Kerr has had it with teams claiming they’d beat the Golden State Warriors

Throughout these playoffs it’s been an almost daily headline that Team X of the past could beat the Golden State Warriors. Steve Kerr has thoughts.

You know who could beat the Golden State Warriors? Basically everybody if you ask them. From Magic claiming the Showtime Lakers would sweep to Rip Hamilton thinking the ’04 Pistons would take them in seven games, to Julius Erving also saying words, to presumably some CYO coach somewhere in southeastern Michigan preaching that if this JV squad could just stick to the fundamentals and hit their free throws, everyone is quick to disparage this year’s super superteam.

Maybe it’s a matter of era. Some people think today’s players aren’t tough, or that they rest too much, or something, but the idea of grit seems to come up a lot.

Or maybe it’s a matter of matchups. “We had Player Y who could handle Durant, Curry would hit shots, but Player Z is the wild-card that would put us over the top.” That kind of thing.

Or maybe it’s lingering resentment of how the team came together. In the past, players stayed on one team for long periods of time, generally. How dare people in the present do things differently.

Self-delusion is always fun. That’s got to play a part as well. You think you’re great, and you see people call this other team great, but as we know only one thing can be great at a given time and god as my witness I will not be the ungreat one.

It doesn’t matter, really. If these Finals have taught us anything, nothing matters. But something doesn’t have to matter for it to be annoying. Just look at Ohio. Inconsequential and irritating.

Regardless, Steve Kerr has had enough. The Golden State Warriors are his team. Damn the torpedoes; it’s time to be sarcastic.

At least I think that was sarcasm. I don’t understand how words work. You can make your own call.