Just to let you think a little harder how good this team could have been I'm going to compare position by position this team to the then World Champion Houston Rockets.

Think back to the 94-95 season, it started with the starting lineup from the previous page and the Rockets had their's that won them a championship even two, but would they have one, or two if the Warriors stayed together, if Nellie didn't suck, and Webber wasn't such a baby about things. Here's a glimpse to what could have been.

WORLD CHAMPIONVS.OUR WARRIORS

sorry couldn't find the old logos.

We start with the point guard position. You know who we had, probably the top point guard in the game, the Houston Rockets had the two headed point guard combination of Sam Cassel and Kenny Smith. No matter which one, Kenny or Sam, no matter if you had both there skills in one man we still would have had the edge, we still would have had one of the best floor leaders out there, even if he had just came back from an ACL injury the previous year, because it was just that, the previous year.

Warriors 1 --Rockets 0

Well here was a position that we were going to shine and maybe even dominate. Our man was a third year player that was just named All NBA first team, and was on the verge of greatness. The Rockets had Mario Elie starting, but later in the year made a trade for Former Houston U. alum, and now head coach, of his alma mater, Clyde Drexler, but like with the point guard it didn't matter who you put there between the two of them, it's the All NBA two guard all the way. Another point for the boys in blue (and white).

Warriors 2 -- Rockets 0

This May be one of the closest match ups between the two teams. The Warriors, though they have a member of the Dream Team, and one of the great Warriors players of all time, he is also in the start of a decline in his career, and the Rockets man, Robert Horry came up big time in the Finals the year before. But Mully was Mr. Reliable for the Warriors, at least when he wasn't hurt. This one's a toss up you pick.

Warriors 2,1 -- Rockets 0,1

Well you have our man, Rookie of the Year and one of the top Power Forward already in the game and on the other side you had Otis Thorpe, who went in the Clyde trade, and then it went to some other guy that would have no chance of taking on C-Web one on one either. Yeah Web was one of the reasons they are the team that they are today, making Nellie the bad guy. It was Webber that was leaking to the media that there was bad blood in the organization, when it was really just him and Nellie. Well whatever we won that match up, chalk up another one for us.

Warriors 3,1 -- Rockets 0,1

Well last but not least you have the center spot and the man in the middle. Yeah we got Seikely in a big trade, but they still had the dream, and the Dream was the Dream and the MVP. He was the main reason that the Rockets took the two championships while Jordan was on hiatus at the White Sox System. But was he good enough to make for the rest of his starting lineup that couldn't even compare to the Warriors'. Don't forget Seikely wasn't no push over either, well....maybe. But he could have done the job better than say a Big Victor Alexander or Chris Gatling.

Warriors 3,1 -- Rockets 1,1

  

We go to the bench, and the Warriors had some fair rookie and also some great vets. The Warriors had former six man of the year Rickey Pierce, they still had the "Energizer" Chris Gatling, they had "Bones" Carlos Rogers, who showed a lot of promise as a rookie, who was also the 11th overall pick in the last draft, and Clifford Rozier who was an All American in college and the Warriors first pick in the last draft but, well you know what happened to him....or do you, where did he go anyway?

But this Warrior team was stacked like no other team that they had ever had, at least since the eighties. But too bad they couldn't keep it together. Too bad there coach turned into a bum. Too bad that it was a transition year for Basketball where all the players became soft and couldn't take getting yelled at by their coach, ala Chris Webber. He was such a pain yet had so much promise, especially when he dunked on my Favorite player of all time Charles Barkely in the playoffs just the year before and had that grin that no one can forget, and who cares if they got swept that was something. That was the start of what would have been it all, a trip right up to the top of the whole thing. just looking down on the Rockets, the Jazz, the Sonics, Suns, the Knicks and even the Jordan-less Bulls. It was and should have been our shot at greatness. We should be one of the elite teams. We should be in the same breaths as the Sonics and Rockets in the West, and even when the Bulls and Jordan came back, we should have been the team to represent the West and get our asses beat.

But now we have these guys...can't even get out of the lottery.