KD can’t win with these cats

[Po pimp]

I always laugh when they put KD in same category of a Jordan, Iverson or Kobe as a scorer..

this dude always gets bullied in the playoffs and has so many bad performances

He averages 29.4 on 48% shooting for his playoff career

 

[murksiderock]

We spend so much time talking about "skill" in the narrowest of senses possible in order to bend over backwards to call Durant equal to or greater than LeBron...

•you couldn't get physical with 33-year old, Y15 LeBron, and certainly not when he was younger, because physically you can't beat him up. He's going to win that matchup, pulling him and grabbing him off ball, bumping him and pushing him, didn't wear him down. He was too strong for that to be a limitation and during the meat of his MVP-winning, Finals-leading prime (2008-20) he drew 7.7 FTA in the regular season, 8.7 FTA in the playoffs, hitting at 74%, meaning even if you tried the "let's beat him up" tactic your guys were getting sent off the court in foul trouble...

This is as much a skill as any other basketball skill, the physical endurance coupled with foul drawing...

•you certainly would be risking your team's basketball livelihood to double Bron, his court vision, passing, and game control were in another stratosphere from the best Durant ever exhibited on either front. Double LeBron and more often than not you were getting burnt because many times he either saw the double before it hit home or he manipulated the advantage in his favor...

These certainly are relevant basketball "skills" that neither are spoken of often nor are skills perfect basketball player Kevin Durant (that's an actual quote repeated many times on here) possesses at an elite level...

.....

Boston's doubling and physicality are just copying blueprints to how to limit Durant that have been out for years, that he doesn't have the luxury of avoiding without Steph and that amazing GS system with the perfect complement of players around him to cover his warts...

 

[Piff Perkins]

He was always gonna leave GS. The problem is that he failed to establish a good team to move to. Picking Kyrie was fine, no one could have predicted Covid hitting and him not getting the vaccine. But Harden and a terrible rookie coach are on him. He should have known you cannot rely on Harden, who clearly doesn’t care about winning. And you can’t rely on a coach who isn’t coaching shyt.

 

[Joe Sixpack]

He was always gonna leave GS. The problem is that he failed to establish a good team to move to. Picking Kyrie was fine.

No it wasn’t fine nikka that’s where he lost

This nikka always typing paragraphs like he dropping bars and shyt

 

[Piff Perkins]

No it wasn’t fine nikka that’s where he lost

This nikka always typing paragraphs like he dropping bars and shyt

You can win with Kyrie. Why was it a problem in the context of that time, before Covid?

 

[Joe Sixpack]

You can win with Kyrie. Why was it a problem in the context of that time, before Covid?

Kyrie is a loser.

The only time he won was with LeThanos…

Other then that 2016 shyt Kyrie has been a unreliable hurt loser and a team wrecking incense selling faghot for every team he’s been on..

 

[Mars]

Had KD stayed in GS I'm not sure they would've paid both Klay and Draymond?

 

[Glorious]

People forget this dude cant shoot. They be acting like Ben is Prime Lebron.

He takes points off the floor when he is playing. Nets need more scoring from anyone not KD/Kyrie. They sure aint getting it from Ben

They would benefit from his playmaking and size to grab some rebounds and defend. Things they are sorely missing to be honest. I mean KD and Kyrie couldn't even dribble drive in the paint last night. Simmons posting up would force Celtics putting Smart on him. Basically allowing KD and Kyrie to spot up and shoot.

 

[Flex Grossman]

Had KD stayed in GS I'm not sure they would've paid both Klay and Draymond?

They’re paying Wiggins max money, so I’m sure they could’ve made it work with KD instead

 

[Gus Money]

These Ben Simmons comments are killing me

I assume any chance of him coming back evaporated with the loss tonight but it would be must see TV if they put him out there in the next game.

They’re bringing him back for a potential do-or-die game

Boston is gonna send him to the line all night.

 

[dh86]

so we gon forget KDs nets gave the bucks the most trouble last year ?

Looks like some of himself was left on that court last year. Every superstar that ever got old had the last gasp

 

[Skooby]

Ben Simmons hasn’t even played five on five in practice in over a year
Hasn’t played basketball professionally in newrly a year
He also has a sore back and last we saw him was afraid to take a layup

I was moreso talking about next season.

 

[Shadow King]

They’re paying Wiggins max money, so I’m sure they could’ve made it work with KD instead

Wiggins max and KD max are not the same. One of Klay or Dray would have to walk.

 

[who_better_than_me]

I hope he loses so he can leave Brooklyn and those picks becomes gold for Houston
head back to GSW KD. Anywhere but brooklyn

 

[UberEatsDriver]

Let’s see how long this thread last