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Porker not a leader either.
Mute Cancer
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No.
But since I'm single again, I'd love to find a girl that looks at me the way that OG watches Kawhi play...
Aldridge is a team leader because he demanded a trade, complained about his touches and destroyed team chemistry.
RIP
too bad kawhi stepped on lee's foot originally. i can't recall any player turning an ankle on a teammate's foot who was on the bench.
lee's feet weren't even out much and in the video he even moves them back before kawhi steps on one.
That's what he should have said
The only thing I don't like about this whole situation is Pop's view on Mills. I assumed he would be gone by next year bc there is no room for him here in the rotation with Murray, Lonnie, Derrick, Demar, Forbes, and Marco. But man it's sounding like I'm wrong about that. Unless it's CIA Pop trying to talk up Mills and get his worth up a bit before he trades him(just a joke)
Right now I'm looking at FB comments on the Bleacher Report article for this and it's almost unanimously in Pop's favor.
The best numbers don't just automatically make you a leader. Sometimes you need to gut it out, show up for your teammates and yes be vocal. At the very least if you cannot push through or legitamitely play you sit on the bench you cheer your mates on, you talk, you advise, you do something god damn it. Not sulk and plan your exit and hurt your team.
Kawitter is a great player who can play with anyone but he is a selfish sensitive self serving prick who bailed on his team long before he was traded that's what stings. Please nobody compare him to Timmy ever not even in the same solar system and Timmy did speak when needed he did show emotion when he had to and God knows he played through injury plenty.
Let me add this too in my heart of hearts deep in my basketball soul I also think kawitter is not half the player he has turned into without pop and the Spurs orginization.
Inb4 Kawhi trolls RC and Pop by sitting out both games
is either game against the spurs the second of a B2B?
kawhi doesn't sit out if one of them is.
Random thoughts:
-I'm surprised Pop went there. That was a classic opportunity for Pop to dodge the question. But the question was so ridiculous that I guess Pop felt he had to be honest.
-Obviously, Nephew is not a leader in any real sense of the world. He has 10/10 work ethic, 9.99/10 basketball talent at his best, 1/10 leadership, 0/10 teammate. The guy literally doesn't sit on the bench to support his teammates when he's not playing. He's a hardworking guy who wants to be great and he's not a locker room cancer or anything . . . but he does the bare minimum when dealing with teammates.
-Any comparisons to Duncan turned out to be unfounded. Duncan was quiet too but he was probably the best teammate in the history of the NBA. He always cheered on his teammates (even when he wasn't playing), didn't care about the limelight, was always willing to workout with teammates (during the season and in the offseason), didn't care if he had David Robinson or Anthony Goldwire on his side -- he never pouted and was always encouraging. Unfortunately, a lot of people saw the similarities between Nephew and Duncan (quiet, hard worker) and assumed other characteristics were the same too. That . . . turned out not to be the case.
-Nephew's response to Pop's quote was fine. "Stop playing" was worded wrong (I hope, unless he wants to admit to something more). When Nephew was a Spur, everyone always said he led by example. It is a bit unfair to say different now . . . even if it's the truth. That's why Pop probably would have been best served by dodging the question.
-Having watched Nephew quite a bit this year, I'd say he's about 80% of his 2017 offensive self and about 40% of his DPOY defensive self. Still damn good obviously but it'll be interesting to see if he can ever return to his former level of play. Maybe he'll reach peak level once he's completely healthy. We'll see.
-The Raptors would win 55+ games without Nephew. Siakam and Anunoby filling in for Nephew's minutes are enough to overwhelm all but the most elite of teams.
-That protected pick the Raptors owe the Spurs is almost 100 percent guaranteed to convey. They'd have to lose Nephew and Lowry for the season for the protection to be in jeopardy (basically, it'll convey to the Spurs as long as the Raptors win at least 48-50 games).
Pop saying 2 years ago that Kawhi was on the path is not changing things based on what he said and what has transpired. Kawhi was on the path and got lost. He never made it.
He was the opposite of a leader. He bailed on his team, faked an injury and lied to everyone around him including his teammates.
Worst of all, he left them holding the bill and answering to the media because he was not a leader willing to step up and speak for his own actions.
Its not a contradiction; Pop believed Kawhi was on the right path and Kawhi never got there.
On the SportsCenter FB comment thread for this again almost everyone is in favor of Pop calling out Kawhi for being a quitter.
But it is a contradiction....
https://www.sbnation.com/nba/2016/11...ay-shootaround
He’s not just doing it by example anymore," Spurs guard Danny Green told me. "He’s leading by action.""He’s never going to be a towel waver," Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said. "He speaks to me about things that he sees now. He comes into timeouts, if he’s not happy with what’s going on on the court. That’s all good.
"I’d rather have him do that than beat his chest and wiggle his shoulders and stare at the camera and all that other crap," Pop continued. "That doesn’t seem to make much sense. I’d rather have it the other way and work on him to be a leader in the timeouts, in the locker room, on the plane. That kind of stuff."
I thought we settled on YG being Jabari Parker?
Anyway I don't care if people here still hate or love kawhi, there's enough reasons for anyone to do either.. he's looking pretty good but I don't know how serious his health concerns are
To be a leader, it helps to be around.
Where was Pau Gasol on the road trip?
He literally said he's got Tim Duncan things about leadership. He was leading by example, first in practices...But suddenly Pop "changed" his view.
This sounds like Kawhi was a positive leader when he was on the Spurs but since he's on other team he never was a leader? Saltiness everywhere...
For the record, he didn't fake an injury. The injury was real.
You can question the severity of the injury, the time it took to heal, Spurs' diagnosis, Kawhi's doctors diagnosis, whatever. But the injury was real.
Lift, explosiveness aren't part of his game this season for a reason.
He didn’t change his view because Kawhi left; that is what changed Pop’s view. I don’t see how you can’t see this. Kawhi proved, after Pop said those things originally, that he was not the leader anyone thought he COULD be.
That’s not a contradiction.
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