I most certainly wouldn't rule it out. I feel like if the Clippers flame out early again this year, they'll start breaking the team up this summer.
32, but we had one of the youngest teams in the league and plenty of assets to keep building around Blake with.
It took severe injuries to our top two point guards and the Mavs tanking like idiots to face the Warriors to keep us out of the playoffs in 2006-07. Then 2007-08 was ruined before it even began when Brand tore his Achilles during preseason workouts. The playoff appearance wasn't a fluke, the fact they only made the playoffs once with that core was the fluke.'06 was a fluky year. The Clippers in '06 were the Sonics in '05. Fluky one hit wonder teams
I most certainly wouldn't rule it out. I feel like if the Clippers flame out early again this year, they'll start breaking the team up this summer.
Yet you consider Enrique a winner bc he was lucky enough to play alongside the great Timothy Duncan and the great Emmanuel Ginobili. Even though he's needed Claxton, Barry, Kerr, CoJo, and Paddy to bail his sorry ass out.
CP3 on the Spurs alongside Manu, TD, and towards the end Kawhi would've been the greatest modern day dynasty, tbh.
Sure he does. More nonsense. According to cliché, vanilla fans, every player that doesn't have a championship(s) or at least fit the mold of a Jordan, Bryant, etc., is soft, a choker, etc.
I played plenty of compe ive sports, most notably basketball and I'm as compe ive as humanly possible . . . but that doesn't mean I don't have a brain and independent thoughts. Sure, some are more comfortable in clutch situations, but I'm talking about the results.
I pretty much covered the majority of this above, but I'll add: the '15 WCSF is the only series he's lost that he absolutely should have won and he sure as didn't come out passive and scared in the '15 WCQF. He also didn't fail to come through in the clutch, but I guess that doesn't count because it doesn't fit the narrative. Also, as MaNu4Tres outlined, his playoff stats are ridiculous. The reality is, he's never played on a top 2 team in the conference and his stature makes it extremely difficult for him to be the best player on a championship team.
You forget that Manus sloppy play and Kawhis missed FT thwarted 2013 from being a championship that Parker wouldve been the hero of. That wouldve been another cherry on his already stellar career. Parker is a better scorer than CP3 and at one time was the best inside scorer of ANY player of ANY position in the NBA.
that's the worst take ever.
The results are obviously influenced by how much you are comfortable in clutch situations... tons of athlete are getting mental preparation for those moments but yet there is no such a thing about clutch so vanilla
what is vanilla is taking stat law and apply it whatever context is and say as a big hot take... clutch does not exist... news flash it does exist. The fact some are more or less comfortable is proof of that, there is no denial unless being an idiot that cp3 tends to defer in those moments see pargo and Pena to the rescue
Ya you did not understand a single word of what I wrote... not that I'm surprised... you should see a doctor or better go to school brah... reading is not your strength, French pg hate is but not sure it will help your career.
Do you not remember that season? The Mavs were so overconfident, they really did tank to face the Warriors. Two of their last six games of the season were against the Clippers and the Warriors. They played us at full strength and then rested all their starters against the Warriors. It was a monumentally idiotic decision, considering that we were starting Jason Hart at point guard at that point and we weren't one of those high-octane small-ball teams that gave the Mavs fits. But that's Avery Johnson for you.
CP3 has always been the better player...and it's not even close
Regardless of the CP3 vs Parker discussion, this is in part true. However, Timmy could've easily won the FMVP in 2013. Sad we won't know..
Of course stats and probability are not out of the equation. But that doesn't mean the mental aspect of the game is not critical in the clutch moments of the game.
Reasonable takes except Paul would never decline a max offer from the Clips. They can offer him tens of millions more than any other team. The only way CP3 leaves the Clips is if the Clips refuse to offer him a max deal (or close to it), and instead offer him a deal that is merely compe ive with what other teams can offer him. In that case, the Spurs would need to make some drastic moves (Parker) and strip their roster more than the Dubs did in order to sign Durant. Paul ain't coming to San Antonio.
Danny Green would have won it, until fatass said "I can't believe they're leaving him open!" and then got outplayed by Mario Chalmers down the stretch of the series.
I miss that Danny Green
who was the last player to take a paycut comparable to what cp3 would be doing to join the spurs? no one? the lakers could've paid dwight more than the rockets iirc, but i can't remember how much more.
david west comes to mind. that was only around ~$10 million though.
No, they're not. Bryant was about as confidence as they come, yet his "clutch" stats were terrible. The notion that athletes are more or less predisposed to perform based on the time of the game, is illogical.
Generally speaking, high IQ types understand end of game situations are about making the right play, not playing hero ball to satisfy cliché, vanilla fans.
smh... speaking of vanilla take... of course you perform different, I doubt you ever played anything in your life tbh...
Those are some pretty freaking amazing numbers. I don't think the guy is an automatic 50-win guy, but dayum.
People bashing CP3 mostly don't understand that his "choking" was just like Steve Nash's "choking". They both broke themselves on the cliffs of Tim Duncan.
CP is the best PG tbh
In other words, actual choking that's always been excused away or blamed on other players by Media.
Duncan didn't play for the Kings when Bibby used to take wet s on Nash every year. Duncan didn't play for the Nuggets, Grizzlies, Rockets and Thunder teams that Paul choked against.They both broke themselves on the cliffs of Tim Duncan.
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