"I do not think that they would have stayed on the court with us" - Rip Hamilton on why the Pistons would beat the Warriors in a hypothetical matchup
Rasheed Wallace and Draymond Green recently had a back-and-forth about a hypothetical matchup between the 2004 Detroit Pistons and the 2017 Golden State Warriors.
Of course, Sheed said the Pistons would win, and sure enough, Dray disagreed and countered that the Dubs would win. It's 2-1 now in favor of Detroit as Rasheed's former teammate Rip Hamilton has given his take on the matter.
"I do agree with Rasheed," said Hamilton in an Instagram post. "I do not think that they would have stayed on the court with us. Do I think it would've been a blowout? No. Do I think it would've been a sweep? Probably not. But do I think we probably would've won in six or seven? Absolutely because we can match up with them, and I do believe they couldn't match up with us."
Rip says their bigs can guard wings
In Green's argument, he compared both teams' offenses, noting that the Pistons played in low-scoring games. According to Draymond, Detroit's offense would be no match for Golden State's firepower.
The 2017 NBA Defensive Player of the Year winner also took a shot at Rasheed. Green said that if his 2017 Dubs would play the 2004 Pistons, they would put their bigs in a pick-and-roll to test their speed and agility. However, Hamilton says that ploy would be futile because Detroit had very mobile big men.
"We played in an era where we exploited mismatches," added Rip. "Our bigs can guard wings. Rasheed Wallace and Ben Wallace, we switched everything a lot of times. So there's no way I believe that team would've beat us, especially in a seven-game series."
Sheed says it ain't no beef
Rasheed recently went to X to clarify that there is no beef between him and Draymond. He went on to call Dray his 'little brother' since he was always in the Pistons locker room as a kid because he was friends with Joe Dumars' son. Wallace then suggested to Green that they talk it over one-on-one.
"Dray, you already know how we get down on that squad!!" wrote Sheed on X. "Don't matter the rules, yours or ours…y'all as a team were too fu**** little…you can ask more than half ya teammates (who we played against) on that roster…and we can keep it with that b/c no way yall could f*** with any of us in our prime…At any point, I can come on ya show, or you can come visit mine, and we can go through the roster man for man, coach to coach."
Dray has yet to yap back at Sheed, that is, if he's planning to. However, seeing the two of them discuss this mano-e-mano would be interesting by going through every player on both squads. Still, Rip has a good point. Detroit's bigs weren't as lumbering as Draymond tried to paint because, as Hamilton said, they could even guard wings.
