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In terms of blocks/steals ON THE BALL, he might be. I can't recall someone just plain ripping the ball directly from players like he does.
Overall though, bit premature.
I have watched a lot of b-ball in my day. I have never seen someone this good. He just embarrasses NBA guys on a regular basis.
In terms of blocks/steals ON THE BALL, he might be. I can't recall someone just plain ripping the ball directly from players like he does.
Overall though, bit premature.
"On the ball" defense is what perimeter defense mostly is, no? He plays the lanes too.
Jordan, Pippen and Gary Payton were all nightmares. But Kahwi is definitely special.
Of course, but blocks and steals aren't the entirety of on ball defense.
Pippen and Jordan were absolutely on his level, if not better.
But Kawhi has the potential to be, and I don't say this lightly, the best defensive wing in NBA history.
It's amazing in 3 and half years, he's already passed Bruce. But he has....
Tough to compare across eras, especially hideous, grind-out 90s ball, where the Bulls' perimeter compe ion was John Starks(not sure he would even make the rotation of a contender), Reggie Miller(not a great creator), Jeff Hornacek, etc..
He's the best I've seen but I was too young to see guys like Pip during their prime. I do have a hard time imagining someone being as good as he is at taking the ball from players though, he's a straight up bully in that regard. Alot of the guys he's gotten are elite ballhandlers as well (Paul, Wade, Ellis, etc).
And he's only 23.
Everyone has bad games obviously, but for example just today so far, he has been very, very average on ball (minus the steals/blocks)
Team D was also very poor in the 2nd Q.
Nice ing jinx thread.
Best defender I've ever seen, complete defensive player.
Not really.
Quick start another thread to reverse jinx.
No. Not yet anyway.
Pippen. Artest. Cooper. Moncrief. Bowen. Jordan. Payton. Dumars.
Kawhi is in their league. That's impressive.
But he fouled Ellis ... you realize that? does not take away from the argument, but still ...
Ellis run ing a train on my man. Hopefully he can turn it around
Are you watching the game?
He doesn't watch games, he watches box scores.
posts from his step dads Motorola tbh
And you watch Tyrone your girl. #Splitcuck
Monta Ellis with 3:50 left in the 3rd quarter:
26pts, 3ast, 11/18, +8
Monta Ellis' last game vs Phoenix:
11pts, 2ast, 4/22, -6
Monta taking a on kawhi
Come on matrix
Monta broke the best perimeter defender in the ever
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