Kevin Durant Longhorn Legend

[Huckleberry 32762]

Love him as a player but he is absolutely a thin-skinned baby on social media.

[RomaVicta 29847]

My god, sports pundits are idiots. Will it diminish his rings? 

I just checked in here for the first time ever. First thing I read is something absurd. I hate the endless NBA season. I don't care about the teams or players, so I'm not sticking up for KD. It's just that question, which will no doubt become an issue I'm forced to listen to on the radio until football season starts, is idiot bait.

"Yea, Frank, I'd have to say his rings are diminished." "Why is that?" "Because his team won without him, Frank." "Great point. We'll be back to beat this further to death after this message from an ED product."

 

[Vic Mackey 46976]

3 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

My god, sports pundits are idiots. Will it diminish his rings? 

I just checked in here for the first time ever. First thing I read is something absurd. I hate the endless NBA season. I don't care about the teams or players, so I'm not sticking up for KD. It's just that question, which will no doubt become an issue I'm forced to listen to on the radio until football season starts, is idiot bait.

"Yea, Frank, I'd have to say his rings are diminished." "Why is that?" "Because his team won without him, Frank." "Great point. We'll be back to beat this further to death after this message from an ED product."

 

Public perception is real. KD knows this. Why do you think there are big rumblings about him leaving? Because he knows he can win 10 rings and 10 Finals MVPs with Golden St in a row and the public perception will never change on him. Lebron faced this same thing in Miami although not to this degree since he didn't join a 73 win team who went to 2 straight Finals and just beat him in the West Finals. KD cares about his image a great deal. To the point of creating Twitter socks to defend his name. Whether or not you agree with it does not mean it is not real. Tons of people diminish his rings and this includes media, fans and his peers. The respect for him dwindled big time. This is very real. Is it warranted? Probably not but he had to know this would happen when he made the move he did.

And this happens in all sports to different players. Coaches as well. 

[ztejas 43383]

1 hour ago, satyanash said:

 

Broussard is an idiot and Durant is calling him out for it. Not sure how that is thin skinned at all.

Also that entire argument is ridiculous. They didn't win without him in 2017 or 2018.  And there is still basketball to be played. 

[youdunnf'dup 2147]

 

I mean...dude is pretty fucking thin skinned, man lol. A few years ago, he would’ve responded to this from his burner account (even though the tweet isn’t taking a shot at him). Now he’s leveled up to responding from his own personal account. Dude just needs to get off Twitter. He always looks ridiculous anytime he gets into these

 

[satyanash 14356]

55 minutes ago, ztejas said:

Broussard is an idiot and Durant is calling him out for it. Not sure how that is thin skinned at all.

Also that entire argument is ridiculous. They didn't win without him in 2017 or 2018.  And there is still basketball to be played. 

Seriously. Are basketball players not allowed to call out stupid takes from the media anymore without people jumping on them for being 'thin-skinned'?

The best thing KD can do at this point is stay with the Warriors and continue to rack up titles. Give the media the metaphorical middle finger. Message boards like surly aren't where players' legacies are decided, by the time KD's retiring all of these meaningless 'he joined a 73-win team!!1!' excuses will long be forgotten.

[UTDD 362]

1 hour ago, Vic Mackey said:

Public perception is real. KD knows this. Why do you think there are big rumblings about him leaving? Because he knows he can win 10 rings and 10 Finals MVPs with Golden St in a row and the public perception will never change on him. Lebron faced this same thing in Miami although not to this degree since he didn't join a 73 win team who went to 2 straight Finals and just beat him in the West Finals. KD cares about his image a great deal. To the point of creating Twitter socks to defend his name. Whether or not you agree with it does not mean it is not real. Tons of people diminish his rings and this includes media, fans and his peers. The respect for him dwindled big time. This is very real. Is it warranted? Probably not but he had to know this would happen when he made the move he did.

And this happens in all sports to different players. Coaches as well. 

LeBron would have always been a Top 10 easily or maybe even 5 player all-time with just Miami, but no doubt that the Cleveland title (especially against Golden State of all teams) was huge in helping drive him into a higher tier all-time (in my opinion up there with KAJ/Jordan).  As for KD, if he didn't care about certain narratives that have formed around him, he wouldn't bother to respond to so many irrelevant Twitter people (not talking Broussard types but just random fans with very few followers) out there.  I think he should leave Golden State after this year to try and win a title on his own.  I think Golden State can win the title this year even without KD if Draymond Green keeps playing like he is, but I think KD might be back by the NBA Finals.  Could you imagine Golden State versus say the Knicks with KD in the Finals next year?  That would be fun.    

With Golden State, Durant's the Alex Rodriguez versus Derek Jeter (Curry) of Golden State, there is just no way he will ever get the full respect and admiration equivalent to his talent while on that team.  My best friend's wife is a 20 year Golden State fan from the Bay Area, and she thinks Durant is an awesome player, but she also thinks a lot of other stars could replace Durant and the team could still win.  Maybe a lot of other Warriors fans feel differently, I don't know.  Also just anecdotally I take my youngest to basketball all the time and you pretty much in that age bracket (at least with these specific kids) consistently hear Curry this Curry that Curry awesomesauce, and for Durant what I hear most often is that he couldn't win on his own so he joined a super team (then of course you hear what about LeBron and Miami?) so this narrative from outside seems to have some impact on impressionable young people at least.  (I personally think Curry is very popular with kids because he's not an alien genetic freak of nature but someone much more relatable with the kind of game kids can try and emulate for fun in their basketball dreams)   

[Pam Cummings 9603]

33 minutes ago, satyanash said:

Seriously. Are basketball players not allowed to call out stupid takes from the media anymore without people jumping on them for being 'thin-skinned'?

The best thing KD can do at this point is stay with the Warriors and continue to rack up titles. Give the media the metaphorical middle finger. Message boards like surly aren't where players' legacies are decided, by the time KD's retiring all of these meaningless 'he joined a 73-win team!!1!' excuses will long be forgotten.

If it's such a dumb take then why even respond to it? Honestly. The media says shit. It's what they do. KD is the one who can decide with his behavior whether it is true or not.

 

It's like when you joke around with someone and imply that they might be gay. Most people just have a snarky remark or good joke to throw back at you. But the ones that get defensive, it makes you wonder.

[youdunnf'dup 2147]

Exactly, they put something like that on Twitter with the dream of the athlete responding. It’s the very definition of feeding the troll, except it’s the best possible outcome for the troll. KD doesn’t respond to that if there wasn’t an ounce of truth to it. You would just laugh that off, because you know it’s not even a take worth defending yourself over. 

And let’s not act like he’s just responding to the Chris Broussard’s of the world. He’s the type of dude that searches his name on Twitter.

[dingleberryswitzer 2724]

43 minutes ago, satyanash said:

Seriously. Are basketball players not allowed to call out stupid takes from the media anymore without people jumping on them for being 'thin-skinned'?

If players responded to every single stupid take out there then they wouldnt have time to you know actually play.  They are millionaires,KD is a champion,mvp, finals mvp, etc.  He should be above this sort of nonsense.  

[Dutchrudder 11126]

Fan offends KD by celebrating Warriors win

https://forums.realgm.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1840125

lol, you guys must live in an orange bubble if you give KD a pass for this stuff. (easymoneysniper is KD's account)

There's a thread with 171 posts from fans from many other teams in the NBA, and most all of them see this for what it is, and it's not a one-off instance, it's a pattern. It's who he is, he won't ever let this slights go, even after winning the Finals MVP twice in a row. The guy needs some weed or some prozac to let it go and chill the fuck out. He takes these things said on the internet way too seriously. 

Edited May 20, 2019 by Dutchrudder

[52-80 19128]

KD took the longhorns to the 2nd round of the tourney so he's totally cool

[Fastbreak 3962]

22 minutes ago, 52-80 said:

KD took the longhorns to the 2nd round of the tourney so he's totally cool

To be fair, we only got beat by 20 in the 2nd round...

[Hate 20104]

There is a zero percent chance he doesn't still have some Twitter burn account so he can "defend" himself.  He probably just labeled the phones for which account is which so that he doesn't do that again.  He's entirely too sensitive to let things go. 

[hobbes2702 12964]

2 hours ago, Pam Cummings said:

If it's such a dumb take then why even respond to it? Honestly. The media says shit. It's what they do. KD is the one who can decide with his behavior whether it is true or not.

 

It's like when you joke around with someone and imply that they might be gay. Most people just have a snarky remark or good joke to throw back at you. But the ones that get defensive, it makes you wonder.

I agree with your first part. Your second part is monumentally stupid.

[Aqua Buddha 14532]

He's won multiple titles and was Finals MVP and he's arguing with college kids on Twitter.  Jesus.

He could have achieved everything he wanted by staying in OKC one more year and winning a title. 

[ChiTownDoc 21112]

9 hours ago, satyanash said:

 

I totally agree with KD.  My worst nightmare as an NBA MVP would be feeling the need to make up a burner account on twitter to argue with teenage 'haters' online.  This isn't shit. 

[zork 629]

KD got them there so rested that of course they swept Portland without him. 

[Hate 20104]

But I was promised they have to have KD to win???

[Machinator 32098]

I said that they need KD to win the Finals. With the West in its current state, the Warriors can get there without him.

[youdunnf'dup 2147]

2 minutes ago, Machinator said:

I said that they need KD to win the Finals. With the West in its current state, the Warriors can get there without him.

KD better hope his calf allows him to stop this narrative. If they beat Milwaukee without him lol, my god he will never hear the end of that. I just want to see if they can do it.

[Goo Punch 4275]

i very rarely use twitter, and i don't think i even follow KD, so I never see any of these tweets he posts...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

...until I come to the goddamn shaggy basketball forum WHERE NOBODY WILL STOP POSTING ABOUT KD AND HIS GODDAMN TWITTER. Jesus titty-fucking tap dancing christ, we get it: KD is thin skinned and he responds to people on social media. Been that way for years, it ain't breaking news. But you know what's even more annoying than that? 50 FUCKING PEOPLE ON A UT MESSAGE BOARD WHO FOR YEARS NOW WON'T STOP POSTING HIS TWEETS AND TALKING ABOUT THEM. 

Thats the irony of all this. He's thin skinned, but so are all of the people who rush to their computers to slam him for it so that they can feel cool about themselves. It's the exact same fucking thing that he's doing. You morons incessantly rushing to an internet message board to comment on KD's twitter posts is zero percent different than what he does, except that it's actually more annoying. I'd rather watch KD butthurtedly argue with basketball fans on twitter a million times over than listen to our resident drama queens incessantly patting themselves on the back as they point out for the thousandth fucking time that  KD has thin skin and responds to people on twitter. You all and KD are one in the same.l in this regard. Now for the love of god can we get a moratorium on all KD twitter related talk? Christ it's annoying. 

Edited May 21, 2019 by Goo Punch

[ChiTownDoc 21112]

3 minutes ago, Goo Punch said:

i very rarely use twitter, and i don't think i even follow KD, so I never see any of these tweets he posts...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

...until I come to the goddamn shaggy basketball forum WHERE NOBODY WILL STOP POSTING ABOUT KD AND HIS GODDAMN TWITTER. Jesus titty-fucking tap dancing christ, we get it: KD is thin skinned and he responds to people on social media. Been that way for years, it ain't breaking news. But you know what's even more annoying than that? 50 FUCKING PEOPLE ON A UT MESSAGE BOARD WHO FOR YEARS NOW WON'T STOP POSTING HIS TWEETS AND TALKING ANOUT THEM. 

Thats the irony of all this. He's thin skinned, but so are all of the people who rush to their computers to slam him for it so that they can feel cool about themselves. It's the exact same fucking thing that he's doing. You morons incessantly rushing to an internet message board to comment on KD's twitter posts is zero percent different than what he does, except that it's actually more annoying. I'd rather watch KD butthurtedly argue with basketball fans on twitter a million times over than listen to our resident drama queens incessantly posting, "oh shit KD is so thin skinned what a loser!!!" ad nauseam for years on end. You all are one in the same. 

Dude, no offense but you, of all people, defending someone thin skinned is only gonna cause people to roll their eyes.  

Edited May 21, 2019 by ChiTownDoc
And using a fuckload of CAPS?!?!?! Chill...

[Goo Punch 4275]

6 minutes ago, ChiTownDoc said:

Dude, no offense but you, of all people, defending someone thin skinned is only gonna cause people to roll their eyes.  

dude, no offense, but i don't think you know how to read because not only did i never defend KD in any of that, I in fact called him thin skinned over and over. otherwise dynamite response. 

in fact, i would never defend him for his twitter habits, because not only is he obviously thin skinned, but more importantly, I DONT CARE. I fucking hate coming to this forum to find out that the 27 new posts in a basketball thread is nothing more than the 50th iteration of the same group of posters running in here to gossip about KD and his twitter habits. It's mind numbingly annoying. how many times can the same people make the same posts over and over, like we haven't already hashed this out 100 times before? 

Edited May 21, 2019 by Goo Punch

[youdunnf'dup 2147]

If you can’t remove your burnt orange glasses to find the humor in a regular season and finals MVP being so incredibly thin skinned that he responds to every single twitter troll, I don’t know what to tell you. It’s just funny. Funny, and childish. It’s behavior that doesn’t really have a precedent for a superstar athlete in that sport, so let’s not act like this is just your regular, run of the mill twitter response. When Rachel Nichols has an entire segment dedicated to his social media antics in the pregame, it isn’t just the same guys on this message board commenting on it. Stuff like that makes you a laughing stock with your peers. And it doesn’t have to, because he’s Kevin Fucking Durant. His game speaks for itself more than just about anyone that’s ever stepped foot onto a basketball court. So anytime he does something stupid on social media, it’s going to be talked about. ESPECIALLY on this board. 

 

I say all that, and I’m really not trying to start an argument. Just laugh a little, man lol. It’s funny. It’s something I’d make fun of my 16 year old cousin for doing.

Edited May 21, 2019 by youdunnf'dup

[ChiTownDoc 21112]

55 minutes ago, Goo Punch said:

dude, no offense, but i don't think you know how to read because not only did i never defend KD in any of that, I in fact called him thin skinned over and over. otherwise dynamite response. 

in fact, i would never defend him for his twitter habits, because not only is he obviously thin skinned, but more importantly, I DONT CARE. I fucking hate coming to this forum to find out that the 27 new posts in a basketball thread is nothing more than the 50th iteration of the same group of posters running in here to gossip about KD and his twitter habits. It's mind numbingly annoying. how many times can the same people make the same posts over and over, like we haven't already hashed this out 100 times before? 

Just do a simple google search.  It's a very popular topic.  It's not just Surly that's discussing it.  I've always liked you and think you take too much shit around here, but then you just egg on those that like to fuck with you by providing longwinded responses that are honestly, not so measured, when you look at whatever conversation that is...

This is a good example where you go way over the top with some crazy line like 'only this board' is where people are seeing/discussing KD's tweets.  Whatever side of the argument you stand on the Warriors sweeping Portland without their MVP is a big story, only becoming bigger when the subject actively argues on Twitter about it.  And, wow, it's discussed at length on a UT board?  Either way, I don't want to derail shit so I'll stop now.  We'll agree to disagree.  

[ChiTownDoc 21112]

35 minutes ago, youdunnf'dup said:

If you can’t remove your burnt orange glasses to find the humor in a regular season and finals MVP being so incredibly thin skinned that he responds to every single twitter troll, I don’t know what to tell you. It’s just funny. Funny, and childish. It’s behavior that doesn’t really have a precedent for a superstar athlete in that sport, so let’s not act like this is just your regular, run of the mill twitter response. When Rachel Nichols has an entire segment dedicated to his social media antics in the pregame, it isn’t just the same guys on this message board commenting on it. Stuff like that makes you a laughing stock with your peers. And it doesn’t have to, because he’s Kevin Fucking Durant. His game speaks for itself more than just about anyone that’s ever stepped foot onto a basketball court. So anytime he does something stupid on social media, it’s going to be talked about. ESPECIALLY on this board. 

 

I say all that, and I’m really not trying to start an argument. Just laugh a little, man lol. It’s funny. It’s something I’d make fun of my 16 year old cousin for doing.

Damn it, wish I had seen this so I could have just pulled the "^^^^^" number...

[zork 629]

So no boogie, KD, or Iggy vs Milwaukee, perhaps?  Could they do it?

[Fastbreak 3962]

21 minutes ago, zork said:

So no boogie, KD, or Iggy vs Milwaukee, perhaps?  Could they do it?

The just closed out Portland with 2 dudes getting triple doubles...yeah they can do it.

[Goo Punch 4275]

55 minutes ago, youdunnf'dup said:

If you can’t remove your burnt orange glasses to find the humor in a regular season and finals MVP being so incredibly thin skinned that he responds to every single twitter troll, I don’t know what to tell you. It’s just funny. Funny, and childish. It’s behavior that doesn’t really have a precedent for a superstar athlete in that sport, so let’s not act like this is just your regular, run of the mill twitter response. When Rachel Nichols has an entire segment dedicated to his social media antics in the pregame, it isn’t just the same guys on this message board commenting on it. Stuff like that makes you a laughing stock with your peers. And it doesn’t have to, because he’s Kevin Fucking Durant. His game speaks for itself more than just about anyone that’s ever stepped foot onto a basketball court. So anytime he does something stupid on social media, it’s going to be talked about. ESPECIALLY on this board. 

 

I say all that, and I’m really not trying to start an argument. Just laugh a little, man lol. It’s funny. It’s something I’d make fun of my 16 year old cousin for doing.

dude, literally nobody disagrees with you guys. Everyone has known about KD and his twitter habits for years now. you and the same ole crew resurrecting the subject every month or so for 25 posts in a row is annoying. the same posters make the same posts and nobody even comes in and argues with you guys but it doesn't stop you all from carrying on anyway.

this has nothing to do with "burnt orange glasses"; it's not even about KD; it's about you guys habitually cluttering the thread with KD twitter gossip that nobody cares about. nobody is denying that he's retarded for responding to people the way he does, because again, we don't care. go start a dedicated KD's Twitter Feed thread if you want to talk about it so much. Just stop talking about that shit in basketball threads. 

[youdunnf'dup 2147]

6 minutes ago, Goo Punch said:

dude, literally nobody disagrees with you guys. Everyone has known about KD and his twitter habits for years now. you and the same ole crew resurrecting the subject every month or so for 25 posts in a row is annoying. the same posters make the same posts and nobody even comes in and argues with you guys but it doesn't stop you all from carrying on anyway.

this has nothing to do with "burnt orange glasses"; it's not even about KD; it's about you guys habitually cluttering the thread with KD twitter gossip that nobody cares about. nobody is denying that he's retarded for responding to people the way he does, because again, we don't care. go start a dedicated KD's Twitter Feed thread if you want to talk about it so much. Just stop talking about that shit in basketball threads. 

Lol alright man. Sorry you feel that way. But just giving you a heads up. Next time Kevin Durant does something stupid on social media, I’m going to come to the Kevin Durant thread to post about it. Just like I would come here if he did something great. So you can ignore me if you want, but this is what you sign up for when you decide to go to the most hated team and become the villain of the NBA. I’m sure he got it out of his system today, so you won’t have to worry about it cluttering up your KD thread for the rest of the playoffs. 

[52-80 19128]

Guys, you need to chill - only Derka can dictate what gets discussed about Kevin Durant in a Kevin Durant thread on a UT discussion board.

[Goo Punch 4275]

look, i may have been a bit terse earlier, i just hate the way every nba thread inevitably/habitually gets derailed by talk about non-NBA stuff, and since a)I couldn't care less about twitter and b)it's long been established that KD acts like a grown baby on twitter i got pissy earlier. That's my bad, my blunder. I just don't like seeing that there's a slew of new posts in a thread, assuming it's a discussion about basketball (in this case the warriors' unreal record/performance without kd), only to find out we're rehashing the "KD is a giant baby on twitter" stuff for the umpteenth time. That's all.

 

Edited May 21, 2019 by Goo Punch

[Mole 4320]

To be fair, this isn’t rehashing old tweets. He’s actively getting into it with fans on Twitter while his team makes the finals again. It’s crazy. I say this is a KD fanboy. I’d fill my house with KD fatheads if it didn’t mean my wife divorcing me and taking half of my KD fatheads.

Jordan would famously invent slights to keep him motivated. He played better if he thought his opponent had disrespected him. Is this KD’s ham handed, 21st century version of MJ’s motivational tool?

[immortal13 4059]

Who cares?

[Pam Cummings 9603]

KD seems so miserable. Probably because he knows he took a shortcut.

 

Sure would be cool to be watching him take down the Warriors in the WCF instead of watching them sweep without him from the bench.

[youdunnf'dup 2147]

1 hour ago, immortal13 said:

Who cares?

It’s more about the fact that we’ve never really seen a superstar athlete act like this. Not in the NBA. And it’s happening in the middle of his team’s nba finals run. It’s just strange, and funny, and kinda sad. Sad knowing a guy that has accomplished so much cares so much about what others view as shortcomings in his career (or shortcuts in his career). It’s like he didn’t expect to get criticized from every angle for joining a team that most NBA fans already hated.

[BradInATX 9208]

look, i may have been a bit terse earlier, i just hate the way every nba thread inevitably/habitually gets derailed by talk about non-NBA stuff, and since a)I couldn't care less about twitter and b)it's long been established that KD acts like a grown baby on twitter i got pissy earlier. That's my bad, my blunder. I just don't like seeing that there's a slew of new posts in a thread, assuming it's a discussion about basketball (in this case the warriors' unreal record/performance without kd), only to find out we're rehashing the "KD is a giant baby on twitter" stuff for the umpteenth time. That's all.
 

If you don't want people to bring up Kevin Durant doing dumb shit on the Kevin Durant thread, tell him to stop doing dumb shit.

[immortal13 4059]

8 minutes ago, youdunnf'dup said:

It’s more about the fact that we’ve never really seen a superstar athlete act like this. Not in the NBA. And it’s happening in the middle of his team’s nba finals run. It’s just strange, and funny, and kinda sad. Sad knowing a guy that has accomplished so much cares so much about what others view as shortcomings in his career (or shortcuts in his career). It’s like he didn’t expect to get criticized from every angle for joining a team that most NBA fans already hated.

Who cares

[Hate 20104]

9 hours ago, Goo Punch said:

i very rarely use twitter, and i don't think i even follow KD, so I never see any of these tweets he posts...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

...until I come to the goddamn shaggy basketball forum WHERE NOBODY WILL STOP POSTING ABOUT KD AND HIS GODDAMN TWITTER. Jesus titty-fucking tap dancing christ, we get it: KD is thin skinned and he responds to people on social media. Been that way for years, it ain't breaking news. But you know what's even more annoying than that? 50 FUCKING PEOPLE ON A UT MESSAGE BOARD WHO FOR YEARS NOW WON'T STOP POSTING HIS TWEETS AND TALKING ABOUT THEM. 

Thats the irony of all this. He's thin skinned, but so are all of the people who rush to their computers to slam him for it so that they can feel cool about themselves. It's the exact same fucking thing that he's doing. You morons incessantly rushing to an internet message board to comment on KD's twitter posts is zero percent different than what he does, except that it's actually more annoying. I'd rather watch KD butthurtedly argue with basketball fans on twitter a million times over than listen to our resident drama queens incessantly patting themselves on the back as they point out for the thousandth fucking time that  KD has thin skin and responds to people on twitter. You all and KD are one in the same.l in this regard. Now for the love of god can we get a moratorium on all KD twitter related talk? Christ it's annoying. 

Don't click on the thread.  Problem solved.

[Aqua Buddha 14532]

13 hours ago, Hate said:

But I was promised they have to have KD to win???

When OKC lost it was everyone's fault but Durant's.  When GS won it was because of Durant.  Now that GS is winning without Durant, the fanboy narrative is coming a bit unglued.

Personally, I think he's a great player and I don't care but he obviously cares.  He obviously wants to be seen as The Man and maybe he'll get that in NY and maybe not but he certainly had it in OKC.  Had he stayed there one more year, won a title, and then left, he'd be in the conversation.  Now, he's negotiating his landing spot while he's still playing in the playoffs, which is what he did when he left OKC. 

[hobbes2702 12964]

3 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

When OKC lost it was everyone's fault but Durant's.  When GS won it was because of Durant.  Now that GS is winning without Durant, the fanboy narrative is coming a bit unglued.

Personally, I think he's a great player and I don't care but he obviously cares.  He obviously wants to be seen as The Man and maybe he'll get that in NY and maybe not but he certainly had it in OKC.  Had he stayed there one more year, won a title, and then left, he'd be in the conversation.  Now, he's negotiating his landing spot while he's still playing in the playoffs, which is what he did when he left OKC. 

Yea none of that is true at all. When OKC lost everyone saw that he and RW shit the bed. Both played terrible, iso ball in games 6 and 7 that cost OKC that series and both were rightfully blamed for the collapse. 

When he went to GSW the narrative has been that he needs them to win and can’t do it on his own. That’s been the narrative since day 1. 

What are you even talking about?

[Aqua Buddha 14532]

2 minutes ago, hobbes2702 said:

Yea none of that is true at all. When OKC lost everyone saw that he and RW shit the bed. Both played terrible, iso ball in games 6 and 7 that cost OKC that series and both were rightfully blamed for the collapse. 

When he went to GSW the narrative has been that he needs them to win and can’t do it on his own. That’s been the narrative since day 1. 

What are you even talking about?

That is wildly untrue.

[hobbes2702 12964]

What planet are you on? KD was 10/31 in game 6 and only took 19 shots in game 7. He was awful in the last two games as was Russ. And they were both blasted for it. 

[hobbes2702 12964]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcsports.com/washington/washington-wizards/kevin-durant-taking-heat-thunder-fans-after-game-6-loss-warriors%3famp

[youdunnf'dup 2147]

7 minutes ago, hobbes2702 said:

Yea none of that is true at all. When OKC lost everyone saw that he and RW shit the bed. Both played terrible, iso ball in games 6 and 7 that cost OKC that series and both were rightfully blamed for the collapse. 

When he went to GSW the narrative has been that he needs them to win and can’t do it on his own. That’s been the narrative since day 1. 

What are you even talking about?

I don’t think they shit the bed. I think a great team, one is the greatest ever, won game 5 on their home court, won game 6 because of an all time shooting performance from Klay on the road, and won game 7 on their home court. They took that shit. But yes, KD and Russ could’ve played better in game 6 and 7

[Vic Mackey 46976]

13 hours ago, Machinator said:

I said that they need KD to win the Finals. With the West in its current state, the Warriors can get there without him.

They don't need KD to win. I have no idea why people still have this narrative. Can they lose without KD? Sure. That's why you play a 7 game series. But they don't NEED him to win anything. This was proven many times before he got to the team and after. This isn't the first time they have played in the playoffs with him injured and they didn't miss a beat. 

People confuse KD's talent to his actual contribution to the team. There is only one ball to go around. Adding him added a great scorer but it also took away from the beautiful team ball the real core of that team had before he got there. Whenever he is not on the court, the ball moves great. They are moving without the ball. Everyone is engaged. Klay/Steph are playing off each other. Draymond is all over the court. Everyone seems in a better mood overall. They look to be having fun. When KD is on the court, it is a bunch of standing around. When the ball gets to him, they know they aren't getting it back. So they just stand around watching him go iso and shoot. His game is the exact same thing as it was in OKC that caused them to choke year after year. He plays the same game as Westbrook except he can score and shoot better. But now he isn't the focus of the team like he was in OKC because he has the support of one of greatest cores this game has seen. He gets less attention and can score more efficiently than he did in OKC. He knows if he's having a down game, the others can step up.

It is no coincidence their record without KD and when Steph plays. Only one loss. Also not a coincidence that Steph now is playing at an MVP level once KD went out. Before KD went out, he looked off. Way off for his standards. Golden St looked pretty sloppy that whole Houston series. And even a lot of that Clippers series. They just didn't seem as engaged. It's the same as Kyrie with the Celtics. They play so much better team ball without him.

Warriors are fun to watch without KD.

[HookEm 2450]

All that is great and all, but they are 1-1 in the Finals without KD and may very well be 1-2 depending on how this year shakes out.  They are 2-0 with Durant.  The season isn't over until it is over.

I am going to enjoy it when Durant says "F the haters" and signs a long contract extension with GSW.  It will be glorious.  

[ztejas 43383]

20 minutes ago, Vic Mackey said:

His game is the exact same thing as it was in OKC that caused them to choke year after year.

I agree with some of what you wrote but this is just silly. Durant WAS that team. Westbrook has yet to make it out of the first round without Durant, and with Durant they had just one first round exit in their first ever playoff appearance against the eventual champs. 

After that when Durant and Westbrook were both healthy they went: WCF (lost to NBA champion), Finals, WCF (lost to NBA champion), WCF

They didn't win a title but I would hardly call that "choking" year after year. They were a perennial top 2-3 team in the NBA for half a decade when healthy. 

[CurlyDumps 4456]

31 minutes ago, Vic Mackey said:

 Everyone seems in a better mood overall. They look to be having fun. 

Warriors are fun to watch without KD.

Ding ding ding. You know this is gnawing at KD most. He has eyes.  He can see it too. 

I mean, Steph literally said they were SMILING in the huddle after KD limped off with what looked like a serious injury.  SMILING! They were HAPPY! What team in the history of the sport would EVER be SMILING after a player of KD’s caliber went down?

The original big three is relishing this opportunity a little too much. Says something about the chemistry and state of the team this season.

Edited May 21, 2019 by CurlyDumps