Durant: Money isn't everything

[Professor Emeritus]

Because I'm betting that the "And it would blow my mind if he stays with OKC unless they do something huge." statement stemmed from you believing the Thunder had no chance against the Spurs, therefore forcing KD's hand to leave OKC.

Are you trying to talk like you expected the Thunder to win? What were the odds on the series going in again? Remind me the last time a team as good as the 2015-16 Spurs (not a somewhat lesser team, a team actually as historically good as this Spurs team was) was upset by that big of an underdog? Not in the least impossible, but certainly a big deal.

You don't think beating the Spurs was doing something huge?


No, I don't feel stupid for expecting the favored team to win and vaguely alluding to it once. You really are a stalker.

If that were the case, then why not bring up the first discussion we argued about (would need the search function for that)? It's also funny you claim I'm pulling a troll move, when you were arguing FOR a troll comment in that Curry injury thread and you still don't even know it. Or maybe you do and were just looking for an argument.

Like I said in that discussion, I'm waiting for the full evidence to come through, not blowing my top with "what if?" scenarios about the future like you were doing.

When the WCF starts and if and when Curry plays fine, then I'll bring up that discussion and mock you.

I already KNEW that the Warriors had caught a major break with the CP3/Griffin injuries, because with Curry missing a few games a healthy Clippers team was a much better shot to knock them out of the second round than the Blazers were.

You were rolling with the "but what if he's still hurt for the WCF?" silliness, which I had an easy response for - wait to whine about that until we actually see if he's hurt for the WCF.

If Curry re-injures himself or the Warriors lose because he looks rusty and out-of-rhythm, I'll say, "Looks like their injury luck finally ran out."


But if Curry continues to play like he did for the last five quarters, then all that whining you did will have been shown to be silly for the exact reason that I told you it was silly.


(And that excludes all the other idiocy you spewed on that thread, like when you tried to create 5 separate arguments about the extent of Tony Allen's injury all based on shyt you made up. I'd swear that you were Gil Scott-Heroin's evil twin - the same bulldog tenacity with half the honesty and a quarter the insight. In fact, where has GSH been recently....maybe this is where he types when he's off his meds? )

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Are you trying to talk like you expected the Thunder to win? What were the odds on the series going in again? Remind me the last time a team as good as the 2015-16 Spurs (not a somewhat lesser team, a team actually as historically good as this Spurs team was) was upset by that big of an underdog?

You don't think beating the Spurs was doing something huge?
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Yes, I've been saying it since the very beginning (laughed at and ridiculed by many on this board for saying so). Achievement wise it's definitely "huge", but I had them beating the Spurs all season long so it came as no surprise when they did. The problem is, the Thunder weren't that big of an underdog - especially when you take into account they had the two best players in the series. Similar to why i had the Clippers beating the Spurs last season, because they too had the two best players.

No, I don't feel stupid for expecting the favored team to win and vaguely alluding to it once. You really are a stalker.

You just quoted me out of nowhere, over a discussion we had half a week ago and I'm the stalker? A bit of self-reflection wouldn't go amiss here.

Like I said in that discussion, I'm waiting for the full evidence to come through, not blowing my top with idiot "what if?" scenarios about the future like you were doing.

The full evidence is through - if they had all of the luck, Curry wouldn't have been injured in the first place. Most of the posters in that thread recognize this, only you and a few trolls (perhaps you are one as well) think otherwise.

(And that excludes all the other idiocy you spewed on that thread, like when you tried to create 5 separate arguments about the extent of Tony Allen's injury all based on shyt you made up. I'd swear that you were Gil Scott-Heroin's retarded evil twin - the same bulldog tenacity with half the honesty and a quarter the insight. In fact, where has GSH been recently....maybe this is where he types when he's off his meds? )

So I wrote the article where it said he went off injured during the third quarter of Game 4 because of said injury and I'm the one who recorded all the players' minutes and box scores during that Memphis/GS series for NBA.com? When are you going to admit that you never watched that series at all and simply went off shyt you read about it?

 

[Professor Emeritus]

You just quoted me out of nowhere, over a discussion we had half a week ago and I'm the stalker? A bit of self-reflection wouldn't go amiss here.

Out of nowhere? I was responding to the very first alert on my feed. Check my activity if you don't believe me.

I know this might come as a shock to someone who has averaged 20 posts/day for five straight years, but I don't go on the Coli every single day. Other than last month when I was sick as hell and didn't go to work for three weeks, I usually have a couple 2-3 day breaks every week. There's the existence of "a life" outside of the internet and TV.


Then again, since you brag about watching every single Bulls game multiple times in addition to your 30,000 posts...

The full evidence is through - if they had all of the luck, Curry wouldn't have been injured in the first place. Most of the posters in that thread recognize this, only you and a few trolls (perhaps you are one as well) think otherwise.

Are we really going to replay this?

"All the luck" was hyperbole. The Warriors do not literally have "all" of the world's available luck. But they certainly were lucky compared to the Clippers, their presumed semifinals opponent that we had been waiting to see them face, and they were lucky compared to the Cavs, (Rockets, if you care about them), Thunder, and Grizzlies in the previous year. But we already played this game once....

So I wrote the article where it said he went off injured during the third quarter of Game 4 because of said injury and I'm the one who recorded all the players' minutes and box scores during that Memphis/GS series for NBA.com? When are you going to admit that you never watched that series at all and simply went off shyt you read about it?

We never had an argument about what happened in Game 4.

Here was the actual sequence of events:

with Tony Allen getting hurt in that third game

Details you got wrong in this part of your post:

Allen didn't get injured in G3 - he was injured in the third quarter of G4

Allen initially aggravated the left hamstring midway through the Grizzlies' win Saturday in Game 3 but played two days later in a loss that tied the series at 2-2.....Allen's defense against Golden State guards Klay Thompson and league MVP Stephen Curry was vital in Memphis' two victories in the series....
Leading into Monday's loss, Allen told ESPN.com that his hamstring was a growing concern. "It's tough to still have to deal with this right now," Allen said. "But it's definitely not something I'm trying to advertise. I've just got to fight through it."

I was the one who started by saying that Allen got hurt in Game 3.
You were the one who claimed that I got that detail wrong.
I was the one who quoted ESPN proving to you that he really did get hurt in Game 3.


We've gone over this about 6 times and you still keep lying about it. Got a little too much in your brain?


So, are you going to claim that I wrote the article showing that Tony Allen hurt the hamstring in Game 3?

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Out of nowhere? I was responding to the very first alert on my feed. Sorry that I'm not on the Coli every 3 hours like you are. Check my activity if you don't believe me.

The point was how the hell are you going to accuse me of being a stalker, when you're the one who brought back up the discussion by quoting me after four or so days?

Do I really need to spell it out for you.

I know this might come as a shock to someone who has averaged 20 posts/day for five straight years, but I don't go on the Coli every single day. Other than last month when I was sick as hell and didn't go to work for three weeks, I usually have a couple 2-3 day breaks every week. There's the existence of "a life" outside of the internet and TV.


Then again, since you brag about watching every single Bulls game multiple times in addition to your 30,000 posts...maybe you're unfamiliar with this "life" concept?

This is just corny. I don't even know what to say to all of this.

You see, this is where you first went full-autism in that discussion. Are we really going to replay this?

"All the luck" was hyperbole. The Warriors do not literally have "all" of the world's available luck. But they certainly were lucky compared to the Clippers, their presumed semifinals opponent that we had been waiting to see them face, and they were lucky compared to the Cavs, (Rockets, if you give a shyt about them), Thunder, and Grizzlies in the previous year. But we already played this game once....

Here's the thing - that poster was blatantly ignoring the fact Curry was injured (in a Curry injury thread nonetheless), and used the opportunity of CP and BG going down injured to turn it into another casual fan talking point about how the Warriors get all the luck. You act like I was the only one who looked at that comment sideways - there was PLENTY of posters in that thread that felt the same way.

I don't think that was hyperbole at all, certainly not when I have heard worse straight-faced comments regarding this Warriors squad.

I can't tell if you're a bigger dumbass or a bigger liar. We never had an argument about what happened in Game 4.

Here was the actual sequence of events:

I was the one who started by saying that Allen got hurt in Game 3.
You were the one who claimed that I got that detail wrong.
I was the one who quoted ESPN proving to you that he really did get hurt in Game 3.


We've gone over this about 6 times and you still keep lying about it. Got a little too much in your brain?


So, are you going to claim that I wrote the article showing that Tony Allen hurt the hamstring in Game 3, dumbass?

You're the one who's lying.

You claimed Allen was injured in the third quarter of G3 and went off injured. He only got injured and went off the court in G4 - which is what I've been trying to tell you all this time. If you had been watching the game you would've seen this. He had been re-aggravating it for most of the playoffs, he only went off the court and stayed off it in Game 4 of the Warriors series.

After returning for Game 6 Friday night and having a very minimal impact in the opening half, Ramona Shelburne of ESPN passed along word that Allen would not return for the second half of the game.

Allen, 33, was limited to 16 minutes in Memphis' Game 4 101-84 loss after appearing to tweak his hamstring in the third quarter. He finished with four points and five rebounds. For the series, Allen is averaging nine points and 4.5 rebounds a game, including a 15-point performance in Game 1.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

The point was how the hell are you going to accuse me of being a stalker, when you're the one who brought back up the discussion by quoting me after four or so days?

Do I really need to spell it out for you.

I logged on to the Coli for the first time in 4 days, had one alert, responded to it.

You can look at my activity and verify it. I wasn't on here for four days. I replied to your quote of me the first time I came on.

How the hell is that stalking?


Just take an L. Once. You obviously were wrong. Can you live with that?



Your root issue is that you just can't accept being wrong. I bet anything you have a high IQ and very poor social skills and self-awareness. Keith Stanovich showed that high-IQs correlate with being able to come up with additional factors to support one's own argument, but showed no correlation at all with additional factors to counter one's own argument. For this and other reasons, when high-IQ people were wrong, they were far slower to admit it. It's something that someone with a high IQ can work on and develop, but if they don't....they end up like you.

You seem to be on the extreme end of that lack-of-self-awareness scale, which is likely why you spend so much time watching bball games and going over stats and posting comments on internet sites and other things that don't have shyt to do with actually communicating meaningfully with other people or contributing to society in any way.


A good example - I said that CP3 frustrates Lilliard, something that every Portland fan I know has seen, and you try to counter that by rewatching the game and giving a play-by-play of every single Lilliard vs. CP3 shooting play in the game. As if I or anyone else is going to give a shyt about your biased personal analysis, or thinks that specifics of shooting plays are the only way that good defense is demonstrated. And yet you spent all that time on it without realizing that it wouldn't even help you win an internet argument....and there wasn't a single other thing it would do for your life.


You did a massive time-consuming personal analysis in order to make a point that no one would believe or pay attention to. And you don't think you have issues?



p.s. - Lilliard ended up averaging:
20.5 and 4.8 on 36% shooting with 4 turnovers/game in the four games against the Clippers with CP3
30 and 8.5 on 37% shooting with 3 turnovers/game in the seven games the rest of the way.

This is just corny. I don't even know what to say to all of this.

What can you say? It was accurate.

Here's the thing - that poster was blatantly ignoring the fact Curry was injured (in a Curry injury thread nonetheless), and used the opportunity of CP and BG going down injured to turn it into another casual fan talking point about how the Warriors get all the luck.

And you still can't seem to admit that the CP3/Griffin injuries killed any chance the Clippers had, while the Curry injury didn't affect Golden State's title hopes in any meaningful way. Just take your L.

You're the one who's lying.

You claimed Allen was injured in the third quarter of G3 and went off injured. He only got injured and went off the court in G4 - which is what I've been trying to tell you all this time.

I posted the exact quotes that led to the argument. You're now lying yet again.

I said NOTHING about Tony Allen going off injured until long AFTER that sequence of quotes I just gave you. Look it up. On top of that, Tony Allen being healthier in Game 3 further proved my point. You can't deny that he was more limited/injured in Game 4, partly because he said he hurt it in Game 3, partly because he said that it had become a "growing concern" before Game 4, and partly because he re-injured it again bad enough in Game 4 that he had to go off. So Games 2 and 3 were clearly Allen's healthiest games, which was my entire argument...but he still got hurt in Game 3, exactly like I said.

Look at the post numbers:

with Tony Allen getting hurt in that third game

Details you got wrong in this part of your post:

Allen didn't get injured in G3 - he was injured in the third quarter of G4

Allen initially aggravated the left hamstring midway through the Grizzlies' win Saturday in Game 3 but played two days later in a loss that tied the series at 2-2.....Allen's defense against Golden State guards Klay Thompson and league MVP Stephen Curry was vital in Memphis' two victories in the series....
Leading into Monday's loss, Allen told ESPN.com that his hamstring was a growing concern. "It's tough to still have to deal with this right now," Allen said. "But it's definitely not something I'm trying to advertise. I've just got to fight through it."

Now try to find any post anywhere before your claim where I say anything more than that Tony Allen got hurt in the 3rd game.

You just can't take L's. You can't ever admit that you were wrong.



Last time we went over this, you dissolved into full-on meltdown mode, repeating the same argument 3-4 times in the same comment, lying left and right, getting confused about which argument was going on, etc. I didn't realize that you were actually Gil Scott-Heroin until today - I had some respect for GSH, because he seemed to be knowledgeable and informed even if he could never admit he was wrong. You reminded me of him, but I had a much higher impression of him than of you. I never remembered him as a liar - but now you're lying left and right. Did something negative happen in your life and this is how you vent?

 

[cKondomsucK6]

lol ok durant u fakkit

 

[G.O.A.T Squad Spokesman]

Funny thread. So many posters that hate him now wanted him badly.

 

[Gangstar8]

Funny thread. So many posters that hate him now wanted him badly.

no shyt
they wanted him before he showed the world how big of a bytch he is

 

[G.O.A.T Squad Spokesman]

no shyt
they wanted him before he showed the world how big of a bytch he is

Laker fans would compromise their anal chastity for him today.

 

[Broad Street Bully]

Right when he said this shyt it shoulda been a forgone conclusion that he was leaving them nikkas

 

[Gangstar8]

Laker fans would compromise their anal chastity for him today.

LOL no laker fans dont want anything to do with that 7 foot bytch in their team

maybe someone garbage ass franchise like knicks or suns would

 

[sfgiants]

LOL no laker fans dont want anything to do with that 7 foot bytch in their team

maybe someone garbage ass franchise like knicks or suns would

The Worst team on the entire west coast wouldn't want a top 5 player in the league

 

[G.O.A.T Squad Spokesman]

 

[Juggalo Fred]

If he's going to leave, he has to go to a team in the East.

Nope

 

[BXKingPin82]

You right KD...

Its the ONLY thing!
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