And while they are certainly warranted on some level, the teams are actually much more similar in many less-obvious ways.
The obvious? A second-year, scoring-minded shooting guard has improved his game after winning the rookie of the year award and has late-game heroics to suggest he could be the alpha dog on a playoff team in short order.
Additionally, there’s a 20 year-old former UCLA guard with all-world athleticism but seems to be a square peg in the round hole that is the point guard position in the NBA. He attacks the rim with reckless abandon but the fit with some of the other pieces seems dubious at times.