My theory about this tweet (and I'm pretty confident this is true) is he's talking about how we get to game 7's in seemingly close series and then there's complete meltdowns in the 3rd quarter, and teams are winning game 7 by 40..
In the past 7-game series seemed a bit more competitive. We somehow managed to have a bunch of anti-climactic 7 game series.. "Game Seven" is supposed to be 'the best 2 words in sports' and the NBA playoffs just hasnt been able to deliver recently like it used to in that regard.
Honestly the Kings are part of that trend. We fought so hard, n looked like we could make such crazy comebacks but in that game 7 third Q I posted in the game thread "we deserve to lose for this" and we did, and they did lose and it was far from graceful, far from our best effort.
Like idk, I dont like hearing Sabonis say the ball bounced the other way and they got all the 50/50 balls, sounds like chumming the waters for suckers to believe to me... That crap to me is the New NBA that Rudy's hating on. Go grab the ball and stop making excuses for getting outplayed, make your layups, stop turning the ball over so much, make your wide open 17-footers that the defense is daring you to shoot, that crap has nothing to do with 50/50 balls.
Players losing by 40 and got too much pride to say we got our asses kicked, when everyone knows it. There's too much money at stake everyone is out there trying to posture for big contracts, players care about the $$$ much more than winning and it shows.
Look at the flipside of the equation.. look at how much having Richaun Holmes contract as dead weight here hurt us this season.. Thats part of the New NBA too.. I always laugh at these advanced stats people ---- $$$$$$$$$ is the most important stat, has been for decades, will continue to be for centuries.
PHX has gone down like suckers in the last playoffs, though this year they were injured.. I truly think Rudy is talking bout that sorta stuff... This tweet is from May 14th, right after Boston completely destroyed Philly in game 7...
Look at the Dallas Mavs this year, went out like complete suckers in the regular season..
We had a lot of teams blatantly tanking this season... you've gotta be a real sicko if u like listening to doris burke kiss coach pops butt at every chance and yet wouldnt ever call him out by name for tanking. Things are just so biased these days, things were always biased, but nowadays its more so as people are so connected thru the internet, no one wants to step on someone elses toes. It's lame.
N dont even get me started about Ja Morant flashing guns on Instagram... That crap is probably the stupidest of them all.. An actual stain on the league...