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Originally posted by chemiclord View Post
Why wouldn't it? Who is the challenger that stops them other than Golden State? In this hypothetical where Golden State is the slightly better version of OKC, how do they not win at least two titles?
Cleveland had one year that the stars aligned for them. Every other year, it really wasn't all that close. Who challenges a Golden State without Curry this season? Sure... a "slightly better" OKC isn't the juggernaut that this current GS team is... but I have no problem still calling a Curry-less Warriors the favorite.
That's how much better they are than everyone else this year.
Going deeper the Jazz, Sixers, Lakers could possibly challenge a weakened GS team if the right guys really step it up and the ball bounces their way a few dozen times.
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Originally posted by Forsh View PostHouston was 1 game from beating them and then Chris Paul got hurt. There's no way they'd win if Curry went down for the year
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Originally posted by Forsh View PostHouston was 1 game from beating them and then Chris Paul got hurt. There's no way they'd win if Curry went down for the year
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Originally posted by chemiclord View Post
Houston lost quite a bit of defense, and countered that by adding the ultimate team poison, Carmelo Anthony. If Anthony accepts a bench role without turning full toxic, they might have an outside chance. Boston is probably the best opportunity to upset Golden State right now... but I still just can't see a scenario where they'd be the favorite unless Cousins completely drags the team down (he might), Green starts losing his mind (he might) AND one of their big three is out for the entirety of the Finals.
I never said Houston would be the favorites - but look at my post in the context of the scenario that guy brought up.
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The original argument was that a slightly better OKC team would have won a couple rings. Considering that team would be arguably the favorite every year over the last five, it seems highly unlikely that they wouldn't have.
TL;DR version: Durant/Green/Thompson/Cousins should be good enough to win a couple titles.
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That lineup relies way too much on an old Shaun Livingston. I'm kind of waffling on being a better version of that OKC team. In the scenario where Curry is out for the year with an injury, they have a tough time winning. Its kind of why they lost to the Cavs in 2016, Curry came back and had decent stats but he wasn't himself and they attacked him relentlessly on D.
If you swap out injuries though, they could win without Durant, especially with Cousins now on the roster in the short term. But all those Warrior players are getting old, they have , I think they are going to be in better position this year than they were last year, but this may be the last year we see all these guys together.
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Originally posted by chemiclord View PostThe original argument was that a slightly better OKC team would have won a couple rings. Considering that team would be arguably the favorite every year over the last five, it seems highly unlikely that they wouldn't have.
TL;DR version: Durant/Green/Thompson/Cousins should be good enough to win a couple titles.
Houston was 1 game from beating them and then Chris Paul got hurt. There's no way they'd win if Curry went down for the year
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I have no idea why I come to this thread. The Stafford thread is cooler than this threadF#*K OHIO!!!
You're not only an amazingly beautiful man, but you're the greatest football mind to ever exist. <-- Jeffy Shittypants actually posted this. I knew he was in love with me.
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