Warriors and Raptors

[Rapstor4Life]

Fact - The only reason Golden State had such a poor record last season was because of Curry's health situation.
With a healthy Curry AND Bogut, its no surprise they are they team they are.

seriously this

fact-Barnes and Drewmore are only playing more because of injuries its just a plus that they are playing well despite being rookies.

fact-Having a lights out shooter like Steph will do that.

fact-Warriors dont have Bargnani...........

[Joey]

Fact - The only reason Golden State had such a poor record last season was because of Curry's health situation.
With a healthy Curry AND Bogut, its no surprise they are they team they are.

[planetmars]

Curry only played in half his games last year, which explains their poor record. But GSW has a very exciting team and if Curry's ankles don't give out on him they will always be a threat.

Talent means a lot, and they lucked out by drafting Curry and then winning the coin flip last year. If they lost that coin flip to the Raptors, then I believe their pick would have gone to Utah as it was top 7 protected which means no Barnes and their future would have looked a little bleaker.

Bogut was (and still is) a gamble, but he's an expiring now next year.

In 2014 they will have a lot of cap space and some of the best free agents could be available. GSW fans have a lot to be happy about.. too bad us Raptors fans have to continue to suffer.

[Mediumcore]

Not to mention the great weather they enjoy where as we're usually freezing our ass of in Toronto, and the beautiful waterfronts they have and their taxes are also lower. And the women...fogetaboutit!!!

But in all seriousness their franchise was as much a joke as ours is now, but once the new ownership took hold of things they did a great job of righting the ship. Lets hope once Bell/Rogers have a chance to fully invest themselves they can do the same. They're already bringing in what I guess would be considered the cream of the crop in Tim Leiweke to oversee things. Starts from the top down.

[octothorp]

I mentioned this earlier in the year when we played them, but the Warriors also have an absolutely fantastic cap situation. After next season, they've potentially got Lee, Curry, Barnes, Thompson, Ezeli, and Green signed for about $35 million. They could add a couple $15 million+ star free agents to the mix and still have room under the tax. I don't think there's a team in the league with a brighter future.

[The Great One]

Fact - They basically had the same record at the end of last season. Now, the Warriors are in the 2nd round of the playoffs. And it's looking like this series against the Spurs is going 7 games.

Raptors on the other hand once again is out of the playoffs.

Fact - It is much tougher to get into the playoffs in the West than in the Eest because there's so many great teams in the West.

Another thing, Warriors play their rookies a lot. Mark Jackson is not afraid to use Ezeli or Barnes or Green or even Bazemore in crunch time. In fact, Green and Barnes plays clutch mins for the Warriors every night. Goes back to what Casey said about Jonas a couple of months ago that if the Raps were fighting for a playoff spot, Jonas would likely not get much playing time