Let's get something straight

[sasaint]

The relative essentialness of Leonard in 2014 gets overrated, especially when folks act like he "carried" SA to a le. Tim was incredible on and off the court, and that was Pop's last great coaching year. Each of the top seven guys in the rotation had huge moments in those playoffs. You can totally argue that Diaw should have received some type of recognition for finally living up to his considerable potential for a couple of weeks.

However, I do think folks are underrating how dominant Leonard was to close out that Finals. It wasn't a system thing. He legit became a star in that series. Leonard pretty much got the better of Lebron from those games forward, and that's something no other player in the league could say. Leonard turning into a tool doesn't negate that; it just underscores how foolish teams like Philly were in not offering more for Leonard.

That's what 2014 was like in my mind. I thought Kawhi won MVP more for his individual defense than his pretty team-oriented offense. But he definitely announced his arrival in those final three games with an exclamation mark. And I will always remember Danny nailing treys on breaks with no other Spur on my TV screen. Lots of great stuff to remember about lots of Spurs.

[SpursforSix]

No clue. I've asked around but never got any answers. Figured he would have been all over the LeBron/Kawhi/Lakers drama.

that's too bad...I agree that we should have seen him pop his head in by now.
hope everything is OK

[cool cat]

I said it before Kawhi is just a footnote on the ‘14 championship. Nothing more, nothing less.

[rjv]

beside the series with the heat is just how effective leonard was in the thunder series. his run-down of westbrook late in game 6 that led to the duncan game clinching shot was one of the great plays of spurs history, considering its importance.

[kobyz]

kawhi has class, he could never trash publicly the spurs organization like this er did right there, always dislike this selfish ...

[therealtruth]

Yeah, he only has the highest postseason TS% among all active players..........on the wrong end is DeFrozen

https://www.basketball-reference.com..._active_p.html

Pretty much the definition of comes through in the playoffs. If you watch Coach Nick's videos you know why.

[Kawhitstorm]

This is not about Derozan. We have all acknowledged Derozan is a choke artist. Kawhi was great the first 4 games of the Clippers series in '15 but once the Clippers adjusted their defense he choked dramatically in the final 3 games of that series. In game 7 he got schooled badly by Matt Barnes which was embarrassing. Kawhi had the same problem in '16 against the Thunder. He had 3 great games and 3 ty games in that series. In game 6 of that series he got outplayed by Robertson. In '17 he was great for the whole entire Grizzlies series but against the Rox he had a choking performance in game 5 and couldn't even play in game 6 and was crap in game 1. Kawhi is a top 5 player when healthy but my knock on him is that he's a Jekyll and Hyde player during the playoffs. He will have an equal amount of dominant games followed by an equal amount of ty games. He's not Lebron James or even Kevin Durant consistent when it comes to playing great during the playoffs.

Did you miss Beta's series against the Rockets when he was hijacking the offense for 3 straight games before Choke-P3 got injured? (He has a laundry list including being MIA in Gm 6 during his MVP season & going ghost against the Grizz when WestBrick got injured then blamed it on fatigue)

There is no player that expends as much energy as Kawhi on BOTH ends & he's still the most efficient postseason scorer (Kirby goes 6-24 & wins FMVP)

Imagine if Kawhi took a rest on defense for 3 quarters..............like LeBrat (He also has had some miserable shooting series in his career)

If you're expecting him to shoot 60% every game then good luck..........I suggest you rewatch the '96 Finals when Jordan was atrocious in a couple of games.

[daslicer]

Did you miss Beta's series against the Rockets when he was hijacking the offense for 3 straight games before Choke-P3 got injured? (He has a laundry list including being MIA in Gm 6 during his MVP season & going ghost against the Grizz when WestBrick got injured then blamed it on fatigue)

There is no player that expends as much energy as Kawhi on BOTH ends & he's still the most efficient postseason scorer (Kirby goes 6-24 & wins FMVP)

Imagine if Kawhi took a rest on defense for 3 quarters..............like LeBrat (He also has had some miserable shooting series in his career)

If you're expecting him to shoot 60% every game then good luck..........I suggest you rewatch the '96 Finals when Jordan was atrocious in a couple of games.

Your whole entire post is deflection. What I said about Kawhi was factual and you can't deal with it.

[rastaspur]

I always, even before this whole saga began, read that username as "kuh-WIT-storm". A longer way of saying "quit". Ironic that it proved apropos.

That was my interpretation as well. I guess that nut hugger kawhit is a prophet after all. Impressive.

Pm me some lotto numbers, nut hugger

[Allan Rowe vs Wade]

i thought it was Kawhi-T-Storm

[Othyus Lalanne]

You need a top 5 talent and or several former HOF all stars. I'd say 2014 is closer to a Boston championship (kathi is rondo) than a 2004 Pistons.

But kawhi was the best player on that team by only much that year. Truthfully he was more replaceable than Duncan or DIAW, but less than Parker and Gino. Splitter and Green. Just amazing a player who lived through that would turn to cancer.

Cancer is what LeBron in CLE looks like. Calm down already.

[heyheymymy]

anyone know what happened to him?

Boiled down. Set one last trend for the road I guess.

[therealtruth]

This is not about Derozan. We have all acknowledged Derozan is a choke artist. Kawhi was great the first 4 games of the Clippers series in '15 but once the Clippers adjusted their defense he choked dramatically in the final 3 games of that series. In game 7 he got schooled badly by Matt Barnes which was embarrassing. Kawhi had the same problem in '16 against the Thunder. He had 3 great games and 3 ty games in that series. In game 6 of that series he got outplayed by Robertson. In '17 he was great for the whole entire Grizzlies series but against the Rox he had a choking performance in game 5 and couldn't even play in game 6 and was crap in game 1. Kawhi is a top 5 player when healthy but my knock on him is that he's a Jekyll and Hyde player during the playoffs. He will have an equal amount of dominant games followed by an equal amount of ty games. He's not Lebron James or even Kevin Durant consistent when it comes to playing great during the playoffs.

The Clippers series was lost when Pop couldn't figure out how to defend the double high pick with DJ and Blake. And also TP going hero ball in game 7 and missing that fastbreak layup on JJ.

[TheDoctor]

i thought it was Kawhi-T-Storm

[Mouth is Bleeding]

Yes it was all about the team and the beautiful game.

He was probably the best player in the finals itself but the finals wasn't the toughest series either.

I wish it was a playoffs MVP instead or along with it. That player was probably Manu, though Timmy is always essential, but more than any individual player or MVP, playoffs or finals, the most important was the team.

The team playing the beautiful game.

[Kawhitstorm]

Your whole entire post is deflection. What I said about Kawhi was factual and you can't deal with it.

Yeah as factual as me saying that Jordan missed more shots than he made in the Finals