Starting 22-0, damn...I actually think they are still not that good, but all their players produce so something is up and yes they could beat 72-10.
Kerr talks about a game in Vancouver when they're down in the fourth, most of the team is off, and Jordan had a big offensive and defensive fourth quarter. Didn't watch the game, but from the box score it doesn't look like that was the case with the Warriors today.
It's because you still can't wrap your head around the fact that Steph Curry/somebody of his stature is this good and dominant. If you replaced him with Lebron or MJ, you wouldn't be questioning what you're seeing. He's probably playing the best basketball of anybody in the history of the NBA right now, and that's not a flippant hyperbole.
The warriors need to go 50-10 the rest of the way to tie the bulls. They could lose once every 6 games and still do it.
Jesus another misinformed post. When the Bulls broke the record, it was an expansion year with two new teams and this is an argument that many people make for why it will be hard to break the record - the league was slightly watered down the year the Bulls broke the record, with the talent pool slightly stretched that first expansion year.
Perfected his craft of being able to take and make a shot anywhere on the court, stayed in remarkable shape throughout the entire year, got his body right to be able to bang with bigger guards, and he got a bit lucky with his ankle (although ankle physical therapy is among the toughest, so it is just another testament to the devotion to his craft).
They're playing him as a shooting guard letting him just run off screens to shoot 3's, he's more super Korver than point guard right now.
Well, he averaged 17.5 ppg, 5.9apg and 4.5rpg on 46.2 fg% and 43.7 3pt% in his ROOKIE season, honestly he's been an incredible player from the start, and remember he put up those numbers with Monta Ellis next to him.
The craziest aspect to all of this is the simple fact that Hasheem Thabeet, Ricky Rubio, Johnny Flynn, & Tyreke Evans (I know I know, he had a badass rookie season) were all selected ahead of him. Compounded by the fact that almost all of the analysts said that GS was reaching for him at the 7 pick since they already had Monte, and Steph wasn't touted as a pure PG coming out of Davidson. But I guess the biggest question is, would the Knicks have drafted him at 8 if GS opted to go with someone else?
It's still hard to grasp that they are this f**king good, but they are. Nothing about the way they ascended to this level follows the blueprint that has almost been unfailingly similar. Curry went through 5 years being a really good player, way better then I though he would be. Then a new coach and system and he becomes an offensive terror. A shoot first PG being a dominant player, a team with no interior offensive presence, and a new coach completely elevating the same team from decent to dominant. These things just don't happen, but they have. Barring injury, they're gonna break the record.
The Rodman to green comparisons might be a bit off base but they bring the same thing to their teams. They're glue guys, defenders, enforcers. Rodman doesn't get credit for how good of a Passer he was.
Why not? That Bulls team was headlined by a group of a-holes as offensive/annoying if not more so than the Warriors.
So 2 bottom feeders(1 west, 1 east) helped the Bulls win 72 games? Raptors even beat the Bulls once.... Let's not pretend the Sixers at 1-20 are any better than an expansion team. They probably go down as the worst team in history and they have been this bad for a while because they will be beating their very own worst team in history title. Won't even sniff the 15 win mark by the Grizzlies. The Lakers might as well be that 2nd expansion team....let's see if they reach the 21 win mark by the Raptors. Hell lets see if one of these two bottom feeders can beat the Warriors like the Raptors beat the Bulls behind the Rookie of the Year's 30 points ,11 assists..watered down. Anyway, as far as the 72-10 record. I still doubt it happens. Starting out so hot makes it even harder to continue and finish at the same pace. They are bound to hit a stretch of bad basketball and give away some they shouldn't have. The streak of hot shooting is probably impossible to keep up as an entire team. The incredible team health also unlikely to keep up. The Bulls losses and record after loss: Magic 94-88 (Bulls 5-1) Sonics 97-92 (Bulls 10-2) Pacers 103-97 (Bulls 23-3) Nuggets 105-99 (Bulls 41-4) Suns 106-96 (Bulls 41-5) Heat 113-104 (Bulls 48-6) Knicks 104-72 (Bulls 54-7) RAPTORS with only 7 players 109-108 (Bulls 60-8) Hornets 98-97 (Bulls 66-9) Pacers 100-99 (Bulls 71-10) As you can see the Bulls lost 3 games towards the end of the season by 1 point. They tired out and that continued in the playoffs. The loss to the Nuggets is also another that shouldn't have happened. These are still NBA teams after all and it's a very long season. The Warriors have been one of the healthiest teams in history the past few years and i think they are due for a key player missing time also. They don't have any tests til XMAS day against the Cavs and then they play the Rockets on New Years on a 2nd game of a back to back after playing the Mavs. Cavs again Jan 18, Bulls 2 days later followed by the Pacers and then Spurs. They still have to play contenders and tough teams 3-4 times each the 2nd half of the season including the Spurs and Grizzlies 2 times each in the last week or so of the season. I predict 68 or 69 wins coming up just shy.
Curry is surrounded by great players. This elevates his game as well. If you put Harden with the same cast, we'd be debating whether Harden is the greatest of all time.
I think what a711 means is that all the teams in the league got a little weaker due to the expansion draft. All the teams essentially lost their 9th and 10th best player. To put that into perspective, that's like today's Rockets losing both Marcus Thorton and Jason Terry (I eyeballed the top 8 players on the Rockets to be: Harden, Dwight, Capela, DMo, Ariza, Bev, Jones, and Lawson). Losing the 9th and 10th best player on your team isn't catastrophic, but it definitely hurts your depth.
