Western Conference Playoffs, Round 1
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Tetsujin
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Kawhi is the best two way player in the league and it isn’t even close. He doesn’t have the personality of some of the other guys out there and misses 30 games a season but when it counts, there are very few better.
PurpleHaze
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Kings agreed. Took Jimmer in the draft instead
He had a couple of injury-plagued seasons with the Clips, at the end.
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
Not only that. We got John Salmons to man the position Kawhi would have had.Kings agreed. Took Jimmer in the draft instead
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Michael Jordan
LeBron James
Magic Johnson
Wilt Chamberlain
Who's he kicking out?
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
Trading young talent for big men with legs held in place with duct tape is a whole complex for longtime Kings fans.
Expect Kevin Durant to tweet at you mercilessly, now.
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
All five of them of course. Along with Zinger
Tetsujin
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He’s probably just finished registering a fresh burner to use on these forums.
Lebron
He gets to play defense cause he’s never the focal point on offense, he’s not the guy creating everything. In SA/Toronto he was in the system getting points and gets to chose when to play defense. Lebron is a way better defender when locked in than him as is Giannis both being better two way players. His offense is overrated as well dude can’t create for others that’s why his career high in assists is 4.9. No way he’s a better two way player than lebron/Giannis and I’d he switched roles with Harden he’d be exposed
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
The days of players changing franchises affecting their legacy are in the past. No one cared when Lebron won his first two ships in Miami before moving back for the one in Cleveland or when Kawhi won one in Toronto after leaving Pop just like no one will care when Luka leaves Dallas for the Lakers in seven or when Dame eventually gets his ring playing for a more functional franchise than the Blazers.
I mean cause before he got there nobody truly understood how good that raptor team was. We all thought he took a bunch of chokers to a ring but look at the this year and there record last year when he didn’t play. He was playing on a great team that we thought was average. If he stayed and won 2-3 more rings he’d be in the top 5 all time, now everyone knows how good that raptors team was and is.
rainmaker
Hall of Famer
C'mon man.
He's already a super star but top 5 all time is an almost unreachable group to join.
Duncan, Dr J, Bird, Kobe, the logo himself Jerry West, probably aren't top 5. A guy like Steph Curry probably isn't top 15.
Right now he's arguably top 5, 1st team All NBA. But historically we'll all have to wait. Better win some rings.
Do you remember who the starting backcourt of the 2006-07 Cleveland Cavaliers was? Because I do. LeBron James dragged Larry Hughes and Eric Snow to the NBA Finals. Let me know when Luka Doncic does anything that impressive.
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
I’m not so sure it will though. The season after Webb had his knee surgery and we were running off win after win with a Brad Miller-Vlade frontcourt doesn’t mean that we didn’t need Webber in 2001 or 2002. What the Raptors are doing this season is awesome but we’ll see if they’ll be able to make a deep run without the closer that they had in Kawhi.
Lol Kobe
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
Not only that, his big men were the desiccated husk of Big Z and Drew Gooden. The worst starting five in NBA Finals history.
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
I mean, to be fair, if that were Boogie, he’d have probably been banned from the bubble for that.
LeBron James, and four dudes he found hoopin' at the downtown Cleveland Planet Fitness.
chief bromden
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Wilt over Russell? Wow
Draymond Green will undress refs again next year with no techs. Absolutely disgusting what’s going on Portland stands no chance as well this will be LA vs LA
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
Their sixth man was washed 33 year old Donyell Marshall for the love of Pete!
chief bromden
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Kawhi just emotes to the ref and no Tech. How about we get rid of Technicals fouls altogether?
Mister Russell is the greatest winner in the history of team sports, but I'm not convinced that he was a better player than Wilt.
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Statistically, that's fair. Russell's teams beat Wilts team head to head around 25 more times, but that's another team stat so doesn't really help me.
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
I’m not advocating a return to 80s Bad Boys Pistons style reffing but it does seem like there are more dumb whistles now than at any other time in league history. Also if fouls in the act of shooting threes were called in the 90s as much as they are now, Reggie Miller would have had multiple scoring titles.
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