JVG with a very interesting comment on Championships vs win streak.

I know Pat Riley was on that 33 wins in a row Laker squad.....

Now he president of da team wit da second longest streak, its no coincidents, Pat Riley is championship pedagree

 

Because Bird, Magic and Jordan didn't have any star buddies on their team?

 

Winning the #1 pick 33 times in a row is much more difficult.

 

Him saying that is almost as strange as people proclaiming DMo the answer at power forward before he even played 5 games

 

I don't think it means more because to win an NBA championship you have to win 7 game series against increasingly better teams. Case in point would be our streak, we faced weak teams several times in that streak if you asked Tmac and Yao which was harder beating Miami 4 times in 7 games or beating Wizards, Kings, Raps and Bucks straight then obviously they'd say the latter is way easier to do.

Plus there's the legacy thing. I dunno what's going on in JVG's head but rings/championships are currency which validate your NBA career. If RA retires this season will people say he was a ringless coach or say he's the guy who coached a 22-win team? I mean, when they look at T-mac do they say 2nd round virgin or 22-win player? Etc. etc.

 

LOL I dunno what rock you came under from but superstars have been buddying up since the NBA started.

Detroit bad boys had Dumars, Rodman, Thomas
Celts had Bird, Mchale and Parish
Lakers had Kobe, Odom, Gasol, Bynum and Shaq/Kobe and Kareem/Magic
Hell MJ had Pippen and an NBA team that could make it to the NBA finals without him

The only difference is Miami decided to form their team together instead of leaving it up to fate/GMs.

 

I don't know see how they're comparable. One is a record, one is a championship given out every year.

You could ask "who was on that 33-game winning team?" and most people wouldn't be able to answer.

You could ask "Which team won the championship the year Wilt scored 100 points?" and most people wouldn't be able to answer.

Apples and oranges.

 

They don't throw parades for winning streaks.

 

Quick tell me the starting line up for the team the Rockets team that won 22 games in a row. Now tell me, quickly who was in the starting line up for the Spurs second championship!

BAM I bet in anyone posting in this thread would know more people on that Rockets team.

 

Okay? I'm not arguing for either. I think they're too different to have a comparison.

 

if you win 33 in a row, there's no way you're not the best team in the league by a mile.

 

Here's a mathematical perspective. Assuming every team is equally good (this same assumption is applied to both scenarios and therefore doesn't affect anything - it just makes the math easier):

Chances of winning a championship in a given year: 3.1% (p = 1/32)
Chances of winning 33 games in a row in a given year (82 game season): 0.0000006% (p = 1-[fib(33)(82+2)/(2^82)]

So when you take out the trophy, the media coverage, the artificial glamour, you see that winning 33 games in a row is a multi-exponentially more impressive task.

 

So a 33 game streak is more memorable than a championship, but a 22 isn't? What if 22 was the record?

 

33 isn't a special number. I can't think of any winning streak that people just seem to know.

Not that most people remember the champion every year.

 

Well no **** sherlock this is a Rockets mb of course people know more about who was on the Rockets team.

Put that question on an NBA mb and figure out that answer

 

yeah, but you get a lot of tail in all those different cities.
i'm just kidding.
i'm a night owl and have to go into work early, so i'm a bit saucy and surly on this morn.
i don't even think i've ever referred to it as "tail".

 

Let's put it this way, say this year the Heat's streak reaches 33+ plus and they win the championship. In 100 years, will people remember the Heat's 2013 streak or championship better?

What? Exactly. Both are irrelevant because the Chinese Basketball Association would have overtaken the NBA as the most popular and competitive basketball league in the world by then.

 

Van Gundy proves over and over with his comments that he's not very bright.

 

I wouldn't care if we never won more than 2 games in a row in a season but won the championship.. championships define a franchise

 

the difference is, a lot of teams in the regular season dont work as hard as the teams in playoff. And during regular season, teams dont have always the "must win" mindset.