than a non playoff team? Yes. Everyone is likely going to be swept by the Warriors apart from maybe the Spurs.
This is even a better Warriors team than last year. They condense 1 season into 10 seasons of chemistry development.
ok Let's say everyone is going to be most likely swept except the Spurs and the Cavs. Then we should make the playoffs anyway, because it will help us with FAs, since neither Spurs or Cavs will have much available capspace.
The spurs are a broken team. They are pretty good but unless a prime parker and nobili show up, they are going to get beat in 6 games or less. Only team that ever had a chance to beat the warriors was a heathly grizz team. The grizzlies can turn up the d on the warriors like no other team can, outside of the jazz of course. However the jazz aren't ready for that challenge.
I agree on that, but i don't on the first part. Our team will change a lot anyway, and this will probably be a (if not "the") leading point in negotiations for us...to me it's simple, if Durant (and maybe Horford) wants to be here, he/they'll sign, if not they won't, it's not like they will think at THIS Rockets team to make up their mind this summer.
At best, the Warriors are only 6 games better than last season. You think Irving/Love better a team at least 6 games.
Well, that's the point, isn't it? You could make this simpler and say, "If Boston or Minnesota (or the ****ing Lakers) can beat the Warriors, surely the Spurs could beat them by 50"...but it doesn't work like that. No team keeps their focus and intensity at 100% all the time and the Warriors have had weird let-downs here and there...but they're always dialed in against the best teams. They'll close out the regular season with a 14-1 record against the Spurs, Thunder, Cavaliers, Clippers and Raptors (the best five teams in the league other than the Warriors). That's pretty insane. And even their one loss to the Spurs was on the road, second game of a back-to-back (after an offday for the Spurs) and missing Bogut, Ezeli and Iguodala. Basically, when the Warriors are dialed in, they're just on another level.
There's a difference between a great coach deciding to switch based on match ups, versus a coach who switches 24/7 even after it's been abused game after game after game.
They went 0-2 this season with Love/Irving. And the Cavs don't seem like a far better team this season with them...probably because they give up a lot of defense with those two in the lineup.
I think the best team in the east are the Celtics and they have a real shot at the finals, and they also happen to have the coach and the defense to actually play with the warriors and beat them. I'm ready for the lebron experiment to be over in cleveland and boston knocking them off would be one way to do it. It's sick that the celtics are already so good and they still have a ton of picks and free agent money.
Pops plays a switching d as much as any defense. So does GSW. It wasn't just this game against one opponent. You just need that to be true for you misguided theory to work. The increase in defenses featuring heavy doses of switches (NBA-style zones) is a byproduct of the eradication of the illegal defense rules. Keep up, people. I don't get how many don't appreciate defenses enough to notice the new trends. Switching defense is a powerful system in today's NBA...been that way for a few years. Don't try to cling to denial as a way to bash JBB. It's alright to say he is choosing a system the players cannot execute...or even, he is implementing a complex defense, but he doesn't know how to coach it. Switching defense is very much an in thing throughout the NBA.
The rockets don't even play defense, why are yall arguing about schemes and game planning? lol Here's the game plan the rockets need to improve their defense: effort. It's sacrilegious to the idea of defense itself to even discuss it as it pertains to the rockets.
