by David Zizmor

OAKLAND–As we all know the Warriors had a historic season at home they were 39-2 in the regular season which ties for the best third best home record in NBA history. Then they added a couple more during the playoffs and make that 43-2 when you add in the first round of the playoffs. The Warriors will start this second round at Oracle on Sunday afternoon against Memphis Grizzlies.

So everything at Oracle has an impact on every game the fans are behind the W’s they are loud, their attentive, their knowledgeable, they know the exact spots to cheer. They know the exact spots to cheer when the things get a little bit rough which fortunately for the Warriors hasn’t been that often. When it happens the fans know when to pull it off.

This is the perfect case of home cooking all these the Warriors fans have struggled and the fans have been with them through all these struggles for 20 plus years the home fans have still come out. It’s always kind of amazing considering how bad the Warriors have been all these years during that time frame. The Warrior fans still came out and were still supportive and even in those lousy years the Warriors were always significantly lousy at home than on the road.

Now that their good their being rewarded and the fans are responding in kind and their every bit as awesome even like they were in the lean years. That enthusiasm is really paying off and it kind of rattles the opposing teams. Maybe it’s during free throws or any kind of noise that’s drowning out any signals that their trying to give to each other.

The fans give the Warriors as much support to show their behind them and the Warriors seem to thrive on it. There is no time that is better than when Clay Thompson or Steph Curry are in one of their historic scoring runs hitting threes. The crowd really responds to that, when Thompson scored 37 points in that one regular season game against Sacramento the fans went into an absolute frenzy.

David Zizmor does weekly Warriors commentary during the NBA Playoffs listen to the podcast below