You mean the Clippers team that took 2 from the Warriors without an all-star? I would say that team is already pretty solid before Kawhi and Paul George.
Everyone took a bite out of the Warriors last year. They were pacing themselves in that first round series. Again, critical thinking.
It's interesting that so many of you think that the bench is irrelevant and only the number of all stars matter,
Ahhh your favorite fallacy
yet when Kawhi had to choose a team, he was only seriously talking to the Clippers and Raptors,
You have proof he wasn’t taking the Lakers seriously? He wanted to be a Laker first when he asked to be traded.
who both go deep with good players, and wanted to play with Paul George, not LeBron or AD. I guess a lot of Boneyard posters are better talent evaluators than Kawhi.
The story is already out. Apparently Kawhi perceived a dynastic perpetuation of competitive imbalance if he went to the Lakers, and picked the other team so as to avoid that. Who knows though.
If anything, I would think he took Toronto least seriously. He asked to go to the Lakers first. Then he asked just to go to LA. I think (you should start using that phrase) he listened to Toronto out of courtesy but, given he chose a total unknown in the Clippers, he wasn’t too interested in playing in freezing-cold Canada.
Edit just checked the box scores. Toronto's bench averaged 3 more points than did GS’s over the series. GS won games 2 and 5, both games in which their bench was out scored by 8 and 5 points.
GS didn’t have depth because even their depth (Cousins, Looney) was hurt. I hate the warriors and hate that you’re making me pseudo-defend them.
