millennials convincing themselves that no other nba star takes accountability after losses bc of how desperate they are to manufacture a "next MJ" i can't breathe man
Anthony Edwards: “It’s on me, I’ll take the blame for this loss. I came out with no energy at all. … I can’t afford to do that for my team. I let my team, coaches, and the fans down.”
KD only player who gets criticized for not getting to the rim with sixteen seasons, a jones fracture, and an achilles tear all on his odometer. can only imagine what the discourse would've been like had nba twitter been around for 2013 kobe or 1998 jordan lol
lmao everyone getting their game off against inferior comp then you got MJ failing to crack 50% from the field b/c international rules never included illegal defence
there's 30 pt scorers that give you somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 every night then there's 30 pt scorers that drop 45 vs the teams with a chance at wemby then 15 whenever they're on national tv
they don't want to let it go, and not because they're actually MJ fans; rather because the alternative would be to admit to themselves that the media once brainwashed them into thinking a mere basketball player was a real life super-hero, a reality no one wants to live with.
“It’s just ONE clip”.
Yall really don’t want to let that mythology go. I get it. Conditioning is hard to let go because in your head it feels like a “FACT”.
wanted to try my hand at a full top-50 but there's wayyy too many good players, no point in ranking them all so decided to limit it to guys i'd consider bonafide all-stars
nah man game 1 you could say was more of just lukai torching lax drop but tonight was genuinely an ALL TIME offensive masterclass from 77, got out his entire scoring kit and created dunks at will against a
#1
defence that threw every coverage at him
@abdz24
the knee surgeries in '18 took away so much of his twitchiness and overall athleticism...his shotmaking has masked the physical regression rather well
not at all supporting the sentiment. but it's funny cuz gasol shouldn't have even been 2nd team. larry sanders received more votes, but the nba knew how bad a look it would've been for the dpoy to miss the two teams altogether. this marked the end of coaches voting for all def.
the NBA. where you can be voted 2nd team all defense, meaning the voters don’t think you’re a top 5 defender that season, but still win DPOY basically meaning the voters thought you were the best defender that season.
this is one of those takes where everybody knows it isn't true but the kobe detractors spew it anyway because they feel emboldened by the fact that they aren't alone in being contrarians
@ProvideContext
george karl even said at the time that rodman deserved fmvp. as did a number of bulls teammates.
two faced stern obviously wasn't gonna ruin jordan's comeback narrative in favour of the player he detested though.
Best playmaker by year
2012: LeBron
2013. Lebron
2014: LeBron
2015: Cp3
2016: Steph
2017: Steph
2018: LeBron
2019: Steph
2020: Luka
2021: Luka
2022: Luka
2023: Luka
i agree his teammates need to be better at finding him but people theorizing that the spurs are somehow trying to show him up is purely a product of the general public having a totally inflated perception of wemby's offence
@MachHomie
29-11-8 and singlehandedly captaining the league's best offence / a 55-win 3-seed all while changing positions and for a team that was projected to be .500 don't move you ?
LeBron’s longevity is insane but no one would say he’s a better player at 36/37 then he was at 30.
Steph legitimately better right now then he was at 28 - 30. And I see no reason why it’s not going to continue that way for a few more years.
nba twitter making TS% into a buzzword is so funny. literally something you could calculate in your head and that does a perfect job of measuring what it intends to yet it gets lumped in with all noisier metrics.
also let it be known that MJ was the king of excuses. kobe took accountability but michael was a selfish, spoiled, petulant, entitled manchild in every sense of the term.
lowry > kyrie all time a pretty easy argument to make tbh. you just gotta turn a blind eye to the entire five year stretch in which kyrie was better than lowry ever was and the fact that kyrie has accumulated more seasons of all-star play at this point.
the notion that scoring isn't the most important aspect of basketball is the worst lie ever told like maybe playmaking approaches (and sometimes exceeds) its value in aggregate but nobody is seriously taking an elite playmaker over an elite bucket getter in a must win scenario
Paul George in 2018-19:
• 28.0 PPG (2nd in NBA)
• 8.2 RPG
• 2.2 SPG (led league)
• 39% from deep on 9.8 attempts/game
• 58.3% true shooting
🥇 1st team All-Defense
🥇 1st team All-NBA
🏆 3rd in MVP voting
One of the most underrated seasons of the 2010s.
promise you you aren't a genius for pointing out that a player who came into the league the year the 3pt line was implemented didn't have gaudy 3pt shooting numbers
i too found it a mystery how 30/14/6 in 30 minutes while anchoring an all time defence for a team that played at a 70 win pace before the shutdown earned any accolades. that season even being in contention for mvp or dpoy was the last straw with nba media for me.
As part of NBA probe into his “liar” comment, James Harden told league investigators he was referring to Daryl Morey telling Harden he will trade him “quickly” following the $35.6 million opt in for 2023-24, per sources. The 76ers’ stance now is they expect to keep Harden.
giannis had 17/12/7 in the 1st half of game 7 22 celtics series, i maintain that was some of the finest all around ball i've ever seen him play until he just ran out of batteries in the 2nd.
not to be disingenuous but i'm throughly enjoying how disastrous this dame season has been after all the years of cultists going "dame would have a ring if he played with lebron/kd too"
@phillymikann
think it's more that he just hasn't needed to reach that extra gear due to the lack of an AD injury tbh, i'd be surprised if a remotely healthy LBJ doesn't reach/exceed januaury 2023 heights in the playoffs.
bron has never played the same brand of ball as the other 3 but i hope the likes were worth it
also every few casuals thinking 18 was his peak isn't a product of box score bias it's just them not factoring in defence bc 17/18 *was* his peak on offence
beyond that, what makes a midrange more enjoyable to watch than a 3? and why is a league full of midrange chucking "diverse" but the 3pt equivalent (in their eyes anyway) is "one dimensional"? people don't miss a thing about the game itself. only their childhood memories.
“i miss mid-range jumpers we have to bring them back”
the ones you’re talking about never went away. if you miss the old mid-range what you’re saying is you miss brandon bass taking baseline 17-footers
YOU LIED ABOUT YOUR PLAYOFF SHOTMAKING
YOU LIED ABOUT YOUR ISO DEFENCE
YOU LIED ABOUT YOUR LEADERSHIP AND WILL TO WIN
YOU LIED ABOUT BEING MJ/KOBE 2.0
FUCK BRUNSON/DMITCH, YOU'RE IN A LIFELONG BATTLE WITH JALEN GREEN
@phillymikann
someone gotta tell him luka wouldn't have to foul bait a play in his life in the 80s. that's an era where guys less athletic than him made all defence
russ injury in 2013, ibaka injury in 2014, jones fracture in 2015, achilles tear in 2019, harden and kyrie injuries in 2021, mcl sprains in consecutive seasons. and yet the most unlucky thing that ever happened to kevin durant was that he had to play on a team with ben simmons
kyrie irving's playoff debut. he scored 30 points, with three of them coming on this pullup three to beat the first half buzzer.
not like he's the same playoff guy at this point anyway, but it still makes me sad this is the first year he misses it since the pre-bron days.
low's putrid argumentation aside...how do you get the opportunity to talk to one of the best players of all time and all you do is tell him how much you think he sucks using terminology and logistics said player established throughout he doesn't care for. bunch of deadbeats man
kyrie now 3-0 without luka; has an overall record of 7-5 (4-5 without kd) as the lone star this year. which is impressive, because he's playing with scraps that are only effective when playing off megastars in those games rather than a proper supporting cast
wemby really a talent along the lines of a jordan or tiger or federer where they can singlehandedly make someone who's never watched a second of their sport instantly fall in love with it
i always wondered what would happen if a team went out of their way to manufacture a 6moy case for someone by making a big deal out of them 'coming off the bench' but having them check into the game less than halfway through the 1st Q and close games we're actually seeing it now
tennis one of the few sports where the physical advantages that men have can actually lead to an inferior product, give me high risk high reward big babe tennis over ace+push fests any day of the week.
I can’t shut up lately but why does everything have to be seen as “feminism” is it really that far-fetched to believe that some people find women’s tennis more entertaining…
focusing more on zion himself tho i really want to see a healthy playoff run from him not only for the obvious reasons but also bc he feels like one of the players whose playoff translation is hardest to evaluate. i think he has some clear advantages over giannis as an offensive
@hoopvenue_
remember rewatching that series like 2-3 years ago and was caught off guard by how often kawhi was in the corner guarding roberson without actually doing much damage in help
📽How can Luka Doncic put up video game numbers, yet the Mavs barely change when he goes to the bench?
We look at his defense, off ball game, and more to tackle this strange paradox.
kyrie this playoff run...
filtering out garbage time - 20.4 pts/75, 54.7% true shooting (-1.8)
in garbage time - 34.2 pts/75, 67.0% true shooting (+10.8)
"mj's blocks and steals were inflated by fraudulent scorekeeping"
"ok. then what about these stats of which the formula includes blocks/steals? checkmate."
random but kobe being as unstoppable as he was despite the league transitioning from the illegal defence era to the zone era during the heart of his prime isn't given enough credit i feel like. i know most understand this intuitively but just saying "kobe played in the deadball
the mavs were +34 in kyrie's 30 minutes last night. since january 20th, his teams are
+91 with him on
-84 with him off
he's averaging north of 37 minutes over this stretch, btw
Kyrie Irving from 10/30/2018 to 2/3/2019 (39 games):
• 27.6 Pts/75
• 7.9 Ast/75
• 5.3 Rebs/75
• 2.5 Stl+Blk/75
• 51.6/42.7/86.8
• 62.3% TS (+6.3)
• 119 ORtg, +10 Net on
Top-10 player / Top-8 offensive player in the world
malone said dick bavetta personally apologized to him after the game. even the refs themselves were embarrassed by what david stern was forcing them to do.
Remember when the refs openly rigged the Finals game for MJ & Bulls?
GM 6 1998 Finals.
Bulls up 3-2.
Bulls were “coincidentally” the beneficiaries of Two Most Blatant shot clock calls in one game.
When is the last time you’ve seen or heard of that?
i know timpfy is doing this for interactions but there should seriously be a pact to never entertain someone other than jordan being the goat scorer lol