What's going on with Durant?

[Osmosis]

And anyone who thinks LeBron wouldn't be getting stifled by Ariza, Tucker, Moute and Capela is just a groupie.

He was putting these kind of numbers against them during the regular season.



That's one of the benefits of playing in the East, you have the fortune of being able to be guarded by the likes of Tatum, Morris and Rozier.

Lebron doesn’t have the luxury of playing with the two best shooters of all time (one of them a better player than Durant). The spacing they provide allows Durant to have opportunities to iso one on one. Lebron has put up better numbers against better defensive personnel (the Warriors were throwing Iggy and Draymond at him on every possession) and if his shot isn’t falling he certainly isn’t going to have a negative assist to turnover ratio like Durant. You dudes just have to accept that Lebron and Steph are decidedly better than KD.

 

[CarltonJunior]

He had good moments in game 4 and 6, 5 is the one I feel like he was just awful

 

[TheNig]

Game 7 he gotta bring it

I think so to but he needs to get out of the post and start coming off screens like klay and Steph.

He’s a volume jump shooter, refuses to attack the basket so he’s gonna go cold a lot

But you see what happened when he decided to attack the rim...

He stayed at the FT line.

 

[fifth column]

Dont know but wake the fukk up nikka, you can't join the dubs and then not put up when it counts

Fmvp against Cavs didn't happen

 

[MostReal]

He has to humble himself and let the offense flow through Curry, then chip in like the Robin he is.

Facts doe

 

[MostReal]

He's taking dumb shots and when a second man comes to help, he's making the wrong play. He killed in Games 1 and 2 though.

After this Game 6, he needs to be the 3rd scorer after Curry and Klay and let them cook

This is why he's no where near the best player in the league. Not better than Kobe or Bron either. KD cannot handle double teams, Kobe and Jordan could, Bron can to some degree

 

[Lweezy]

He's fine

 

[bl2k8]

Dude head stayed down in the post game presser. Breh confidence seems shook right now, he’s a liability for game 7

 

[Brandon M.]

do yall see the suffocating man defense houston is playing

 

[steph_harden]

^^^^^^ nikka said he passed bron

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

He'll be fine, he's just going through a rough patch. He was fine in GS offense last postseason. He'll be back to having dominant games very soon.

 

[Depreciating Asset]

Draymond Green's mom called him out on tweets.

Excellent point. He has not been the same since this happened

 

[Izanami]

fukking coward

 

[Rigby.]

do yall see the suffocating man defense houston is playing

KD has like 6 inches on PJ and Tucker uses a lot of hand. Bron with a lesser J, being older and supposedly being a lesser scorer figured out how to both score and facilitate against PJ in Toronto. Nowc obv Houston is a little better defensively than 2016 Toronto but it’s not a huge gap. And Bron didn’t enjoy the lack of defensive attention that having Steph and Klay on the court brings

 

[ISO]

What did you think was going to happen when Houston threw Tucker, Ariza, Moute (who hasn't played, but still) and Capela at him?

All those guys are arguably top-twenty defenders in the league and top-ten/five defenders at their respective position.

This guy isn't superhuman, they're making it real tough and physical on him and he's forcing up bad shots.

And he doesn't have the same free will to drive to rim like a Harden when his shots aren't falling because he has guys like Draymond, Looney and Livingston out there providing spacing on the perimeter.

You guys finally gotta start giving it up for good actual defense for once. shyt happens. The same shyt literally happened to Jordan against the Sonics in '96.

Nikkas here don’t know shyt about ball or defense. It’s a bunch of hero ball loving old heads on here.