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GSW - Deepest team in NBA History?
« on: May 23, 2015, 05:49:02 AM »

Offline slightly biased bias fan

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This Golden State team has been constructed so well, I don't know if some of it is just luck, but considering the reconstructed cap, to essentially prevent this from happening, Bob Myers must get major kudos. I not a huge fan of the team but if they win the title they could easily go down as the deepest to win the NBA title ever, perhaps taking the title off 2007-08 Celtics/1985-86 Celtics/1984-85 Los Angeles Lakers.

Harrison Barnes- Two way player, could be a 1st or 2nd option scorer on other teams.
Andrew Bogut- Former number 1 pick, All NBA, All Defensive Player.
Stephen Curry- MVP, All Star, perhaps greatest shooter NBA history, World champion
Festus Ezeli- Great 7 footer would start on most teams
Draymond Green- Can do it all (sir charles jr.) NBA All Defence
Andre Iguodala- All Star, true 1st NBA scorer, NBA All Defence, USA gold medalist 
David Lee- All Star, All NBA
Shaun Livingston- Former numer 4 pick, potential HOF skill set, ruined by injury.
Marreese Speights- Versatile big man
Klay Thompson- All Star, All NBA, two way player with elite 3 point stroke.

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« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2015, 05:59:43 AM »

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This Golden State team has been constructed so well, I don't know if some of it is just luck, but considering the reconstructed cap, to essentially prevent this from happening, Bob Myers must get major kudos. I not a huge fan of the team but if they win the title they could easily go down as the deepest to win the NBA title ever, perhaps taking the title off 2007-08 Celtics/1985-86 Celtics/1984-85 Los Angeles Lakers.

Harrison Barnes- Two way player, could be a 1st or 2nd option scorer on other teams.
Andrew Bogut- Former number 1 pick, All NBA, All Defensive Player.
Stephen Curry- MVP, All Star, perhaps greatest shooter NBA history, World champion
Festus Ezeli- Great 7 footer would start on most teams
Draymond Green- Can do it all (sir charles jr.) NBA All Defence
Andre Iguodala- All Star, true 1st NBA scorer, NBA All Defence, USA gold medalist 
David Lee- All Star, All NBA
Shaun Livingston- Former numer 4 pick, potential HOF skill set, ruined by injury.
Marreese Speights- Versatile big man
Klay Thompson- All Star, All NBA, two way player with elite 3 point stroke.

Barnes doesn't have the skillset to be a #1 or #2 scoring option on a successful team. Ezeli isn't "great". Iguodala and Lee are nowhere near the players they once were. Livingston and Speights are journeymen.

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« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2015, 06:29:35 AM »

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Barnes doesn't have the skillset to be a #1 or #2 scoring option on a successful team. Ezeli isn't "great". Iguodala and Lee are nowhere near the players they once were. Livingston and Speights are journeymen.

You do realise Barnes is 22? He has elite athleticism, a lock down defended and all the potential possible. Like most of the team, he has to make due with very limited touches and shots (he still shot 48% field and 40% from 3).

Ezeli would start on a bad team and is a 3rd stringer on this team.

Lee has been injured all season and Iguodala played out of his skin yesterday.

The point i'm making is that this team is historically deep in an era where this is prevented  and not a situation like Mailman or Glove where they were very passed it, this whole team is near prime, prime or just passed it.

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« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2015, 06:45:11 AM »

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They are extraordinary deep this year with Green making the leap and unexpected consistent productions from players like Speights, Livingston and (to a degree) Barbosa.
David Lee was injured all season but he went from starting PF/all-star to something like the 9th or 10th player in their playoff rotation. That says a lot.

I don't know which championship contender team of the last 20 years (that's the time I followed the NBA) has been equally deep as the Warriors this year.

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« Reply #4 on: May 23, 2015, 06:59:15 AM »

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yes, and with the cap rising, they just need to keep their players, even at the cost to be in luxury tax for next season.
Curry, Thompson, Barnes and Green are not even in their prime. That's ridiculous.
They could win it 4 years consecutively if the organisation is smart and the players clever to stay.

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« Reply #5 on: May 23, 2015, 07:27:27 AM »

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no

celtics and lakers both had some deeper teams

but GSW are very talented and im glad guys can see that now

a lot of their problems were on coach jackson as he used too much 1 on 1 offense and didnt know how to integrate the other players into a system that could best use their talents

when they drafted barnes i thought they were deep but then they dot iggy the next season and their talent got way more deeper



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« Reply #6 on: May 23, 2015, 07:28:50 AM »

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« Reply #7 on: May 23, 2015, 08:45:17 AM »

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My money would be on the 86 Celtics.

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« Reply #8 on: May 23, 2015, 08:52:29 AM »

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yes, and with the cap rising, they just need to keep their players, even at the cost to be in luxury tax for next season.
Curry, Thompson, Barnes and Green are not even in their prime. That's ridiculous.
They could win it 4 years consecutively if the organisation is smart and the players clever to stay.

Agreed, I think the only thing that is standing in the way between them and the title is turnovers and an over reliance on 3's with the possibility that the splash brothers could have an off night or 2

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« Reply #9 on: May 23, 2015, 10:24:11 AM »

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« Reply #10 on: May 23, 2015, 11:51:24 AM »

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Well under new CBA I will say this GS team.
For the past, Celtics 86 looks like a no brainer :P

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« Reply #11 on: May 23, 2015, 01:24:55 PM »

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Well since somebody took the 85/86 Celtics

1984/85 Lakers were deeper than this GS team
Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, James Worthy, Bob McAdoo and Jamaal Wilkes = 5 Hall of Famers.
Michael Cooper = All time great defender
Byron Scott, Kurt Rambis, Mitch Kupchuk.

The 62/63 Celtics had Russell, Cousy, Sam Jones, KC Jones, Hondo, Tommy, Lovellette and Frank Ramsey and Satch Sanders or 9 Hall of Famers.

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« Reply #12 on: May 23, 2015, 01:36:55 PM »

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Those Lakers / Celtics teams from the 80's had multiple Hall of Famers on them, the 60's Celtics teams had like 7 or 8 of them on the same team at one point.
Some of those early 90's blazers and Suns teams had like 5 or 6 all stars at one point in their careers  on them and they still didn't win the championship.
That 2004 piston team had 4 or 5 all star quality guys on it, Corliss Williamson was a former 6th man of the year winner, Lindsay Hunter was one of the top full pressure defense guys.Elden Campbell was pretty solid as well.
The 96 bulls when you have 3 hall of Famers starting with Kukoc as the 6th man of the year, Ron Harper was a leading scorer on the Cavs and Clippers before he joined them.Kerr was one of the top guys in 3 point percentage.

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« Reply #13 on: May 23, 2015, 01:56:13 PM »

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Well since somebody took the 85/86 Celtics

1984/85 Lakers were deeper than this GS team
Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, James Worthy, Bob McAdoo and Jamaal Wilkes = 5 Hall of Famers.
Michael Cooper = All time great defender
Byron Scott, Kurt Rambis, Mitch Kupchuk.

The 62/63 Celtics had Russell, Cousy, Sam Jones, KC Jones, Hondo, Tommy, Lovellette and Frank Ramsey and Satch Sanders or 9 Hall of Famers.

not only is that 9 hall of famers, but they were almost in there prime or not there yet. Russell, Cousy, Sam Jones and Havlicek are all members of the NBA top 50 team.

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« Reply #14 on: May 23, 2015, 02:44:05 PM »

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It's probably fairer to ask if they're the deepest team relative to the size of the league.  Of course teams will be deeper overall in the 60s when there were 8-14 teams, or even in the mid-80s when there were 23.

Problem is it's a lot harder to make that kind of weighted comparison.