Golden State Warriors: Cavaliers are panicking while playing catch up
The Golden State Warriors are the best team in the NBA and the runners-up Cleveland Cavaliers are panicking trying to catch up.
The Golden State Warriors were the 2015 NBA champions. They are the reigning 2017 NBA champions. They look like they will probably be the 2018, 2019, and 2020 NBA champions.
The Warriors have a core that, if they stay together, should win a lot in the coming years. Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, Draymond Green, and Klay Thompson are four of the league’s top 15 or so players. In their first season together, they won a championship–something LeBron James’ Miami Heat couldn’t do.
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That means this is only the beginning for the Warriors. They’re only going to get better. This was just their first chance to develop chemistry and they won. Imagine what happens when they really get going.
The Warriors were the better team in 2016. It took a series of unfortunate events for them to barely fall to the Cavaliers who had everything going for them. It’s not unreasonable to suggest that if just one of the things that went wrong for Golden State doesn’t happen, they go back-to-back.
Alas, they didn’t. And in order to rectify that, they went out and got Kevin Durant. He isn’t the greatest season of all-time, but he’s damn near close.
So after all of the jokes and trash talking, the Warriors asserted their dominance in the playoffs. They went 16-1, dismantling the Cleveland Cavaliers in two of their four wins. Golden State was several steps ahead.
While the Warriors are living life and celebrating a championship summer, the Cavaliers are scrambling. They are playing catch up. The Warriors have broken the NBA and Cleveland is the biggest recipient of the Golden State beatdown.
The Warriors made LeBron James
go
accept the fact that he’s bald. It put the 3-1 joke that were the lifeblood of Cavaliers fans and Warriors haters to bed. It made the team itself start to panic.
David Griffin, the Cavs’ former GM, was let go just one season after delivering Cleveland its first championship. They’re seriously considering hiring the under qualified Chauncey Billups instead. Cavaliers fans have turned into a version of Los Angeles Lakers supporters in that they photoshop every player in their uniform. The difference is: the Cavs’ dream players won’t win.
If Carmelo Anthony and Dwyane Wade make their way to Northeast Ohio, then their biggest weaknesses have not been addressed. The Cavs were unable to trade for Jimmy Butler. The Paul George deal doesn’t look like it’s happening anytime soon.
The latest report showed that Cleveland was considering trading Kyrie Irving. This comes after reports that Irving would demand a trade if James left next summer. And the King’s departure could happen if the Cavaliers can’t put together another title contending team.
The Cavs and the rest of the NBA are panicking. Durant and the Dubs are just getting started. Watching Cleveland play catch up is hilarious because even if they get everything they want, they’re not going beat Golden State.
The Warriors are here to stay. Play catch up all you want, it still won’t matter.