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Yeah I do. AD is somehow a great player and the most overrated player in the league. He's got a lot of KG in him and that's not a good thing. AD can't lead a team to a championship. Very few players can. I mean Lebron and Steph are about it. They are the only two A+ players to me. Then you have Durant, Harden, Kawhi, Giannis. A- players who can lead your team far in the playoffs but not win you a championship. They have Conference finals ceilings. Talent wise though AD is every bit as good as the A- players but something is missing, either leadership or killer instinct or shrinking during the clutch. I don't know what, but Harden is dragging his team to the 4th/5th seed without CP3 and Capella while AD isn't even putting up a fight.
The goal is to win and I judge players based off of that and how much they have proven they are capable of leading a team in winning. Like for me Durant has proven he can join loaded teams and win (even be the best player) but he hasn't proven he can carry a team and lead it to a championship. He ran to Steph, not the other way around. You might have a different criteria in judging players, but that's mine.
That's kind of my whole point on this Demar thing. He's a good player who has proven that he can lead a team to the playoffs consistently as the best player. Other good players haven't shown me that same. (Jrue, Blake, Cousins). You have to be in the dance in order to have a shot to win and they don't make it to the dance. He even made the conference finals which in itself is difficult.
But LMA has now won more than that on the Spurs so the point is moot. But yes before we signed him in 2016, I thought LMA was the missing piece of a championship but not the entire puzzle itself. I thought him being with Duncan and Kawhi would lead us to a championship. Unfortunately the wheels fell off Duncan and that never happened. He's a B- player to me (always has been).
