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Old 12-13-2015, 03:30 PM   #315
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Originally Posted by BishopMVP View Post
Unless I'm blanking on someone, between his ability to play both sides of the pick and roll, rebound, make the right decision every time on 4v3's once teams double Curry, and hit open 3's there aren't 5 players on the planet who could fill Draymond's role, there's one, and his name is LeBron. (Maybe Paul Millsap? Boris Diaw if he actually worked out? Maaaaaaaybe Chris Bosh? Could Anthony Davis pull it off?)

Well I just said 5 to be excessively conservative, just like when I said Green was one of the top 30 players over the summer when he was closer to top 15 in my view. You could certainly say he's the only one who could play that role because LeBron wouldn't care as much about the regular season, but you could probably figure out a slightly different way to play and be similarly effective with players like Durant or Kawhi in Green's place.

For All-NBA purposes, he would be first team if you called him a center, but as a forward (no difference between 3 and 4) he'd have to be ahead of one of LeBron, George, Leonard, and Durant to make the 2nd team.

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Originally Posted by wustin View Post
At this point I don't really think it matters which team it is (except for maybe the Sixers and Lakers), they're going to play very hard when it's against Golden State. Kinda like how in college sports when a top 25 school visits a mid major/unranked team.

Phrased differently, the Warriors are so much better than everyone else that all teams are more or less equally (un)likely to beat Golden State on a given night.

Last edited by nol : 12-13-2015 at 04:05 PM.
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