Reasons The Warriors Are Better Than Last Season...

[THE HCP]

This was an interesting read. Wonder what you numbers guys feel about this. The numbers never lie, right?


http://ftw.usatoday.com/2017/04/war...tatistics-point-differential-defensive-rating

 

[PtldPlatypus]

Section 6 was mildly amusing:

last year’s team had zero Kevin Durants. Kevin Durants are a very good thing for a basketball team, even if Harrison Barneses were a bit under-appreciated, particularly in the Bay Area.

Now, the Warriors only have one Kevin Durant, and for a while this season, they had no Kevin Durants. But at the end of the season, it looked like they had a full Kevin Durant back. That’s a very scary thing for a team that was already so good with zero Kevin Durants.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Section 6 was mildly amusing:

Honestly this is the only section that matters.

 

[Minstrel]

The Warriors are much further ahead of the rest of the NBA this season in terms of net rating than they were last year. It'll take an even more epic choke job not to win the title this year.

 

[THE HCP]

The fact that when things aren't going well you have all the options they have had in the past, but can now either run KD off some screens or go directly to him in the post is insane. Hope our boys make a good showing, and should keep their heads up regardless.

 

[Wizard Mentor]

I haven't checked since before Durant went down, and I even created a thread about this: The Warriors have the best (or was it 2nd best?) Ortg's in the history of the NBA.

The problem isn't that the Warriors don't have weaknesses, the problem for Portland (and any other team) is that they have so much room for margin of error. For example, they can have 3 mediocre quarters and still win.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

I haven't checked since before Durant went down, and I even created a thread about this: The Warriors have the best (or was it 2nd best?) Ortg's in the history of the NBA.

The problem isn't that the Warriors don't have weaknesses, the problem for Portland (and any other team) is that they have so much room for margin of error. For example, they can have 3 mediocre quarters and still win.

Yep--they can bust out a 45-point quarter on a moment's notice.

 

[THE HCP]

They can have 2 guys have shit nights and still blow a team out by 20.....easily.

 

[rasheedfan2005]

They cant guard us

 

[THE HCP]

#JinxSpeedPost

 

[BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94]

They have have more firepower than ever before but interior defense does matter and when they play a team with good bigs or players who can get to the basket at will, they will struggle. Cleveland may look like garbage right now (I personally think they didn't give two shits about the regular season and they had a lot of injuries) but they're being slept on and right now they have a team that will match up well. Out of the west teams, honestly only teams that can scare the Warriors stylistically are the healthy Clippers and us with a healthy Nurk and even then those are likely done in 6.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

And we're a better team too. Last year we took out two of the Clipper's best players, this year I'm expecting the Blazers to take out 3 Warrior starters.

 

[Minstrel]

And we're a better team too. Last year we took out two of the Clipper's best players, this year I'm expecting the Blazers to take out 3 Warrior starters.

If you can't beat Draymond Green, Draymond Green Draymond Green.

 

[H.C.]

I believe 73-9 lied.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

1. Kevin Durant

That is all.