you got period blood spottin all in this reply callin somebody sensitive
Why is there No Buzz Around The Golden State Warriors?
- Thread starter Stick Up Kid
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It is hard to believe you're a Cavs fan and actually believe that considering his importance to the team that isn't replaced by anyobe else at the position. Losing Smith and then having to replace those minutes with Shump and Delly would kill their come back attempt.
Love was awful in the finals. Thompson is better than him against the Warriors and you are losing more than gaining by swapping the two. you are undervaluing the importance of role players to a championship team.
is Iggy still injured or did LeBron age him 5 years? dude looking like Larry Holmes out there.
if Bogut was so important, why let him leave?
believe whatever to furl your agenda, breh. and if the Warriors lose again? what new excuse you going to come with? Iggy old now, Durant didn't fit, bogut went to Dallas, bench not as deep, Curry not the same cause he didn't have that surgery, Luke Walton went to Lakers, they need another year to get, Cavs just lucky...
I don't get it.. it's ok to make excuses for the Cavs the year before, but not the Warriors last year? Ive accepted the loss last year..as a fan.. but you want to discredit the Warriors win the year before and act like everything was straight up last year.
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why do I believe that? cause shump, and Delly started last year and almost beat the Warriors without Kyrie and Love.
I don't understand why you Warriors fan think Iggy is on the same level as Kyrie and Bogut is on the same level as Love. I can understand if you guys loss Klay and Green for the wholes finals games.
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Why aren't you using that logic the other way around. You can say the Warriors almost beat the healthy Cavs despite their starting center missing significant time, best perimeter defender fighting back issues, and being at a huge disadvantage in G5 with Green gone for a home elimination game with all the momentum. And in that case almost is used much less liberally.
You think a series decided by a margin of four points wouldn't be changed if the Cavs best two role players were hurt? Of course it would be.
Nobody is saying they're on the same level. Im saying that both circumstances played a factor in both series. The only problem I have is saying injury was why a team won the finals in '15 and not using that same logic in '16 when in both years the loser had an injury disadvantage.
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Because Warriors loss roles player and Cavs loss starters.. Warriors weren't the 73 win team the year they won. They became one the season after. They were down with Delly as the PG and Shump as the SG. no Kyrie, no Love. The impact of the 2nd and 3rd options is more significant than a 4th and 5th option. It's not like you guys loss Kay for 3 games and Green for the whole series.
I'll give you Kyrie as a major blow... but Love wasn't. The Cavs were able to use Tristan Thompson and Mozgov and that was one of the reasons they were in the series. Love would have gotten eaten up on D, like he did most of last year's series.
but Andrew Bogut is a starter. He's been one of the most impactful defenders in the game since 2011. Losing him meant playing more Festus and Varejao, who were terrible. Iguodala is a starter on most other teams in this league but looked like he aged 20 years after that back injury.
Why does it matter how good the Warriors were back in '15 compared to the following year? That has no bearing on what actually happened and there is no point to determining which loss was greater when the bottom line is that both altered the result of the series. This isn't a contest of what was most impairing, this is saying that both teams really needed those guys healthy in their respective losing efforts. The Warriors have been a team with the motto "strength in numbers" yet you are diminishing the importance of their best role players?
In truth this type of discussion has no place in sports because injuries play a factor in literally every championship ever. Fans just choose to bytch about the ones that impact their favorite team/player. I'd never talk about this stuff if other people didn't constantly use it to disrespect another teams accomplishment.
the impact of Iggy is not measurable . the guy won the finals MVP because of his defense on LeBron. Dude was walking like an old man last year in the finals.
you just don't make sense pointing to excuses one year and then saying the Warriors were exposed the next.
Why are yall nikkas wasting ur time talkin to this nikka.
He a bron stan who has agendas that aint neva gon change. Just let it go.
yea i'm right at that point... probably shoulda quit a couple posts ago haha.
CurrencyChase
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then how come he got eaten up during the regular season then locked Curry down. Major players step up the intensity when needed.
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He wasn't a starter last year. Dude was playing 15-20 minutes a game.
who was the starting center for the warriors last year