Dan Lebatard: Warriors won't be any more great if they win the series, its a small

[KiiiiNG]

For teams, greatness is only important in the post-season. Dan is in denial, and he's embarrassed he jumped on the bandwagon. He tries his best to be funny/edgy about sports, but fails 99% of the time. He's awful

[tmacattack33]

Plenty of teams. 72 Bucks, plenty of Showtime and Celtics teams from the 80's, some 90's teams depending on who you like, 00 Blazers, 02 Kings, and 07 Suns.

2000 Blazers...No...they are maybe a top 30 team of the past 20 years.

02 Kings...yes, some people think they are great because they think they actually won the series vs the Lakers but had it taken away from by the refs. So for these people they actually did win so this can't be used as an example.

07 Suns...this team is laughed at and is used as a perfect example of a team that relied on fast-breaks and stuff that doesn't matter as much in the post-season once games are played with more structure.

[plowking]

You're only a great team if you win the championship. Regular season games is what were basing teams on now, really?

Umm no. If you're only a great team if you win, then we wouldn't watch basketball. Some of Bird's Celtics that lost in the finals? Clearly not great teams.

I guess in a series like 2013, where game 7 was decided by 4 points or whatever it was, makes or breaks the Spurs as a great or not so great team.

Absolute garbage.

Losses happen. It is life. They are still a great team, and one of the greatest of all time. Put them up against any team in NBA history, and they're more than likely the favourites going in. Same thing if you cleaned the slate with this series and started again. Warriors would be favourites once more.

They're a great team regardless. A little greater if they win? Sure.
You don't win 73 games by accident, and you sure as hell don't "gun" for the record any more than any other team "guns" for a win every night they play.

[plowking]

I think they get labeled as very good, not great. I've never seen them listed ahead of teams that actually won.

There isn't a single Heat fan in the world that thinks the 06 Heat that won were better than the 05 Heat that lost.

[guy]

Umm no. If you're only a great team if you win, then we wouldn't watch basketball. Some of Bird's Celtics that lost in the finals? Clearly not great teams.

I guess in a series like 2013, where game 7 was decided by 4 points or whatever it was, makes or breaks the Spurs as a great or not so great team.

Absolute garbage.

Losses happen. It is life. They are still a great team, and one of the greatest of all time. Put them up against any team in NBA history, and they're more than likely the favourites going in. Same thing if you cleaned the slate with this series and started again. Warriors would be favourites once more.

They're a great team regardless. A little greater if they win? Sure.
You don't win 73 games by accident, and you sure as hell don't "gun" for the record any more than any other team "guns" for a win every night they play.

Ummm no they wouldn't. The Thunder are dominating them. There's no reason to think if they played again that the Warriors would win. Thunder would clearly be the favorites. There's really no logical reason to favor the Warriors after watching this.

They are a great team, and they are probably better then some of the weaker champions from the past. One of the greatest teams ever? No. One of the greatest usually means something like top 10 or so, at least to me. Unless we're talking something like one of the top 20-30 greatest teams ever, then sure maybe. But they're showing an incredible lack of mental toughness in this series and plenty of great teams could manhandle them the way the Thunder have been so I don't see why they should be higher then that.

[RedBlackAttack]

Because he is a fat guy on the radio. He has a cool job but he doesn't know more about basketball than top posters here. If we were gonna break down tape he'd be lost. He is just a personality with a platform, who is using that platform to say silly things.

I don't usually listen to sports radio, but if this is what he does everyday then he is a silly, sad man

Lebatard is an entertainer posing as an expert. Anyone who thinks he is capable of analyzing the game on any respectable level -- within true basketball junky standards -- doesn't know anything about basketball.

The top posters here would absolutely school him on the game. He's OK if you are looking for sports-related entertainment, even though I don't find him funny or interesting. But on a purely analytical level? He's a novice at best.

[tmacattack33]

Umm no. If you're only a great team if you win, then we wouldn't watch basketball. Some of Bird's Celtics that lost in the finals? Clearly not great teams.

I guess in a series like 2013, where game 7 was decided by 4 points or whatever it was, makes or breaks the Spurs as a great or not so great team.

Absolute garbage.

Losses happen. It is life. They are still a great team, and one of the greatest of all time. Put them up against any team in NBA history, and they're more than likely the favourites going in. Same thing if you cleaned the slate with this series and started again. Warriors would be favourites once more.

They're a great team regardless. A little greater if they win? Sure.
You don't win 73 games by accident, and you sure as hell don't "gun" for the record any more than any other team "guns" for a win every night they play.

You are arguing against yourself here. You are saying the Spurs in 2013 are great because they came 2 seconds away from winning the championship.

When you are trying to claim that the playoffs don't matter apparenty (which is an absolutely ridiculous claim by the way).

According to you, the 2013 Spurs would have been just as great even if they had been swept in round 1 that year.

[NBAGOAT]

2000 Blazers...No...they are maybe a top 30 team of the past 20 years.

02 Kings...yes, some people think they are great because they think they actually won the series vs the Lakers but had it taken away from by the refs. So for these people they actually did win so this can't be used as an example.

07 Suns...this team is laughed at and is used as a perfect example of a team that relied on fast-breaks and stuff that doesn't matter as much in the post-season once games are played with more structure.

I was arguing more about teams that didn't win championships that had decent cases over other teams that won championships. Also thought most people thought the 00 Blazers and 02 Kings were close.

[LAZERUSS]

Still has more credibility than anyone here

The man is an opinionated jack-ass.

He and Bill Simmons know FAR less about basketball than a sizable amount of posters here.

And his entire show is built around ripping Lebron. Well, I should say that is the key topic every day...but he constantly goes off on worthless tangents that no one really cares about.