Originally Posted by
Plaza23
The Bulls went 72-10 that year, and were never pushed at all in the playoffs (won every series by at least 4-2). Of course the Warriors were trying to win games. Every NBA team tries to win games unless they are tanking for draft picks. No NBA team intentionally would not want home court advantage.
A 72-10 team, that wins the NBA Championship is a better team than a team that goes 58-24, and has to go 7 games just to scrape by a nothing Houston Rockets team.
Warriors played the Spurs first round who were trash without Leonard.
They played another trash team in the Pelicans who were without Cousins.
They barely beat the Rockets who had them down by 15+ points in Game 6 and Game 7, and were without CP3 in Game 7.
And good for them they swept a Lebron team that was trash around him.
To say this team could beat Michael Jordan in his prime, on his very best team. Stop. The only way this upcoming team could ever make that statement is if they go like 77-5 in the regular season or something crazy - which they won't.