« Reply #35 on: May 25, 2015, 10:10:57 AM »
San An last year was probably just as deep and frankly a better team than the Warriors. Heck a healthy Cavs team is probably just as deep if not deeper (Irving, James, Love, Mozgov, Varejao, Thompson, Smith, Shumpert, Della, Perkins, Marion, Haywood).
Sorry I completely disagree with you on that one about the cavs. Marion, Perk, and Haywood are all end of the bench scrubs at this point in their careers who are on their way out of the league after this year, and Varejao hasn't been healthy in years. James Jones does more for the Cavs than any of those 4 guys. Outside of their three they have Mozgov, Thompson, Smith, and Shumpert. Delladova is okay, but nothing special.
Compare that to the Warriors (Curry, Thompson, Green, Barnes, Bogut, Iguodala, Livingston, Speights, Ezeli, Lee, Barbosa) and I'm taking the Warriors, and I don't think twice.
Marion played 32 minutes a game last year for Dallas averaged over 10 ppg and 6 rpg. Perkins is 30 years old and went from a fairly critical bench role in OKC to barely playing in Cleveland. That is a result of the depth of the Cavs. I will give you Haywood isn't all that much but the last time he played in Charlotte he was a 20 minute a game player.
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