15' Warriors Rank in Basketball History

[Evgeni]

Exceptionally good regular season team. Not as good playoff team - elite defenses break their system.

 

[GreasySpread36]

It's so hard to rank teams based on single seasons. After the '96 Bulls, the '97 Bulls, and the '00 Lakers, I find it hard to rank the rest of the teams over the last twenty years (basically since I started watching basketball). Those three are clearly the best single season teams, and then it's just a toss-up.

Like, would these Warriors have beaten last years Spurs? Who knows. They gave the Spurs the year before a run for their money. But teams change so much from year to year and players themselves change so much its just hard to say.

The 2001 Lakers were better than the 2000 Lakers despite their inferior record, IMO. If you remember the '00 Lakers shouldn't have even reached the Finals- Portland had them beat in Game 7 of the WCF and choked it away. Whereas the '01 Lakers (who didn't get rolling until fairly late in the season thanks to Shaq and Kobe feuding) went 15-1 in the playoffs, including a four-game annihilation of Tim Duncan and the Spurs in the WCF. I'd put the '01 Lakers right up with the late '90s Bulls teams in terms of how dominant they were when the chips were down.

 

[davedugan43]

They're in the top 5 teams of all-time...



...In terms of "haven't earned shit" cockiness


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[brownindian]

A bottom 100 team. Look at how weak the west was:
-OKC being hurt
-Trailblazers being hurt
-Grizzlies lose Conley/Allen games 1/5. lose both. I doubt GS beats MEM at full stength.
-Clippers have no bench
-Rockets were hurt+play zero defense
-Spurs getting tired from 2 finals runs
-Mavs play no defense+internal problems

Every other team either got hurt or had a fatal flaw.

Not to mention PG going down, Bosh, and all the othr bad teams in the East.

These Warriors simply feasted on weak competition. They will be back to a 6 seed next year.

They wouldn't even beat the 2014 Spurs or 2012 Heat in a series. much less any older teams in history.

This is a great post - I like it. I too feel like that while they are a really good team who are great at what they do, It is more a story of what the other teams they faced could not do. More like the right team at the right time.

 

[Tornicade]

They(Warriors) will be the one of the best regular season teams to ever lose a finals.

 

[wremy]

well we'd probably be looking at a team that got beat in 4 by a healthy Cavs team now they are going to lose in 6 to a depleted Cavs team

 

[redscoon]

I honestly don't think this team is anywhere near all time great. They are a very good team who has stayed healthy while catching break after break.

They managed to duck the 3 best teams in the West in the playoffs. OKC obviously not making it with the barrage of injuries and the Spurs and Clips battling it out before LAC pulled off the mother of all chokes against Houston. Sprinkle in no Love and Irving and you have the makings of a fluke title. I realize that sounds harsh for a 67 win team, but they couldn't possibly have been any luckier.

I think the Nash prime Suns is a good comparison. They play a tremendously effective regular season style. When teams aren't 100% locked in defensively their shooting and pace is overwhelming. They are in the right window where they are financially flexible because their main cogs haven't been paid and they have a fresh coach whose voice is being heard.

That being said, this series has kind of exposed Curry. He can be defended and at times shut down. It's difficult to carry a team as a primarily long distance shooter. He can't go in the post. He doesn't get to the foul line a bunch. All year I downplayed the Hawks and Warriors because I didn't believe their styles were conducive to half court, playoff basketball. We certainly exposed the Hawks and to some extent the Warriors as well. We quite possibly would already be parading if not for freak injuries to top guys.

 

[Rich]

The 2001 Lakers were better than the 2000 Lakers despite their inferior record, IMO. If you remember the '00 Lakers shouldn't have even reached the Finals- Portland had them beat in Game 7 of the WCF and choked it away. Whereas the '01 Lakers (who didn't get rolling until fairly late in the season thanks to Shaq and Kobe feuding) went 15-1 in the playoffs, including a four-game annihilation of Tim Duncan and the Spurs in the WCF. I'd put the '01 Lakers right up with the late '90s Bulls teams in terms of how dominant they were when the chips were down.

Yea, I just don't really buy into this thought. The last quarter, or last minute of play means as much as the first. Leading the game for three quarters then playing so poorly in the final quarter doesn't mean you should have won the game. It means the other team was so good in one quarter it was enough to overcome what you did the other three, and thus deserving to win the game.

As for the Warriors, I highly doubt their fans care if they're ranked as the worst title team in history. Would we? We went through the East, weak as always, and the second best player in the East was hurt. But I don't care. So we'd be the weakest title winner since like the '06 Heat. Big deal.

 

[ShawnKempIsMyDad]

Fuck the Warriors.

I'm not comparing them to any other team listed above until they win something, and as a Cavs fan, I hope that's not this year.

 

[Frank Reynolds]

Interesting responses. I like it. A little history sprinkled in, that's all.

 

[The Oi]

Who is the second best player in the East?

 

[Tornicade]

Who is the second best player in the East?

Kyrie Irving !

 

[DougHeil]

GS is an all time great regular season team. GS might not even be a top 20 NBA Finals team. There have been 68 NBA Champions to date. Not many of those have had better luck than this year's GS team. Luck has won out so far for GS.

Luck will finally lose in the end for GS.

 

[Ohio]

Where do they rank? They don't. They are either champions or they aren't, that's it. Nothing special about this Warriors team, at all.

 

[col63onel]

Kyrie Irving !

First being Delly?