Golden State Warriors: Overrated or No?

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Bot malfunction.

 

The Warriors are not overrated (except by a few who only point to their record) just because OKC is winning.

Anyone who didn't think OKC was this good hasn't been paying attention.

The Blazers were underrated at the beginning of the season, then proceeded to overachieve. Hats off to the coaching staff and the players.

 

At which point he would have kicked Rodman in the nuts, punched him in the face, and maybe shoot him in the kneecap taking him out of the series.

 

That's just a retroactive flagrant 2

 

Too soon to tell. If they in spite of being challenged by Portland and even more so by OKC, and the Green distraction, are able to come together and win it all I'd have to say no. But they went into this season saying anything less than an NBA championship is a bad season. So if they lose in the conference finals, or to Cleveland/Toronto I'd have to agree with those who compared them to the Kings, Suns, Mariners, and painfully I'd have to say the A's winning a record setting 20 consecutive games and losing in the first round of playoffs.

 

No way man, he didn't mean to pull the trigger, it was completely unintentional. Have Rodman take his 2 free throws and lets play ball.

 

Why? The game is better now with more flow. I have 0 interest in watch Riley ball with scores in the 80s.

 

Yes but that is not a good thing. If they weren't allowed to hold and shove as much in 1990......the Blazers would have another championship banner. I don't think the rules were different back then, the NBA just chose to ignore them. Every once in a while they will "emphasize" different rules. Now it is much harder to guard quicker players, (i.e small PG's) in some instances almost impossible with just one defender. I like it much better now.

 

Are they overrated? Did we hold a lead for most of the series against them, despite losing in 5?

The fact that we (a) beat them in the regular season, (b) beat them in the Playoffs, and (c) held substantial leads against them in 4 out of 5 (?) games tells me that, yeah, they are SIGNIFICANTLY overrated.

They also got STOMPED by 40 points in the WCF, and are routinely giving up 120+ points (three times to us!) in the POs. The greatest teams don't allow that to happen.

 

Honestly. I think we're just underrating how good OKC is.

2 top 5 players, combined with 3 elite defenders, and guy who prolly shoulda been the real 6MoY?

That's a sick roster there.

 

Either that or you just go out of your way to be an ass most the time.

Upsets happen in sports, that's why they play the fucking games. Just because a team is upset doesn't mean they were overrated, it means they got beat.

 

... And then blamed Jordan for being an elite player and getting away with everything.

 

Without actually delving into history I'd guess that there are roughly 20 teams that would mop up this GSW team in a PO series.
They hold the record for most-winning season - can't deny that - but I don't think that's an adequate measure for the best team of all-time.

 

With the rule changes?

 

Any rules. Yesteryear's stars were SO MUCH BETTER than today's "stars". The league is severely lacking in top-tier talent right now. Curry is basically Reggie Miller, and while Reggie was VERY good, he was a 2nd tier star in his day.

 

Not sure this memory is totally true. again the rules changes have freed things up for shooters, but only one year did Miller average more than Curry's career average in scoring. Curry has better shooting stats, Rebounding stats, assist numbers, steals, drtg, etc...etc.. And on top of that Curry has better numbers across the board in the playoffs.

 

I voted No. I think the W's are a very good team. Very difficult to defend.

 

Without league assistance and special rules they are nothing special, a .550-.600 team without the depth or defense to win in the playoffs.