Damn Max Kellerman Is Smart

[Kill Dat Noize]

I like Max but he's completely wrong here. Stephen is correct the regular season is ruined. and Kevin took the easy way out.

it's like someone beating a video game with cheat codes

if you're a great player and you want to play at the highest level, you have to play on the best team. if you're about winning championships, you have to play on the best team. basketball is a team sport and team goals have to come before individual ones.

he has a chance to make actual history here. if golden state can make this work and add durant to their already dominant culture then they have a shot to be one of the best teams ever. sounds like a better opportunity than anything he was gonna get in OKC.

 

[RickyGQ]

We had kellerman here in la fukk first take for taking him and makin me listen to corny kelvin washington

We had him in NY first

 

[Consumed]

Kevin durant was the reason they were up 3-1 same dude that had one the worst on off splits on the team? Team was straight up borderline garbwge when Westbrook sat. Kd also l ost games 5 and 6 by himself by going 8-31+ twice. It's ok to criticize them both without making up shyt

He was the defensive anchor for your best lineup against the Warriors.....I know you're upset he left your team, but don't forget how important he was to dismantling the Curry/Draymond P&R. The best offensive combination in the game was borderline useless with Durant deflecting passes, switching all over the court and swatting attempts at the rim like a big man (led your team in blocks)

Westbrook was your best offensive player last season I'd agree, but Durant's versatility defensively was crucial to that series building up to that point along with his high volume scoring.

The problem with you and everyone criticizing Durant is that you don't praise what he does well. You only look at the bad, and say that it was all his fault that you lost the series. As if this isn't a team sport, and as if Westbrook wasn't just as inefficient and turning the ball over like a sieve.

You going to criticize him? Or are you going to slurp the guy that didn't leave your team, and bash the other half who helped carried that franchise for years.

 

[Loose]

He was the defensive anchor for your best lineup against the Warriors.....I know you're upset he left your team, but don't forget how important he was to dismantling the Curry/Draymond P&R.

A. You need to either explain why he had some of the worst on off splits on the team as the "defensive anchor" or just ignore my post. Kevin Durants calling card is scoring and he was an inefficent mess during the playoffs.
B. No ones mad not sure where you got the "I'm mad logic from my post", in fact i said you can criticize them both.

 

[Consumed]

A. You need to either explain why he had some of the worst on off splits on the team as the "defensive anchor" or just ignore my post. Kevin Durants calling card is scoring and he was an inefficent mess during the playoffs.
B. No ones mad not sure where you got the "I'm mad logic from my post", in fact i said you can criticize them both.

I don't see where he had some of the worst on/off splits in that series. You need to point me to somewhere that says Durant was a negative or useless in the Western Conference Finals. I know he was uneven against the Mavericks, and I know that offense ran through Westbrook as the primary creator, but in that series he played the best defense of his life helping to make up for his offensive inconsistency.

Here's his opponent field goal percentage, holding his man -6.3% below their average in the RS
NBA.com/Stats

elevated to -7.7% in the postseason
NBA.com/Stats

and his rim protection was strong as well if you sort through those same tabs. I don't know how to isolate on/off data for a series but I do know what I watched, and that everyone was discussing while this series was ongoing just well Durant had defended Green and essentially blown up the Warriors greatest strength. Feel free to search it yourself and find all the accounts taken during the series, and I know you remember his defensive work on Kawhi as well.

Durant's calling card is also his all around versatility, and he showed that this postseason. He is legit one of the better defensive wings in this game.

You can criticize Durants offense and I did too, but I also didn't ignore his defensive contributions and you don't get to say that he single handedly lost you a series when Westbrook played just as bad. If you said you can criticize them both, why single out Durant?

 

[GoddamnyamanProf]

He was the defensive anchor for your best lineup against the Warriors.....I know you're upset he left your team, but don't forget how important he was to dismantling the Curry/Draymond P&R. The best offensive combination in the game was borderline useless with Durant deflecting passes, switching all over the court and swatting attempts at the rim like a big man (led your team in blocks)

Westbrook was your best offensive player last season I'd agree, but Durant's versatility defensively was crucial to that series building up to that point along with his high volume scoring.

The problem with you and everyone criticizing Durant is that you don't praise what he does well. You only look at the bad, and say that it was all his fault that you lost the series. As if this isn't a team sport, and as if Westbrook wasn't just as inefficient and turning the ball over like a sieve.

You going to criticize him? Or are you going to slurp the guy that didn't leave your team, and bash the other half who helped carried that franchise for years.

Westbrook was bad because he's sabo and thats what he does sometimes.

Durant was bad because he had already decided to defect to the enemy after allowing himself to be sweettalked and wined and dined by the likes of Draymond Green for months, so he threw the series like the cowardly beta he is.

 

[Kd35brah]

A. You need to either explain why he had some of the worst on off splits on the team as the "defensive anchor" or just ignore my post. Kevin Durants calling card is scoring and he was an inefficent mess during the playoffs.
B. No ones mad not sure where you got the "I'm mad logic from my post", in fact i said you can criticize them both.

Durant's splits are destoryed by his Dallas series and the 1st games against the Spurs where they lost by 30+. After that he had an enormus overall impact on the team and was a massive reason why they were able to hang to SAS and GSW.

Durant outplayed Kawhi offensively and defensively in the SPurs series. After the horrific 30 point blowout in game 1, the team played better defense and Durant was a big reason why.

Games 2-6
DFG% Diff / DFGA / On-Off Drtg

Kawhi: -1.9/ 10.4 / +1.9

KD: -11.9 / 12.4 / -6.4

KD took his defense to an even higher level in the GSW series.

Durant GSW series.
Drtg: -14.2 Drtg
NetRtg: +35.6

They simply weren't able to play defense without him on the floor. in that series.

 

[Lakerman0834]

Westbrook was bad because he's sabo and thats what he does sometimes.

Durant was bad because he had already decided to defect to the enemy after allowing himself to be sweettalked and wined and dined by the likes of Draymond Green for months, so he threw the series like the cowardly beta he is.

Gsw good at that they sweet talked igudala into telling gen nuggets game plan thank god he'll always be remembered for the guy who got his soul snatched by bron instead of finals MVP

 

[GoddamnyamanProf]

Gsw good at that they sweet talked igudala into telling gen nuggets game plan thank god he'll always be remembered for the guy who got his soul snatched by bron instead of finals MVP

He'll also be a trivia question years down the road as the worst FMVP of all time though. People will be like How?

 

[Kd35brah]

Westbrook was bad because he's sabo and thats what he does sometimes.

Durant was bad because he had already decided to defect to the enemy after allowing himself to be sweettalked and wined and dined by the likes of Draymond Green for months, so he threw the series like the cowardly beta he is.

This is by far the shyttiest take i've ever read.

On/off splits for the last 3 games.

Durant was +49.9
Westbrook was -41.3

Why isn't Russ accused of throwing the series? Because he didn't leave?

 

[G.O.A.T Squad Spokesman]

Gsw good at that they sweet talked igudala into telling gen nuggets game plan thank god he'll always be remembered for the guy who got his soul snatched by bron instead of finals MVP

Nah, Iggy will be remembered for being a great teammate that sacrificed for his team to win and took on any role asked of him. Look at Iggy's stats in that Warriors/Nuggets series. He did his job.

 

[Raw Lyrics]

Kevin durant was the reason they were up 3-1 same dude that had one the worst on off splits on the team? Team was straight up borderline garbwge when Westbrook sat. Kd also l ost games 5 and 6 by himself by going 8-31+ twice. It's ok to criticize them both without making up shyt

I agree 100%. Others on this thread are being intellectually dishonest by making a direct comparison of Bron joining the Heat to Durant Joining the Warriors.

 

[GoddamnyamanProf]

This is by far the shyttiest take i've ever read.

On/off splits for the last 3 games.

Durant was +49.9
Westbrook was -41.3

Why isn't Russ accused of throwing the series? Because he didn't leave?

This is so dumb and wrong Im not even sure how to respond.

Why isnt Westbrook accused of throwing the series like the guy that was being recruited all season and became best friends with the opponent and suddenly played like shyt and then immediately left his team to go join that same opponent that just beat him? Did you really ask that asinine shyt?

Your alleged stats are completely bogus and I have no idea where you got them from. Anyone that watched the series knows Durant played like shyt as the series went on. If he was the ridiculous +49 as you claim, OKC wouldve won easily.

 

[Consumed]

I agree 100%. Others on this thread are being intellectually dishonest by making a direct comparison of Bron joining the Heat to Durant Joining the Warriors.

Only dishonesty here is separating the two acting like one is justifiable but not the other.

Both just did what made them happy regardless of the intense backlash that followed.

 

[Loose]

This is by far the shyttiest take i've ever read.

On/off splits for the last 3 games.

Durant was +49.9
Westbrook was -41.3

Why isn't Russ accused of throwing the series? Because he didn't leave?

at posting simple drtg /ortg when talking about off / on "lineup" splits. I know you a kd "stan" but you don't have to be purposely dishonest on here