So many salty people who hate greatness

Congrats on at least tying the record. I'll be rooting for you to break it

This post was edited by Harasmussen on Apr 10 2016 08:22pm

Same. I want to homer my basketball generation.

got suspended for this rolf

Going up against aspenbootlicker. Admirable but not the best idea. He is an inspiration to minimods and stealthmods everywhere.

Did Popp want the dubs to win?

No Duncan/Diaw

Warriors weren't necessarily playing their best ball the past couple of days prior to this game...including unexpected losses to the celtics and twolves @ home and a tight game that could've gone memphis' way.

It can be argued that the warriors were actually failing under the pressure of meeting/exceeding expectations to break the record.


That pressure will be ten-fold if they break the record and fall behind in a series in the playoffs. Lol 73 win team not winning the chip? Winning the championship is not an easy task, but it should be for the supposed best team in NBA history. The best team in NBA history should cruise to a championship. The amount of scrutiny they'll get if they even fall behind in a series would be tremendous. The amount of scrutiny curry would get if he shoots like he did against the grizzlies (1-10 3p fg) would be insane.

The exact # of wins in the regular season isn't necessarily indicative of a team's talent. For example, if this same warriors team "only" won 71 games this season they would still have the same talent as this real-world 73 win warriors team. But the amount of scrutiny they would face would be significantly less if they found themselves at a deficit against a team like the Spurs/Cavs (cavs to a lesser degree, but both are legit contenders). However, at 73 wins...they're the best team in NBA history. There's absolutely no way they should lose to anyone. There's absolutely no way they should commit mistakes/beat themselves. They should pretty much be perfect. But we know that's not going to happen.

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I find it hilarious when people after the result of the game make assertions of teams wanting/allowing the opposing team to win...

If Pop would have won without Duncan and Diaw tonight everyone would be saying how doomed the Warriors are and unstoppable the Spurs are/will be...

But because it went against their wishes and the Warrior dynastic narrative continues on there must be an explanation other than Pop doing his usually of giving his players rest and the Warriors doing their usual proving they are one of the best and historic teams of all time..

This post was edited by Dominicano on Apr 11 2016 01:10am

Agreed

or maybe Popp understands that the warriors are a very good team and any possibility of making things tougher for them should be taken


the outcome of this game was meaningless for the spurs. Playing the game was not meaningless, I'm sure he tested out some rotations/learned from the game...but the end result was absolutely meaningless. The spurs are locked into the #2 seed and a W wouldn't really have done anything. Sure, they would've had the undefeated home record...but does that really mean anything? The spurs are as good as the spurs are. This game had no impact on their talent level. This game had no impact on how they will eventually do in the playoffs. Using the "added-pressure" logic that we are with the warriors and their record-breaking win total, if the Spurs won and maintained the unbeaten home record...maybe they would've felt some pressure if they lost their first home game in the playoffs. maybe popp wanted to get it out of the way here.


The warriors NOT breaking the record would've allowed them to re-shift their focus on the #1 priority of winning a chip....but dudes were celebrating as if they already won it after tonight's W. They already accomplished one of their most important goals of the season....and they stumbled their way there. Meanwhile, teams like the Spurs are resting up and preparing for their first long duration battle of the year that is the playoffs. Whereas the warriors have essentially been playing playoff games post-ASG. Will they be fit mentally to endure another stretch of 4 weeks of intense basketball to win the championship? OR will they be too tired from all of this record-breaking nonsense




The thing with the '95 bulls is that they weren't trying to break any records....they were just playing basketball and broke the record naturally. They weren't getting burnt out in trying to beat any records.

Steph Curry himself said in the post-game interview after the grizz game that he "hopes breaking the record will rejuvinate this team so they can start playing better basketball again"