Jamal Crawford explains how Westbrook is viewed differently between players and "stat guys"

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Except you didn't really answer my question. You bobbed and weaved because you know if you answered it properly, you'd only be proving my point.

Objective of the game = win = scoring more points than the opposition = points = numbers = stats.

A true fan of the game would at the very least acknowledge the game is about winning, would they not? Which would, therefore, mean they care about numbers/stats would they not? Why are stats outside of the traditional box score classified as nerd stats, and stats inside it are not? A number is a number; a metric is a metric. Either all numbers are nerd stats, or none are.

I feel like I've reiterated this about 1000x now, but box score stats are completely misleading and an archaic way of measuring impact. Nxggas is just lazy and want to drown themselves in ignorance for why they can't see this.

Instead of answering my question, you answer the question you originally ask me because my answer wasn’t complicated enough

 

[Leavingtheecstasy]

Just from a mentality stand point

For me personally anytime we get into conversations about team building and mentalities of guys I feel like it feeds into racist shyt especially considering the situation that a team was stolen from Seattle put into the center of OKLAHOMA with black guys not from around there not even over the age of 24. Them white people in the front office were liberals and they had enough thought to put a buffer between those young guys and the media but still all the failure got put on KD. Like KD was forced into a kind of respectability politics in OKC from things like having his tattoos in places that the jersey covered. The fashion choices to make him not appear threatening to the whites in the market. So once he left and was able to be him it was a shock to some but that’s the game. Them OKC fans probably said so much racist shyt to other players but then probably yelled to Russ and KD y’all different. Presti was able to skate on that. That’s a big reason why nobody wanted to go there if you look who they added.


They should’ve fired Scott Brooks years earlier and fired Presti. Andre didn’t deserve that contract. Adams ain’t deserve that contract.
It’s a bad look that some of the worse players in the franchise then are productive now in different places like Kanter that hoe. That season Dipo had post OKC he looked like a All-star.

At the end of it historically once a team got past a certain level they never regressed until it was the end of their chapter and that’s how OKC looked to me plus it gets worse the more you think about it from the league gifting them top picks and the thick headedness of the front office that they got because a lot of them worked with the Spurs (Pop being a bytch is a story for another day think of the type of Black players he goes for)

Russ was being a bytch ass nikka after KD left especially considering he should’ve known better than anyone else.

To me for a players to cement themselves as best of the best they got to repeat so since 1980 you got Magic, Kareem, Zeke,Jordan, Hakeem, Shaq, Kobe, Bron, KD, and Steph. When you look at it some mix of this should be in your top five. (Steph goes in because of him being him but KD winning those two Finals MVPs and wiping the tears from Curry’s face on national TV proved who really was king) KD gets hate because he never failed and told you what he wanted and people clowned and laughed at him. Man came back from the Jones foot like Jordan and the Achilles like Kobe And they don’t even mention that

Man where are you getting all this? I've never heard okc fans being racist, that shyt is more associated with Utah then anything. I've never heard of okc forcing KD to get tattoos where people can't see them. This feels a whole tale that's been conjured up to fit a narrative of why KD left to get the cheapest rings of all time. There's alot I agree with on this, especially with robes and adams getting far bigger contracts than they deserved, tying the teams hands. But I don't agree with Russ being in the wrong at all. That's some twisted ass logic man. Russ was loyal as hell. I've been to okc games and never heard anything remotely racial come from any of them. Russ loved that place and Id put a good sum of money on him returning in a few years

If you got real sources to back all this up, then okay, I feel like KD should've said this to make the world understand his mentality better. If not, this feels like caping on a whole nother level.

 

[HTXBreh]

Back in the early 2000s I only remember black people talking about it daily. Cacs were more into the NFL, MLB, and college football. I went to a high school that was about 50% black and 50% white. And only the brothas were into the NBA heavy. We were the only ones arguing Kobe vs A.I. vs T-Mac.

It wasn't until I was in college around 2006-2007 that I first saw white dudes my age that were into the NBA heavy.

WOAT

 

[Hey_zeus]

Cacs ruined NBA by gentrifying it

Cacsketball been an issue

 

[TaxCollector13459]

The biggest thing is after all the insane regular season numbers, he's had so many dud playoff performances and horrific shooting games that it kinda nullifies everything. Dame sonned him something vicious when they met a couple years ago and that's a guy who's had his own postseason struggles.

The same way we talk about Giannis when he gets walled off in the playoffs and doesn't have the same impact.

This is fair.

 

[Swagnificent]

WOAT

You white boys keep catching feelings.

 

[HTXBreh]

You white boys keep catching feelings.

Pedophile Im blacker than the ink on your sex offender registry

 

[Mʀ2ᴋDᴇᴇᴢ]

Pedophile Im blacker than the ink on your sex offender registry

 

[Swagnificent]

Pedophile Im blacker than the ink on your sex offender registry

Like I said. You white boys stay catching feelings about the truth. Only a cac talks about being "blacker than ink". Black folks don't talk that way. And FTR most of us got brown skin of various shades. Damn near no one has skin that is actually "black".

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

Since people have a problem with "stat guys", just make sure not to use those same stats in your arguments going forward

 

[HTXBreh]

Like I said. You white boys stay catching feelings about the truth. Only a cac talks about being "blacker than ink". Black folks don't talk that way. And FTR most of us got brown skin of various shades. Damn near no one has skin that is actually "black".

What kinda retarded as shyt..did you just try to explain to me different degrees of melanin.I call myself black and AA dumbass.Meanwhile your phaggot face rating ass cant hide from the pedophile smoke.

Aint it a whole beach called the Inkwell because its the black beach ..Yeah this guy is retarded.

 

[Swagnificent]

What kinda retarded as shyt..did you just try to explain to me different degrees of melanin.I call myself black and AA dumbass.Meanwhile your phaggot face rating ass cant hide from the pedophile smoke.

Aint it a whole beach called the Inkwell because its the black beach ..Yeah this guy is retarded.

Nobody black says they are "black as ink". You exposed yourself with that statement. Just like you exposed yourself earlier by disagreeing with my point that cacs weren't into basketball heavy back in the early 2000s.

You white boys always catch feelings when the truth is told.

 

[wire28]

Cacs ruined NBA by gentrifying it

Bu bu but analytics

bu bu bu a loser that hasn’t ever picked up a ball is a greater basketball mind than people that have actually played the sport

 

[Regular_P]

The biggest thing is after all the insane regular season numbers, he's had so many dud playoff performances and horrific shooting games that it kinda nullifies everything. Dame sonned him something vicious when they met a couple years ago and that's a guy who's had his own postseason struggles.

The same way we talk about Giannis when he gets walled off in the playoffs and doesn't have the same impact.

And another one.

 

[GilSho]

And another one.

B-b-but analytics guys don't know how to evaluate talent.