So were a bunch of other people. Never seen a coach and a role player get so much credit for a championship. Guess that's what happens when your stars aren't a collection of stereotypes.Quote:
Originally Posted by RD2191
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So were a bunch of other people. Never seen a coach and a role player get so much credit for a championship. Guess that's what happens when your stars aren't a collection of stereotypes.Quote:
Originally Posted by RD2191
Kawhi is arguably the best player in the NBA. Not sure what you're point is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mikeanaro
i bet he won’t beat giannis who is more of an all around player than him..tbh..Quote:
Originally Posted by Hoops Czar
even kobe(a ballhogger) averaged atleast 5 assist when he won the mvp in 2008..
Top 5? what are you drinking? I want some.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hoops Czar
He had one great season with Spurs and we are almost half this and that makes him all time history?
Curry had 2 miracle seasons, Lillard, Harden I guess everybody needs the all time statue.
Kawhi went toe to toe with lebron and kd, 2 future hall of famers and arguably the goat, give credit where credit is due.Quote:
Originally Posted by TD 21
Uh what did he do against Dallas or OKC? dude had a great finals and a good series against Portland that's it so stop making it seem like he carried that team to finals because that's false.Quote:
Originally Posted by RD2191
Nope, thats Lebron.Quote:
Originally Posted by RD2191
There is no ¨arguably¨.
read your takes back when I was lurking, what made SA so unappealing in your opinion? was it simply that he had plans to go back to LA all along? or was pop's BS getting to himQuote:
Originally Posted by MoSpur02
I don't know if you think I'm one of the people who 'defends' Kawhi. But in case you do, you can go over my post history and see it consistently: I think Kawhi is a scumbag and hope the worst for him. I wanted him forcibly sat for this season instead of getting DDR and Poeltl. Screw Kawhi. BUT I never fell for the whole 'injured' schtick and knew there was no way the Spurs were winning any trade, and it was more or less the end of contention. I knew every team that didn't put out a better offer were stupid and would regret it because Kawhi is a faking piece of trash superstar.Quote:
Originally Posted by MoSpur02
He averaged 4 steals a game in his last 3 Spurs games and was still their advanced stats leader easily despite being rusty from sitting most of the year and missing camp. He wasn't falling apart. What kind of injury doesn't require surgery or any intervention that isn't something strange like clots or desert fever or something like that? The fake kind, or the exaggerated kind.
BUT it doesn't mean that the Spurs weren't in the wrong for playing hide-the-superMax-offer before things got publicly bad. "Oh, we don't know if we can pay the SuperMax, he does have this thigh issue, tee-hee! We don't know, we're so coy, tee-hee!" Just dumb. Just make it clear you're paying the guy that makes you the contender. Oh, he might not be worth it in years 4 and 5, so what? The fact that it's still not clear if they ever offered the SuperMax at all is irksome.
The idea that the Spurs might have been trying to be clever and moneyball the negotiations with an MVP candidate and top-5 player is headache-inducing. You don't moneyball the superstar, you moneyball to find advantages in the market for effectively surrounding the superstars with the best spent money and assets on roleplayers. Moneyball on contracts to find the Forbes who can fill the Mills role at 1/4 the cost and still pay the superstar.
Doesn't matter. Spurs wouldn't have been in that position without Kawhi. Not even close.Quote:
Originally Posted by Collins21
Yes, there is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mikeanaro
You're lying he did not go toe to toe with KD in 14 stop it. Old man Duncan is the only reason we won that series. Last time I checked Kawhi couldn't couldn't throw the ball in the hoop in the second half of game 6.Quote:
Originally Posted by RD2191
Exactly he did jack shit. Keep sucking him off if you'd like just stop lying and distorting the facts clown!!Quote:
Originally Posted by RD2191
Kawhi was always going back to Cali, I've called it since day 1. Go back and check my post. Family and being close to family matters A LOT to Kawhi, we should've all seen it coming, especially PATFO who were very ill prepared for Kawhi's departure.Quote:
Originally Posted by Genovaswitness
No, there is not.Quote:
Originally Posted by RD2191
Because you may like something that is not a sure thing.
Inspire us, you say Cavs get him and they go to 4 finals in a row?
Nothing at all easy about that series. Adams outplayed Duncan, Durant outplayed Kawhi, WB outplayed Parker, Waiters outplayed Ginobili, LMA shrank, Roberson Barnes'd Kawhi, Kanter couldn't be stopped, etc. The Spurs were in it for a while but ended up thoroughly dominated.Quote:
Originally Posted by Collins21
:lmao you're a fucking idiot bro. And Kawhi still held his own. As I said, Duncan wouldn't have been in that position without Kawhi in the first place so yeah, Kawhi deserves credit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Collins21
Easily, maybe not in today's East but definitely in Lebrons east of the past.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mikeanaro
Finals MVP bitch. Just because Kawhi hurt your bitch ass feelings doesn't make his contributions to the title team any less.Quote:
Originally Posted by Collins21
Spurms losing to 8 seeds before Kawhi :lol
So everybody outplayed Spurs and yet they won? something doesnt fit in that narrative.Quote:
Originally Posted by KimmyGib
I can't say for sure TBH. I know one of those two was offered. Not sure both.Quote:
Originally Posted by daslicer
Kawhi looked amazing tonight. Spurs may need to triple team him.
Thats fantasy league.Quote:
Originally Posted by RD2191
Its easy to put others in a position of greatness while taking away the success from the guy who made it.
KL is not even top 5 in scoring.
KL cant play a full season, so I find very unlikeable to sustain 4 seasons to the Finals with him at charge, even at fantasy levels.
KL joined a 60 win team, so its nice to imagine he could take a 20 win team to June, specially when he is not a leader...