Let Jayson Tatum have a game that Anthony Edwards just had in Game 1 of the WFC

[Blessings]

Casual NBA fandom is obsessed with aura, aesthetics and performative acts.

If you’re a talented player and you check these 4 boxes:

• Exudes natural swagger
• Has an aesthetically pleasing playing style
• Does performative tough guy shyt like constant scowling, trash talk, starting scuffles. Has “edge.”
• Plays a shyt ton of hero ball and loves to hunt for his shot in the closing minutes of games, especially the last shot.

Casual fans will love you. They’ll label you as a “killer” and forgive or overlook all of your failures. They’ll even give you a “clutch” label even if the statistics don’t back that. You’ll be put on a pedestal and rated far higher than you deserve.

Guys like Iverson, Kobe, Kyrie, Jimmy Butler and now Ant are all talented but highly overrated relative to their actual placing in history due to these exact factors.

The league is trying very hard to push Ant because they’re looking for their next American face and he checks all the right boxes, but if you’re really watching the games dude disappears constantly. Despite that he largely dodges criticism because he’s already developed that reputation for himself that casuals love.

These are the facts.

23
fukked up ankle
OKC are allowed hack
SGA/OKC get away with BS foul calls

 

[Boonapalist]

Celtics fan crying again

 

[RAX 010]

Lacks maturity

 

[JA_Carter]

Randle has been better all postseason

 

[J-MIL]

Celtics fan crying again

Pathetic mfs are insufferable

 

[FukkaPaidEmail]

Difference is that Tatum has had multiple playoff runs when he disappeared plus Brown overshadowed him in a lot of big moments.. but Ant does get coddled and is slightly overrated probably.

 

[staticshock]

Celtics fan crying again

So glad them fakkits lost

 

[Big Boss]

This was probably the last year he'll get coddled with potential talk. Next year the media will be hard as hell on him.

This

 

[Joe Sixpack]

Its only game 1, I get it, but Ant has these games alot where he's just not aggressive

He only took 13 shots what the hell is that?

Shoot nikka!

 

[Yayo Toure]

Ant playing on a bum ankle.

Tatum can't even put pressure on his ankle right now.

Levels.

 

[Raw Sauce]

Ant got that MJ teflon jacket
We only acknowledge the positives

 

[TheNig]

obviously much better father.

 

[TheNig]

Truthfully this ain't the same Anthony Edwards we seen last season in the playoffs.

 

[Ohene]

Game was pretty much done by the time he came back in

Thats on the coach

 

[Drunken187]

Celtics fan crying again

JT’s cooked they need to let it go