Game Thread GAME# 78: BLAZERS @ WARRIORS - APRIL 3, 2016 - SUNDAY, 5:00 PM (PDT), KGW & NBATV

Curry-39, Klay-21, Draymond-22. Ain't nobody gonna beat that team when those guys are playing like that, I don't care how much better CJ plays.

 

There should be an asterisk by their record if they break the 72 win mark. The league is a joke now compared to the Jordan era.

 

Sure, if you being up hypothetical possibilities and conditions then sure it might look easy. They'd stI'll have to win out and we'd have to finish 2-3.

 

Then we should see more 72 win teams in the next few years?? Right?

 

I don't see it happening. They will be like the San Antonio Spurs and add premium free agents at a discount as long as they keep their core together. It's one of the reasons the league is becoming a joke to me.

 

We let that happen...

 

The Spurs are doing virtually the same damn thing in the same damn season. They're only 5 wins behind them.

 

Guys from the 80s said the exact same thing about the Jordan era. In fact there were expansion teams in the Jordan era, lowering the overall talent level of the league. The Warriors are an incredible team.

 

We need get focus on the kings we haven't clinch anything yet. We still need 2 lost by Houston or 2 wins by us to clinch.

 

I agree but the Jordan-era Bulls tempered their metal against some dynasties. The Lakers, The Celtics and the Pistons. There is no teams in the league besides The Spurs that can out GS in a seven game series. And with free agency favoring winners, the league is becoming even more one sided. At least in the NFL and MLB you have some parity. That's not possible in the NBA.

 

I disagree with that. The Heat were the super team formed in free agency. The Warriors just drafted those guys and they have turned into this. Same thing with the Spurs, Duncan, Parker, Ginobli, Kawhi. They added LA but that team has been a dynasty for over a decade without adding the big names in free agency.
OKC..they just drafted KD and Russ. There are 4 teams that can win the Finals this year in my opinion and all but the Cavs are basically home grown.

 

Plus we are talking about the Jordan team that won 72, which was well after the Lakers, Celtics and Pistons stopped being dynasties. That team had to face a few teams that could truly play with them, the Knicks, Magic, Sonics, Jazz, but after that it was some pretty bad teams including 2 expansion teams.

 

Statement game by the Warriors - and that statement was Blazers =

 

I know one thing, that Bulls team would have easily beaten this Warriors team in five games. Pippen on Curry, Jordan on Klay and Rodman on Draymond. All three of those players were superior defenders to what the Warriors currently have. In fact, that Bulls team would have licked their chops at this Warriors team. They would have matched up perfectly against them, but the Warriors wouldn't have had an answer for Jordan.

 

The current rules and the past rules would have favored the Bulls. Hand checking allowed? They would knock Curry around the court. No hand checking? They would have no shot of containing Jordan. Meanwhile, Pippen would have had the length, quickness, and talent to defend Curry.

 

You know what's great about these hypotheticals? They're always going to be hypotheticals. No one will ever be proven wrong!

 

There's nobody in the league like Jordan right now. How would they defend him? Draymond? Klay? Double? The Bulls saw plenty of small scoring guards that could be similar to Curry.

Sure, it's a hypothetical, but you can compare the two rosters and see that many of the Bulls' strengths would have been advantageous against the Warriors.

 

CJ wouldn't have been put in that position if Stotts kept Dame in

 

In your opinion.