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And without Kevin Durant for most of the road trip!
I guess that's why they play the games instead of just declaring a winner, right?!?!?!?!?!?
Or you can even go Shaq in the modern era.... and Michael in his early years. All of those guys are basically do whatever they want, but didn't win without a really good team around them...
And a step further, I think it's weird how little the opponents are referenced in any of these debates... Most people seem to look at the record books and dismiss the team played or performance by the players.
LBJ is 4 & 6 but underdog in 6 of those finals... By performances, best to worst,
2017 Finals he goes 34, 12 and 10, on 56% and get a gentleman's sweep...
2015 is 36, 13 & 9 on 40%, loss...
2018 us 34 10 & 9 on 53%, loss....
1996 MJ goes 27, 5 and 4 and the Bulls win 4 to 2. They had three stars and a heck of a team to Seattle's two.
Context is huge but people don't really dig down, they just go 6-0 who cares.
That's why I'm still not buying for the finals, because the game will slow up, and I still think you can question Durant and Harden when the pressure is super high.
I think that if the Nets don't win the championship this year, it will be as big or bigger of a disaster than the Garnett/Pierce debacle. Personally I think that they should have continued with the Kenny Atkinson plan and slowly built a solid foundation there, but there's a reason I am not an NBA GM also.
I really wish that Dinwiddie wouldn't have gotten injured and they would have only added Durant, but the Kyrie thing was a package deal that has so far made the chemistry a little bit too turbulent on the court.
We'll see if they can figure out that they need to really 'gel' before the playoffs and like you said, the game slows down. If not, they may not make it through a first round.
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Ha because I don't bother to read or write long diatribes of your BS? Never have never will. Where you guys find the time is beyond me. Do you get paid to do this, don't you have a job?
Oh and it's my business if I don't bother to engage your BS as at this moment I am in the hospital as my girl just had major colon surgery is in a LOT of pain as we are dealing with her cancer.
Sorry to hear about your girlfriend, I honestly and sincerely wish her the best.
You are correct, it IS your business if you bother to engage in what I say. I'm surprised you felt the need to respond to my post about Wilt in the first place with all that you have going on, especially since it wasn't a quote of any of your posts.
Hoping for your girlfriend's complete recovery and that her pain subsides as quickly as possible.
The only good thing to come out of it is LaVert's cancer being found.
And I really don't get it from Durant's POV. They were a potentially GREAT team as they were, really truly. Two massive scoring threats with two sub threats, a dominant young centre and a solid back up and a deep bench.
Harden is Harden, I get it, but they could have won either way, and to me, winning as they were means more than winning now. If they do, each of his titles his team were stacked, no ifs and buts about it.
Just like leaving the Thunder, he's taken the easy way out. All titles aren't equal, and his are or maybe will be some of the most unbalanced.
I think that the Atkinson thing just boiled down to NBA 'superstars' not wanting to be told to do things even slightly differently than they want to do them. And though there are differing accounts about his dismissal, I would bet that if the truth were fully known it had more to do with Irving than anything else. That guy can't even show a little bit of respect for what Nash accomplished, he certainly wasn't going to stand for being coached by a nobody like Atkinson!!!!
I’ve got no time for Kyrie at all. Hell of a ball player but a loser attitude and just doesn’t get it. mental health issues when it’s him and KD and now he’s talking shit, gtfoh.
I liked him as a coach, but he obviously had some serious failings. I'm not saying they should have been hoisting the trophy year after year, but there's no reason for the sheer number of losses.
I feel like his main issue was setting lineups. Starting lineup had a lot of talent, but they didn't gel as well as a mix of the starters and the bench did every night. And he would keep just rotating the same squads all night when they would show some real flashes during lineup changes.
Then again, when one of those people is Jarred Vanderbilt this year, it's still fun to watch. I can watch him miss dunks and layups all day as long as I still get to see him go for loose balls.
I feel like the whole team should spend a week at the Jarred Vanderbilt school of "go-get-em-ness" to pick up a few pointers on not giving up every loose ball as lost.
I'd like to see what him and D'Lo could actually manage together if they can ever manage to both be off the injury list at the same time. I'm interested to see what Finch does right off the bat. Hopefully not more of the same.
https://arizonasports.com/story/2554389/suns-cut-head-off-snake-as-devi…
Portland is tough and Damian was hard to handle in the first half, but we came back and had our second BLOWOUT in a row.
24 3 pointers!
Turns out the Chris Paul trade is the best move we made since we stole Nash BACK from Dallas. At 35 he and Book are playing at All Star level.
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Last year he was put in AFTER Lillard was injured. Only time of his six year career.
Guess scoring 70 against Boston a few years ago and averaging 25 pts a game this year as well as carrying a young team on his back for 4 of 6 years of his career isn't enough.
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Devin Booker is averaging 24.7 PPG and was not selected to the All-Star game. It would be his 3rd season averaging 24 PPG without being selected to the All-Star game, the most in NBA history. (Among qualified seasons only)
Regarding George he is in a limited min schedule per game so that kinda suks and he doesn't even want an All Star game this year.
and yea Fox88 after watching Lillard the other night in the first half Lillard is a cold stone killer and I was worried about the outcome. But we SHUT him down and Booker lit him up like a Christmas tree in the 2nd half for a BLOWOUT.
Not usually a Steven A Smith fan but I like this!:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKNNpqmB0UU
There are just a lot of really good guards out there right now, it seems.
I usually don't even watch the nba All Star game but with two Suns in the backcourt I might just turn it on.
Seems so long ago when we had three in the game--Nash, Amare and Marion.
That was a fun team to watch.
Meanwhile last night we were robbed by the refs!
Time running out and Book goes up for a 3 and was clearly fouled which would have meant three free throws to tie the game, no call! 🤬👺👹
https://youtu.be/JhpOOjmg1U4
Shouldn't have been put in that position, once again we had a 17 point lead and started coasting don't know what is this this team when they get a big lead.
Oh and the younger Ball brother that boy can ball!!
And he's rookie I don't know about the other rookies so far but from what I saw he should be a definite candidate for rookie of the year.
He looks much better than his older brother. Handles the ball really good with a lot of confidence and made some 3 point daggers!
That team is better than their record shows.
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