They are extremely good right now tbh. Tonight is about the 5th game I've watched of theirs and they're just a great team with no real weaknesses, which is crazy to say about a team that doesn't have a single low-post scorer. Best offensive team in the league and one of the top 3 defensive ones, and led by best scorer in the league right now who is in his prime. Also the best home-court team in the league. Certainly not unbeatable, but with HCA will be difficult to beat in the playoffs if they stay healthy.
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Memphis and cavs did it. GS is good and they are the best team right now but this is becoming unbelievable. No weaknesses? How about a team with a big frontline to dominate theirs, or a team with 2 perimeter defenders to guard the splash gots. Last i checked the spurs have both.
Also extremely difficult for teams to beat them last year because they didnt stay healthy. Ya'll act like gsw are world beaters, they're good but they're reliant on curry alone. I doubt steph keeps that up.
not that the Spurs are right now world beater either, but i'm supposed to cower in fear of a team who just eked out two home wins vs the ty and dumb Nets and Raptors teams.
winning 70 games..
Toronto were robbed badly tonight. The refs weren't even tying to hide it. Late in the game, the warriors set an illegal pick(as they do 90% of the time). The closed off curry well so that he couldn't shoot off the screen or even get around it. He purposely gets his feet tangled up with Scola's and hits the ground. freethrows. Another play, toronto has the ball, a pick is set(not illegal), curry runs into the pick setter and flops to the ground. Offensive foul. Toronto has the ball down by one. A pick is set. A PERFECTLY LEGAL PICK WITH NO ONE MOVING. Andre Iguadala grabs the arm of the guy setting the pick and flops. Literally just grabs his arms and flops, the refs call offensive foul. These guys are the new OKC. Teams are manufactured in the league.
says a fan of a team that's going back to the lottery this year. You should be used to it though. They have been there so much, making the playoffs is like winning a le.
Spurs will have to improve by leaps and bounds over the course of the season if they want not to get embarrassed by this juggernaut of a team tbh. I really don't care what happened when they had Mark Jackson as a coach and Curry wasn't a top 10 player...
Steph is in another world right now. Never seen a point guard as good as he's playing night in and night out.
u didn't see the game tonight did u? the refs bailed them out big time. I have no fear of them. Curry is turning into westbrooke. When he's run off the 3 point line and can't score, he's driving the lane and looking for fouls. is sickening how the league makes certain players unguardable.
Or he uses technique and is responding to defensive overagression to draw fouls. What he and harden and westbrook are fair game and good for basketball.
Well, it's a word for that and it's called soft. And the fact that professional officials keep rewarding players for flopping, especially when the rules came in for fines, is beyond absurd. But hey, I've never been a fan of a team in my life that has benefited from the whistle so maybe it's why i don't like it. Flopping and shooting 20 freethrows a game is never good for basketball
I'd hardly call any of those players soft. Regardless, I couldn't care less. I prefer that kind of ball. Choosing to take a harder route when you can take the easier route is annoying.
Warriors are not a top 3 defense, whoever said that. Dwyane Casey can't draw up plays to save his life, and they allowed the Raptors 100+ on 80% isolation plays. With every game they look more and more mortal since the beginning of the season. Spurs matchup well with the Warriors, especially with all the small ball they play.
Spurs are the only team to beat the warriors more times than lose to them when playing the warriors starting lineup. We beat them by 20 in Oakland and by 20 at home. Not worried about them to be honest, just get the 2 seed, take care of business. They are not our boogeyman, we are their boogeyman, we are the only team they havent had success against and they dont matchup well with us AT ALL.
I think the Spurs have the appropriate fear of the Warriors. They're legit, but we have the tools to beat them. As others said, we have to put KL/DG on Curry/Thompson to slow them down.
If Kerr decides to Counter that with giving a lot more shots to the Player guarded by TP, that's not a bad thing at all imo. Iggy/Barnes/Green/Livingston or whoever having to beat us is a way better than current Steph killing us.
First of all the Warriors are A LOT better than the Suns back in the day. Second, it's easy to say a team's road to the championship was easy in hindsight. It's always possible to come up with some nightmare-ish road to the Finals with the worst possible match-ups. GSW beat everybody fair and square last year.
They have the hottest player right now, a great surrounding cast, youth, health and a top 5 coach (actually... Pop, Carlisle and Kerr would be my picks for top 3).
As a Spurfan I always believe we can beat anybody, but the Warriors are definitely fearsome.
Luckily for the Spurs their main strength opposes one of our main strengths. Their 2 main perimeter scorers being defended by reigning DPOY Leonard and a very good defender in Danny Green. Steph and Klay are good enough to get their buckets but Kawhi and Danny are good enough defenders to really piss them off. Then it's up to the rest of the team to pitch in and outplay the others.
Then the Spurs offense provides problems for other teams as there is nowhere to hide. You can't leave Duncan alone, you can't leave LMA open, ditto for Green, Leonard and Parker. Then the bench comes in and plays a different game altogether. Would be a great series to watch should we run into them.
Id take this season Curry over prime MJ.
Guy is tripping and throwing up blind shots for 3.
You mean 12 games?
After all the blowouts the Warriors are bored ... now they try to make the games interesting ... training of late game situations that mean something ... and they keep on winning
And how have the Warriors been bailed out by the Refs? Toronto had 12 more FTAs ...
Apalisoc_9 man crushing hard on Curry.
Contain Curry, win the series. It's always been as simple as that.
Umm ok lol
1987 Jordan 37ppg, 5rpg, 5apg, 3spg
1988 Jordan 35ppg, 5.5rpg, 5.9apg, 3.2 spg DPOY MVP
1989 Jordan 32.5ppg, 8rpg, 8apg, 2.9spg
1990 Jordan 33.6ppg, 6.9rpg, 6.3apg, 2.8spg
Steph
2014/15 23.8ppg, 4.3rpg, 7.7apg, 2spg
2015/16 33.7ppg, 4.8rpg, 5.9apg, 2.4spg 12 games
1989 was my favourite MJ Year but Magic won MVP over him averaging a silly 22.5ppg, 7.9rpg, 12.8apg, even that wasn't Magic's best year (87 was IMO). Steph has a ways to go. But even mentioning his name in the same sentence as those 2 is praise enough. But you can't take him over prime MJ, No, just no. If he keeps this pace up for another 4 years at least instead of what 12 games? Then we'll revisit this.
I'm more worried about the refs riding them than anything else.
He's not the only one tripping.
This
The unrealistic and unwarranted Warriors shade on this board actually makes me like them
Its like the Lebron effect in reverse
People here go to pretty great lengths to downplay the Warriors
Which in itself should make it glaringly obvious to them that the Warriors arre a team to be reckoned with
Should we fear them? no
But your kidding yourself if anyone ever thinks they arent actually as good as advertised
I see Spur fans have found their new team to fear now they're over Oklahoma City. Why can't people just have confidence in the team and group that has outlasted so many other flavor's of the month? GSW is definitely a elite, well coached team, but we matchup better with them than almost any other team. A healthy respect is needed but "fearing" another team is going overboard, IMO.
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