Curry was healthy, just not as good as usual. He drops off during big series in general. The rest is a wash.
It'll only matter in the post-season. The Spurs have to do their parts to get to the WCF, as will Cleveland to get to the Finals. I have no doubt GS will be a regular-season juggernaut.
Curry was healthy, just not as good as usual. He drops off during big series in general. The rest is a wash.
Yep. In addition, jump shooting teams usually don't dominate in the playoffs.
I'm not too sure if they will have a better regular season than last year. That's because they have a depleted bench, requiring their starters to log more minutes.
Spurs had a 67 win regular season and it was because of their deep bench.
Yes, the Spurs are more top-heavy this season than last. 67 wins is also very hard to top. But 58 wins likely is good enough for 2nd in the West.
He clearly wasn't and the rest isn't "a wash": It took the stars aligning for them to pull it off.
Curry's production in the Finals was in line with his playoff production generally. The rest was a wash because once LeBron figured them out it didn't matter which role players they were missing. If they started that series right now, same rosters, Warriors might win one or two games. Warriors were fortunate to even be in it at the end.
So who are the Dubs going to have for the bench besides Livingston, they already lost Barbosa, Rush and Festus is probably going to go too.
David effing West baby. KaBOOM!
Hand banana no!
I'ma call you Spaghetti, now rape him!
Yeah, I'm not really into him, but you... you.
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Hey uhh.... I couldn't help, but notice you basting a turkey there...
Lol... it's from a show, bud.
GS Starters: Curry / Klay / Durant / Draymond / Zaza
GS Bench: Livingston / Iggy / David West / Looney / Patrick McCaw / Damian Jones
I'm really interested to see how McCaw does. Not expecting a ton this year, but I liked him.
Good discussion...
Gained: Kevin Durdelta & David Worst
Lost: Andrew Bogut, Harrison Barnes, Festus Ezeli, Leandro Barbosa, Marreese Speights
I think some people are trying to pigeonhole Durant as merely a scorer, which simply isn't true. The guy averaged more rebounds, assists, and blocks per game than Kawhi did last year. He's not one dimensional by any stretch of the imagination. Still, the "only-one-ball" theory does carry weight for me. Since his sop re year in the league, Durant has never scored fewer than 25 ppg-- there will a period of adjustment, no doubt. But I think he'll surprise some skeptics with really buying into the team concept and putting winning ahead of shots or stats. He's played the nice diplomat all these years dealing with Westbrook, and I think he'll finally feel completely at ease having better teammates.
He is the Peyton Manning of the NBA. He will choke when it matters. He is soft when it matters. He implodes when it matters. Same with Curry. Same with Thompson. The Warriors le was won by beating backups. They already had a Peyton Manning on their team. Now they just added another Manning. 2 players who win mvps, who put up nice stats, who will put all this false hope out there, but will fold when the chips are down. Iggy/Green ain't going to be carrying them to a le this time coupled in with a Kyrie injury. They won't get to rely on a defense either like Peyton Manning did both times. These Peyton Manning's actually have to overcome actual high pressure situations themselves which is something NEITHER have yet to prove. The Warriors will win lots of games, score lots of points and break all sorts of records and win an mvp, and a dumb got like yourself will be eating their right up like people did with those Colts/Broncos, but will look stupid as when they fail in the postseason.
You make some excellent points. You should show your post to your mommy to show how smart and mature you are.
Probably the thing that will hold the team back is precisely something that they needed to do anyways. The team was forced to get a lot younger. They needed to do that anyways, but it happened all at once and some of these youngsters are very, very young. They are now going to have to rely on a much younger group and until they "come of age" in their games maybe they can't dismantle a juggernaut like GSW. Realistically one or two of the younger guys added to the rotation will have to make a difference.
ha ha, two years ago the Dubs lucked into a ship. last year they wouldn't have been there unless a complete a choke job by the thunder. the jump shot bull doesn't work. if it did it would have been copied years ago. i would've been more scared of the Dubs if they would've landed Gasol. thank god we got him. Cant wait for next year. its gonna be so satisfying.
Trade Parker for Westbrook now,
do it FO
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