Welcome on to a Wednesday night edition of the dunked on basketball podcast want to bring in Kevin Pelton

From ESPN Insider as a follow up to the podcast that we did probably about a year and a half ago

Almost two years ago now actually in the summer 2015 about the greatest teams in NBA history

You wrote on this you've written on this extensively over the course of the year the question of where do the warriors fall the

1617 warriors team in that pantheon. Yeah, I think probably in that podcast

We also discussed has got brought up on Twitter yesterday

Some that you and Danny had mentioned after the 2015 title how that was probably the best team you would ever cover

How naive it seems in hindsight. Yeah, so I mean we thought there'd be regression to the mean right

We thought Steph Curry would never be this good the next year right Clay Thompson

Drew I agree to take in these leads are like oh, they're gonna regress a little bit like someone's gonna get injured

They had such great health and yeah, no, so the you know the

2016 warriors I mean they did end up rating much lower because of the fact that they were so ineffective in the playoffs

But then you add Kevin Durant to the mix and it turns out that is without question in all time team

So I came up with these rankings of best teams ever after that

2015 title to kind of see where the warriors ranked in context and

Looked at two primary factors your teams point differential during the regular season and then your point differential in the playoffs

Adjusted for your opposition

What they did during the regular season?

So it's the same thing where you're comparing them to an average team and then there there are other factors if you didn't win a

Championship

There's a penalty for that because otherwise you would come up with a team like you know

The 2010 magic that had two dominant rounds in the playoffs and then lost in the conference finals

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