Was 2016 Warriors a Good team with a Great Player (Curry) or Super Team?

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It was but it's probably the first organic one ever

Klay really stepped it up that season

3 all-stars/all-NBA players

Edit: Steph was otherworldly that season but Klay gets overlooked so much in that 2016 season/playoffs, probably his best season to date.
 
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What the fukk that got to do with what I said? If u was to say that cav team was a super team then yes that warriors team was a super team

it has a lot to do with what you said. If you ain't gonna answer the questions then just say that. Name the players on the Cavs 2016 Roster that could create their own shot and get others shots off the dribble
 

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it has a lot to do with what you said. If you ain't gonna answer the questions then just say that. Name the players on the Cavs 2016 Roster that could create their own shot and get others shots off the dribble
That’s what makes a super team? How many players that can create their own shot?
 

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Can we agree that this "super team" argument has become one of the stupidest arguments in NBA fandom?

You have no definition for "Super Team." There's never been a definition. So there's nothing to argue. It's a meaningless term. Every time we've tried to have an argument, it's gone nowhere because the people using the term make it completely arbitrary.

By absolutely any definition, there's been "Super Teams" since the beginning of the NBA. The 1950s and 1960s Boston teams had entire lineups full of Hall of Fame players, the 1960s and 1970s Los Angeles lineup had three of the biggest players in the league simultaneously. But "superteam" was a casual thing mentioned, it wasn't this giant, unending argument. Bron haters followed by Durant haters have made it really stupid.

Either define the damn term, or stop arguing about it. It's gotten old.
 

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Great "team" with a transcendental player :skip:
Curry was jumping off the tv screen that season :skip:
He was really good...whew transcendental :skip:
 

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They were a great team with a great player who had an all-time season.

They went 73-9, never lost a game at home in the reg season, and obliterated everyone.
Only time they looked off was first 4 games vs OKC and last 3 games vs CLE.


Nobody is calling Steph Klay and Dray a Superteam. And if you are, it's solely because Curry is that good.
they lost 2 games at home that season, and what tf do you mean “only time they looked off was the last 3 games of the season” :laff: :cape:
 

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Is nikkas called the Cavs a super team then the 2016 warriors was a super team too

:yeshrug: The Cavs actually had 3 stars at the beginning of both 2015 and 2016, the warriors didn’t


Bron=curry(and most people still said Bron was better)
Kyrie>>>klay
Love>>>>dray

Was the consensus

Now the warriors was much deeper, but that depth didn’t help much the year before cause they weren’t being put in the correct positions

Coming into the 2015 nobody cared bout iggy, Livingston, dray and David lee was seen has the 2/3 option on the team And Harrison Barnes had potential

But Kerr came and put players in correct position
 

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:yeshrug: The Cavs actually had 3 stars at the beginning of both 2015 and 2016, the warriors didn’t


Bron=curry(and most people still said Bron was better)
Kyrie>>>klay
Love>>>>dray

Was the consensus

Now the warriors was much deeper, but that depth didn’t help much the year before cause they weren’t being put in the correct positions

Coming into the 2015 nobody cared bout iggy, Livingston, dray and David lee was seen has the 2/3 option on the team And Harrison Barnes had potential

But Kerr came and put players in correct position
:yeshrug: The Cavs actually had 3 stars at the beginning of both 2015 and 2016, the warriors didn’t


Bron=curry(and most people still said Bron was better)
Kyrie>>>klay
Love>>>>dray

Was the consensus

Now the warriors was much deeper, but that depth didn’t help much the year before cause they weren’t being put in the correct positions

Coming into the 2015 nobody cared bout iggy, Livingston, dray and David lee was seen has the 2/3 option on the team And Harrison Barnes had potential

But Kerr came and put players in correct position
are you saying the Cavs was a super team?
 

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are you saying the Cavs was a super team?
That was the consensus that they were

Bron = 25+ scorer
Kyrie = 20+ scorer
Love = 26 And 12 the year before


They had waiters, traded nothin to the Knicks to get shump and jr and traded for mosgov.


Even going into the offs(before love got hurt) most had Cavs winning it all

Have a star already on your roster and during the offseason get prime bron and prime Kevin to join the team and say the team ain’t a super team brehs
 

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There wasn't a single mention of them being a superteam during their entire 2014-15 campaign and they even lost a key player in David Lee heading into the 2015-16 season, so no they weren't a superteam.

Klay's a great #2 in the Scottie Pippen mold, but there's no period in the modern NBA where a guy like Draymond is even considered an All-Star, let alone a superstar. You go back to the 00s and the guy doesn't even get All-Star consideration when he's competing with the likes of Duncan, Garnett, Nowitzki, Webber, etc. in the West. He's a great role player--that's it. You can't be a superteam with just two star players.

That 2nd round series when the Blazers were about to tie the series 2-2 and were blowing the Warriors out in Game 4, until Steph came back from his injury and produced that legendary performance revealed just how ordinary the Warriors were without him.

Steph deserves full credit for their run that season.
 

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Steph was great :ehh:


Scoff at Duncan, Parker, Ginobili being superteam type players :gucci:


Kawhi was still rising, Aldridge was really good but none were super at the time
 
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