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Dream Team 4: Golden State Warriors

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They look like the Spurs when they beat the heat. Not a good look for us. The Cavs might need 4 yrs of continuity until they look like this.
 
I don't think the Warriors are as "unbeatable" (I hate that phrase because of course no team is unbeatable) as people think they are. Regardless, they just tied a pretty cool record.

Moreover, Steph is right up there with Lebron for best player in the NBA right now. I still take Lebron, and that's not because I'm biased, Lebron's combination of willpower, physical dominance, and court vision is unheard of in NBA history. Nonetheless, Steph's the best shooter I've seen in 17 years of watching basketball and play some solid D. What a great time to be following the sport.
 
Zero chance they only lose 10 games. No team in this era will ever do that again. Not in a time where rest is known to be really important. If they separate themselves by 10-12+ games by March, you'll barely see steph and klay on the court again til the playoffs.


P.S. The Rockets won 22 straight about 7 years ago. They got bounced in the first round. Regular season means very little.
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They won that game in a blowout fashion while shooting 22 LESS fts than the Denver
 
I don't think the Warriors are as "unbeatable" (I hate that phrase because of course no team is unbeatable) as people think they are.
Hush. They're unbeatable. No one has ever been as good as that team. They never get injured. They're flat out unstoppable. Jump on the bandwagon with the rest of us before you look foolish.
 
I still think the Cavs at full strength can beat this team but it really will not be easy. Other than Curry and Thompson shooting lights out, Green, Iggy, Barnes. Who we skipped on, and Barbosa are also high percentage at the 3 ball. The team has length and is very athletic. This team will give Micheal Jordans 72 & 10 Bulls a run for there money. Unless Curry or Thompson gets a serious injury, there's no stopping them in the regular season. Unfortunately for the Warriors the regular season record means nothing in the playoffs and I really don't see another team in the east other than the Cavs who can match up well with them.
 
They won that game in a blowout fashion while shooting 22 LESS fts than the Denver
The power of the 3 point shot.

This sounds really weird to say, but I'd try to lock down Igoudala, completely take him out of the game. I think in some ways he's still living off the reputation that he's not a good shooter. Right now, he's capable of effectively shooting anywhere on the floor.

I think in some ways I'd rather lose to Golden State with Steph trying to go for 45+ points.

What kills me is when Igoudala scores 24 on 10/12 shooting or something like that.

In a lot of ways it reminds me of how the Cavs lost to Orlando, everybody on that team was hitting. Hell, even if we could have locked down on Michael Pietrus, we might have won another game or two. It's those 4th and 5th guys having these big games which drowns you.

I'm cool if Steph scores 40 and beats us. I'm not cool when Harrison Barnes and Igoudala combine for fourty points.
If that's the case the way Curry can tack 3's on the board, it's going to be extremely hard to win.

I think if you can eliminate Igoudala or Barnes entirely, their team will sputter. The way to beat the Warriors is to fuck up the pace of the game. The caveman ball we played in the finals gummed them up, they were thrown off by that style of play.

I think if you can mix it up, you can possibly disturb their preferred rhythm.

This was spoken to me in a dream by Gregg Popovich.
 
The power of the 3 point shot.

This sounds really weird to say, but I'd try to lock down Igoudala, completely take him out of the game. I think in some ways he's still living off the reputation that he's not a good shooter. Right now, he's capable of effectively shooting anywhere on the floor.

I think in some ways I'd rather lose to Golden State with Steph trying to go for 45+ points.

What kills me is when Igoudala scores 24 on 10/12 shooting or something like that.

In a lot of ways it reminds me of how the Cavs lost to Orlando, everybody on that team was hitting. Hell, even if we could have locked down on Michael Pietrus, we might have won another game or two. It's those 4th and 5th guys having these big games which drowns you.

I'm cool if Steph scores 40 and beats us. I'm not cool when Harrison Barnes and Igoudala combine for fourty points.
If that's the case the way Curry can tack 3's on the board, it's going to be extremely hard to win.

I think if you can eliminate Igoudala or Barnes entirely, their team will sputter. The way to beat the Warriors is to fuck up the pace of the game. The caveman ball we played in the finals gummed them up, they were thrown off by that style of play.

I think if you can mix it up, you can possibly disturb their preferred rhythm.

This was spoken to me in a dream by Gregg Popovich.

That was always the game plan against phoenix during the Nash era force him into being a scorer..not sure it's best with steph though as he has much more of a scorers mentality. I think come playoff time it will be interesting to see if they can cope with the inevitable change in physicality and pace. That ended up being that sun's teams undoing (a long with a Horry hatchet job)
 
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Lol. Ok guy.

Do you know how many times people have said in the past "OMG this team is gonna challenge the Bulls record!!!" For God's sake, ESPN had a whole running page all season long with Michael Jordan's picture on it tracking the Heat thinking they could do it. They didn't. It will never, ever ever happen again in the modern era. It makes no logical sense with the need for rest in the modern game.

Jesus you guys it's like you think I'm saying the Warriors suck. They are really freaking good. And will still be really freaking good at the end of the year. But they have played a schedule so far that ranks in the lower half of the league. (So have we for what it's worth. We've played almost an identical schedule to the W's and have just 3 more losses despite being down 30-40% of our rotation, and rank just below them in most major metrics. And we aren't even playing that well.)

Compare that to the Clippers who have played the second hardest schedule in the league and it's showing.

All I'm saying is that A) they are not going to hit 72 wins. (Not a knock on the Warrriors. Neither they nor anyone else will ever again) and B) Let's see if they're still firing on these same cylinders after they've made a circuit around the league once.
 
I'm just glad that we are still winning at a high % while 2-3 starters being out. Am I the only one amazed by that? How many other teams can accomplish only 3 losses so far with 2-3 starters being out?

And on to my second point, I believe that this experience that our backups are getting right now will be extremely valuable come playoff time.
 
Is there any way to beat these guys in a seven game series is the most important question.

Right now, Steph looks Godly. The only way to beat them is to make Steph work on the defensive end. It's great that we have LeBron in that we can run that pick and roll with him and the person whom Curry guards all day long to exploit and hope the ploy will exhaust Steph.
 
Is there any way to beat these guys in a seven game series is the most important question.

Right now, Steph looks Godly. The only way to beat them is to make Steph work on the defensive end. It's great that we have LeBron in that we can run that pick and roll with him and the person whom Curry guards all day long to exploit and hope the ploy will exhaust Steph.

They were beatable last year in a seven game series. People forget that we handled them pretty well last year. Almost beat them on their home floor without LeBron, and then smashed them at the Q. And in the Finals, still had them on the ropes for awhile despite missing 60-70% of our major offensive fire power.

Also, the word from around the team is that nearly everyone Cavalier was confident that we would have won the Finals had we had Kevin and Kyrie. We didn't, so we didn't, so that sucks. But the fact remains, the Warriors are beatable, and the Cavs are one of the teams uniquely equipped to do it.
 
They were beatable last year in a seven game series.

Last year they didn't have the confidence of being an NBA champion.

Steph Curry looks like a completely different player from last year to this, and it is all because of that confidence that comes with actually closing the deal like they did.

They are beatable, but they are also gaining such tremendous confidence right now that a hard task is starting to border on near impossible having to beat them with home court 4 times in 7 games.

They are a completely different team from last year as that confidence of being a champion is like a force field right now that seems impenetrable.
 

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