You are asking a fan base where fans legitamately believe the rockets would have beat the 2015 Warriors last year if pat Beverly played and where fans cling to dominating the mark Jackson Warriors from 2012-2014 in the regular season to assess how great this Warriors team is. People forget that in 1995-96 wilt was telling everyone his 1967 sixers team was the best ever. Gramps will always believe everything was better back in the day. This Warriors team? First they need to finish the job and then it will just depend on how old the person you are asking is.
There isn't a definitive "greatest team of all-time." There's some in the highest tier, including the 1996 Bulls, these Warriors, the 1967 Sixers, 1965 Celtics, 1986 Celtics, 1987 Lakers and 1972 Lakers. It's essentially impossible to cleanly and discretely rank these teams, especially considering the vastly different eras they played in (the NBA in the years of Russell's Celtics barely resembles the NBA in the years of Curry's Warriors).
Shoot 3 pointers and average 20ppg in the Finals? Lay duds in the first 2 games where he wasn't even needed? Not win a FMVP? Anyway..Warriors are 2 losses behind the 96 Bulls regular season and playoff record combined.
Two losses more with MVP injured for weeks in the playoffs plus the time it takes to get back into groove. MJ was healthy all playoffs, never missed any time. So for all the "injury luck" guys, the Warriors got even for y'all, albeit nothing season-ending. Still winning the chip tho. Still bunch of haters too.
Assuming they finish off the Cavs, I'm willing to recognize them as the GOAT team. The most impressive thing to me about their season is that they did it after having won last year. To follow up a championship with this type of year is amazing. Most teams regress, at least in the regular season.
In order to beat them you have to hope curry sucks Thompson sucks and their bench sucks. Its just unlikely for all three to suck.
Can't answer this because I honestly don't know and have no definitive opinion. They obviously deserve to be in the conversation.
Maybe you can say the Warriors are the best team in history if they complete this...but Curry right now isn't even close to Jordan. His team cruises without him and right now he's just the cherry on top that makes even elite teams like the Cavs just give up all hope.
Yeah that's impressive, but PIP missed 5 games in the regular season. Rodman missed 18 games(i dont think people realize how little Rodman actually played with the Bulls. He only played half the season the first 2 championship runs and the last season in 98 he played the full season, but PIP was out half that season). So i think the Warriors run of luck is much more noticeable than those Bulls.
