05-13-2024, 11:34 PM
(05-13-2024, 11:27 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: Yeah.
Look, I'm not in any hurry to dump on someone who, at 25, is arguably already the greatest Maverick of all-time, but I'm not sure we're not letting him off the hook a bit blaming this 100% on an injury.
The injury seems to be improving, somewhat. He's moving ok to me.
The injury isn't making him throw passes directly to Thunder players.
The injury isn't making him force up shots without anyone else touching the ball.
The injury isn't forcing him to bitch at the refs NONSTOP.
I want to love him more than any athlete I've ever followed. I really, really do. And, I'm not going to let this year's playoff results, whatever they end up being, become the EVERYTHING of my opinion of him. But, if I'm being honest, if I followed any other team I think I'd despise him.
The ref stuff sure, but his whole game is predicated on his ballhandling ability and that is clearly not normal. It impacts his entire game. Also he's bricking tons of his close/mid range bunnies that he normally hits at an insanely high rate.