

I will always think of those Finals when I come in here.'' Just an amazing rivalry, two great teams. ''Just coming in here, feeling the vibe, feeling the juice from those days. W-L probably also overstates their improvement.''This building will always be special for us,'' he said. Regarding Heard/rebounding, without knowing the detail, at surface level he doesn't look that much better on the boards than John Shumate (just percentage wise, without trying to allocate them a position and curving or anything), the guy they sent out. At the margins his reputation as a person/teammate is. Maybe he carried the offense to good enough? Honestly that title feels fluky (I will grant/specify that within the playoffs they outscored each opponent to not fluky in that manner). Whilst he's the offensive star and big minutes guy he was surrounded with competent players and defenders for the title and the title was won through defense.
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I suspect Thurmond was the greater driver of impact when together. The offensive stuff didn't really happen together, his RS ABA includes the league near its weakest (early) and isn't that much more box impressive than Donnie Freeman for the same spell but significantly less available. In general he's someone I think I'm more bearish on than the norm. If one buys that that is what happened (that Barry stopped trying) is that changing? If so because Barry is different? Or teammates? '76 also features the alleged sulk because his teammates were slow to protect him in the Sobers fight. Where should he rank? Depends what changes.Īs others have pointed to, if noting maybe unlucky/unexpected to lose in '76 they were lucky/unexpected to win in '75.īarry was, box-wise, worse as the Warriors improved something that would give me pause in raising him. What was the expected championship for GSW this season? Where does it rank in your list for highest expected championships?

Maybe the '74-75 Warriors could have done that against all comers that year, but what's definitely the case is that the critical ingredient to those Warriors seems to have been rebounding, and against the Sun duo of Alvan Adams & Gar Heard, they met their match. When they swept Washington in an upset, while Washington had the two leading rebounders in Unseld & Hayes, Golden State still outrebounded Washington by more than 10 boards per game. Looking back to '74-75, it kinda seems like they got just the right matchups. Was this a fluke that kept the Warriors from repeating? Well, the Celtics murdered the Suns on the boards in the finals, so I think the Warriors were likely screwed in that matchup too. Heard was acquired midseason and the Suns were 23-13 after the all-star break after being 19-27 before hand, and his signature was rebounding. Game 6 doesn't have the Offensive vs Defensive breakdown of rebounds, but Phoenix has an 8 rebound advantage.Īnd yeah, Gar Heard was definitely part of this. In Game 5, Phoenix got 20 Offensive Boards to Golden State's 7.in a 1 point game. So, I'd note that Offensive Rebounding was what the Warrior offense did best in the regular season - as well as the prior playoff run that led to a championship - but against Phoenix - who had been an inferior rebounding team in the regular season - Phoenix won the battle of the boards. Who is this guy? Did he maybe stop the GSW from repeating? The Phoenix Suns, on the other hand, had Gar Heard playing big minutes in the playoffs while he played relatively way less minutes during the RS.
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WestGOAT wrote:Their PS rotation doesn't differ much from their RS one, only Gus Williams missed some games against their 7-game WCF series loss against the Phoenix Suns. Where would Rick Barry rank all-time if the Warriors repeat ? Their PS rotation doesn't differ much from their RS one, only Gus Williams missed some games against their 7-game WCF series loss against the Phoenix Suns.
