>waaaah Kevin doorant ruined the NBA!! The warriors are

why is draymond in that pic at all?

>3
>2
>3
>4
Hmmm, I wonder if there's a difference here I'm missing. Maybe it's that a single player in basketball has 10 times the impact on a game compared to any other team sport

>>76421771
the warriors are Draymond's team

Not the same. KD's move was worse than any of those by far.

Heat weren't a superteam until LBJ/Bosh went there, and made it a superteam.

Lakers was just two insanely dominant players in their primes, not really a superteam per-se.

Bulls was pretty organically formed through draft, similar to how GSW was before KD.

KD joined what was already a superteam comparable to any team in history. A player of his profile joining a team that good has never happened before.

It's really only ass blasted non-californians that are saying that, so they don't really matter.

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>>76421717
>this pic proves why Magic Johnson and Larry Bird were the actual GOATS of the league and their rivalry was the real peak of the NBA.
>tfw its an era basically forgotten by the younger "fans"

>>76422013
>Kareem
>Worthy

>McHale
>Parish
>Dennis Johnson

Yeah, poor guys

Those other teams are super teams

but this team is the super team of super teams

they added a top 3 player to the best team in the league lol it's almost the NBA West All-Stars at this point

>>76421717
claiming they cheated is stupid. thinking they didn't ruin the NBA is also stupid, because the bottom is far more extreme than the top 3

>Go 12-1 against your own conference
>WAHHHH but the warriors aren't fair :*(

>>76422047
I think all starters were all stars except klay Thompson. Mullatigga got snubbed

>>76421717
I love that this picture puts Shaq and Kobe equal with groups of 3 and 4.

Shows how fucking dominant they were in their prime together.

>>76421771
Draymond is literally better than Curry as an all around player.

Curry's only attribute is shooting, which he's really fucking good at, but it's the only thing he's good for.

>>76422145

I would trade Kyrie and Love for prime Shaq right now

>>76422159
Good to know you know absolutely nothing about Curry.

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>tfw the NBA salary cap is so cucked that GSW will be able to keep all 4 without much trouble

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>>76421717
>quoting yourself
the consensus seems to be kd and bron saved the nba.

>>76421717

I gotta say I hated KD for joining the Empire and not destroying them, but last night made me completely change my mind. These guys are generational talents, the same way Bird, Magic, and Michael were for older fans, these are the guys we will be telling OUR kids about. After he hit that dagger I couldnt hate at all, the man is a goddamn beast, as is Curry and Lebron. Let's just enjoy them while they last ya know?

>warriors before Durant
organic superteam, similar to Duncan/Parker/ginobili spurs. All obtained through draft. Only hate is that they're playstyle is so uninteresting, chuck 3's

>warriors after Durant
league ruining powerhouse, the most stacked team in NBA history. No team has been this far ahead of the competition since the fucking 60's celtics and it's even worse because all of their big 4 are just barely reaching their prime. Durant has 7+ more years of being the best scorer in the leagu.

>>76422291
That's my feeling. Youre witnessing greatness. Anther team this good will probably not be assembled for a long time.

If this pushes another team to get to the warriors level then so be it, the best players playing each other in the finals makes for the best basketball

So how does Cleveland react this offseason? Will be interesting

Anthony Davis?

>>76422291
Nobody is hating on them for being generational talents. It's that they're all on the same team. Imagine if Kobe had took a severe pay cut to join the spurs in 03. They would have foreverpeated until atleast 09 or 10

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>>76421717

>rodman

just fucking stop the dude was garbage by any stand point

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>>76421717
>including the bulls or lakers in this pic
hoisted by your own petard LOL

this picture is a great underage filter

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>>76422734
>more rebounds than every C put together
>he was garbage

>>76422734

to put rodman in perspective

Kevin Love has played better than he has in these last 3 finals with a 9.6 PER average

and that nigga is garbage

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you do realize rodman was one of the only players who could guard shaq don't you and nobody could keep him off the glass

>>76423037
they don't realize this because they're underage as fuck and think they know about the golden era

>>76422915

>has 3rd highest turnovers on the team and the ball never runs thru him
>hast most fouls on the team
>has barely more steals than luc longely who played 2000 minutes less
>has less blocked shots than 2 guards and a small forward
>has less blocks than the other power forward who played 1000 less minutes
>has barely more assists than the center and bench PG who played thousands of minutes less
>shot 50% from the FT
>19% from 3PT
>46% from 2PT

thats why its called the player efficiency rating, not cherry pick 1 fucking thing

the nigger was a literal meme hair marketing babby

garbage ass Kevin Love has played better than he did during these 3 years

>>76423182
>thinks PER is somehow ever a good measurement
>lists a bunch of shit that has absolutely nothing to do with why they signed him

hmm...you're really not old enough to talk about this shit LOL

>>76423262

>putting a fucking liability on a photo like hes anything to do with their wins

fucking Kukoc was the 3rd best player on the team

>>76423358
yeah getting an 8x 1st def team guy who can give you 20 rebounds solo on a night sure was a shit thing to have in a league with no zone D and hand checking

you done?

>>76423408

the 91 bulls was the best team they ever had

the 91-93 stint was better than 96-98

96 was a fucking meme

they literally would have lost to Seattle if George Karl had Peyton on Jordan since game 1, his performance dipped ridiculously after the glove stuck him

>>76421717

The warriors were already superstar status before Durante joined.

>>76423484
>arguing shit nobody cares about or mentioned because you got btfo

?

>>76423499

the cavs were already in the NBA finals in 07

couldnt even beat the magic in 09 when KG got hurt an the celtics went out in the 2nd round

>>76422159
Pretty sure Curry is averaging the same amount of rebounds Tristan Thompson as all series

>>76423537

They only had lebron though. KD left a good team and joined the the team with the best regular season record ever and a two time reigning MVP.

>>76423663
and coach of the year and single season team win record and finals mvp and klay thompson

it's amazing the free pass everyone gets but no matter what lebron does he gets hated on

>>76423663

the cavs made the finals in 07


last i checked nobody brought up any additional bullshit to explain why the thunder never went back

last i checked Lebron then left to join a super team

>>76423543

everyone is, that's the joke

Thompson isn't useful for anything

>>76421717
The Warriors would beat all three of those teams though

>>76422479
I'd imagine this series would be pretty different if the Cavs had a rim protector and 20-point swings didn't happen every time LeBron sits for a couple of minutes.

>>76423890

or maybe if lebron didnt put up a 19 PER in game 1 when KD and Stef put up 35s

funny how Kyrie manages to keep scoring points in the 4th quarter, not passing to kyle korver after your left 1 on 1 vs oldgluedola

>>76421771
Lol this team would give up an extra 20ppg if he isn't there

>>76423722
Easy, 19-63.

That drop-off was comparable to what happened to the Bulls when MJ, Pip, Rodman & Phil left.

>>76423999

kinda like the dropoff in 2009 when the Celtics couldnt reach the finals cause KG got hurt before the playoffs started and got bumped inthe 2nd round and the same cavs team that went to the NBA finals in 2007 and added more pieces couldnt get past a Magic team with litearlly nobody proven on the team who then got spanked by teh lakers the next week......

after that fucking puppet commercial ran all year long and they had to keep running it even during the finals making them look like fools as kobe won another ring yet nike is running lebron vs kobe shit

>>76423722
nobody mentions why the Thunder fell short because it was glaringly obvious every year

>>76421717
No, they just made things less interesting. They drafted well, and trained their players well, and then they got one of the best players in the league because they had the cap space. It's because everyone else is inept that I stopped watching.

>>76424191

you mean when the rockets got harden and he became an instant MVP canidate every year since?

you mean when several other players went to other teams with high contacts cause they were all stars?

funny how the media and everyone was saying KD needed to leave or the team needed to trade Westbrook cause no team has ever won a chip with a PG taking the most shots

KD pretended to not care for every year except last year and act like westbrick shooting more than him was fine

now hes run everyone out, the fucking media literally bragged about his triple double as he got swept in the early round of the playoffs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOpf1U_dv5c&feature=youtu.be&t=305

>>76422734
>guy makes 46% from 3
>takes half as many as a dude that shoots 34%
>played more mins but still took far more 3s per time on court

90s were so horrendous at analyzing anything. This is why Phil Jackson is a dumpster fire now

>>76424326
MVP candidate is about as nice as you could frame Harden, but no it went beyond that

I just moved out of Oklahoma(thank god) and during a long drive I realized Presti is overrated as fuck, and their development staff was underrated.

>Ibaka lied about his age and they were basically drafting someone that was fully NBA ready
>Durant was an obvious fit for the Sonics, picked 2nd
>Westbrook was an obvious project player
>Harden and Jackson picks are worth a nod, the only time he's shown next level foresight

he's been drafting bums since and don't get me started on trades

>>76423408
>Ignore a bunch of shitty stats cuz muh rebounds

Yeah it's no accident Phil Jackson was considered a mastermind then and is a pathetic dinosaur that cant field a team close to making the playoffs in the east now. 90s nba strategy was dreadful and archaic.

>>76421717
Bulls won 3 titles before Rodman was acquired in a trade.....just sayian.

Why do people make this claim that the Heat were a "super team" but the teams that were heavily considered to be better than them at the time, like the Spurs and Thunders, don't receive the same designation?

>>76422145
They literally allowed Zone defenses because Shaq would murder everyone 1 on 1

>>76424680

they conveniently changed the rule the second jordan retired

>>76424469
>Presti is overrated as fuck, and their development staff was underrated
This is the final redpill. I wish media would stop trying to push the angle that he's some kind of sports management savant, but dopes like Forman, Hinkie, and Hammond keep giving him decent players for his trash.

>>76424587
Because Bosh and James were acquired through free agency while SA and OKC drafted their stars.

KD is that kid who decides it's too hard to git gud so he switches to Rookie

and just like that kid he will realize how empty it all was

>>76424792

But Super Team has never been a designation for teams assembled through free agency. You can draft/recruit/develop your way to being a Super Team as well.

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>>76421717
Should niggers have been shipped back to Africa in 1865?

>>76423182
Fuck off. He has the highest rebound rate of any player to have ever lived, and he could guard 1-5 with no problems

>>76422159
>I know absolutely nothing about basketball

>>76424835
>Super Team has never been a designation for teams assembled through free agency
It usually is though m8

Hawks fan here. I stopped watching the NBA this season and I don't plan on watching it again until salary caps and shit are gotten rid of. The NBA is god fucking awful and the least entertaining sport long term. The forced monopoly teams are atrocious.

>>76424844
>MUH THREES

>>76421717
All this proves was kobe and shaq were a much more dominate team together than a majority of teams then and now
You see 3s and 4s while all it took the Lakers from winning 4 chips appearing in 6 or so was two in their prime players

>>76423077
>golden era
>long 2 pointers
>weak ass league (6 expansion teams)
>unneeded fouling
>y you aren't old enough to understand

you fell for the Nike marketing scheme

>>76424894
If anything they need to tighten up the salary cap. They are so many exceptions and workarounds that it's basically meaningless and the luxury tax ensures that only the wealthiest franchises can take advantage of that

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So in Basketball, 1 player is 20% of the team on the court. NBA rosters have 22 players.

Isn't easy for this to happen?

Doesn't this happen all the time? Why or why not?

Why is everything suddenly RUINED no hyperbole?

>>76421829

Thompson and Green aren't generally all-time great like Pippen, Shaq or D-Wade though.

>>76424968
The league has to figure out other whit when players realize they dont need to be paid 10x more than a brain surgeon and take league minimums to play with developed teams.

>>76424982
>Why is everything suddenly RUINED no hyperbole?
This may just refer to next few seasons where the warriors are going to be legitimately unstoppable however there's demand to make sure this never happens again immediately.

>>76424772
hinkie really shouldn't be lumped in with those other two regardless of how bad philly is/was

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Could they beat the Warriors? They were a super team.

>>76424968
Pretty much all of those basketball systems are terrible
>supermax contracts decided by 90 year old writers that nobody reads that don't watch the games
>luxury tax basically just says "hey don't overpay for 15+ years in a row or else!"
>claim you hate tanking when making it the biggest reward in all of sports to do so, while also having top # protected picks to encourage it even further

>>76424990
>implying Wade played at an all-time level at all during the big 3
>directly stating Pippen to be an all-time great
Yikes

>>76424886

No, that's how teams get hyped into being super teams before actually doing anything. That's how shit like Mavs beating the Heat or the Dwight Howard era happen.

>>76425013
I picked those three because they made boneheaded trades with OKC recently, not as a general assessment of talent. Grant for Ilyasova was probably the better of the three tho to be fair

>>76425019
The 2008 Celties could, no iteration afterwards though. That team was deep as fuck. 2010 had a much weaker bench, a little older. Still should've beaten the Lakers though

>>76421829
That, and they have a few really solid players in other positions (Mcgee, Pachulia, Livingston, Iguodala). They just have a shitload of talent on the team.

>>76425019
73-9 Warriors roster vs. that team would be a crazy matchup. I just wana see Green and Garnett go at it they're both shit talkers.

>>76425161

Lol, I wouldn't push Garnett TOO hard if I was Green. Like you really shouldn't test the guy.

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*blocks your shot*

>>76425211
Agreed.But when ppl compare past teams to the Dub I just look at the Green matchups cus he beats and bangs with centers too. Him vs. Rodman or Malone and Ewing. The pace the Warriors play at I wanna see em play the Reggie Miller prime Pacers.

>>76425275
>The pace the Warriors play at I wanna see em play the Reggie Miller prime Pacers.
That actually would be interesting. Like Curry is a better shooter now, but Miller probably would have stepped his game up if someone wanted to indirectly duel him like that.

>>76425314
I want to see it cus the Warriors can play some lock down D but they love the shoot out games and Reggie and his boys loved that shit.

>>76423077
holy fuck PLEASE don't be talking about the 90's
the weakest era since the all celtics 60's

>>76425375
it's 80s or bust

no other era comes close

>>76421771
He's the Rodman. Every great team needs a Rodman.

>>76421829
Now count the number of players in the OP pic that each team drafted and molded into a superstar

I'll wait

>>76425600
>7/12
Therefore...?

>>76425456
80 >>> 70 > 00 > 10 >>> 90 > 60

Your mother will die in her sleep tonight unless YOU call everyone in this thread a FAG !!!!!

>>76417719
>>76417719
>>76417719

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Lebitch dickriders are seriously pathetic

>>76422013
Magic Johnson and Larry Bird had two other hall of famers on their team nearly every year they played

>>76425008
How will they be unstoppable? They will only have 6 guys on the salary cap. And that's IF KD doesn't opt out to get a bigger raise like lebron and his 35mil a year. Being paid like he's all the cavs got.

Curry will get max and it doesn't affect them. But come on. All those key guys were a gamble and now they are going to want more like bogut did. Which warriors just went "get the hell out of here"

>>76425142
Yeah those guys were totally sought after in the FA market.

It's the coaching system. Got the most out of them.

>>76425117
The current warriors would destroy any team that ever existed and I fucking hate the warriors with kd

>>76422424
Durant and Curry are about to reach their thirties, and will start declining in a few seasons

But by then it won't fucking matter cause they'll threepeat by then

>>76425957
Jordan didn't win his first title until Durant's age now

>>76425844
That was still the era of the centers. The shooters were anomalies that's why Larry was like a magician. Kareem was just dominant and his midrange got molded to his height. Anyone remember when he was Luol Cinder, played Wilt lifted Millwakee to a title, most epic center battle ever, better than O'Neal and Olajuain.

>>76424982
ass

>>76425950
It's the league's fault they lost last year pussy ass league Durant would have stayed if they won the title. Physicality in eras is the difference shooter create spacing and defensive outlook changes when your bugs have to run out to the wing to defend. The bad boys Pistons would have beat the dubs to a pulp, just like Bird, laimbear is why Larry's back was torn up at the end.

>>76422118
Klay was an All Star this year.

>>76424982
Because single players get fucked in the big show by well rounded teams and try to put talent around them.

>>76426205
Klay earned it still but 3 players is what's nuts it should be a representative from a team or something, cus Lillard is getting shafted.

>>76426216
They had four there.
One per team? Interesting. I kinda like it.