I say shut and play WINNING basketball. Love needs to have more impact on the game. Empty stats do not mean nothing. His defense sucks honestly. Plus he signed the extension prematurely ,if you ask me.
Les is right about on thing, players who yap too much undermine the organization's ability to improve. If Keven Love really wants to win, he should zip it. But I think the dude is just laying the foundation for bailing to LA.
I hate it when a player calls out his organisation like that. That being said, i would love to have him on our team.
Enough of this ****, i mean seriously why are all star players b****es? Why can't we just have a league full of luis scola's? Who think's getting to the playoffs and winning would be great, but is still just incredibly happy just to be playing in the nba and to be on his team? I just don't get it.
He's not on their level. It's not like he is the second coming of Kevin Garnett. Numbers without substance.
Rubio tears his acl and is out for the season; the team gets markedly worse --> Love gets pissed? This doesn't even make sense to me. Of a course a team built around to budding stars is going to get much worse if one goes down. And the whole "they didn't show him respect by not offering the max extension"? So what? Deal with it. Either sign or don't sign. b****ing doesn't change his leverage and just makes him look like a primadonna.
Kobe calling out his team resulted Pau for Kwame. If Kahn is ever involved in a deal like that, you know he's on the short end of it.
First off, Love is overrated. He's a beast on the boards, but he plays small for the self-proclaimed best *power* forward in the L. He has no low-post game. And on defense, forget about it. He's definitely a great player, but he's not the best player on a championship contender. More like the second option. Second, he's complaining that he hasn't gotten to the playoffs and blaming the team? Sounds a lot like Howard's whining. He acts like he shares no responsibility in not making the playoffs last year. He's got a serious entitlement complex going now. Plus, as much as Kahn has made some dumb moves, he's got some great pieces in there with Pekovic (who I think is potentially more valuable than Love in a couple years as a legit center who can clog the paint and has serious power game on offense), Rubio, and potentially Batum. If he can't make the playoffs this year with this squad, it's his own damn fault. Third, this dude is a punk for stomping on Scola's neck.
How long did it take KG to finally win a ring, let alone make it out of the first round? Love has cause too be this pissed off. Should he have avoided the media and talked to the owner and GM privately? No doubt.
I'm talking about performance/ability. Aside from his on-court antics......KG (in his prime) will eat Love's lunch.
KG is a HOF...Love is an Allstar...and its true that KG would destroy Love, but Love is a solid player...and he has the right to be pissed...Minny has been collecting Lottery picks ever since KG left...and Love has stuck by the team since... thats a really big deal...
Absolutely true. But Love is a force to be reckoned with in today's NBA. Comparing him to a sure fire HOF player is disingenuous.
While I agree that it is getting tiring to see all these stars complaining , what I don't agree with is people saying he's overrated ? We are talking about one of if not the best PF in the game today right ?
He wants what his Team USA teammates have: a playoff caliber team. Wouldn't doubt that he's considered what happened with Garnett.
