The 2016-17 Golden State Warriors are widely recognized as one of the best NBA teams of all time. That Warriors squad, which added Kevin Durant to their championship core, won 67 regular-season games and finished with the fourth-best point differential ever before going 16-1 in the playoffs. However, Detroit Pistons legend Rasheed Wallace made waves recently by claiming his 2004 Pistons “would’ve beat the s**t out of the 2017 Warriors.”

Wallace’s rationale was that Warriors team “couldn’t match up with us at any position,” Stephen Curry is “not a defender” and Draymond Green is “too little.”

Given this bluster, it’s no surprise Draymond Green got wind of these comments and had to fire back with a take of his own.

“Sheed we would’ve smacked yall,” Green posted Sunday morning. “Yall was scoring 72 points per game. That’s not winning a half. And we putting you and them big ass forces in every pick and roll. Let’s see you move them feet. That one ring was great though big bro. We all appreciated it!”

It’s often hard to compare teams across different eras, and these two teams played in very different eras even though they were only 13 years apart. The early 2000s featured way lower-scoring games, as Draymond Green alluded to in his response to Rasheed Wallace. While that Pistons team was elite defensively with a historically good anchor in Ben Wallace, they struggled to score even in relation to the rest of the NBA. Detroit scored just over 90 points per game in the regular season and was below average in offensive rating en route to 59 wins.

After a five-game first-round series, the Pistons were taken to seven games by the New Jersey Nets in the second round. In the Eastern Conference Finals against the Indiana Pacers, Detroit won in six games despite scoring just over 75 points per game and came out victorious in Game 6 with only 69 points. The Pistons did beat a star-studded Los Angeles Lakers team in the NBA Finals, but that Lakers squad had a lot of turmoil throughout the season and featured several washed-up future Hall of Famers.

Meanwhile, Green’s Warriors were elite on both ends of the court, boasting a historically great offense and one of the NBA’s top defenses. They had shooting all over the floor with Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant and Klay Thompson, plus Green’s high-level defense and playmaking. They also had several other key role players to fill in the gaps. That’s how they dominated the regular season, swept through the Western Conference Playoffs and lost just one game to LeBron James’ Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Finals.

In a hypothetical matchup, the Pistons’ physicality would have caused some problems for the Warriors, but the Dubs’ overwhelming talent factor and elite two-way play almost certainly would have won out. No disrespect to the Wallaces, Chauncey Billups, Rip Hamilton and Tayshaun Prince, but they wouldn’t be able to stack up.

On a side note, it’s amusing that Rasheed Wallace said Dray is “too little” when Ben Wallace wasn’t all that big himself at 6-foot-9. Ben played bigger, as does Dray, and that would be a fun battle to watch. The Warriors also had several other legitimate big men they played in their rotation, and Durant is basically a 7-footer as well.

In the end, we’ll never know how exactly this Warriors-Pistons matchup would play out, but it’s hard not to take Draymond Green’s side in this one.