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Golden State Warriors and Curry Make a Run at the NBA Win Record

 
 
 
I hadn't watched any NBA games this season till this week. I figured I'd watch the Warriors come out to play. Saw their last two games.

I don't get the hype. They suck.
 
blastula said:
I hadn't watched any NBA games this season till this week. I figured I'd watch the Warriors come out to play. Saw their last two games.

I don't get the hype. They suck.
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Well, they had been playing much better than that before those two games for the last year and a half.

Cleveland v Oklahoma City. Let the conspiracy theories abound about how the NBA wants Curry in the finals, but he isn't there.
 
blastula said:
I hadn't watched any NBA games this season till this week. I figured I'd watch the Warriors come out to play. Saw their last two games.

I don't get the hype. They suck.
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Fivethirtyeight ranked them the second best team of all time next to the 96 Bulls. I watched their away games for most of the season and can confirm they're astoundingly good 98% of the time, unfortunately the 2% fell right in a row this series.
 
rousseau said:
Fivethirtyeight ranked them the second best team of all time next to the 96 Bulls.
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Their ratings criteria don't seem to effectively measure teams across eras, especially before the '80's. The '96 Bulls would have beaten the Warriors like a rented mule. Curry would think he'd grown a conjoined twin.
 
538 uses a rating system like they use for chess, which can suffer from an inflation effect, where the same rating number means less in a later year.
 
Yea definitely have a healthy amount of scepticism when I read their stats, but they usually are a pretty good indicator.

A different model might rank Golden State lower, but any model ranking them 2nd all time is a good indication that they're a very good team.

FWIW, I only got more into sports in the past few years as my college career wrapped up. I know much less than many but rely on 538 to tell me a good story now and then.
 
rousseau said:
blastula said:
I hadn't watched any NBA games this season till this week. I figured I'd watch the Warriors come out to play. Saw their last two games.

I don't get the hype. They suck.
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Fivethirtyeight ranked them the second best team of all time next to the 96 Bulls. I watched their away games for most of the season and can confirm they're astoundingly good 98% of the time, unfortunately the 2% fell right in a row this series.
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I believe you; those were really the only two games I've seen of them. If they come back now to win it all, it would validate the hype.
 
Looking like they had a bit of a blip in the third round and got their momentum back. Cavs are getting crushed.
 
rousseau said:
Looking like they had a bit of a blip in the third round and got their momentum back. Cavs are getting crushed.
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If you call losing by a combined total of 48 points in the first two games "getting crushed", I suppose. :o
 
Watching James after they won was one of the more surreal moments I've had watching sports. Pure emotion.
 
Now for the click-bait titles of the Warriors win record being meaningless and LeBron quieting the doubters.
 
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