Joe Lacob Hopes Warriors Resolve 'Unfinished Business' Against Cavs

[RealGM Wiretap]

The Golden State Warriors have returned to The Finals for the third straight season. Following their Game 4 win over the Spurs, Joe Lacob was asked how much redemption is on his mind.

“A lot. I kind of honestly feel that we’re on a mission," said Lacob. We’re not done. We got to go back and get some of what kind of feels taken from us last year. I’ll just leave it at that.”

Lacob admitted he hopes the Warriors get the opportunity to play the Cleveland Cavaliers again.

“Honestly, I don’t really care who we play (shoots a sly grin). Ok, maybe a slight preference for Cleveland. Only because I feel we have some unfinished business from last season.”

The Warriors famously blew a 3-1 lead last year against the Cavs.

"We were the better team but they did win. We need a chance to go in there and prove that," said Lacob.

Lacob was also asked if he thinks the 16-17 Warriors are better than the 73-win 15-16 Warriors.

“I think it is. Honestly. I think we’re better. It’s hard not to be better when you have a guy as good as Kevin Durant on your team. We were awful good last year. The one difference is Steph was hurt, as we all know. How much we can debate. But he was not what you see out there now. Then of course we had some other issues in the Finals. With Kevin, this is a very, very good team. The opposition is going to be good in the Finals. So not taking anything for granted.”

Via Anthony Slater/San Jose Mercury News

[luss54321]

Obviously this team is better... they have Kevin Durant. As talented as Curry is, you don't want your leading scorer to be a small PG. It's easier to take away the effectiveness of small players like Curry. Last year in the Finals, Curry shot 40% FG and averaged more TO's (4.3) than APG (3.7). He was terrible. A good example is how Cleveland has totally shut down Isaiah Thomas. He's a great scorer, but he's small and he can be removed from the game. You take Durant over Curry 10 out of 10 times.

[hyberx]

Obviously this team is better... they have Kevin Durant. As talented as Curry is, you don't want your leading scorer to be a small PG. It's easier to take away the effectiveness of small players like Curry. Last year in the Finals, Curry shot 40% FG and averaged more TO's (4.3) than APG (3.7). He was terrible. A good example is how Cleveland has totally shut down Isaiah Thomas. He's a great scorer, but he's small and he can be removed from the game. You take Durant over Curry 10 out of 10 times.

Let's forget last year Curry were out for 2 weeks during playoff, the year before when Ws won the trophy Curry average 26 pt/game with 44.3 FG% and ditch out 6.4 assist and 1.8 stl in the Final 6 games. Hmmm, is it because Cavs were missing defensive stoppers like Irving and Love, instead of having Delly and Iman Shumpert chasing Curry all 6 games?

Double team and trapping can remove any player out of the game. When you have Harrison Barnes bombing bricks after bricks from 3 point line without even attempting to go to the hoop once, while being left wide open, yeah, you can stop anybody easily.

You and your FG% lol.