There're no doubts about Klay he's like Pippen when MJ still playing here playing. He keeps giving Step the help that he needed and always fills his lapses.

They are a perfect duo who will kill you from the long range. The best offense is the defense system inside this league. You can't just leave anyone as both can kill you in a just split of your eyes.

They will be tested once again after those injuries they are now coming back with much stronger rivals. They are not the heavy favorite to win the title but in terms of capabilities; they are no longer at the bottom they can surprise everyone for sure!

Hamilton, Prince and Billups, those names are not a typical all stars but with Both Wallace inside the interior
this team is really hard to beat, they almost have another back-to-back title way back 2003-04 and 2004-05 just lost with the spurs in game 7.

Piston, way back, introduces good defense will allow you to win the title. They are not composed of those exciting players that will dunk or do a miracle shots, but they are the team who will knock you by limiting your offense.

A team that brings the system which mostly focus from how to wreck the offensive system of the other team.
Though they differ from the bad boys' images of the 90 eras but they also have the same system, to stop
anyone to make an easy basket.

"Yeah, I think Green is a player who is rarely seen on the field, but his absence is noticed when he's not on the field. Green is a very good all-rounder, his scoring, defensive technique, and even he is good when assists. Still can remember how Cleveland won that final when Green's absence was obvious. The outcome of the 2016-NBA Finals might have been different if Draymond Green had played that match.

Yes, indeed Durant surprised us, (PG and Shaun Livingston as well) but I believe that each case is different, each player has a different level of recovery, post-operative, injury etc.
Klay Thompson has had two serious injuries, and he is unfortunately not 20 years old to have an excellent recovery like a new player. Anyway, I hope he recovers well and returns to the courts as soon as possible, because the Warriors need your help

Draymond Green's skills and basketball IQ are more seen and noticeable when he is teaming up or alongside Steph Curry or Klay Thompson on the floor. But if these two are not around, he's not consistent or should I say, not performing well. That's the only problem I see with him. It's like that there should be something to trigger his best. But I like how he mentors their young cores and that was seen always. Now with the possible return of the first core lineup of the Warriors, I'm expecting he will pump again his usual.

About the outcome of the 2016 NBA Finals, it's just a "What If". I don't find any sense to say that if Green is there the whole game series, the outcome might be different.

Then you just conclude that Green is a useless player hehe. It's not about the productivity but the overall performance. It's common to lose that everybody in Warriors is struggling. If he is nothing without Steph and Klay, then no team will have interest on signing him in the future and worst, the Warriors might consider trading him despite he is a part of their championship run. I didn't even hearing his name in some rumors that a team shows interest to him.

Yeah, we could definitely says that he carry GSW last year on his shoulder, so much that he become the scoring champion last year. And the rest are either inconsistent and still lacks the experience to win big games.

But if Thompson comes back early next year, it will be a different GSW, but they have to grind it everyday to at least make the playoffs again.

It's true. Overall performance can keep you in one team even if you are not a shooter.
Then, there is impact, being a team player and so much more to offer than just being an offensive player.
Look at KD, he had been jumping in different teams and so does Kyrie and Kawhi. They are not the type to be a team player but mostly isolations.

Playmakers such as Draymond Green and Marcus Smart are different. They may not be ball handlers or with high dribbling skills but they can manage the plays and can lead using high IQ. Lebron is doing the same thing when he got older.

The impacts when they are talking is loud enough to focus on whatever plays they wanted to execute.

Both players have that skills to keep the ball moving till it reached the open man. Talents that a team would love to have inside their lineups,

I just remembered how Rodman added the spice with the dominating bulls back then, not a legit scorer but  one of a kind Rockstar during their era.

He has that impact that everyone loves to see each games that they are performing. Both Smart and Green can be classified as the new version
of Rodman (my own personal opinion)

Nope I don't mean that he's useless but what I mean there is he doesn't have any guys who can rely in terms of scoring since he cannot produce in that area and we see that on their last conference where they are totally struggling when klay and steph is out of the game due to injury. We know what is the capabilities of green and he's totally a good defensive player but the inconsistency of his teammates bring him also bring him down.