He was literally part of the best team in NBA history. His teams in the past underachieved due to injury and trading for Bradley Beal. Not sure how bad defense accusations suddenly end up talking about clutch seems like your just throwing **** up to see what sticks.
Alpi, Durant, and sometimes Reed, bringing the ball up after a make on the other end in crunch time, is hard to watch. BTW, Ime took Amen out of his rhythm in the 4th by placing him in the corner off the ball too many possessions. He was sitting there watching his teammates struggle to get pass half court with the ball. Then suddenly Amen lost his aggression, game over.
He also partook in one of the biggest collapses in playoff history, has several early playoff exits despite playing in the East, and never won anything without a prefabricated dynasty. You want to debate how KD improved the offense. I'm not arguing he hasn't. I'm saying the individual players' improvement (Eason, Sengun, Reed, etc) equally helped the offense. I'm saying no FVV hurts the offense, and defense, and team. The convo began with the loss of Brooks. Fred is basically the PG-version of him on a team lacking a PG, leadership, toughness, experience, and at times defense from the 1 guard.
What biggest collapse are you talking about? In East he was always injured its not like they were healthy and losing lol. They were all playing with bum ankles and hamstrings. In the modern NBA nobody has won anything without multiple allstars except 2023 Jokic. Not sure how thats a fair assessment. This convo began with you saying KD lacks leadership and defense. I dunno about leadership but you are wrong on defense. FVV being so critical is not due to him but due to Ime being so dumb he cant do anything without FVV. FVV is just an above average pg, he isnt a star but the only reason we struggle so much is Udoka doesnt know how to run an offense so FVV was the one doing it for him.
- 2016 -- up 3-1 vs Warriors - swept 1st round vs Celtics Agred Ime's offense sucks. If he needs Fred for any semblance of an offense.... then, we need Fred. I already liked your post about defense. Props to KD. If his defense is above average, he lacks even more in other areas, mostly intangible. Regardless.. once Fred went down, true contention evaporated.
Amen is the reason why we lost this game. The guy is too passive, afraid to shoot the ball when the Spurs are daring him. This team definitely need to add a sharp shooter such as Coby White, they need to add a playmaker as well. They are not a contending team as they are currently built.
Durant has absolutely improved the offense. Denying otherwise is just delusional. This rockets team has very bad depth and not a lot of spacing outside of durant.
It said more about the past Golden State team than about KD........GSW thought they could add a former MVP to their already invincible team. Talking about putting a decayed cherry on top of their Cupcake.
How is up 3-1 of OKC the biggest collapse? They were a bunch of young 20 yr olds and were a lotto team before. Warriors literally lost to Lebron also being up 3-1. They got swept by Celtics....you mean the year Harden quit, Kyrie refused to get vaxxed and KD was playing injured? Literally KD by himself against the Celtics? Wow what a collapse. I dont wanna argue about your intangible claims since it seems like you dont really know if what you are saying is true or not and just waiting on me to fact check you. Look just dont say **** without verifying it first how hard is that?
They lost to Lebron, KD gave them the edge over Lebron. They werent invincible since they lost. KD won 2FMVP how was he a decayed cherry? If anything it extended GSW cuz if they didnt do that Lebron would keep beating them.
I'd love to hear a reporter ask Ime that question. I can only imagine what kind of BS response he would give.
I gave up listening to those. They are always frustrating to listen to. Heck, even when we win it's like pulling teeth to get him to say anything good about "certain" players like Reed when they come up big. LOL, probably.
Fell asleep at half-time, what'd I miss? J/K... although I did fall asleep at half-time and I slept soundly b/c we were up... little did I know
4th qtr - start til 6:30sec remaining Reed misses 3 Reed misses 2 Amen misses 2 Alpi misses 2 Alpi misses 2 Amen misses 2 Amen misses dunk Tari misses a 3 Alpi misses a 2
Rockets scored 36 points on 60% shooting in the 1st quarter…that means that they only managed to score 63 points the rest of the game on 24-72 shooting which is 33% wow
Missed the second half, had better things to do. It was painfully obvious how inept udoka is by the pure fact that once again, he iced his own player who was absolutely cooking. This team isn't a contender with Udoka
