Why the Warriors lost game 5

Through 46 minutes of basketball, Golden State played without hesitation or abandon. They battled through Dallas' behemoth 1st quarter and hoisted themselves back into the game the way we've come to expect. They dominated through the third and fourth quarters, capped by remarkable 3 point shooting and a back-breaking half-court oop from Baron to Richardson.

Then, with 2 minutes left, Nellie takes a full timeout. I can only suspect that he told his players to try to make each possession last 20+ seconds to draw out the clock.

Witness the following Golden State possessions:
-Richardson misses a jumper (16 second possession)
-Jackson misses a jumper (24 second possession)
-Pietrus misses a 3-pointer (16 second possession)

by this point they've surrendered the lead to Dallas, Baron is the only one able to stop the clock by fouling Howard, and they find themselves down 2 with 21 seconds remaining without their lone play-maker, best scorer and man who's made out of the stuff that dreams are made of.

The Baron foul isn't the point. Golden State stopped playing their game. They tried to grind. They tried to slow things down. They passed on open shots and deferred to jumpers instead of taking it to the hole hard and forcing Dallas' interior defense to make a play or put them on the line.

Remember game 4? There was no way they were grinding that game out--they were racing to the finish line. They played out of their minds and the results blew mine.

Game 6: Nellie makes his only mistake of consequence thus far IN THE SERIES by calling that timeout and asking the Warriors to play Mavericks basketball.

In game 6 I fully expect the Warriors to play the same balls-to-the-wall basketball that have made them remarkable this series. If they stick to that...I honestly don't think Jesus can stop them, much less Dirk.