Klay is going to be absurd this year.

[juju151111]

He will basically get all open shots all season for the best catch and shoot player. He is 26 and about to reach his peak.

[Nilocon165]

So fcking stacked :roll:

Could you imagine if this team didn't win the title?

Would pretty much solidify Durant and Currys careers as failures

[Noyze]

Yeah watching that game last night just highlights how much of a ***** Durant is. Remember 1996? Bulls win 70 games, face Orlando is the east finals and beat them....Yeah Shaq was a free agent, so imagine he joins the Bulls instead of the Lakers. That's what Durant did.

[KevinDurant35]

Yeah watching that game last night just highlights how much of a ***** Durant is. Remember 1996? Bulls win 70 games, face Orlando is the east finals and beat them....Yeah Shaq was a free agent, so imagine he joins the Bulls instead of the Lakers. That's what Durant did.
You're leaving out one small detail. The Warriors didn't win the NBA Championship though, the Bulls did. Just sayin

[Nilocon165]

You're leaving out one small detail. The Warriors didn't win the NBA Championship though, the Bulls did. Just sayin
That's what separates Alphas from betas baby boy.

Warriors were an amazing regular season team but in the end they proved to be too beta and mentally weak to win it all.

Now they got Durant to have the most stacked team of all time and ensure that the choke job doesn't happen again in the finals

[hold this L]

That's what separates Alphas from betas baby boy.

Warriors were an amazing regular season team but in the end they proved to be too beta and mentally weak to win it all.

Now they got Durant to have the most stacked team of all time and ensure that the choke job doesn't happen again in the finals
So Lebron would be a beta then since he left a team he couldn't win at to join a top 3 player and another top player like Bosh? Do you guys even realize how hypocritical and silly you sound? Lebron stans are the only people who can't give shit to Durant for his move, ironically enough they're the ones that complain about it so much. :lol

[Nilocon165]

So Lebron would be a beta then since he left a team he couldn't win at to join a top 3 player and another top player like Bosh? Do you guys even realize how hypocritical and silly you sound? Lebron stans are the only people who can't give shit to Durant for his move, ironically enough they're the ones that complain about it so much. :lol
1. Wade was not a top 3 player, lmao. Those would be Lebron, Durant, and Kobe

2. Lebron didn't play with a top 5 player in the league before he left. Durant did.

3. Lebron didn't go to the team he lost to in the playoffs like the celtics or magic. Durant did.

4. The team Lebron joined actually did worse in the 10 playoffs than the Cavs. (Heat swept by Celtics, Cavs lost in 6 to Celtics)

5. Durant joined a 73 win team (regular season record)

[SamuraiSWISH]

You're leaving out one small detail. The Warriors didn't win the NBA Championship though, the Bulls did. Just sayin
Ok that's like Shaq joining the 62 - 20 Jazz after getting bounced by them in the 1997 playoffs.

C - Shaq
PF - Malone
SF - Russell
SG - Hornacek
PG - Stockton

What KD is unprecedented bitchassness.

On Any Given Wednesday with Bill Simmons, you could see Nas was even uncomfortable sitting next to such a beta boi.

[Hey Yo]

So Lebron would be a beta then since he left a team he couldn't win at to join a top 3 player and another top player like Bosh? Do you guys even realize how hypocritical and silly you sound? Lebron stans are the only people who can't give shit to Durant for his move, ironically enough they're the ones that complain about it so much. :lol
James didn't join 3 current All-NBA players on the best team in their conference.

He didn't play with the caliber of players like Russ and Ibaka for many years.

KD wasn't counted on to carry the team on both ends of the court like James was in Cleveland.

Cavs would have never sniffed the postseason (like OKC did) if James had the ankle injury and missed as many games as KD did in the 2014-15 season.


To compare the two situations is laughable and dumb.

[hold this L]

1. Wade was not a top 3 player, lmao. Those would be Lebron, Durant, and Kobe

2. Lebron didn't play with a top 5 player in the league before he left. Durant did.

3. Lebron didn't go to the team he lost to in the playoffs like the celtics or magic. Durant did.

4. The team Lebron joined actually did worse in the 10 playoffs than the Cavs. (Heat swept by Celtics, Cavs lost in 6 to Celtics)

5. Durant joined a 73 win team (regular season record)
1. Wade > Kobe before the move. Top 3 or 4, it's semantics at this point either way.
2. Created a super team with other top players because he couldn't win by himself, just like Durant.
3. Failed to win with the team he was supposed to win, just like Durant. True that he didn't have a top 5 player and had it harder than Durant though.
4. I thought reg season didn't matter? I can't keep up with you guys since you switch it mattering or not depending on the argument.

What Durant did is just a worse version of Bron did, you have to be delusional not to see it. It still doesn't change that making fun of Durant when you stan a guy that did the same sh*t on a smaller scale is laughable.


James didn't join 3 current All-NBA players on the best team in their conference.

He didn't play with the caliber of players like Russ and Ibaka for many years.

KD wasn't counted on to carry the team on both ends of the court like James was in Cleveland.

Cavs would have never sniffed the postseason (like OKC did) if James had the ankle injury and missed as many games as KD did in the 2014-15 season.


To compare the two situations is laughable and dumb.
You're right, he joined 2 other ALL-NBA players that formed the best team in the conference.

Wait, so Ibaka is some top tier player now? :lol

It's true Lebron had to do more carrying defensively, but this doesn't really change what either of them did.

OKC > Cavs without either stars, no one disputes this. Doesn't make it that much better.

You would have to be a complete idiot to think the scenarios are incomparable. Are you really that dense and delusional that you don't see the comparisons? Bron had it tougher than Durant, and Durant going to a team that beat him is a bit embarrassing, but they did something very similar. The only difference is Durant did it on a slightly higher scale than Bron did without the Decision. That's it.


I'm not defending Durant's decision, that is some beta sh*t but I'll take it due to it benefiting the Warriors. :pimp: As long as they win, why would I care? The point here is that the only people who can't really talk sht about this are Bron stans, unless they did the same in 2011. But carry on with the semantics and delusion to convince yourself otherwise. :applause:

[Poetry]

1. Wade was not a top 3 player, lmao. Those would be Lebron, Durant, and Kobe

:no:

Wade's PER rank:

2008-09: #2 - 30.36
2009-10: #2 - 28.02
2010-11: #3 - 25.57
2011-12: #3 - 26.31
2012-13: #7 - 23.96
2013-14: #9 - 24.0

[Hey Yo]

You're right, he joined 2 other ALL-NBA players that formed the best team in the conference.
Key word "current".....Bosh made All-NBA second team once in his career and that was 2007. Couldn't even get Toronto to the playoff in the alleged "weak East" in 2010.

Curry UMVP and All-NBA player, Clay All-NBA, Green All-NBA.

Chicago had the most wins in the conference that year.


Wait, so Ibaka is some top tier player now? :lol
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[Paul George 24]

1. Wade was not a top 3 player, lmao. Those would be Lebron, Durant, and Kobe

2. Lebron didn't play with a top 5 player in the league before he left. Durant did.

3. Lebron didn't go to the team he lost to in the playoffs like the celtics or magic. Durant did.

4. The team Lebron joined actually did worse in the 10 playoffs than the Cavs. (Heat swept by Celtics, Cavs lost in 6 to Celtics)

5. Durant joined a 73 win team (regular season record)
lebron is the n.1 coward,durant is 2 nd

[Nilocon165]

lebron is the n.1 coward,durant is 2 nd
http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/durr.gif

[warriorfan]

If you think what Kevin Durant did was bad

In reality, what LeBron did was worse

LeBron left his hometown team to join the players with the 2nd and 4th highest PER in the league (Wade and Bosh)

https://s31.postimg.org/d9ndpvc63/lebroncollude.jpg





That would be the same as Curry leaving his hometown to join Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook in OKC (joining with the 2nd and 4th highest PER)

https://s31.postimg.org/japo0i0yz/King_Curry.png

[GrapeApe]

If you think what Kevin Durant did was bad

In reality, what LeBron did was worse

LeBron left his hometown team to join the players with the 2nd and 4th highest PER in the league (Wade and Bosh)

https://s31.postimg.org/d9ndpvc63/lebroncollude.jpg





That would be the same as Curry leaving his hometown to join Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook in OKC (joining with the 2nd and 4th highest PER)

https://s31.postimg.org/japo0i0yz/King_Curry.png

Except that Heat team was basically 3 players. Durant joined a team with 3 current all-stars, a 2 time MVP, a former all-star and FMVP winner, and the COTY. The Warriors are a better and deeper team on paper than the 2011 Heat.

[SamuraiSWISH]

LeBron left home to join the 2nd best player in the league, and a top five PF, Gasol level player. It was weak.

But it was just 3 players. And they had a filler coach. The rest of the roster was filled with washed up vets.

Durant, a top 3 player, joined forces with a 73 win team led by another top 5 player. A back to back MVP. The 2nd best SG in the league. Arguably the best stretch 4 in the league, with Draymond. A bench featuring a 6th man of the year caliber player. Along with Livingston, and West off the bench. Oh yea, and a coach of the year on the sidelines.

That shit is cartoony. Stupid easy.

Never did I think that a cowardly, arrogant, obnoxiously coward group of individuals would come together and force me to root for a post decision LeBron led team.

Klay is almost forgotten. He's going to get all the wide open looks Barnes missed, given he's an afterthought with Durant / Stephanie's gravity on the perimeter.

[sammichoffate]

LeBron left home to join the 2nd best player in the league, and a top five PF, Gasol level player. It was weak.

But it was just 3 players. And they had a filler coach. The rest of the roster was filled with washed up vets.

Durant, a top 3 player, joined forces with a 73 win team led by another top 5 player. A back to back MVP. The 2nd best SG in the league. Arguably the best stretch 4 in the league, with Draymond. A bench featuring a 6th man of the year caliber player. Along with Livingston, and West off the bench. Oh yea, and a coach of the year on the sidelines.

That shit is cartoony. Stupid easy.

Never did I think that a cowardly, arrogant, obnoxiously coward group of individuals would come together and force me to root for a post decision LeBron led team.

Klay is almost forgotten. He's going to get all the wide open looks Barnes missed, given he's an afterthought with Durant / Stephanie's gravity on the perimeter.Green might average a legit triple double with Durant and Klay making all of Barnes's shots that he bricked last season :wtf:

[SamuraiSWISH]

If you made the 2016 Warriors on an NBA Live or 2k video game up until last year ...

You'd have to hit reset on the franchise mode because that roster is so stupidly unfair and noncompetitive ... so fictitious of an NBA roster

It would be dismissed as not being realistic.

[fourkicks44]

Dan Majerle was a better dunker and defender.....

[Big164]

Klay Thompson is the closest thing to Chamberlain there is right now.Who else is dropping 37 in 1 quarter?



His mama called him klay ima call him Klay

[SamuraiSWISH]

Klay Thompson is the closest thing to Chamberlain there is right now.Who else is dropping 37 in 1 quarter?



His mama called him klay ima call him Klay
But does his PPG drop from season to playoffs to Finals at a Wilt like rate as well?

[tpols]

it may be a man's league.. but its Klay's world.

[KirbyPls]

LeBron left home to join the 2nd best player in the league, and a top five PF, Gasol level player. It was weak.

But it was just 3 players. And they had a filler coach. The rest of the roster was filled with washed up vets.

Durant, a top 3 player, joined forces with a 73 win team led by another top 5 player. A back to back MVP. The 2nd best SG in the league. Arguably the best stretch 4 in the league, with Draymond. A bench featuring a 6th man of the year caliber player. Along with Livingston, and West off the bench. Oh yea, and a coach of the year on the sidelines.

That shit is cartoony. Stupid easy.

Never did I think that a cowardly, arrogant, obnoxiously coward group of individuals would come together and force me to root for a post decision LeBron led team.

Klay is almost forgotten. He's going to get all the wide open looks Barnes missed, given he's an afterthought with Durant / Stephanie's gravity on the perimeter.

Agree with most of the post. But, would you rank LBJ the way you do (2nd best perimeter player after the GOAT (I agree)), if he doesn't make the move, and maybe wins a ring at CLE as FMVP or the glorified second option?

Pure curiosity, no agenda. :confusedshrug:

[SamuraiSWISH]

Agree with most of the post. But, would you rank LBJ the way you do (2nd best perimeter player after the GOAT (I agree)), if he doesn't make the move, and maybe wins a ring at CLE as FMVP or the glorified second option?

Pure curiosity, no agenda. :confusedshrug:
If LeBron went balls out instead of quitting mid series when they had a lead on Boston? Instead of mentally checking out ... who knows what would've happened.

If he never left, I still would have him up there. It was his level of individual play. This last title had way more weight than any of those Heat championships. By far.

His 4x MVPs, maybe 5x if he never alienated himself from the media in 2011, with last year's ring? I'd still have him near where I do all time.

[KirbyPls]

If LeBron went balls out instead of quitting mid series when they had a lead on Boston? Instead of mentally checking out ... who knows what would've happened.

If he never left, I still would have him up there. It was his level of individual play. This last title had way more weight than any of those Heat championships. By far.

His 4x MVPs, maybe 5x if he never alienated himself from the media in 2011, with last year's ring? I'd still have him near where I do all time.

I figured as much, based upon your posting history. I respect your take on LBJ, and I don't find too much to argue there. :cheers:

[Big164]

But does his PPG drop from season to playoffs to Finals at a Wilt like rate as well?
Wilts average dropped from a God-like 39ppg in the RS to a still dominant 32ppg in the playoffs. First 7 seasons.


The 22 average comes from the majority of his playoff games occuring after age thirty and major surgery.

[ebonics]

This thread went totally off topic. I do believe Klay will have a great season due to the pressure that teams will be putting on Durant and Curry.

As far as LeBron, the West has been known to be stronger than the East. Who's to say if LeBron had a team like OKC in the West, he'd never win a championship either? Both moves were beta moves from LeBron and KD, but I respect the decision to win from both of them.

[hold this L]

Key word "current".....Bosh made All-NBA second team once in his career and that was 2007. Couldn't even get Toronto to the playoff in the alleged "weak East" in 2010.

Curry UMVP and All-NBA player, Clay All-NBA, Green All-NBA.

Chicago had the most wins in the conference that year.
This is the problem when you pick out small pieces of information to make a case. Bosh was at worst a top 15 player, the same level as Klay and Wade is the Durant of this story. Warriors also have Draymond to add to it, but I never implied Lebron formed a weaker team than the Warriors are now, though we will have to see if the Warriors can back up the names with ships.

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[SCdac]

I'll be completely surprised if the Warriors don't win the championship.

2015 (win championship) --> 2016 (win 73 games and make the Finals again) -- > 2017 (added Kevin ****ing Durant)

Lebron's decision was whack and so is Durants... at least Lebron went back, don't get that vibe from Durant at all (but who knows)