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[Versa]

Dragging mediocre teams to the playoffs is less impressive and less a sign of greatness than working well and fluidly with other elite talent.

But he's done both so shouldn't that highlight even more so how amazing he is?

 

[Goatpoacher]

But he's done both so shouldn't that highlight even more so how amazing he is?

That's my point. What he did with KD is underappreciated, just like what Wade did with Lebron and Tim Duncan did with Miscellaneous players. To be able to adjust your game, still put up great numbers, and win championships is a sign of basketball intelligence.

 

[KidJSoul]

Also, Westbrook played with most of those guys the year before.

Here, Curry barely played with these guys as he basically missed all of 2020, and covid hurt practice time. Thats why they were mostly figuring out lineups most of the year.

So it's actually impressive.

And again, their roster has become thin. 2 guys out for the year, another guy out indefinitely with covid, another guy injured, etc.

 

[cartierhoe]

This team wayy worse than that squad Westbrook had. He really underachieved with that roster in all honesty

Yep, if Westbrook had actually trusted those guys instead of trying to do everything his way they could've made a little noise. He had Oladipo, Sabonis, Adams, Kanter on that squad.

 

[seemorecizzy]

That's my point. What he did with KD is underappreciated, just like what Wade did with Lebron and Tim Duncan did with Miscellaneous players. To be able to adjust your game, still put up great numbers, and win championships is a sign of basketball intelligence.

no it wasnt

that shyt was easy
im more impressed with what he is doing now

 

[Goatpoacher]

no it wasnt

that shyt was easy
im more impressed with what he is doing now

Let's take westbrook as an example. He puts up numbers, takes teams to the playoffs. But he never synchronized well with KD, particularly in playoff games.

What superteams have worked? You have examples like the post championship 90's rockets that had Hakeem, Chuck, Pippen and Drexler, 2004 Lakers, and 2011 lakers. People claim they were Larry Holmes status AFTER they lost out, but these teams were hyped when they formed. They failed because the talent didn't work well together.

On the other hand, the 2008 Celtics worked perfectly because of KG
2011 Heat failed, then in 2012 Wade adjusted his game to work better with Lebron.

Great players should be judged for their ability to adapt.

 

[Long Live The Kane]

Let's take westbrook as an example. He puts up numbers, takes teams to the playoffs. But he never synchronized well with KD, particularly in playoff games.

What superteams have worked? You have examples like the post championship 90's rockets that had Hakeem, Chuck, Pippen and Drexler, 2004 Lakers, and 2011 lakers. People claim they were Larry Holmes status AFTER they lost out, but these teams were hyped when they formed. They failed because the talent didn't work well together.

On the other hand, the 2008 Celtics worked perfectly because of KG
2011 Heat failed, then in 2012 Wade adjusted his game to work better with Lebron.

Great players should be judged for their ability to adapt.

‘04 Lakers and ‘11 Heat both went to the Finals, and the Dream-Clyde-Chuck rockets were a historic Stockton game winner away from being favored in game 7 of the WCF and going to the finals themselves…deeming them failures that didn’t fit because players didn’t adapt is probably a stretch…they were contenders that lost deep playoff series that could’ve went either way…which is all you can ever really hope for…talent gives you that advantage more often than not

 

[Goatpoacher]

‘04 Lakers and ‘11 Heat both went to the Finals, and the Dream-Clyde-Chuck rockets were a historic Stockton game winner away from being favored in game 7 of the WCF and going to the finals themselves…deeming them failures that didn’t fit because players didn’t adapt is probably a stretch…they were contenders that lost deep playoff series that could’ve went either way…which is all you can ever really hope for…talent gives you that advantage more often than not

Obviously, but those talented teams lost to less talented teams. Every time. They lost to teams with better chemistry.

If you take the best talent and add the best chemistry, you get the KD warriors.

 

[seemorecizzy]

Let's take westbrook as an example. He puts up numbers, takes teams to the playoffs. But he never synchronized well with KD, particularly in playoff games.

What superteams have worked? You have examples like the post championship 90's rockets that had Hakeem, Chuck, Pippen and Drexler, 2004 Lakers, and 2011 lakers. People claim they were Larry Holmes status AFTER they lost out, but these teams were hyped when they formed. They failed because the talent didn't work well together.

04 lakers wasnt a super team
On the other hand, the 2008 Celtics worked perfectly because of KG
2011 Heat failed, then in 2012 Wade adjusted his game to work better with Lebron.

Great players should be judged for their ability to adapt.

bro they went to the finals and were up 3-1 on a 73 win team. shyt was working. replace andre roberson with a half decent shooter and they in da finals again and possibly winning.

durant just didnt have patience and decided to run from the grind.

i agree that it takes some form of chemistry to have a championship team, but in golden states case that shyt was easy lmao. all they really did was replace barnes with durant. there was nothin to figure out

 

[The_Sheff]

bro they went to the finals and were up 3-1 on a 73 win team. shyt was working. replace andre roberson with a half decent shooter and they in da finals again and possibly winning.

durant just didnt have patience and decided to run from the grind.

i agree that it takes some form of chemistry to have a championship team, but in golden states case that shyt was easy lmao. all they really did was replace barnes with durant. there was nothin to figure out

Naw, he didnt like the offense and wanted to play in something fluid like GS was running.

 

[DaSk8D00D]

 

[BlueHeffner]

 

[CSquare43]

@CHICAGO Can we get a sticky?

 

[South Paw]

Who would imagine when this thread was created that he would win the scoring title

 

[Rigby.]

Worst thread since I’ve been posting