Well, that is literally saying Royce White had the potential to be a Top 15 SF in the league. Well, glad, he is not.
All this kpj catfishing just reminded me of one of the biggest kpj stans @jiggyfly I guess he got banned a long time go and just never noticed. He probably has an alternate somewhere but hilarious how his posts aged. he thought he was so spot on with his kpj takes lol
Look KPJ is a severely flawed human who's done horrible things but he has shown significantly more on a NBA court than Royce White.
Dude, nobody cares....we heard of stories about people more talented than Michael Jeffrey Jordan who never made it to the NBA. Do you want to me to cry a river about people that do not matter......in the end. He did not even play full 80 game seasons in his 4 years. Save yourself that. Talking about that is useless.
I agree with this. The dude has some obvious mental health issues that were not handled and he was playing out of position. He's a case study in wasted potential. He could have been great if he wasn't such a loser.
Yes and no. KPJ has a great handle... for a long-limbed 6-7 guard. Looks good on the surface, but I always felt uneasy about ball security with him... Basketball is a game of nuance. People were very high a couple of years ago on KPJ - a longer, more athletic Harden!!! Amazing!!! Well is that a feature or a bug? James' lower center of gravity made him a more secure ball handler, better bumper and finisher around the rim, etc... So a longer and springier Harden turns out is not as good as you would think...
We all agreed we would try if he had his head straight on as a 6th man. But now that he has not, we should move the heck on from that guy. Never look back IMO.
I find this statement interesting. It's kind of like saying, "I could have been great if I had a much higher IQ." A lot of people think basketball talent is all about physical abilities and skills. The fact is, mental makeup is part of what kind of player a guy is. Intelligence and character are the most underrated talents in the NBA. To me "wasted" talent is not when a guy squanders his physical abilities because he makes bad choices. The ability to make good choices is part of his talent. Real waste of talent is when a good player's career ends with a freak accident.
I've always appreciated smart basketball iq, good character players who understand team basketball. There are a lot of guys with crazy athleticism and skills that never "get it" or they get injured and their career is over because all they had was their athleticism.
Great. I would have billions if I had the brain and head of Warren Buffett, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, or whoever. The Sweet talking of Humphrey Bogart and Odysseus. Then the body of an athlete. The feet of Fred Astaire, the Dream and big Ronaldo. The hands of Diego Armando Maradonna. I would be a force of nature to be reckoned with.
He's also not athletic. He got cut off of his drives constantly. He has zero spatial awareness. He made Russell Westbrook look like Prime Messi. He was above average at catch and shoot and in the mid range. Top 10 SG upside for KPj is ****ing laughable. This guy on his best day isn't even Kevin Martin. I swear I don't know what drugs KPj stans are on. Maybe hallucinogens where you can "see" the music and also "see" that KPj is an All-star talent.
Or maybe you only hear what you want to hear. You have an overwhelming need to defend your stated position and your pet players until they become completely, utterly indefensible. No matter what was being hinted at, whispered, or even said outright by national media regarding KPJ, you chose to ignore it all and continued backing your boi until that position became embarrassingly bad. Then you switched to claiming you would have made the right call if only you had sufficient data about the player in question.
I wonder what percentage of this thread has been dedicated to going at DD? The horse has definitely been beaten to a bloody pulp, but you guys keep wanting to go at it some more. DD has all the time in the world as well, so he will outpost you guys.
Mental makeup aside, I think his athleticism and physical skills are average starter/6th man by NBA standard. He's not bad, just not that special (perennial all-star type) like some fans think. Plenty of NBA guards can do what he does.
