3ball told us Ant's "inferior" brand of ball couldn't beat Jokic's "superior" brand

[RRR3]

If 3ball is this insecure about Ant, I can just imagine the essays he was writing in 2006 when Wade went inferno in the Finals.

Touch grass clown. Edwards deserves no criticism and should have no expectations placed on him. Any player still playing on a rookie contract is playing on House money.

He has a pathological need to behave like this and he's very worried about LeBron retiring soon so he has to find another target.

[3ba11]

If 3ball is this insecure about Ant, I can just imagine the essays he was writing in 2006 when Wade went inferno in the Finals.

Touch grass clown. Edwards deserves no criticism and should have no expectations placed on him. Any player still playing on a rookie contract is playing on House money.

Ant has no pressure, but he should if anyone is comparing him to MJ.. Ant currently has more help than MJ ever had... 18-year MJ won the national title, while Ant was 5-13 in the SEC - MJ would similarly have won an NBA title at 22 years old if he had one of the best casts in the league like Ant has... instead he had literally the worst.

[1987_Lakers]

Ant has no pressure, but he should if anyone is comparing him to MJ.. Ant currently has more help than MJ ever had.

[sdot_thadon]

Ant has no pressure, but he should if anyone is comparing him to MJ.. Ant currently has more help than MJ ever had.

Ant got a 72--10 squad? What about one guy good enough to make both all nba and all defensive 1st team in the same season? I guess he has a guy similar to Rodmans impact with Gobert, where's his former 1st option that's the 5th best guy on his team? Or his European superstar that's his 6th man?

[RRR3]

Gobert=Rodman is a reasonable take, but Kat being equal or greater to Pippen is insane. And I really like KAT.

[3ba11]

Stop pretending.. Gobert is the GOAT defender if we're going by DPOY's, while McDaniels is a budding star and guys like Mike Conley are rich man's Paxsons.. Meanwhile KAT outproduces Pippen quite easily (better stats) and led his team to a win over a top team with Ant wetting the bed - Pippen couldn't do that..

And KAT didn't need to win titles first to make All-NBA... Ultimately, Pippen never played above a peak Iguodala caliber, but the winning spotlight inflated him to all-time status and undeserved media accolade..

[FireDavidKahn]

In all fairness, 3ball is a moron

[ShawkFactory]

Stop pretending.. Gobert is the GOAT defender if we're going by DPOY's, while McDaniels is a budding star and guys like Mike Conley are rich man's Paxsons.. Meanwhile KAT outproduces Pippen quite easily (better stats) and led his team to a win over a top team with Ant wetting the bed - Pippen couldn't do that..

And KAT didn't need to win titles first to make All-NBA... Ultimately, Pippen never played above a peak Iguodala caliber, but the winning spotlight inflated him to all-time status and undeserved media accolade..

Tough night for you. My condolences.

[SouBeachTalents]

Tough night for you. My condolences.

Tough night for us too, a dozen more Ant threads on the horizon. But I'm glad OP gets to stew over this one for a while.

[FireDavidKahn]

Ant got more help than MJ now?

Vegas had us losing to the Suns in round one.
Rudy was going to get played off the floor in the play offs.
KAT supposedly had such terrible trade value we wouldn't have been able to get anything for him bank during Christmas.

Now suddenly Ant has GOAT level help. Make up your minds!

[StrongLurk]

We all know 3ball is the worst poster in ISH history. Him constantly taking L's is not thread worthy OP. It happens all the time.

[tontoz]

For the series Ant averaged 28/6/5 with a 61% TS even with that bad game 7.The Denver defense was focused on him, not Kat. They had Murray guarding Kat a lot ffs of course Kat took advantage of that.

[3ba11]

I assumed that the Nuggets were champions (last year's caliber), so when the Wolves don't win the title this year (less than champions/Nuggets), that will essentially fulfill what I said, aka "down-hill" brand is less than championship caliber - this will be proven true when he gets beaten by Tatum... The best teams are always led by low hold-time guys like Tatum this year, Jokic last year, or Curry in 2022.

carry on

[NBAGOAT]

I assumed that the Nuggets were champions (last year's caliber), so when the Wolves don't win the title this year (less than champions/Nuggets), that will essentially fulfill what I said, aka "down-hill" brand is less than championship caliber - this will be proven true when he gets beaten by Tatum... The best teams are always led by low hold-time guys like Tatum this year, Jokic last year, or Curry in 2022.

carry on

wolves beat the nuggets... if you beat a championship caliber team you're championship caliber. tatum will win because he has the most help in the league. all-nba sidekick with 2 all star caliber players and jrue(all star last year) as a 5th guy. even a competent bench

[3ba11]

wolves beat the nuggets... if you beat a championship caliber team you're championship caliber.

That's incorrect - you have to win the championship to be "championship-caliber", so the Wolves aren't that - they simply beat a team that wasn't nearly as good as they were last year and no longer championship-caliber (champs).. The wolves will prove that they're championship caliber by winning the title this year - otherwise, they're short of championship caliber.

And Tatum will win this year because his low-hold time style is capable of developing great chemistry over time, which allows a great-performing cast, aka great team.. Otoh, the down-hill skillset employed by Ant, Lebron, Luka, SGA, etc imposes spot-up roles that stalls young players, thereby needing ready-made stars to win (can't win organically).