Maybe. Depends on the player and his own personal history with playoff choking or clutch play. Certainly if they had lost the two games, there’d be more heat on his ass. But they won both games. Criticism won’t be nearly as sharp about individual stats when the team wins. Remember 6-for-24? Non Laker fans destroyed Kobe for it. But that was just the fans. The media mentioned it as a side note while talking about his rebounding and 10 or whatever it was 4th quarter points and his compe iveness to will his team to victory. Lol media narratives are not new.
Of course the media has an agenda. Why would you be surprised by that? Warning, the media also talks up Yankees-Red Sox even when one of the teams sucks donkey balls, and they’ll have a hard-on over 50 year old Tom Brady even as he walks thru the tunnel of irrelevancy.
is not new. should not surprise you.