Much has been said about the Golden State Warriors and how they impacting the game of basketball. The question that is thrown around the most is how would the Warriors match up with a classic center. We are talking Shaq, Ewing, The Dream, Wilt, Kareem, Bellamy etc. let's compare the Warriors to these classics bigs. I'll use Wilt as my example.
The Warriors default lineup is to run with Draymond Green as their main big only keeping Bogut and Ezeli just in case. This would in the case of Wilt Chamberlain create a matchup of 6'7" vs a guy who was at least 7'1". To add to this Wilt who have nearly 80 pounds on him too. The argument used is that Draymond is mobile and athletic. This plays to the stereotype that big guys aren't capable to matchup. Where this is mostly true Draymond has no chance defending a drop step from a real big man. He would feel fatigued by halftime and any advantage he would have had would now be gone. If he were to for any reason move past this he would have to handle Wilt's athletism... Wilt could move. This creates a no shot for any reason for the Warriors to succeed with the middle completely exposed.
To conclude the Warriors are a great team for the current game being played but they couldn't stand alone during the eras with dominant bigs. It's the same with bigs they can't stand out by themselves anymore. The Warriors are the best current team and it would be fun to see them play best teams of their time's at some point. One can only wish right?
-Schlierman
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