Context? It was the first half of the national championship game. He had no fouls. It doesn't take much effort to put a hand up and jump.
It is unbelievable to me that a guy with his size and athleticism can't be bothered to contest layups playing for a national title.
The thread is titled: "Kyrie is not why the Mavs are good", that's clearly not true. Role players have helped them become a better team sure, but his own individual play helped them get to the Finals as much as anything.
You're acting as if people don't mature from their early/mid 20s to their 30s. He's no longer trying to prove that he should...
I think you're looking for reasons to validate your confirmation bias instead of contextualizing the play. And at this point I understand it's a personal issue for you because I've never seen you go this hard against a player that isn't even ranked that highly.
this is a pretty conflicting post but I have Celtics in 6
If they go to game 7 , I take Mavs...
If the ref's calls lean to Celtics in Game 7 obviously they want Tatum to become the new face of the league... :facepalm.
That's fair but in my opinion individual series in 2010 and 2011 are still very circumstantial. The Heat were still figuring out how to actually fit these three players together, and Wade wanted to be the guy in the Finals which took Lebron out of his comfort zone. Dirk on the other hand was in a perfect situation on a team with perfectly defined...
I don't care what their team defense is. I am looking at him as a NBA prospect.
Someone on a wizards board was pushing him mid season. I liked his numbers and highlights so I checked him out.
As soon as I watched him in a game I was appalled at laziness to even offer a token contest at the rim. And of course he isn't contesting jumpers but...
The crazy thing is Purdue had a great defense built around Edey this year. 12th best adjD out of 362 D1 teams. 94.6 adjD. UCONN was 4th with a 91.1 adjD. Not to mention Edey was Big Ten All-D twice ('23, '24). Yet you're going on like he was unplayable.
Again I'm clearly not hating on Kyrie, I'm just providing reason considering the only thing changing the perspective of a lot of people are literally just the fact that the Mavs are winning games recently. That's literally it. Also you keep making a stupid point that the Mavs would be worse if Kyrie wasn't playing. No shit sherlock, that's not...
This is routine from him. It is the national championship game ffs. Don't just let guys have layups.
This clips are just from the first half when he had zero fouls.
What the F is this?
If the Hollywood Access tape didn't stop them from voting for him - nothing will. Remember these same devout Christian types are likely to be staunch pro-lifers, and Trump nominated the 3 justices who helped overturn Roe vs Wade.
I am connote guessing what they are thinking and yes I heard James say he wanted to play with his son. But he said that before Bronny had this rough season that has tanked his draft value. I joke about the Lakers drafting him but don't think James wants the negative attention for nepotism hovering over a Laker season that is already going to be an...
He didn't pick up his first foul until the second half.:lol
Like I said time and score don't matter. He plays like that all the time.
He certainly isn't worried about fouling when he drills his shoulder into a player on the other end. He is just horribly lazy on D.
And of course Edey's activity on defense has absolutely nothing to do with his gargantuan offensive burden, right? He couldn't possibly be conserving energy and avoiding foul trouble, right? It's not like his block rate and personal foul rate goes up when he has a lesser role or anything. Definitely not. Didn't happen in his freshman year or at...
This is a very interesting hypothetical. No trolling, I would take LeBron in this scenario every season from 2012-2020, 2009 as well. I can't in good conscience take him in 2011, that looming Finals performance would be too big of a deterrent to me. 2010 would be tough too with how those final 3 games against Boston played out. I just don't think...
It's possible. There were a couple of top-ten teams with strong interest according to DraftExpress. He's killing it in many teams' statistical models they leverage to make draft picks. Edey's range is late lottery (10-14) to late first round.
He was not outshined lol. Lebron stat-padded because of injuries but when it came down to winning games in the 4th Steph just outplayed him. Steph had better numbers in both RS & Playoffs when you factor in efficiency and winning. Just because the media was heavily biased towards Lebron doesn't mean that Steph wasn't the better player.
There is no chance they pick Bronny in the first round. They have a second rounder they can use and Rich Paul can tell everyone else not to take him, which they probably wouldn't do anyway.