re: Where would you rank this Warriors team in history?

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No amount of stats could convince me that this Warriors team is a top 10 GOAT. My post history will have me fighting an uphill battle of whether I'm being salty or not but IMO they aren't even close.

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I agree with you that they may not be one of the Top 5-10 greatest for one simple reason. They struggled against Lebron and friends. Lebron could have done an event with NBA Cares where he picks a bunch of underprivileged,scrappy street ball players from Cleveland, and the outcome would have been pretty much the same.

All hyperbole aside, I think that they are a historically great team, but their Finals experience really hurt them once they got there. That'll really hurt them because of the "eyeball test". Between Steve Kerr being still green as a coach and the overall inexperience of the Warriors, what they did this year was special. They just faced an all-time great player playing out of his mind. If Lebron has any help, there aren't many teams that can beat a team where he's putting up those numbers AND isn't the only player to guard.

I don't know where I'd rank them because some of the teams mentioned were special, but I do believe we'll look back at them as great and this Finals series as a special one after time has passed and people's emotions aren't as intense.

It sucks that they had to ruin the storybook season for Lebron because I really wanted to see him redeem himself in such an awesome fashion. That's the way it goes, though. Seahawks are in perfect position and throw a pick to lose the Super Bowl. Patriots go 16-0 and lose because David Tyree's helmet enjoys a good underdog story. I'm salty that such a good solo performance by a player carrying a team alone didn't end in Hollywood fashion, but at the end of the day, they were just too good for any solo heroics to beat them in a best of 7.

I think this series ended with each party being validated by the other. I think that Lebron playing the way he did and carrying his team to Game 6 against this team was legendary and solidifies his place as one of the absolute greatest players of all time (if he that wasn't solidified already). I also think the Golden State coming behind to win the title against that type of performance without any real experience showed that they were a great team. Again, I don't know where I'd rank them, but I don't think the Finals alone invalidate what they did as a team. It's like saying the 91-92 Bulls weren't a great team because it took 6 games to close out a Trailblazers team lead by Drexler with Kersey and Porter bringing up the rear. The NBA Finals are supposed to be close.