Wow the Warriors struggle makes their 73 win season even more amazing

[Walk on Water]

Think about it. Curry is having a hard time getting the Warriors over 500, even with Green. The 73 win team didn't even have Durant. All these guys like Barbosa, Speights and Bogut were unwanted on other teams.

Wow. Curry only had Klay as his only star and they won 73. Green has proven he's not a star. Warriors were not a superteam. It's just that Curry carried them. The Cavaliers were actually much more talented and it was the Warriors that overachieved.

[Mr.GOAT2408]

The league was watered down in the mid 10s and having Barbosa, Speights, Bogut deep in your rotation was a luxury afforded by Curry's very team friendly contract (due to injury), no one thinks Green is anything special as a franchise player but as a role player it's a different matter, him and Curry compliment each over so well and it peaked in 2016

That team would def not be winning 73 games today or any previous era, they overachieved even getting that much in 2016, they were definitely not a super team though just a deep team with starters that compliment each other's skillsets well

Cavs were also better than record would have indicated, they basically coasted in the RS lmao it was def more evenly matched than the record would indicate, the Warriors weren't even at full strength heading into that series, they were lucky to have even made it that far because besides just overcoming 1 - 3 they probably would have lost to the Spurs if OKC hadn't beaten them the previous round

[Axe]

[Stanley Kobrick]

it's true, Klay was the sole catalyst difference between a 73 win dynasty and Curry's 11th and 15th seed Warriors recently. really makes you respect Klay even more

[Axe]

it's true, Klay was the sole catalyst difference between a 73 win dynasty and Curry's 11th and 15th seed Warriors recently. really makes you respect Klay even more

The donkey also does his part defensively but i'm afraid op is clueless about it.

[Stanley Kobrick]

The donkey also does his part defensively but i'm afraid op is clueless about it.

not many stephen curry stans are familiar with defense otherwise they wouldn't be his stans. klay, iggy and green being NBA all-defensive team, i believe they called it the death lineup or something. the lineup when they removed curry from the final possession vs Cavs on x-mas

[Stephonit]

not many stephen curry stans are familiar with defense otherwise they wouldn't be his stans. klay, iggy and green being NBA all-defensive team, i believe they called it the death lineup or something. the lineup when they removed curry from the final possession vs Cavs on x-mas

Not many Curry haters understand the otherworldly offense that Steph provides else they'd be in utter awe of him. One could have Klay, Andre, and Green in a lineup and provide excellent defense but get trounced because they don't have the extremely rare talent that Steph has of being able to crack open opposing defenses. Even with Durant that lineup without Steph looked no better than what Durant had in OKC. It is only with Curry that it became transcendent.

[pandiani17]

Think about it. Curry is having a hard time getting the Warriors over 500, even with Green. The 73 win team didn't even have Durant. All these guys like Barbosa, Speights and Bogut were unwanted on other teams.

Wow. Curry only had Klay as his only star and they won 73. Green has proven he's not a star. Warriors were not a superteam. It's just that Curry carried them. The Cavaliers were actually much more talented and it was the Warriors that overachieved.

These guys were really, really great role players. They would play many more minutes in many teams around the league.

[r0drig0lac]

no

[Stanley Kobrick]

Not many Curry haters understand the otherworldly offense that Steph provides else they'd be in utter awe of him. One could have Klay, Andre, and Green in a lineup and provide excellent defense but get trounced because they don't have the extremely rare talent that Steph has of being able to crack open opposing defenses. Even with Durant that lineup without Steph looked no better than what Durant had in OKC. It is only with Curry that it became transcendent.

without stephen curry the warriors won 2 playoff rounds with ease. without stephen currythe warriors were also up 2-1 vs blazers in 2016 semi's, you remember curry came back from injury in gm4 and said i'm here i'm back. his only iconic playoff moment people can recall

[Stephonit]

without stephen curry the warriors won 2 playoff rounds with ease. without stephen currythe warriors were also up 2-1 vs blazers in 2016 semi's, you remember curry came back from injury in gm4 and said i'm here i'm back. his only iconic playoff moment people can recall

What 2 playoff rounds are you referring to? The only one I remember Steph not playing in was the 2018 first round against the Spurs when they didn't have Kawhi and KD was with the Warriors. Steph played in all the other Warriors playoffs series. Maybe you forget because of the Post Curry Traumatic Stress Disorder you suffer from but even in the 2016 Rockets series when Steph got injured on two separate occasions, he played close to 20 minutes in two of those games both of which the Warriors won and he was the leading scorer in the first game. It would thus be incorrect to say he didn't contribute to winning that series.

In the following 2016 Blazers series the Warriors were lucky to be up 2-1 without Steph. They were close to losing both the games they won and they were double digits behind early in Steph's comeback game before he brought them back and swept the rest of the series. It was most likely going to be a 2-2 series if Curry didn't make a reappearance. It is what made Curry's appearance doubly disheartening for the Trail Blazers, they knew they had a chance with him out but when he came back they were quickly snuffed out.

[Stephonit]

https://twitter.com/MachHomie/status...46039187873793

"The Golden State Warriors have the 7th worst offense in NBA history when Stephen Curry isn’t on the floor.
With him, they have the 13th best offense in the league.
We are watching one of the greatest floor raising jobs of all time.

When you filter out garbage time without Curry, it becomes the worst offense in NBA history."

[Bronbron23]

it's true, Klay was the sole catalyst difference between a 73 win dynasty and Curry's 11th and 15th seed Warriors recently. really makes you respect Klay even more

This

[Stanley Kobrick]

What 2 playoff rounds are you referring to? The only one I remember Steph not playing in was the 2018 first round against the Spurs when they didn't have Kawhi and KD was with the Warriors. Steph played in all the other Warriors playoffs series. Maybe you forget because of the Post Curry Traumatic Stress Disorder you suffer from but even in the 2016 Rockets series when Steph got injured on two separate occasions, he played close to 20 minutes in two of those games both of which the Warriors won and he was the leading scorer in the first game. It would thus be incorrect to say he didn't contribute to winning that series.

In the following 2016 Blazers series the Warriors were lucky to be up 2-1 without Steph. They were close to losing both the games they won and they were double digits behind early in Steph's comeback game before he brought them back and swept the rest of the series. It was most likely going to be a 2-2 series if Curry didn't make a reappearance. It is what made Curry's appearance doubly disheartening for the Trail Blazers, they knew they had a chance with him out but when he came back they were quickly snuffed out.

4-1 vs Rockets
2-1 vs Blazers
4-1 vs Spurs
1-0 vs Pelicans

11-3 is GSW record without Stephen Curry the Western Conference playoffs, unless your insinuating Klay Thomspon's injury in 2019 didn't affect the series because he played 32 minutes in the closeout and 40+ everyone before that. interesting either way, the instant Klay gets briefly injured Warriors lose series. fascinating actually

[Kiddlovesnets]

The 73 wins Warriors were at best a 56 wins team in playoffs though. They struggled against 55 wins Thunder, and lost to 57 wins Cavaliers, so 56 wins looks logical for how good they actually were. You may argue that they would've steamrolled the Thunder/Cavaliers instead of struggling had Curry not gone down with an injury against Rockets in the first round, but thats a different topic.