Popovich: Kawhi Was Not a Leader

[Kawhitstorm]

Pop sounds very, very hypocritical.

You have a hottie and always tell friends that your girl "is the most beautiful girl in the world", she breaks up with you and suddenly you say "doesn't matter. she's...ugly af"

Saltiness.

He's butt-hurt like the entire anus of Antonio

[ambchang]

Some people still think Elon musk is the best engineer at Tesla.

[Kawhitstorm]

LMAO at Ka saying he shows up to practice every day when mother er doesn't even bother attending games he doesn't play.

Yeah, waving towels instead of rehabbing has been shown to significantly improve winning percentages

[Kawhitstorm]

At referring to the 76ers, Celtics and Kings as "elite compe ion" and reading too much into random regular season games.

On the whole, relative to expectations, he's struggled. The supposed "top 3 player in the world" isn't within' sniffing distance of that.

Of course Pop was going to pretend a few years ago. He was on his team and the best player on it. Now, he can be honest.

Talk about contradictions when you are trying to make a claim using the same "random" regular season games

Kawhi isn't out there going all out for those "random" regular season games unlike MVP chasers like Giannis & Davis. Holla at me when the postseason starts......

[TE]

Been gone a while and I can tell this player fan only got worse.

Fortunately I haven’t been around to read the posts found upstairs here.

[TE]

pinked

[TimmyBuckets]

Piiiiiiinked.

Kawhi was never a leader and that's blatantly obvious. Anyway, Kawhi saga is over. Time to move on.

[weebo]

Talk about contradictions when you are trying to make a claim using the same "random" regular season games

Kawhi isn't out there going all out for those "random" regular season games unlike MVP chasers like Giannis & Davis. Holla at me when the postseason starts......

What happened there partna?

[Kawhi_6rings]

So bitter

lowry is the leader not kachoke

[Kawhi_6rings]

Jordan. Kobe.

jordan developed player like pippen,grant,kobe was never a leader like mike,kachoke will only made his teammates play worse,just watch how lma struggled to play with himcompare kachoke to mike goat is a joke

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

Kawhi is not a leader. Probably part of why the Spurs balked at a max deal. Anyone who compares Kawhi to Duncan and says they’re similar as leaders because they’re both quiet knows nothing about leadership, and was never paying attention to the Spurs for 20 years.

Kawhi is an amazing individual player, and can be a great part of a team, but he lacks the natural leadership skills Tim walked in the door with.

To his credit I think he can, and is, working on developing that, but he’ll never be that kind of player.

I am surprised, though, that Pop pointed that out. He must still be smarting over KL’s departure.

[Kawhi_6rings]

And he did... But then THEY decided to sit him after he was still feeling pain from their misdiagnosis

sorry,it's KACHOKE refuse to play..............

[Kawhi_6rings]

He did play... And was clearly hurt... Ppl on here were even saying that he should sit... So the Spurs shut him down... He didn't shut down himself...

where's the injury report ???

[Kawhi_6rings]

Kawhi is not a leader. Probably part of why the Spurs balked at a max deal. Anyone who compares Kawhi to Duncan and says they’re similar as leaders because they’re both quiet knows nothing about leadership, and was never paying attention to the Spurs for 20 years.

Kawhi is an amazing individual player, and can be a great part of a team, but he lacks the natural leadership skills Tim walked in the door with.

To his credit I think he can, and is, working on developing that, but he’ll never be that kind of player.

I am surprised, though, that Pop pointed that out. He must still be smarting over KL’s departure.

see how robinson & timmy how to help develope his spurs even they retired,and kachoke not even contact his teammates & coach staff

[Keepin' it real]

bad pro, bad person and bad teammate

The bad boy! ...

[lefty]

jordan developed player like pippen,grant,kobe was never a leader like mike,kachoke will only made his teammates play worse,just watch how lma struggled to play with himcompare kachoke to mike goat is a joke

Jordan didn’t develop anyone

[Fusternino]

Jordan didn’t develop anyone

Yeah, if anything I've heard he's at least partly responsible for Rodman's deteriorating mental health.

[spurs50_]

I guess Kawhi was in New York being a leader while his teammates we're fighting to win a playoff game

[Brazil]

Is that 12 pages of people trying to argue kawhi is a leader ?

[UncleDennis]

I guess Kawhi was in New York being a leader while his teammates we're fighting to win a playoff game

lol or how about when Dennis hid Kawhi in some room, "sequestered away" when the Spurs reps came to visit... he's taken that silent leading to a new level.

I wonder if Dennis and the crew got texts on their phones like some amber alert went off, the Spurs people were in the building and quad-be-damned, he had Kawhi jumping up full NY staircases evading those storm troopers.

[TD 21]

Talk about contradictions when you are trying to make a claim using the same "random" regular season games

Kawhi isn't out there going all out for those "random" regular season games unlike MVP chasers like Giannis & Davis. Holla at me when the postseason starts......

The difference is, I'm using a larger sample size and virtually every meaningful number backs up what I said.

Sure he isn't. He's been obsessed with his scoring average the past few years. It was clearly one of the things his sleazebag uncle brainwashed him into thinking is important, to get the notoriety they're desperately seeking in order to build his "brand".

[duncan2k5]

So then we are in agreement? Kawhi doesn't play 82 game seasons. He doesn't play when he's healthy to do so. He's healthy this year and he is sitting out games. Basically all I'm saying is that I don't think anyone outside of Lebron and Steph Curry are worth max money. I wouldn't pay Kawhi $43 million a year bc he won't give me more than like 70 games and he won't win me a le. We weren't winning the le with him as our number 1 option and I don't see him winning another le unless he joins LeBron. I could very well be wrong but this Toronto team looks like a second round exit to me again. He will leave them and go to LA and lead the Clippers to nowhere. That is looking like the career path that he has chosen and I'm happy for him but I don't want to hear about greatness from him again unless he joins LeBron.

He was our number one option for one year... The year he was destroying the warriors

[duncan2k5]

Lol the raptors are stacked.

Stacked? Lol... They have the same roster as last year... And no one would call that team stacked

[duncan2k5]

jordan developed player like pippen,grant,kobe was never a leader like mike,kachoke will only made his teammates play worse,just watch how lma struggled to play with himcompare kachoke to mike goat is a joke

So why are everyone on the raps playing better than last year?

[duncan2k5]

The difference is, I'm using a larger sample size and virtually every meaningful number backs up what I said.

Sure he isn't. He's been obsessed with his scoring average the past few years. It was clearly one of the things his sleazebag uncle brainwashed him into thinking is important, to get the notoriety they're desperately seeking in order to build his "brand".

How was he OBSESSED with scoring? He took less than 20 shots per game he never demanded a trade because of his touches