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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
I didn't think of the Warriors as too old in 22 (they had Poole and Wiggins who were young players).
I just thought of them as woefully shallow. They were fortunate to get Klay back for his last little spurt of reasonably dangerous play but they really were a 6 man team with Looney as a starter who didn't play as much as Poole off the bench. Beyond that it was scrap like the corpse of Otto Porter Jr and a one trick pony like GPII.
I still have truly no idea how they won that championship. It's easily the most impressive carry job of Curry's career and as strong an effort as we've seen in recent memory.
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The Warriors have won their championships when they have had a great defense (along with great shooting). They have that heading into the playoffs.
22 was wild in that they maxed out their talent and I'm sure the experience they had accumulated helped.
This year Houston is going to focus and Curry which will allow Butler to perform his playoff magic like previous seasons. Like someone said a few posts above the Warriors would be #2 seed if Butler had started the season with that club. Looney and GPII are still on the team.