Top 5 Teams That Can Challenge the Golden State Warriors for the NBA Title

December 28th, 2015 by David McCracken Leave a reply »
The Golden State Warriors are the best team in the NBA this season. There can be no argument, as they have earned that right by beating every team they have faced this season (lost to the Milwaukee Bucks, then beat them the following week). With a 28-1 record, the Warriors don't have the makeup of a team that is suffering from a championship hangover.

To say any team can beat the Warriors in a seven-game series at this point in the season seems highly unlikely. But for as good as Golden State has been and for as great as Stephen Curry and Draymond Green have been playing, there are holes in this team. The Warriors turn the ball over a lot, their defense gives up a lot of points, and they live and die by the three-ball.

It's not to say this will come back to haunt them later on in the playoffs—they just won a title doing this last season—but there are teams out there in the league that can make the most off creating turnovers on offense and can also defend on the perimeter. There are only five teams that have a realistic shot of overthrowing the Warriors in the playoffs this season, as you will see through the following slides.

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