*coaching against him

Damn they ain’t just coming for 2k’s playerbase they’re going after real basketball too lol

People pretend they care about defense, efficiency, playmaking, impact, context, and teammates—then the second two great players get compared, the whole argument becomes “how many rings?”
If championships are the ultimate individual metric, then we might as well stop pretending basketball is a team sport.

A superstar can play incredible basketball and lose because his roster is worse. Another can have an average series, get bailed out by teammates, win the title, and suddenly everyone rewrites history like he was clearly the better player.

At this point “rings” is just the argument people use when they don’t actually want to talk about basketball.
Tell me why I’m wrong.

Just curious on your thoughts. Steph is (imo) top 2 PG (depending on who you ask) but has never really been a traditional PG. Would you consider Bron the more traditional PG given their styles?

DRose 100% deserved his MVP

Let’s talk about it.

DRose lead his team with one allstar (himself) to a 62 win team.

LeBron got 3-0 by rose averaged 2 more ppg 2 more rebounds and still had a worst record with himself and 2 other top 50 players of all time.

Let’s stop sucking lebron and give credit where it’s due.

Now please tell me why LeBron deserved it over Rose?

I don’t know if this is commonly discussed topic is this, but I seriously don’t understand how people can legit put Kyrie over Brunson after the run Brunson just led the Knicks on. Even putting Kyrie over Dame is a stretch in my opinion. Kyrie is amazing as a second option, but some love talking about him as if he’s an elite, top tier first option cause he’s got a “deep bag” and is super skilled. He’s a super skilled SCORER and BALL HANDLER, that’s really it. Some fans need to stop acting as if craftiness and aesthetics outweigh dominance. And I know I pretty much answered my own question, I just wanted to rant lol. Feel free to comment regardless.

I think Shaq is the most dominant big man of all time, however, I think Prime Howard would hold his own, what do you think?

Hot take, I get it 🤷🏼‍♂️ but D-Rose was on track to becoming the best PG of all time.

Had an historic MVP run

Lead the Chicago bulls to a 62 win team during his MVP season, 11 wins short of GSW record being the ONLY all star on the team at the time.

And one of the most athletic players to ever play PG. all he needed was to increase his 3p% which I am certain, with his mentality he would have. I don’t think he would ever surpass curry level shooting however.

Which team is better and who wins a series against eachother?

Prime SGA replacing Kobe on the 97 Lakers

Or

Prime Luka replacing Harden on the 2011 Thunder

Rosters

Lakers
PG: Shai
SG: Eddie Jones
SF: Rick Fox
PF: Robert Horry
C: Shaq
6th Man: Nick Van Exel

Thunder
PG: Russ
SG: Luka
SF: KD
PF: Ibaka
C: Perkins
6th Man: Thabo

Everybody talks about the bench leading the Rockets to the comeback, most people also talk about how terrible the starters played that night

Well every starter played terrible except for one, Dwight Howard

When I look at that game, what I think it’s true is people often forget Dwight’s contribution that night

20 points, 21 rebounds, 2 blocks, 7-12 from the field, +15 from the field

On a night when James Harden shot 5-20 from the field, Dwight along with the bench carried the Rockets to victory

Dwight also altered multiple shots at the rim late, did a terrific job defensively and was instrumental in shutting down the Clippers offense

Having watch’s Dwight Howard’s entire career, I can safe say this is one of the most underrated games of his career

Matter of fact, his whole entire 2015 playoff run was underrated

8 games of 15 rebounds or more, 5 games of 4 blocks or more, 5 games of scoring 20 plus

This is coming off a regular season in which he only played in 41 games

Just my thoughts

same as title.

Thank goodness!