YES. THEY WILL WIN MORE THAN 72 AND REPEAT AS CHAMPIONS. CURRY WILL WIN MVP AND GREEN DPY. KERR WILL BE COACH OF THE YEAR AND THEY WILL SUFFER NOT TWO OR ONE SEASON ENDING INJURIES BUT ZERO.
Only two possible "predictable" loses for them would be @ Clippers coming up a few weeks and against Cleveland on Christmas. Even assuming they lose those they could be halfway to 70 before losing their 3rd game. Having said that, the Warriors' losses last season did include at home to Chicago on the road to: LA Lakers Phoenix Indiana Brooklyn Denver New Orleans. They also lost 5 times to start a B2B and 4 times ending one. So that would be the likely scenario.
But, but, but according to all the salty haters on clutchfans everything the Warriors do is luck. Smh
For them to have 0 major injuries going on over a year now is luck. I mean if you look at the Clippers for example they have already had to sit CP3 down some games. The Cavs start the season without Irving. The Rockets have been shuffling their lineup since day one. Thunder already will miss Durant...
I hate them because that's what I was our team was . But yeah I think they will and curry will win mvp . Bleh
Nothing personal, but this type of thinking just shows ignorance and/or jealousy. The reason the Warriors remain relatively healthy is because they have quality depth and they take care of business on the court, which allows them to keep the mins of their starters down and preserves their rotation players for bigger mins in the playoffs.
At least you're honest. I suspect this is the reason for most of the hate from rockets fans. There's a reason their GM won executive of the year while all Maury has to show for himself is a bunch of blind homers thinking he can do no wrong.
If you say so but even Kerr admitted they had some luck thanks to injuries. Every championship team is part lucky. Avoiding injuries is not primarily about playing time. That is a myth. How many guys go down early in the season? Do you think Paul George got hurt last year because he was overplayed? Before the season even started? Deandre Jordan just got hurt, who knows how serious it is. Did MKG get hurt because of racking up minutes? Any minute a player can tear or break something.
Not all that interested in the NBA this year. Still love watching but it's just not compelling like it usually is. The drama and suspense has been all but eliminated. Nobody is beating this team 4 out of 7 times.
I don't think it shows jealously to point out the FACT that Golden State has been mostly lucky with injuries. The data doesn't lie - it is what it is. See the metrics here - the Warriors were in the bottom quarter of the league in terms of games lost to injuries and were even more "elite" in that most of those games were lost to lower quality/non impactful players (the column on the left). I'm not buying the "extended minutes for your roster means they will be more injured" garbage. Dwight averaged 29 minutes a game last season. Tjones is young and missed large parts of last year playing 20 minutes a game. Both of those guys played less minutes per game than let's say Draymond, Bogut, etc. http://www.mangameslost.com/category/nba/nba-2014-2015-season/
same, the nba just seems down this year... kevin durant is already injured, the spurs arent looking that scary, the mavs are a joke.. and the warriors seem to have their own set of rules from officials.. the refs are not calling obvious infractions that the warriors commit, my rockets are stuck with a dufus as head coach, its frustrating knowing that harden is a better talent than curry and we are just as talented as the warriors, but we dont have a coach that make our team run as a well oiled machine... it dont matter if we get boogie cousins, or kevin durant... mchale is the issue that morey and les wont do anything about
That's a cool graph, but it doesn't support the "argument" that the relative lack of injuries was due to luck, which is the real garbage argument. In addition to watching all the rockets game last year, I watched every warriors game last season and they routinely were blowing teams out by the end of 3rd qtr, which allowed their starters to rest the entire 4th qtr. If you don't think reduced mins and less wear and tear on players bodies throughout the course of an 82 game season isn't a strong contributory factor in relation to a decreased likelihood of injuries, then you're delusional.
So how do you explain Durant, CP3, MKG already being out amongst a list of other players already missing games due to injury? Wear and tear over 8 games? Look, the reality of sports is that any given moment a guy can tear his ACL/MCL. This includes in the 1st quarter of games. So, when Westbrook tore his MCL or whatever that was when he ran into Beverly and the Thunder were the top seed was that because of him playing too much? I don't get that argument at all. Injuries happen at any given moment. Love's injury last year in the playoffs had 0 to do with being overplayed and had everything to do with being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
You completely missed the point. It's okay. If the Warriors win another championship and own the Rockets yet again in the process, you can just attribute it all to luck.
You're being myopic. He's not saying the Warriors are winning strictly based off luck. He's saying that the Warriors lack of injuries has been highly unusual and fortuitous. It's really not hard to comprehend and very true.
Didn't say it was allluck. Avoiding injuries is luck though, even Kerr admitted to that right after he eliminated the Rockets. It's late and I don't want to find the quote but he said that his team was fortunate since we were missing two starters. They are a great team. They DESERVED to win. They have the best player in the NBA and the best defense in the NBA. Still the truth is that at any moment their fate can change. Yes, playing less minutes means less chance at injury...but it still doesn't change the fact that at any moment a player plays basketball they can get injured. They can get injured during practice. It is luck. Yes, they still have to win those games but those games get harder to win if you start to lose key players.
