I keep hearing about the 8th seed being between Blazers, Suns, Grizzles, and Rockets. Well, don't look now but the Warriors at 21-27 have one less loss than the Rockets. They've beaten us once and play us twice more in April. In the next week, they have two games against the Suns. Two Warrior wins could turn this whole playoff race on its heels.
I wouldn't be worried if I was you guys. The W's are barely beating sub .500 teams on their own court and often with those teams missing key players. They had the great 6-2 start then David Lee got injured and everything went in the tank. Yes, they had the hardest schedule in the league up till about mid January when the team had all players healthy for the first time since 2007, but even despite the injuries and tough schedule you could tell they're just a bad team. They're currently in the middle of a stretch where they only play 2 road games in like 25 games and both of those games were at Staples center and while it is improving their record, they're not beating decent teams and they're barely beating bottom feeders. Its not going to be pretty after this massive homestand when they have to go out on a few more tough roadies. Perhaps a deadline deal could really vault them onto a new level but they'd have to make up some ground down the stretch. The bench is absolutely horrid, defense is horrid, they foul a ton and barely ever get to the FT line, don't rebound particularly well. People think we have good offense because they think we're still running and gunning but our offense isn't even anything to write home about. Its above average and talented but just not that explosive, hard to stop, etc. There are a lot of flaws but I suppose you could look at it more like they have some good pieces and also have major holes. Should they fill those holes at the deadline they could get a lot better very fast. Right now though, they're not a threat, just feeding off of an insane home stretch. They'll even back out once its over unless there are big changes.
I've watched quite a bit of the Warriors lately. I haven't been impressed. Same no D, perimeter oriented team they've had for years.
Run BJM said exactly what I was going to. They have a long home stretch, they are fair at home, horrible on the road. They beat Utah but everyone is beating Utah these days.
The facts are that none of the teams fighting or the 8 spot are scary, and chances are whoever goes into the #8 spot will back into that playoff spot rather than going out and winning it.
That is a "fact"? No, it isn't. As for the original post: Should we really be worried about a team that is 4.5 games behind us, has the same record as us over the last 10 games, and we probably can't have much more bad luck coming our way? **wow, did I really just say we can't have any more bad luck???**
What is your point, should we never post anything that disagrees with Kingspeed? I was was just plainly stating that in over the last 10 games (over 10% of the NBA season) the Warriors have not gained or for that matter lost any ground to us. They will need to pick up the pace if the actually want to catch us.
Maybe sometime when stating that something isn't a fact, you should back it up. If you think one of those teams is scary, maybe you should provide some information as to what makes them scary. IMO all of the teams fighting for the 8 spot are more dependant on the opposition not playing well in order to win, then they themselves playing well to get the win.
I don't think you know what the word "fact" means. I don't have to prove that your opinion is an opinion. If somebody states something as fact, it is up to them to back it up. Sure. And it wouldn't be "facts", just opinion... like your original post that I commented on. See, there you go. That is a perfectly valid opinion... but it definitely isn't a "fact".
I never said they'd catch us. I was just saying they should be mentioned as a team that is contending for the spot.
