These NBA Players Act Like the Mean Girls in High School Against Giannis

[DjMe]

Do your googles my boy

Gotcha.
Just did.
Gotta admit:
"I think it's just being competitive. If I know that I'm going to play against them and I'm going to see them in the playoffs or I'm going to see them in many more years to come, I try to stay away and not build that relationship because I know that when I get on the court I'm going to go 100 percent. And maybe if you build a relationship with somebody or I'm close with somebody, he probably expects me to go 50 percent or take it easy on him. But that's...I don't want things holding me back when I go out there and play."
makes him seem like a dikk.
OK, you want to compare yourself to the 2 best to ever do it as to why you're standoffish, you can do that--but then everyone else in the league is going to compare you to the 2 best to do it with every other part of your game too.
Same thing happened with Patrick Reed in golf, fascinating guy.
Wears red and black on Sundays since he was in college to imitate Tiger.

Tries to maintain a steely persona like Tiger too, both on the course and off it.
Married a girl thats many years older than him, against his family's advice--and completely cut his family out of his life. Mom, dad, everyone.
He's got no friends on tour, and has been accused of cheating multiple times.
Now you look at Tiger, who's arguably a much worse human being, or at least equally as bad, but you got grown men (myself very much included) that worship the ground he walks on.
The difference is, one of them is Tiger fukking Woods, and the other isn't.
With that quote, Giannis sounds more like Patrick Reed than Tiger Woods.
Not saying he isn't top 10, 5, maybe 3 in the league--but he certainly isn't 1 with no doubt, like Kobe and MJ were.
No one would ever call out one of those 2, or Tiger, on some petty shyt like this, because they would get that work next time out.
So, all in all, its always interesting to see the dynamics between the competitors.
I like Giannis and enjoy watching him play, but he should take a lesson from Kobe and Tiger, and how as they got older and wiser, they became mentors to the young guns.
Older players embrace that role, and as lame as it is, it's easier as a young cat to accept it with open arms--it'll get your further.
But, I'm not here to judge Giannis's path.

 

[MJ Truth]

Draymond got some nerve when in every Finals Bron was lighting them up but it was Barnes or Iguodala or Klay who had to guard him.

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

A lot of it comes from the white acceptance he gets which is why guys hated Curry yet someone like CJ doesn’t get any of that and it’s never talked about how he has a white wife.

Giannis was othered and went with it. In a way it’s a reason why he got awards because of the narrative imagine the globalization of basketball leading to the best player in the world being a black “Greek” guy who isn’t like the black American stars with entourages playing in major cities with other black superstars. Plus he wants to win so badly and works so hard unlike those other guys.

Yeah and Curry made them same nikkas respect him… aside from white acceptance Curry still put in the work and nothing was ever a fluke about his game… Note one of them mofos ever took an unknown D1 school to them elite 8 knocking off top seeds on the way there..

 

[Darealtwo1]

"CJ McCollum gets eliminated 1st round every year then gets on Twitter tweeting what NBA players thats still in the playoffs should and shouldn’t be during lmfao"

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

CJ has one of the worst personalities in the NBA. He’s a pocket watcher, a sore loser and a bum on the court. That max deal allowed him to think he’s actually an elite player. The same can be said about Draymond except he has rings.

Dray isn’t a hater bro..

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

He aint part off AAU/Nike/Adidas camps click.

Same with Curry that’s why he use to get the hate before..

 

[LV Koopa]

Same with Curry that’s why he use to get the hate before..

I remember CP3 and Bron attending a game Steph was playing in during college. And I think Steph trained with CP3 at one point. But they didn't know he would become the monster he became and I think they both had some resentment towards him at first. But both them dudes clearly respect him heavily now.

 

[Kings County]

And after the bucks won, none of them had nothing to say

they literally an inch of toe from losing, kd still dropped 50 and giannis aint wanna guard him

 

[Stick Up Kid]

Let’s be real, they hate him cuz he’s African lol

 

[Wacky D]

I been thinking it all series tho. How is Giannis All-Defensive First Team over PJ Tucker if PJ is the one the team has guard KD?
And don't forget PJ is the one the team puts on KD despite PJ being like 6" shorter and Giannis being the literal perfect height and length matchup for KD? PJ must be a WAY better defender to make up for that, right?
Make it make sense

prolly cuz PJ just got there.

he spent most of the season trying to get out of houston.

 

[nieman]

Never seen anybody stop KD, and never will BUT I do recall Jason Kidd giving excellent spot coverage of him the year Dallas went on to win the ring.
Think he was 38 at the time, but another strong, quick lateral movement, and good defensive instinct guy.

The year of the title run, he played spot duty covering 3/5 of the all NBA first team in those playoffs, Kobe, KD, and LeBron. He did a pretty good job, too.

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There's no such thing as "figuring Durant out", BUT by game 7 of a series.....PJ and the spot defenders had seen Durant upclose enough to try to stifle him, and route him in the best direction for what the defense was doing.

Throwing Giannis on him for the first time in deciding minutes of Game 7, sounds good to fans, but might have thrown the Bucks off.

Other Nets were either hobbled or scared. Make Durant into just a scorer, wear him down, and live with him making or missing shots down the stretch.

Matrix used to give him trouble too. Of course that was then...I don't think any of the current NBA can do it.

 

[JesusFOREVER]

No amount of bad calls can make someone a 20 plus point scorer in the NBA. This just sounds so ludicrous

You just ignored the part where i said hes a once in a lifetime athlete to create your own argument you can respond too

 

[Bankroll.org]

they think hes soft

 

[AlbertPullhoez]

they think hes soft

Which is dumb. Giannis got his faults but being soft ain't one of them. Never gotten soft vibes from Giannis

 

[Serious]

CJ might be the lamest nikka in the nba

Now he's not wrong, but he's lame as hell.

Can’t wait til cj is out of Portland dude is wasting dame’s prime years.

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