Here we go again, another older player saying his team would beat the Warriors.  This time it started off with a joke.  Klay Thompson said the Warriors could beat the Showtime Lakers, no doubt he was poking fun at his dad Mychal Thompson who was on the team.  But Magic Johnson checked him and said no they can’t.

“We are better than the ‘Showtime’ Lakers,” Klay Thompson said, interrupting teammate Draymond Green, who was asked whether the Warriors could be compared to a team from a previous era.

Mychal Thompson, a member of two of the Lakers’ five championship teams in the 1980s, knows.

“I admit this. We would shoot. And we shot eight 3s a game. They make eight 3s a quarter,” Mychal Thompson said Monday on the Thompson and Trudell Show on ESPN LA 710. “Golden State would outscore us 50-15 on 3s. So how are we supposed to win? So I agree with Klay, I think they would beat us. We couldn’t keep up with them offensively because of the way they can score so quickly.”

Johnson disagreed.

“We’ve never seen two guys who can shoot like Steph [Curry] and Klay [Thompson], and I give them that,” Johnson said Tuesday on First Take. “But they’ve never ran up against somebody like us. I’m telling you, whoever is going to dog me, I’m going to be wearing them down. I’m going to be wearing them out. James Worthy will be wearing them out, wearing them down. Kareem [Abdul-Jabbar] is going to be wearing them out, wearing them down.”

“Klay’s dad, Mychal Thompson, is one of the smartest players I’ve ever played with in all of basketball,” Johnson added. “But, the Warriors would have bad matchups against us. There’s no way they’re going to deal with Kareem [Abdul-Jabbar]. There’s no way they’re going to deal with James Worthy. The thing that we could do, that would affect them and cause some problems, is that we could set up and we could run on them on the fast break.”

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