Was 73-9 worth it?

[Uncle Drew]

* Assuming they won't come back from 3-1 down.

Was it really worth it? Instead of resting key players, getting them ready for the playoffs, Kerr ran them into the ground, chasing the record. Records can be broken, but banners hang forever.

(Legit) Dubs fans: would you rather go 71-11 and win the championship, or go 73-9 lose in the WCF and be remembered as the NBA's New England Patriots?

[Kiddlovesnets]

It was worth it, they could've collapsed much worse if they failed to reach 73 wins.

[RoseCity07]

When you're that stacked it's all good.

[bigkingsfan]

(Legit) Dubs fans: would you rather go 71-11 and win the championship, or go 73-9 lose in the WCF and be remembered as the NBA's New England Patriots?

What kind of question is this?

[FKAri]

"resting" has been proven time and time again to make no difference heading into the postseason. Spurs and Dallas both have had epic post season collapses after "resting" players. The Raptors coming off of b2b 7 game series are tied with the heavily favored Cavs who came off of b2b sweeps.

Rest is good but GS didn't have to expend much physical energy to get it done. Look at the minutes played. Maybe you could argue it was mentally taxing or whatever. But I would disagree with that as well.

[Spurs m8]

73-9 is going to go down as a good laugh in the end.

[NBAGOAT]

trying too hard in the regular season only hurts if you're playing thibodeau level minutes and you usually get affected by injuries the next season or season after.

[SexSymbol]

It depends on whether Steph still gets injured because of the rest or not.
If he doesn't, than it's a cakewalk to the finals, if he still does get injured and ruins the momentum and rhythm, that's the same result

[Dr Seuss]

so if they went 70-12, they wouldnt be down 3-1?

stupid justification

[Stringer Bell]

I don't think it made that much of a difference. Maybe they could be more rested but I don't think they're that tired where it's the difference.

OKC is just playing really, really well and exploiting the weaknesses that were always there for GSW. They just came off beating a 67-win Spur team. Gotta give them a lot of credit.

[SamuraiSWISH]

It depends on whether Steph still gets injured because of the rest or not.
If he doesn't, than it's a cakewalk to the finals, if he still does get injured and ruins the momentum and rhythm, that's the same result

Lol cake walk? Thunder just annihilated two overrated teams who went all out in the regular season and stacked wins in a weak league.

Westbrook is taking a dump on the fraud unanimous MVP worse than anything I've seen before. Yes, worse than any Dirk choke or when prime LeBron and Miami put a straight jacket on the one man 2011 Rose led Bulls team.

At his own position, no less. A direct competitor.

And don't give me this excuse like Curry had some major injury. He was back in no time. And played well for a number of games up until he faced Russell. Besides one quarter he has been made into that Ninja Turtles little hoe all series. He's healthy enough to perform in the Portland series or in the 3rd quarter of game 2. Now he's missing layups and free throws. Dude is shook.

[BedroomBully]

That's a hard question to answer. Yes and NO. Yes because they broke the most games won during regular season record, and no because the expectations of a championship were not met! Its a choke job for sure! Regular season does not mean a thing if you do not capture the title.

[K Xerxes]

Lol cake walk? Thunder just annihilated two overrated teams who went all out in the regular season and stacked wins in a weak league.

Westbrook is taking a dump on the fraud unanimous MVP worse than anything I've seen before. Yes, worse than any Dirk choke or when prime LeBron and Miami put a straight jacket on the one man 2011 Rose led Bulls team.

At his own position, no less. A direct competitor.

And don't give me this excuse like Curry had some major injury. He was back in no time. And played well for a number of games up until he faced Russell. Besides one quarter he has been made into that Ninja Turtles little hoe all series. He's healthy enough to perform in the Portland series or in the 3rd quarter of game 2. Now he's missing layups and free throws. Dude is shook.

Curry (in truth Kobe) stans making pathetic excuses for Westbrook raping curry means jack shit. Curry has to step up these next 3 games and win the series for his team. That's what great players do.

[coin24]

73-9 is going to go down as a good laugh in the end.

This

I thought they should have been resting guys the last few weeks, not playing 30+ minutes chasing the record..
Now they look stupid couldn't even make the finals

[kamil]

* Assuming they won't come back from 3-1 down.

Was it really worth it? Instead of resting key players, getting them ready for the playoffs, Kerr ran them into the ground, chasing the record. Records can be broken, but banners hang forever.

(Legit) Dubs fans: would you rather go 71-11 and win the championship, or go 73-9 lose in the WCF and be remembered as the NBA's New England Patriots?

New England Patriots made it to the Superbowl... by the looks of it, GSW isn't even going to make it that far.