You’re psychoanalyzing shyt because you’re obsessed with diminishing Durant as much as possible to prop up Curry. It’s like a sickness.
It has nothing to do with diminishing what he did in GS. Nothing can ever change what he accomplished in The Bay.
But you see, that is the whole point - he knows what it takes to win, by making the necessary sacrifices to play in that system and join a team that had already established itself as winners. But instead he went back to his old ways, with the old setup and environment, and is now stuck in the exact same place he was before he went to GS.
He could've easily took what he learned from being on the Warriors and created his own model, but he didn't want that. He didn't want to play in an equal-opportunity offense, he didn't want to play alongside like-minded personnel (Kyrie's approach to the game is more reminiscent of Westbrook's).
You just said the Rockets forced them into KD iso and then blamed him for it in the same post.
They're not mutually exclusive.
They forced the offense into KD-ISO because KD was the one who didn't want to pass the ball; he's gone on record saying that he's the one who wanted to ISO more in the playoffs. If you don't remember the series, I literally posted video clip of Kerr telling him to trust his teammates during Game 5 of that series.
Go back and refresh your memory by watching those latter games if you don't take my word for it.
The adjustment was that Chris Paul got hurt and the Rockets missed all their 3s, which carried over into game 7. The Rockets started that game 8 of 12 from 3. The Warriors were 7/11 from 3 in the third quarter.
That wasn't the adjustment.
Or do you think it was purely coincidental in Game 5 that Kerr told KD to trust his teammates more to pass them the ball, and then in the following game, when the Warriors were up against the ropes at halftime of Game 6 where KD had 16 points and both Steph and Klay barely cracked double-digits, to then KD only scoring 7 points in the second half while both Steph and Klay combined for 34 points, most of which most generated when KD was off the floor (hence the 20-point margin of difference between the plus-minus).
If you watch both games there's clearly a shift in offensive approach, where the ball runs through Steph's and Klay's hand more. The literal lineups where the Warriors go on their run(s) in the second half without KD prove this. They overcome a double-digit deficit at halftime to win by nearly 30 points, with KD sitting on the bench during the pivotal stages of that comeback
I don't know why you'd bring up CP3 getting hurt, when the Warriors played the Rockets the following season, KD goes down hurt, and then Steph/Klay and the Warriors proceed to stomp another hole in the Rockets all with CP3. I don't know why you'd make an emphasis over CP3 getting hurt as if that was some sort of adjustment when the Warriors were dominating with Iggy before he got injured, taking a 2-1 lead in the series, all with a winning-margin total of +51, to then:
"G4 without Iggy - Warriors lose by 1 possessions (GS forced to divvy Iggy's minutes between Looney, Cook, Bell - who gave up multiple points on defense)
G5 without Iggy - Warriors lose by 1-2 possessions (GS forced to divvy Iggy's minutes between Looney, Cook, Bell - who gave up multiple points on defense)
You're telling me, that Iggy isn't even worth 1-2 more possessions? Or how about we flip it around - if Iggy was healthy for G4 and G5 and Tucker was out injured for G4 and G5, what would the outcome most likely be, and what would the narrative be about GS' luck?"
You’re so dedicated to being a hater you have good posters believing your bullshyt. KD and LeBron got the weirdest haters on this board.
Save this shyt for the next man.
I get that you're a Nets fan, but don't throw this hater shyt at me when I'm about as far removed from it as you could possibly get. I harbor no ill-will towards KD on any level, and don't begrudge him for leaving (he obviously wasn't happy and wanted to move on; it happens), and I certainly do not under any circumstances take anything away from what he achieved. What I'm pointing out here is factual. I'm pointing out the fact that he should've learned from his mistakes in OKC, but he obviously didn't, well, certainly not to the point where he's prioritizing winning over everything
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He's intent on making the same mistakes that he did in OKC.
