16 warriors vs bad boy pistons

[Bronbron23]

who wins? Im sure most people will say Warriors but it was tough defensive teams that gave them trouble. It wasn't the cavs offense that hurt them in 16 it was mainly their defense. I got bad boys in this one. There an underrated team that beat some atg teams. Warriors wouldn't be any different.

[Axe]

If that warriors just lost to a less defensive team in the cavaliers, then what more to a defensive stalwart team like those pistons.

[GreatHILL]

4:0 Bad Boy Pistons.

[RRR3]

Those Pistons never saw anything like the 16 Warriors, you can’t trade 2s for 3s. They get swept.

[Lebron23]

Those Pistons never saw anything like the 16 Warriors, you can’t trade 2s for 3s. They get swept.

This. 2016 Warriors under the current rules.

[Reggie43]

Great matchup but the Pistons will take this. I cant think of a scenario wherein Rodman doesnt shutdown Draymond while Klay will obviously be contained by Dumars. Curry has to play out of his mind against Isiah just to give his team a chance and we all know how good/tough Isiah was on the big stage.

Old rules Pistons in 5, new rules Pistons in 6-7.

[kawhileonard2]

Pistons. The Warriors lost because they can't handle the physical game. Draymond would cry during the game against Laimbeer.

[NBAGOAT]

i dont love isiah on curry, they may to just hide him on like barnes. the warriors defense was damn good, I think they can make it close off that even though detroit would give them headaches.

[Sulico]

Sure, that Pistons team won two lucky chips with their lucky timing, because they were relatively good in transition between eras - Celtics and Lakers fell off the cliff and Bulls didn't have a decent team yet, but come on, this is ridiculous.

They were one of the weakest champions of all time! Warriors would not only sweep them, the average win margin would be around 20-25 PTS.

[Phoenix]

They win in their own eras. Thing with these matchups, the Warriors would be totally alien to the Pistons if you just put them in a time capsule and dropped them on a court together. The Warriors immediately have an advantage because their play style would be:wtf: to a team used to 80s offense. Put them in 89 where the Pistons can be physical and they may edge out a win. Put them in 2016 where you can't touch anyone and its gonna be a painful experience for the Bad Boys.

[rawimpact]

Warriors wouldn't have enough players to play game 2 with all of the injuries. But if we're talking today instead of 2016. The pistons probably are too macho to wear a mask, all contract covid and are disqualified. Their D-League has to play against the warriors in which they get their asses kicked. It could play out many ways, but this is the most plausible statistically.

[tpols]

I think the 2016 team with Bogut would have a shot. They would need him for lambier... and while Bill's tough, Bogut isn't anybody to get punked. Dray was primarily a 3 pt spacer from a scoring perspective so I'm not particularly seeing rodman "locking him up". He would have to be helping to double klay and curry on the outside like all teams had to. Warriors had elite defense too and if they could hang with peak Lebron and Kyrie, there's nobody on the pistons thats really scary by comparison offensively.

[ArbitraryWater]

who wins? Im sure most people will say Warriors but it was tough defensive teams that gave them trouble. It wasn't the cavs offense that hurt them in 16 it was mainly their defense. I got bad boys in this one. There an underrated team that beat some atg teams. Warriors wouldn't be any different.

No it was the cavs offense

[ImKobe]

If Curry's on one leg, Draymond gets suspended, Barnes shoots like ass and Bogut & Iggy get injured like they did in 2016, I'm giving it to Detroit.

[jayfan]

Great matchup but the Pistons will take this. I cant think of a scenario wherein Rodman doesnt shutdown Draymond while Klay will obviously be contained by Dumars. Curry has to play out of his mind against Isiah just to give his team a chance and we all know how good/tough Isiah was on the big stage.

Old rules Pistons in 5, new rules Pistons in 6-7.

This is the Detroit's version of Rodman, not Chicago's. Rodman & Dumars are on Steph & Klay. Isiah/Vinnie on Barnes. Dantley-or-Aguirre(depending the year)/Mahorn/Salley switch off on Iggy & Draymond, and Laimbeer/Mahorn/Edwards take care of Bogut.

Golden State hasn't seen this depth.


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[ralph_i_el]

Does Isiah have to follow the actual dribbling rules, or does he get 2020 rules for carrying and travels?

[Reggie43]

This is the Detroit's version of Rodman, not Chicago's. Rodman & Dumars are on Steph & Klay. Isiah/Vinnie on Barnes. Dantley-or-Aguirre(depending the year)/Mahorn/Salley switch off on Iggy & Draymond, and Laimbeer/Mahorn/Edwards take care of Bogut.

Golden State hasn't seen this depth.


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Too many ways to play the game obviously, you cant stick to one gameplan for a whole series and call it a night. You put Rodman on Green one game then switch him to Klay/Curry the next or whenever the situation calls for it. Rodman would be less effective as a rebounder and help defender if you put him on a shooter so he might not be the primary defender on klay/curry the whole series.

[r0drig0lac]

Does Isiah have to follow the actual dribbling rules, or does he get 2020 rules for carrying and travels?

this

[NBAGOAT]

This is the Detroit's version of Rodman, not Chicago's. Rodman & Dumars are on Steph & Klay. Isiah/Vinnie on Barnes. Dantley-or-Aguirre(depending the year)/Mahorn/Salley switch off on Iggy & Draymond, and Laimbeer/Mahorn/Edwards take care of Bogut.

Golden State hasn't seen this depth.


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yes they have sa that same year 10 deep with all solid nba guys at least and kawhi/lma leading the way. GS did fine vs them.

[Phoenix]

Bear in mind the 89 team had Rodman mostly off the bench and I think Mahorn at 4( Laimbeer at the 5). They're going to have to small-ball the lineup as much as possible which means something like Isiah, Dumars, Dantley/Aguirre, Rodman and Laimbeer is probably their best lineup.

[jayfan]

yes they have sa that same year 10 deep with all solid nba guys at least and kawhi/lma leading the way. GS did fine vs them.

Wait....you're joking, right?

First of all, it wasn't that same year. It was 2017.

Second of all, Kawhi was knocked out by ZaZa 24 minutes into Game 1. He was done for the series. And so were the Spurs. No Parker, no Duncan, old Munu, old Pau. That team was garbage. Not even in the same hemisphere as the Bad Boys.

[StrongLurk]

OP is not a good poster, 16 Warriors definitely beat the bad boy pistons in a series.

[NBAGOAT]

Wait....you're joking, right?

First of all, it wasn't that same year. It was 2017.

Second of all, Kawhi was knocked out by ZaZa 24 minutes into Game 1. He was done for the series. And so were the Spurs. No Parker, no Duncan, old Munu, old Pau. That team was garbage. Not even in the same hemisphere as the Bad Boys.

no i interpreted your comment about gs hasnt seen that depth applying to any team not just teams the warriors played in the playoffs, I think 2016 spurs were an obvious counterexample. I agree with your point about the 17 Spurs but that's not relevant. Would concede for the 16 team too honestly but we're talking just about depth here and the 16 spurs had that.

GS and SA didnt meet in the playoffs but they met during the Rs and were both going for the 1st seed most of the season. if we do want to only play talk playoffs, it's hypothetical but I take the warriors over the spurs that year in a 7 game series.