Are Kawhi and Tatum the only superstars of the last 23 years who dont know what it feels like to carry a bad team?

[KidJSoul]

2021 celtics

Even Fournier
Kemba walker
Tristan Thompson
Aaron Naismith
Romeo Langford
Daniel Theis?
Semi Ojeleye
Jeff Teague




No Al Horford



All he had was Marcus Smart, Grant Williams (before he broke out), Pritchard (who isn't a starter), and Jaylen Brown (who missed the playoffs with a hamstring injury).

And Tatum also dealt with some long covid that year too.

 

[murksiderock]

They've definitely had fortunate careers, that's a fact ...

 

[Miggs]

Pull up those 19 Raptors box scores vs Philly

The truth may surprise you

Gasol locking up Embiid in that series was close 2nd to Kawhi's scoring...

 

[steph_harden]

2021 celtics

Even Fournier
Kemba walker
Tristan Thompson
Aaron Naismith
Romeo Langford
Daniel Theis?
Semi Ojeleye
Jeff Teague




No Al Horford



All he had was Marcus Smart, Grant Williams (before he broke out), Pritchard (who isn't a starter), and Jaylen Brown (who missed the playoffs with a hamstring injury).

And Tatum also dealt with some long covid that year too.

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That Celtics squad wasn’t very good at all. And yet Tatum still made a huge jump to elite status that year

Tatum took on Westbrook and Beal in the play-in by himself and absolutely destroyed them. Dropped 50 on their heads with Evan Fournier as his number 2….

 

[Miggs]

Thinking Toronto would have did anything without him

What team does anything without a top 5 player ? some of you nikkas barely think while posting anymore.

 

[Street Knowledge]

Kawhi one of the few HOFs in history who never had a bad team

I don’t think he’s ever been on a meh team

 

[duckbutta]

Thinking Toronto would have did anything without him

What's Kawhi done without them

 

[KidJSoul]

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That Celtics squad wasn’t very good at all. And yet Tatum still made a huge jump to elite status that year

Tatum took on Westbrook and Beal in the play-in by himself and absolutely destroyed them. Dropped 50 on their heads with Evan Fournier as his number 2….

And Dropped 50 on KD's head with a fully healthy Nets team (KD, Kyrie, Harden), WITHOUT Brown to avoid getting swept.

KD got swept by Boston

 

[Raquinotj]

Kawhi got drafted right into the dominant team of the 2000s in Spurs.

Pop, Duncan, Manu, Parker bunch of elite role players. They won 61 the season before he got there.

Then 5 seasons wit em. nikka got an FMVP in a playoff run where he averaged 14/7/5 Iguodala ass numbers.

When Timmy was done they got one of the best bigs in the league in LaMarcus Aldridge.

Traded to Toronto who won 59 season before.

Then in Clippers linked wit PG13. Clips had some of best depth in the league. nikkas was load managin and still gettin to playoffs until last season.

Tatum drafted to a 53 win team. Had Kyrie, Kemba, Jaylen, Hayward, Horford, Smart, Timelord, White, now KP and Jrue Holiday too. nikka got 3 other all star level teammates right now and had that before too. Tatum has had the best twoway roster in the league for 3 straight seasons now (2022, 2023 and now this season comin up)

Neither had a SINGLE season where they felt the pressure of having to carry a bum team. Are they only ones?

This thread Garbage lmao.
You call this a good team? Kemba played on one Leg all season and Jaylen was hurt. Tatum went crazy in the play in and averaged 30 something in the playoffs vs Kyrie/KD and Harden.

 

[DraymondT]

Ain't shyt change

Tatum won a ring wit most stacked superteam since the KD Warriors. nikka wasn't even the ECF or FMVP for his team. Derrick White was Boston best player against Miami too nikka looked like prime Ray Allen. JB had it in Pacers and Mavs series. Jrue off a all star season one of the best twoway players him and White was playin lockdown defense in clutch makin game savin and winnin plays both ends and KP a top 10 big when healthy who was the best most dominant player on the floor in game 1 of finals

Clippers lose PG13 and Russ.... Get bunch of scraps like Derrick Jones, Dunn, Mo Bamba, Kevin Porter.... and lookin like a top 5 west team wit Kawhi ain't play a damn game top 5 defense without Kawhi

Privilege ass nikkas dawg lol

 

[Art Barr]

And Dropped 50 on KD's head with a fully healthy Nets team (KD, Kyrie, Harden), WITHOUT Brown to avoid getting swept.

KD got swept by Boston

nikkaz like to forget Tatum put Durant out to pasture defensively.

It is what it is.

That now Durant ramped from his socalled three dribble rehab style of play. To getting more up tempo and diverse in scoring again.
Durant that needed to ramp from injury. Got bodied by Tatum.
That the spiral Durant was on. Did not seem like.
it would end till this very season.


art barr

 

[DraymondT]

Celtics now 13-2 without Tatum the last 2 seasons. 1 of the losses was a Mathurin gamewinner in Indiana. Other was only a 4 point loss in Orlando who had a top 5 home record last season. This superteam would still be in playoffs without him. Wild. Him not winnin FMVP was poetic it should happened to Kawhi the first time too when he wasn't even a star player yet on that 2014 Spurs team he was like a 2015 Iguodala level player.

 

[Raquinotj]

Celtics now 13-2 without Tatum the last 2 seasons. 1 of the losses was a Mathurin gamewinner in Indiana. Other was only a 4 point loss in Orlando who had a top 5 home record last season. This superteam would still be in playoffs without him. Wild. Him not winnin FMVP was poetic it should happened to Kawhi the first time too when he wasn't even a star player yet on that 2014 Spurs team he was like a 2015 Iguodala level player.

They beaten all these top 5 teams
Detroit 4x (All Home Games)
Portland 2x (Home)
Utah (Home)
Brooklyn (Home)
Sacramento (Away)
Charlotte (Home)
Washington (Home)
Toronto(Home)
Phoenix (Away)

This year Detroit was 9-15 and 10-16 at the time the played earlier in the season, The only decent teams they played Orlando and Indiana they lost both games.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Celtics now 13-2 without Tatum the last 2 seasons. 1 of the losses was a Mathurin gamewinner in Indiana. Other was only a 4 point loss in Orlando who had a top 5 home record last season. This superteam would still be in playoffs without him. Wild. Him not winnin FMVP was poetic it should happened to Kawhi the first time too when he wasn't even a star player yet on that 2014 Spurs team he was like a 2015 Iguodala level player.

So when you gonna admit Mazzulla is actually coaching shyt?

 

[inndaskKy]

Is it really carrying when you're on a bad team and try to carry them but you don't even make the playoffs? Isn't that what they call getting exposed as a system player?


I'm looking at you Steph Curry