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

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The Cavs won those two games by playing out of character. They were forced by injuries to nuke their gameplan and what they came up with worked for a time because it was the antithesis of Warrior's ball.

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and if you don't think they STILL would have slowed it down, WITH Love and Irving, then you have to be retarded....

if you and I both know that GS wants to get out and run, and the one way to stop that is to play half court basketball, then i'm pretty damn sure Blatt knows it too... and if he doesn't, i KNOW lebron knows....

i think you would have seen the Cavs do the exact same thing they did, but with 2 All-Star players to add to their squad... that's kind of a big deal when you are trying to win a championship...

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i agree, and in fact, i would take that dallas team with Dirk at his best over this golden state team.

Golden State losing 2 games to this dog shite cleveland team, and also allowing game 1 and 5 wins to be close calls really makes me doubt the greatness of the '15 warriors.

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'01 Lakers don't make the cut because they were just an above average regular season team.

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the problem was that was the year the kobe/shaq feud really began to rear it's head. Kobe was refusing to back down to shaq, even saying he's better off playing elsewhere. Once he decided to work within the system, they just took off and destroyed the WC in the playoffs.

I have trouble placing last year's Spurs team because they got taken to 7 by an 8 seed and probably would have lost to OKC in the WCF if Ibaka was healthy.

Them at their peak was otherworldly though.

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Statistically, the Warriors are probably the 2nd best team of the century. However, I don't know if I have them that high by the eye test. I for sure think the 2008 Celtics and 2014 Spurs are better.

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No doubt they can be and are impressive as all hell. And not to be a dick, but we're talking about them being at least top 10 of all time right now. I really don't think they could beat the teams that were THAT good.

Well then would you pick the 2014 Spurs during the Finals last year or GS sometime this regular season when they were at their peak (Klay scoring 37 scoring in a quarter)?

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I don't think the WC was absurd.

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It absolutely was. It came down to the last game to decide the 8th seed in the West, and the Pelicans got in and finished with a record of 45-37 playing in the Southwest division where everyone in the division got in. The Nets were the 8th seed with a 38-44 record. Pelicans had a better record than seeds 5-8 in the East, played in a much more competitive division, and still had to fight to make it in at an 8th seed. After playing in this crazy competitive division and playing well enough to survive and make the playoffs, they get swept in the first round with only one (painful, heartbreaking) game even being remotely close against the 1st seed. Don't forget the they split four games with the 2nd seed in the West, Houston, and one of their losses was a two point loss. The West's 8th seed went .500 in a division where teams averaged 52.2 wins this season and over .500 in the regular season. This is just my personal Pelicans fandom speaking, too. The numbers are worse.

Teams in the East had an average of 38.46 wins (.469) during the regular season while the playoff teams in the East averaged 47.125 wins (.575). The average number of wins during the regular season for teams in the West was 44.533 wins (.543) while the West's playoff teams averaged 53.75 wins (.655). Just from these numbers alone, the entire West averaged damn near just as many wins as the East's playoff teams, and four teams in the West won 30 or less games. The West was stacked.

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All 6 Bulls teams beat this GS team....no?

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No. 91-92 Bulls could have lost to this team, and it wouldn't be shocking. They pretty much struggled just as much with Clyde as GS did with Lebron, and Clyde didn't play anywhere near as well as Lebron did in this series.

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Well then would you pick the 2014 Spurs during the Finals last year or GS sometime this regular season when they were at their peak (Klay scoring 37 scoring in a quarter)?

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the spurs are their peak last year may have been the best team I've ever seen. it was scary good and a joy to watch.