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[TheLaughingStock]

I think it shows what happens when you are too cocky and just don't play basketball.

Nah the Thunder are in proper position and their personnel is a problem. GS can play basketball and still have no answers that'll get them a W vs. OKC at their best and focused. You're watching a team get its soul snatched on live television.

 

[Stat Flow]

Damn this turnt up real quick.

 

[JohnsonUT]

Nope. Spurs are inferior and got smacked hard by GSW.

You said on the court performance doesn't matter when comparing two teams.

 

[suberzat]

Nah the Thunder are in proper position and their personnel is a problem. GS can play basketball and still have no answers that'll get them a W vs. OKC at their best and focused. You're watching a team get its soul snatched on live television.

This is another case of you live by the three you die by the three and the dubs are just not hitting. Forcing shots, Curry taking bad shots(a good amount of his shots fall), etc.

 

[Damerman]

Only idiots think championships are won in the regular season.


You can keep living in this dream world which is fine but no one else will take you seriously. What the Warriors did was a good achievement but I am sure if you ask anyone on that team what they cherish more, a record or a championship, I am 100% confident that every player would say the latter.


Edit: also, that great record that GS got on that night wasnt even the biggest NBA story of that night, it was Kobes last game and him dropping 60. If the Warriors do lose this series, more people will remember Kobes last game over their record.

This is unequivically wrong. All teams from now on have to gun for GSWs regular season record.

 

[Represent.]

I hate this whole "regular season means nothing without a championship" nonsense. We're talking about 73 fucking wins here. Thats more impressive than 16. Its an insane accomplishment. Championship is more important, but its not more impressive.

 

[suberzat]

I hate this whole "regular season means nothing without a championship" nonsense. We're talking about 73 fucking wins here. Thats more impressive than 16. Its an insane accomplishment. Championship is more important, but its not more impressive.

But what made the 72-10 record so legendary is that the Bulls won a championship. This is why people bring up the Pats one loss season because the sports world does not care about the regular season if their is no championship.

Same goes for college football

 

[Phreakuency]

...Curry is having an absolutely historic run but he has 1 ring.

Worst case scenario, the Warriors don't win another title and Curry may not even crack the top 10 players of all time when all is said and done.

You could even argue that he'd have to keep up this shooting for at least another couple years to be known as the greatest scorer as well.

I get that people ... want to be able to say their era was the best but lets wait a couple years and see what happens.

As I said a few months back...

 

[Skellig Gra]

I hate this whole "regular season means nothing without a championship" nonsense. We're talking about 73 fucking wins here. Thats more impressive than 16. Its an insane accomplishment. Championship is more important, but its not more impressive.

Hate it all you want but that is the reality you live in.

 

[giga]

I hate this whole "regular season means nothing without a championship" nonsense. We're talking about 73 fucking wins here. Thats more impressive than 16. Its an insane accomplishment. Championship is more important, but its not more impressive.

It's an accomplishment, but if you go back to the beginning of this debate, the dude was saying he'd rather take the record over "just another chip."

 

[suberzat]

Lets hope injured Curry does not return and he becomes the new D. Rose

 

[psynergylover]

This is unequivically wrong. All teams from now on have to gun for GSWs regular season record.

No they don't, as long as said team puts themselves in position to with a championship that's all that matters to them.

 

[Vicetrailia]

So to defeat small-ball your bigs must have enough endurance and agility to negate would-be mismatches.

 

[BumRush]

No they don't, as long as said team puts themselves in position to with a championship that's all that matters to them.

If you asked 30 teams whether they'd rather win 74 games and lose in the CF (NOT saying the series is over...just hypothetical) or win, say, 60 games and the championship...100% of teams are saying championship.

 

[psynergylover]

If you asked 30 teams whether they'd rather win 74 games and lose in the CF (NOT saying the series is over...just hypothetical) or win, say, 60 games and the championship...100% of teams are saying championship.

That's what I said......

 

[giga]

If you asked 30 teams whether they'd rather win 74 games and lose in the CF (NOT saying the series is over...just hypothetical) or win, say, 60 games and the championship...100% of teams are saying championship.

What about the prestige that comes from beating the Suns four times in a season? Nothing is comparable.

 

[BumRush]

That's what I said......

Haha I know. I was agreeing with you!

 

[yogloo]

The English Premier League doesn't do a playoffs, because English teams can't win playoff format football (Euro, World Cup) so they banned it from their national league.

Ayyyyyy lmao.

 

[msdstc]

Nope. Spurs are inferior and got smacked hard by GSW.

This is so entertaining. Youve gone full on denial mode. Whatever you say is true and everyone else is wrong.

 

[Khalifa Jayy]

Reminder, and probably what the Thunder have posted up in their locker room with a big circle around it:

 

[Skellig Gra]

Reminder, and probably what the Thunder have posted up in their locker room with a big circle around it:

I really doubt they need much motivation at this point. It's the conference finals.

 

[Gully State]

I hate this whole "regular season means nothing without a championship" nonsense. We're talking about 73 fucking wins here. Thats more impressive than 16. Its an insane accomplishment. Championship is more important, but its not more impressive.

You can take away a regular season win record.. You can't take away a championship

 

[hydragonwarrior]

OKC to win 75 games next season to pour salt on the wound.

 

[LyleLanley]

Warriors are trash. Steph is a fraud.

 

[Abounder]

He's never getting that FMVP, oh well lol

 

[CapitalismSucks DonkeyBalls]

If GSW get knocked out in game 5, it'll be a kick in the nuts to GSW fans.

 

[K.Sabot]

If GSW get knocked out in game 5, it'll be a kick in the nuts to GSW fans.

not looking forward to the slew of new bandwagon thunder fans

but the good news is that you have to live in oklahoma to go to thunder games, so chances are you're already a thunder fan cause there's nothing else here.

 

[True Savior]

The real point is, you're going to remember these Warriors regardless of the outcome of this series. They made history. If they don't win a title, so what? They won a title last year. They don't have anything left to prove.

Off course they do. They had a very abnormal playoff run last year. It's part of the game, but the circumstances were very bizarre. Even this year, the whole Blake/Paul injuries made their run a cakewalk. I know it's not their fault that other teams are bad but this OKC is clearly their first big obstacle in the last 2 years. Last year in the final they showed weaknesses over a very diminished Cavs team. They have loads to prove.

 

[daemissary]

I can tell who is brainwashed by ESPN's awful sports talk in here.

There is a champion every season, 73 wins has happened never. Which is more impressive?

And no, not a Warriors fan.

 

[Fenderputty]

History across all sports shows that regular season records without a championship get mocked, not celebrated.

Their regular season will be mocked by nobody that should be taken seriously. That being said being the greatest regular season team without a chip means they're not close to greatest team ever.

Has Charles Barkley's head blow up yet?

 

[Holmes]

Warriors are trash. Steph is a fraud.

Repeating a lie over and over again doesn't make it true.

 

[LyleLanley]

Repeating a lie over and over again doesn't make it true.

A lie?

 

[Cipherr]

You can take away a regular season win record.. You can't take away a championship

Bam

 

[Fenderputty]

Not really that simple. They played different schedules so you can't compare directly. The ONLY direct comparison is what we are witnessing right now. It's a 7 game series, the better team almost always wins in that scenario assuming there aren't major injuries.

This is fallacious. We have direct regular season comparisons and GS won the majority of the head to head match-ups on top of winning more games.

The fact that you said "almost" means you recognize upsets are possible.

 

[giga]

I can tell who is brainwashed by ESPN's awful sports talk in here.

There is a champion every season, 73 wins has happened never. Which is more impressive?

And no, not a Warriors fan.

Westbrook's stats last night have also never happened in post season history. This is dumb. The ultimate goal for every basketball player in the league past or present, except for smush parker, is to get a ring.

 

[shintoki]

This is fallacious. We have direct regular season comparisons and GS won the majority of the head to head match-ups on top of winning more games.

The fact that you said "almost" means you recognize upsets are possible.

If they get beat 4 to 1. The better team fucking won. The great thing about it is, this isn't a one game series like most sports. It allows for teams to learn, adjust, and counter. Right now, OKC has shut down this GS team and they still don't have a response back.

I can tell who is brainwashed by ESPN's awful sports talk in here.

There is a champion every season, 73 wins has happened never. Which is more impressive?

And no, not a Warriors fan.

LBJ has given Cavs some great seasons... Clearly it didn't matter. Why he went to the Heat to win. If your hand isn't a bit heavier at the end of the season. It doesn't matter.

 

[Abounder]

I can tell who is brainwashed by ESPN's awful sports talk in here.

There is a champion every season, 73 wins has happened never. Which is more impressive?

And no, not a Warriors fan.

Say what?! The sports media are the ones hyping up regular season fool's gold like 73 wins, gotta get those MJ ratings. Contenders and their fans care about championships over the regular season, that's what the NBA is all about

 

[BumRush]

Warriors are trash. Steph is a fraud.

Come on man, shit like that doesn't have a place in here. Fraud? In what way?

To be clear, I don't think steph is in the top 5 best nba players of all time. But he's an excellent basketball player and saying otherwise is just trolling.

 

[daemissary]

Westbrook's stats last night have also never happened in post season history. This is dumb. The ultimate goal for every basketball player in the league past or present, except for smush parker, is to get a ring.

The Warriors have a ring.

 

[giga]

The Warriors have a ring.

And you think they care more about their record than another one?

 

[shintoki]

Warriors maybe breaking another record this year.

Team with the best record and no ring. Take that 72 Celtics.

 

[daemissary]

And you think they care more about their record than another one?

I think that winning 73 regular season games is more impressive than winning a chip.

Athletes and what they "care" about is the ESPN nonsense blabble that I was talking about. Every athlete wants to win every game they've ever played.

 

[PartlyCloudlike]

I hate this whole "regular season means nothing without a championship" nonsense. We're talking about 73 fucking wins here. Thats more impressive than 16. Its an insane accomplishment. Championship is more important, but its not more impressive.

The Thunder beating a 73-win team in a 7 game series would be more impressive than a team winning 73 games. That's how it will go down in history.

 

[LyleLanley]

Come on man, shit like that doesn't have a place in here. Fraud? In what way?

To be clear, I don't think steph is in the top 5 best nba players of all time. But he's an excellent basketball player and saying otherwise is just trolling.

Jordan wouldn't have let this happen.

 

[PartlyCloudlike]

Jordan wouldn't have let this happen.

Steph's not a leader.

 

[giga]

I think that winning 73 regular season games is more impressive than winning a chip.

Athletes and what they "care" about is the ESPN nonsense blabble that I was talking about. Every athlete wants to win every game they've ever played.

It's not. There are far too many scrub teams. The playoffs are a test against the best. It's an entirely different beast. Popovich laughs at this.

 

[LyleLanley]

Steph's not a leader.

He just doesn't have the heart of a champion.

 

[suberzat]

I can tell who is brainwashed by ESPN's awful sports talk in here.

There is a champion every season, 73 wins has happened never. Which is more impressive?

And no, not a Warriors fan.

You must be a ESPN watching if you don't think there will be a * each time this best regular season record is brought up.

Teams play for championships

 

[King Tubby]

IMO 73 wins is a bigger deal than 16-0 in the NFL, which just makes the Warriors' likely impending exit even more embarrassing.

OKC has been really impressive. They were sloppy in the first few games but their effort and intensity, to use some sports cliches, have been unmatched. Their defense on Curry has been spectacular, and their role players have put in the work to make sure Westbrook and Durant's efforts don't go to waste. Steven Adams has been absolutely vital.

The real goat of this series is going to end up being Draymond Green. With OKC defending Curry with the fury of a thousand suns, he needed to step up and he's been a black hole in the pivotal games. Klay Thompson has performed well but it's not enough.

I think that winning 73 regular season games is more impressive than winning a chip.

Athletes and what they "care" about is the ESPN nonsense blabble that I was talking about. Every athlete wants to win every game they've ever played.

Nobody on Golden State is going to feel proud of 73 wins if they get bounced out in the Conference finals.

 

[Fenderputty]

If they get beat 4 to 1. The better team fucking won. The great thing about it is, this isn't a one game series like most sports. It allows for teams to learn, adjust, and counter. Right now, OKC has shut down this GS team and they still don't have a response back.

And if they don't? What if it goes 6 or 7? Honestly I think this make Kerr looks worse than anyone really. That being said, everyone underestimated the Thunder and if they win, they should be able to take the championship.