
• Golden State-Utah Game 3 Notes: Plus an Added Bonus! A Vivisection of the New NBA Way of Playing Offense [The Starting Five]
  
  
• Greatest playoff show on earth? [Yahoo! Sports]
  
  
• It's a New Day: Warriors Win Big [SFGate]
  
  
• A few things to note after Game 3 ... [SFGate]:
  The bad news: Davis' celebratory jersey-grabbing, chest-baring moment right after that dunk cost him a technical foul. And with two more T's in these playoffs, it's going to cost him a one-game suspension. The limit is seven and Davis already has five after getting thrown out of Game 2 in Dallas and picking up T's basically every other game since.
  Can we T-up the refs every time they make a foolish call too?

Also make sure to check out these fun cartoon posters from the Mercury (PDF's):

• Baron Davis
• Jason Richardson
• Don Nelson

And in case you didn't see The Dunk:

Believe me- BD and AK47 weren't the only 2 people in the Arena standing up after that dunk.

• Baron Davis’ sky-walk: High, high, high on any list of all-time Warriors moments [Talking Points with Tim Kawakami]
  
  
• Andrei, there is an explanation. [Fear the Beard]
  
  
• NBA Playoffs: Baron Davis Climbs Andrei Kirilenko [Deadspin]
  
  
• This wasn’t even B. Diddy’s best effort… [The Postmen]
  
  
• Baron Davis' Monster Dunk On Andre Kirilenko [Fanhouse]
  
  
• The Black Baron's Air Assault on AK-47. [Signal to Noise]
  
  
• Warriors -- All Baron, all the time [SFGate]
  
  
• Monster jam shakes arena [Mercury]

Video - "Baron shoves it down on Kirilenko's head" [Ballhype]

• A defining dunk that won't be soon forgotten [SFGate]:
  "At least I got in the poster," said a rueful Kirilenko.
  
  "Man, that was incredible," Al Harrington said. "That was old B-Diddy, when he was in Charlotte. That was incredible."
  
  Another eyewitness, Jason Richardson, said, "That had to be the greatest dunk I've ever seen with my eyes, in person."
  
  "I shocked myself on that dunk," Davis said. "I beat Deron Williams, and once I got my balance, I saw Kirilenko (coming to help from the weak side). Knowing he's a great shot-blocker, I was trying my luck, and I got lucky. ... I'm surprised it went in. I didn't know it went in until I saw Matt Barnes' expression."

This is how a shocked man looks after throwing it down.

* Photos: REUTERS/Kimberly White, AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez/ Jeff Chiu

Thanks to the GSoM community and Ballhype for making it 100x easier to assemble this linkfest.

Tomorrow 20,655 vs 5 resumes...

2007 NBA Playoffs Round 2: Warriors vs Jazz

• Game 1: Preview | Recap | Post Game Links
• Game 2: Preview | Recap | Post Game Links
• Game 3: Preview | Recap

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