+EatSleepFootball Bandwagon post championship maybe. Oracle has seen nothing but full capacity for the better part of a decade. I don't know what they feed those people out in Oakland but I've got nothing but respect for a fan base that turns out in playoff numbers even when the Warriors were essentially nonexistent.
MicronesianFlow The Golden State organization has always been good to its local fans. They promote lots of fan-team interaction. When I was young, I'd always attend the Warriors basketball camps in Oakland or San Ramon or Hayward. Monta, Baron, Adonal Foyle, Jason Richardson, Andres Biedrens, etc... always found a way to be present at these events since 2000 when I started growing up. Probably reasons why Oracle is so great and the fanbase is so strong now is because we as a fanbase started young and were exposed to the Warriors internally at a young age. By young, I meant 1998-2004... Around 10-15 years before today's success.
I was 13 years old when I watched this on tv. Man, it feels like it was yesterday when it happened. I'm proud to say, I've been a warriors fan since 2013.
It's rude. Really dumb that you guys say this. Oracle been packed for run tmc, for we believe Warriors, and for Steph-monta Warriors. Thunder got hella bandwagon fans. You weren't fucking with KD when he was a supersonic
+down4guyana this is true. As a laker fan I hated when they played at Oakland. Even though the lakers won about 18 straight at one point, it was always hell in that stadium.
+down4guyana Super Sonics are the same team as the Thunder. KD and Westbrook played in Seattle, then there was a city relocation. So there were fans when he was a supersonic.
If Raptors and Warriors made the finals of the playoffs with the depths in their teams and their uproarious and loud fan bases, it would be amazing, no doubt!
I just noticed that Warriors always makes unbelievably and awesome comebacks after the first half. That's why I just keep watching even if the score is bad.
Simon Trasporte the meaning of old warriors is that they don't need to get Superstars from other team to win a fucking championship. Now every fucking hater will troll the warriors if they don't win this fucking championship.
Miss those days when you had Bogut, David Lee, and Jermaine O'Neal options as big men. I think Festus Ezili was in there as well. This was a team ready to explode...and it happened a year later.
i remember turning off the stream after 3rd quarter because i think they gonna lose, half hours later turn the tv on to watch the post game interview, and they won the game... i regret turning off the stream after the 3rd quarter
I definitely remember this game...man....the Warriors definitely worked for their success now....real fans remember those days of an injury prone Steph Curry, Klay wasn't great, the dances in the tunnels "We're all we got, we're all we need! chant
Mark Jackson was an excellent coach. He didn’t get the full chance to prove himself. He set the bases for GSW. He converted the culture from a losing one to a winning one.
Aww, but I thought I was doing pretty good since this video was made 3 years ago. But, you know what? I'll take your word for it. **shuts down channel**
Ibnziyad Tariq I'll say that in real life if I have too, it's just common sense. Connection to the host doesn't count as a glitch, it's just bad connection there's no glitch to it. It's like saying my leg is sore so it's a fucking glitch
Jon Luisi the Oracle has been the loudest nba arena for over 20 years lol even when we were ass in the 2000s the fans still supported the team because that's how the bay is
+Nathan Exde I remember when Steph blocked him in MSG, and then he came to GS and I thought that it would never work... But friendships go along way with basketball. Sucked that it took 60+ games to give him his ring.
Logan Westfall No team has had ball movement like Kerr's Warriors. At least not since the early days of the NBA. Announcers have commented that Kerr is bringing back 1940s ball, with the three man weave. No coach has used it extensively for decades, so it's not that it is vital to winning a championship. It fits Kerr's team well though. The thing is, Kerr's Warriors are not Jackson's Warriors. Jackson was given very little to work with in his last year. The success he had the year before was all negated by the loss of Jack and Landry, the acquisition of Iguodala and management's forcing Jackson to make him a starter (and consequently Barnes a bench player), the injuries to Iguodala (hamstring), Lee (staph infection), Ezeli (out all year), and Bogut (ribs), and absolutely no backup point guard. He still took the Clippers to seven games. Over his three years there, I don't think Jackson had more iso plays on average than any other team. He had to do that more in his last year because of the lack of talent on the team, and JO being that type of player, but when he had players that could actually play, he ran actual plays. Kerr got Livingston and Barbosa, an athletic swingman in Holiday, Ezeli back from injury, Speights in shape, Klay coming off a confidence-building summer with Team USA, and everyone having matured another year. The injury to Lee was a blessing in disguise, and since Iguodala was no longer the "new guy", management didn't have to justify his contract with a starting position. They allowed Kerr to put him on the bench and put Barnes back where Jackson had shown he was more effective - as a starter. Kerr is a great coach, but no one has seen what he can do with a team lacking in talent.
GunterJPN Over the entire season, warriors played way too much iso ball, and the advanced statistics bear that out. To make general inferences from a single game from a historically great half of basketball is statistical malpractice, which is what you've done. In other words, your argument is a fallacy.
GunterJPN Popovich runs the same motion offense kerr and the warriors exercise. Its been a rather successful formula over the years despite his aging roster too. You're also assuming management forced jackson to start Iggy. Theres no public knowledge that was ever the case. The reality is Kerr made a solid team with a solid roster into an historically great team with virtually the same roster. Mere offseason acquisitions like livingston and barbosa don't translate to 12-15 more wins; scheme, quality coaching, and coaches that have a knack to exhaust their personnels talent do. Jackson couldn't do that, and Kerr, so far, has. But don't just take my word for it - look at the market. Did you see teams go after jackson last year? do you see them doing that again now? Think about it.
I remember watching this game..my raptors were dominating! At mid 3rd quarter I remember just looking at my tv seeing the Raptors confidence slip and the Warriors heating up. By start of 4th quarter I could feel Raps were going to lose I blame it on Casey you don't let your team fall like that! This was the game that sealed Rudy's trade
Interesting to see how different the team is here from their final runs the past few years, even the years without KD. Klay is showing a lot of what he will turn into, Curry not as aggressive on the 3s but making up for it with more drives, and Draymond less active in the post and spending a lot more time around the perimeter. Lots of development between this game and today.
This is probably the funniest thing I've read, thanks for making my day. Anyways, let's get to the matter at hands.. First of all, let me tell you, if the Warriors are rubbish, why are they 24-0? If they're rubbish, wouldn't they be like the 76ers, or the Lakers? That's the definition of 'rubbish'. Being undefeated doesn't make you rubbish. Does it? Secondly, 'only knows how to shoot threes', well if that's the case, everyone should practice them. Even Centers. Because it's obviously working. But either way, that's not true, because not every GSW player is a pro at shooting threes. Wouldn't that mean they would know how to do other tings to contribute unless they don't at all? Which they all contribue. Lastly, if NBA is boring this way, then why are the Warriors known as one of the most exciting team to watch, if not the most exciting, and why did NBATV knock out the SpursxHawks game, for the WarriorsxBucks game? Oh right, because they knew they'd get way more views. NEXT!