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Monday, April 11, 2016
Warriors Looking for 73 and Why I'm an Old, Bitter Man About It
The Golden State Warriors are knocking on the door of 73-9 for an NBA season. Amidst all the studies showing all the travel and back-to-backs are worse than other sports and hard on the players we have a team looking to break what seemed unbreakable. A team that's perfectly adapted to what the league gives you. NO handchecks or contact on the perimeter and great passing and shooting. It's a team that would be successful in any era, but I feel like that 1995-97 Bulls team, if played in the 90's, would beat the Warriors. I'm not sure about this era, but I still think they'd win in a seven game series since Michael Jordan in that stage of his career never lost a series. The Warriors are a great team featuring the best shooter, and probably another top ten shooter of all-time with Curry and Thompson. Draymond Green is VERY underrated and so versatile it's always impressive to see him play. He defends larger players, sometimes the offense runs through him, and he hits 3's, like just about everyone on the team. Their second unit is VERY underrated with Shaun Livingston and Leandro Barbosa never allowing the other team to breathe as two veteran point guards that control the tempo and essentially guarantee a lead won't slip away while their out there. Bogut in a reduced role offers a VERY good defensive big who also is still an excellent passer in the post. Andre Igoudala has to be the most overqualified role player ever as in his prime with the 76ers he was a top ten player. They move the ball so well and Curry can get off a shot in a phone booth while being defended. They move without the ball incredibly well too. Mo Speights and Festus Ezeli gives them two more bigs to throw if a team tries to rough it up on them. I still think Jordan, Harper, Pippen, Kukoc, and Rodman with Kerr, Longley, THE MAYOR (Freddy Hoiberg), Randy Brown, Bill Wennington, Judd Buechler (THIS IS ALL FROM MEMORY BY THE WAY) and whoever I have forgotten would win in a seven game series. The significantly bigger guards would limit Curry's shots, though he can pull-up from 35 feet with accuracy akin to most player's open jumpers. I feel like the Bulls wouldn't need to utilize their bench much, but that bench could hold it down in short stretches when the starters rest. Rodman on Green would be interesting since Rodman rarely spent time on the perimeter, so that does fascinate me. I also wonder if 90's rules vs. 2010's rules would differ the outcome greatly or not? This has been a random process of typing thoughts down, but that's where I'm at with this. Hopefully the Warriors lose on Wednesday night.
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