Kevin Love Defense

BackdoorHarden · Jan 16, 2016

jayland said: ↑

The same thing happened with Chris Bosh. Chris Bosh was regarded as one of the top PFs too until he teamed up with Lebron in Miami and got overshadowed when he was no longer the man.

But as far as the lack criticism on Love's lack of defense go, I say it's the race card. He gets a pass because he's a tall white guy and therefore is expected to be slow and not athletic enough to be a good defender. You ever see the media really bash Dirk over poor defense either?
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Dirk is German. He's not expected to be good in Defense. Remember WW2

Shroopy2 · Jan 16, 2016

larsv8 said: ↑

I think you look at it the wrong way all together. Why are you trying to find things to be mad about? There is no such thing as a perfect basketball player, much less a team of perfect basketball players.

Players, for the most part, are who they are. It makes little sense to get mad when they are not something else.

You embrace guys like Harden and Love for what they bring, not for they don't.

They both bring elite skills that other guys can't (Harden elite offense, Love elite rebounding), and then supplement them with role players which can cover the warts. That is team building.

When I watch Harden, his biggest issue, in my opinion, are his physical limitations. He is clearly not a physical specimen like the Lebron's and Westbrooks. He doesn't have this endless inner energy to draw from like those guys, in my opinion, because he just isn't built that way. I see the defensive lapses, and lazy effort on defense. I can also see when he makes a concerted effort of defense and how much it affects his offensive game...ie....it suffers quite a bit. I understand this, I can rationalize this.

So, I ask myself, what do I want here? Do I want average defender and average offensive player, or do I want one of the best offensive players in the league who has frustrating defensive lapses?

And this isn't some special treatment for Harden. I never got mad at Beverley, or Ariza, or Battier, or Hayes because they were frustratingly bad offensive players, because I recognize their contributions on defense.

Players are what they are. To pitch fits about it endlessly is so tiresome.
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Been saying it for years, its cuz its ALWAYS about the MONEY - the Multi-MILLION$ players get that gets fans all jelly and salty, and they project their resentment on the players.

Without fail every time a player gets a big fat contract, it doesnt matter if they were the scrappy crowd favorite at first, that player WILL GET EXTRA criticism, pressure, even full-on "I Have Grown to HATE ____ " on them. To me the money (or being a "media darling") was the correlation

I remember doing a google search on active NBA players a few years back, and EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM from MVPS on down were considered "Overrated" by fans LOL. From then on I got the perspective you have of players just being are what they are, since only 1.47% players can "win" in the eyes of fans

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