Why Isnt Durant Getting Bashed For the Finals

[SilkkTheShocker]

- Lost when his team was favored
-got lit up on defense all series
- pour rebounding games
-Arguably got outplayed by Westbrook

Why is he getting pass?

[CelticBaller]

Because he didn't put an 07 LeBron performance

[DCL]

cuz he wasn't even supposed to be in the friggin' finals when the playoffs started. everyone thought, "damn, he went far!" instead of "damn, he ain't good enough to get it done." how many analysts picked OKC to be in the finals back in apr/may??? you can count with one hand.. or no hands.

[Perry Jones III]

He was supposed to lose to the spurs.

[SilkkTheShocker]

cuz he wasn't even supposed to be in the friggin' finals when the playoffs started. everyone thought, "damn, he went far!" instead of "damn, he ain't good enough to get it done." how many analysts picked OKC to be in the finals back in apr/may??? you can count with one hand.. or no hands.

Sweet. Yet they were still favored to beat the Heat and instead got backdoor swept.

[SilkkTheShocker]

He was supposed to lose to the spurs.

And he was supposed to beat the Heat. Wha wha happened?

[Kevin_Garnett_5]

cuz he wasn't even supposed to be in the friggin' finals when the playoffs started. everyone thought, "damn, he went far!" instead of "damn, he ain't good enough to get it done." how many analysts picked OKC to be in the finals back in apr/may??? you can count with one hand.. or no hands.

OKC was the favorite to make it out of the West before the season even began.

[Perry Jones III]

And he was supposed to beat the Heat. Wha wha happened?

The Miami Heat role players REALLY stepped up in the final, chalmers, battier, miller, cole, jones where all hitting there shots.

[CelticBaller]

OPs agenda is so fvcking obvious.

This is another "Why isn't Durant getting as much heat as LeBron was?" thread

God you're such a bitch

[DCL]

Sweet. Yet they were still favored to beat the Heat and instead got backdoor swept.

i was not on that boat in favoring the thunder over the heat. i think everyone got caught up with the hype when OKC destroyed the spurs. but sh!t, they were still a young inexperienced team. anyway, getting swept on your first trip to the finals when nobody even expected you to be in the finals originally isn't that upsetting.

but if they were hyped all year since preseason and then lost, then it would had been a different story. the thunder just turned it up later. down 0-2 to the might spurs, and they came back and kicked their ass. then everyone jumped on the bandwagon.

but the heat were always mentioned to be title contenders since day 1 of the season.

[SilkkTheShocker]

OPs agenda is so fvcking obvious.

This is another "Why isn't Durant getting as much heat as LeBron was?" thread

God you're such a bitch

This guy is so pissed that Lebron wiped his ass with his favorite team two years in a row. Don't project your anger on me, son.

[get these NETS]

a few reasons

Miami Heat are perceived by some fans as like wrestling bad guys/heels
which would make okc the good guys

durant is the next big star in the league...people figure that he will get back to finals

don't know what his overall stats were, but don't think his finals stats are that much different from his playoff stats in WC...he's sort of one dimensional...but he excels at the thing he does best...score

[SilkkTheShocker]

i was not on that boat in favoring the thunder over the heat. i think everyone got caught up with the hype when OKC destroyed the spurs. but sh!t, they were still a young inexperienced team. anyway, getting swept on your first trip to the finals when nobody even expected you to be in the finals originally isn't that upsetting.

but if they were hyped all year since preseason and then lost, then it would had been a different story. the thunder just sorta "came outta nowhere" in the playoffs, so to speak. down 0-2 to the might spurs, and they came back and kicked their ass. then everyone jumped on the bandwagon.

but the heat were always mentioned to be title contenders since day 1 of the season.

Im not saying it was unanimous OKC was going to win. But look at what the "experts" and this board was saying a month ago about Thunder winning in no more than 6 games.

[Flea]

Why are everybody talking about superstars?

IT IS THE ENTIRE HEAT TEAM that won the finals, and the ENTIRE OKC TEAM that lost the finals. It isn`t all about Lebron and Durant. Heat won, because they played better team basketball. Period.

[DCL]

Im not saying it was unanimous OKC was going to win. But look at what the "experts" and this board was saying a month ago about Thunder winning in no more than 6 games.

they weren't "experts." i believe they were just lebron haters. but then lebron finally grew up and went bonkers.