Did the Warriors really luck out by avoiding the Clippers & Spurs?

[Consumed]

Tony Parker looked like a shell of himself in the first round averaging 10.9 ppg on 36.3% shooting, Manu Ginobili played washed averaging 8 ppg on 34.9% shooting clearly feeling the effects of old age, Tiago Splitter (great defender for them) was limited with injury and wasn't effective. How are they performing significantly better against the best defense in the game?

If the Clippers choked against the Rockets why wouldn't they choke against the Warriors? Better yet, why tf don't the Rockets get credit for winning 56 games & the 2nd seed without Dwight for half the year who returned for the postseason and performed well

 

[jwinfield]

Tony Parker looked like a shell of himself in the first round averaging 10.9 ppg on 36.3% shooting, Manu Ginobili played washed averaging 8 ppg on 34.9% shooting clearly feeling the effects of old age, Tiago Splitter (great defender for them) was limited with injury and wasn't effective. How are they performing significantly better against the best defense in the game?

If the Clippers choked against the Rockets why wouldn't they choke against the Warriors? Better yet, why tf don't the Rockets get credit for winning 56 games & the 2nd seed without Dwight for half the year who returned for the postseason and performed well

People downplay the Warriors saying they beat teams without their starting point guard, then say they would've lost to the Clippers who beat the Spurs with TP hurt in 7, then blew a 3-1 series lead.

 

[MJ Truth]

I think the Spurs would have given them problems just through coaching. I think the Clippers would've essentially ran into the same issue Cleveland did - that seven man rotation would get fatigued over a long series.

I'm definitely not gonna say either team WOULD have beaten the Warriors but I think they give better fights than anyone else in the West did.

 

[Heelmatic]

People are stupid. Yeah the Warriors got lucky they got to play against one of the leagues best defensive teams in the 2nd round. Got even luckier in the next round by getting to face the 2 seed Rockets and MVP runner up James Harden. Then if they weren't lucky enough, they get to play against the best player on the planet in the Finals. Yeah they got real lucky.


OR we could talk about a team with ZERO Finals experience being down 2-1, facing a game 4 on the road in a city desperate for a title and winning the next 3 games easily.

 

[ghostwriterx]

I think the Spurs would have given them problems just through coaching. I think the Clippers would've essentially ran into the same issue Cleveland did - that seven man rotation would get fatigued over a long series.

I'm definitely not gonna say either team WOULD have beaten the Warriors but I think they give better fights than anyone else in the West did.

Curry didn't have to guard anyone or face an elite defender the last two rounds. Facing Beverly, CP3, Danny Green and Kawhai would have been an interesting challenge for him.

Iggy and Kawhai would have been a great matchup too.

 

[Urbanmiracle]

I don't get this avoid nonsense. How you can you avoid someone in a tournament? Is it the warriors fault that

1) The Spurs couldn't beat the Clippers in game 7 of the first round?

2) That the clippers who were up 3-1 against the Rockets, collapsed and let the Rockets when 4 straight

How can you avoid someone in a tournament? You play whose on the schedule. Its not like they had the Clippers and said naw, Ima opt out of playing them. STFU with all this avoiding crap.

On the flip side, who did the Cavs play? Lets see

1) A boston celtics who came into the playoff UNDER .500?

2) A Bulls team disenfranchised with their coach and their star player fading before our eyes

3) An Hawks teams with just Touch Me Teague Me being the only player to score on that team?

fukk outta here with this bullshyt. The Warriors WON. Let them enjoy their victory.

 

[Malta]

They would have roasted the Clippers, the Spurs would have been more difficult but this was the Warriors year IMO. Two years ago the green Warrior team took the Spurs to 6 in their first playoff run, I think they would have gotten the best of the Spurs in 7.

 

[FAH1223]

They would have roasted the Clippers, the Spurs would have been more difficult but this was the Warriors year IMO. Two years ago the green Warrior team took the Spurs to 6 in their first playoff run, I think they would have gotten the best of the Spurs in 7.

Yup.

The Spurs were the only team to have a winning series record vs. GSW but Parker being a liability on both ends as well as Manu being flabby were not good looks for them over the course of a series vs. that deep of a Warrior team.

 

[MVike28]

I don't know what's worse.

The one faction of bum nikkas who are screaming 2-4! 2-4! 2-4!

Or the other faction of bum nikkas who are screaming asterisk! If OKC was healthy! If Clips didn't fall apart against the Rockets! If Spurs didn't lose to the Clips! If the Cavs weren't injury plagued!



Mods gotta do a nice sweep through all the threads or dump them all in a like Kobe/Lebron/MJ merged thread

 

[Osmar]

Clippers let Josh Smith & Corey Brewer eat

Warriors would have destroyed them

 

[ghostwriterx]

Yup.

The Spurs were the only team to have a winning series record vs. GSW but Parker being a liability on both ends as well as Manu being flabby were not good looks for them over the course of a series vs. that deep of a Warrior team.

Would have loved to see those matchups. That series would have been all about high level coaching.

 

[BlueHeffner]

I don't get this avoid nonsense. How you can you avoid someone in a tournament? Is it the warriors fault that

1) The Spurs couldn't beat the Clippers in game 7 of the first round?

2) That the clippers who were up 3-1 against the Rockets, collapsed and let the Rockets when 4 straight

How can you avoid someone in a tournament? You play whose on the schedule. Its not like they had the Clippers and said naw, Ima opt out of playing them. STFU with all this avoiding crap.

On the flip side, who did the Cavs play? Lets see

1) A boston celtics who came into the playoff UNDER .500?

2) A Bulls team disenfranchised with their coach and their star player fading before our eyes

3) An Hawks teams with just Touch Me Teague Me being the only player to score on that team?

fukk outta here with this bullshyt. The Warriors WON. Let them enjoy their victory.

Great post

 

[IAmGettingAMailOrderBride]

Warriors probably would've smacked the clippers

 

[ReggieFlare]

I think the Clips would have still gotten waxed, but the Spurs would have been the Warriors' biggest challenge

 

[joe cool]

They dominated the clippers in the regular season and probably would have smoked them in the playoffs too. Spurs would have been tough.