Dream Team 4: Golden State Warriors

[Spencer Hawes]

Get this shit out of here...go root for the Pistons and the Warriors, Spencer.

Lol, I'm not rooting for them. I want them to lose every game but I don't have a problem with them going on a historic run. When we beat them, it's gonna be epic. I've watched most of their games and they are beatable. Curry can be contained unlike MJ. Teams just gotta be smart and game plan accordingly...something that we did in the Finals but Delly just ran out of gas. We have the personnel and style of play to take them out. They are a rhythm team and if you take away that rhythm and play a plodding style, they are vulnerable. Good examples are the Brooklyn and Chicago games. Teams need to punish Curry when he drives. I don't mean dirty plays but they need to up their level of physicality. He seems to take it personally when an opposing defender zeroes in on him. Delly gives zero fucks if you take it personally or not and that's why he was effective when guarding Curry. Bigs need to lay his ass out if he wants to mix it up inside. I don't see why other teams don't do that. He's trolling other bigs when he sneak inside and grab offensive rebounds. That to me is unacceptable for the opposing team. I would lay his ass out and tell him that if tried that shit again, he's gonna end up on the floor writhing in pain.

 

[shoes22]

I think the main reason this situation is pissing me off so much is because the Warriors really aren't invincible. Each of their last 4 or 5 opponents could have beat them with a couple small, minor adjustments down the stretch.

 

[Walter White]

What I'm gathering from this is that they may or may not be beatable?

 

[Cavatt]

Someone will get unnaturally hit and they will go cold enough to lose a single game. I am wondering if they can lose 4 in 7

 

[Mr. Orange]

Someone will get unnaturally hit and they will go cold enough to lose a single game. I am wondering if they can lose 4 in 7

Spurs, OKC, Cavs. Only teams that have a chance.

 

[Rich]

I think the main reason this situation is pissing me off so much is because the Warriors really aren't invincible. Each of their last 4 or 5 opponents could have beat them with a couple small, minor adjustments down the stretch.

BUt no one REALLY thinks they are invincible. No NBA team is or ever has been. They obviously will lose games and everyone knows that.

 

[Rich]

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.

This really has nothing to do with the Warriors, but I always feel like I have to point out that that Rockets team didn't have Yao Ming when the Playoffs rolled around, while they did have him for the majority of that streak (15 or 16 games he played in before going down for the rest of the season).

 

[Birdy89]

They don't fit the mold of any of the recent dominant NBA teams in that they are still young, in their primes, and have been a team together for a while.

For a decade now most of our NBA champs have been somewhat older teams with guys on maintenance programs just coasting trying to get to the playoffs.

GS though is apparently trying to have it all by dominating the regular season and then finish the deal like they did last year.

I just don't buy the taking the foot off the gas, they will break down and burn themselves out in the regular season argument I have seen on here at times because they did this exact same thing last season and still were plenty fresh at the end of the season to finish the job.

They are certainly "beatable", but someone is going to have to put a Herculean effort into it because that is what it is going to take to beat them 4 times in 7 games.

 

[Maximus]

BUt no one REALLY thinks they are invincible. No NBA team is or ever has been. They obviously will lose games and everyone knows that.

They are invincible...no one will beat them...they NEVER get serious injuries.

 

[Surge]

Greatest team ever. Might as well call the season over.

 

[dirtywax]

We're less than 30 days into the season. 7 months away from the Finals. Just a little perspective.

 

[Mad Hatter]

The only thing that bothers me about Golden State is their near perfect health. I look at them dominating the league without having to face much adversity along the way, while knowing that we'd be doing the exact same thing if we could ever get our entire roster together and healthy. Because we DID do that last year during the second half of the season. Everyone saw the dominance that we are capable of. Honestly, does anyone doubt that if we had been as healthy as GS so far this season, we'd be 11-1 or possibly even 12-0 ourselves right now, instead of 9-3? So that does bother me: the fact that GS is able to reach their full potential, while we rarely seem to be able to due to injuries. Otherwise, GS winning or losing doesn't really bother me. I have nothing against them personally, and I know that we are fully equipped to beat them if we actually have our entire team available.

 

[David.]

The difference is not just in the record, equalized by injuries.

Watch the games. the warriors are playing great basketball. we manage to piece things together while playing sloppy.

It's two different planets. watch the games.

We will get better though and I can't wait. we're already very very good and were nowhere near where we should be

 

[theSTEREO.]

This really has nothing to do with the Warriors, but I always feel like I have to point out that that Rockets team didn't have Yao Ming when the Playoffs rolled around, while they did have him for the majority of that streak (15 or 16 games he played in before going down for the rest of the season).

Ok, how about the Hawks last year who won 18 straight or close to that, and everyone anointed them basically co-champions mid season? Didn't work out great for them in the playoffs either. Unless not having Thabo makes that much of a difference.

My point is just that the regular season matters very little in terms of wins and losses. The Warriors have spanked some teams this year. But a decent number of their wins have required furious comebacks. Do you think that"ll fly in the playoffs in the West? What matters is how you're playing together at the end of the season, and how well you play against your playoff opponent. Doesn't matter if you won 14 straight or 4 straight during the regular season.

 

[Birdy89]

Do you think that"ll fly in the playoffs in the West?

In the immortal words of Rudy T, "never underestimate the heart of a champion."