((((NBA)))) --2018/2019 SEASON

milwaukee's pickups of mirotic and hill really paid off

 

Right....

1st and Foremost a "Leader" Leads by EXAMPLE...SHOW Me (Us) 1st..

Nonetheless, After Sitting the Bench, WATCHING Boston Advance to Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals Last Year, Kyrie Just EXPECTED the Youngsters to Fall in Line and ACCEPT Him as the "Leader"...

NOT!!!




REED

 

Stevens Can Certainly Take Blame in This Instance...

It was Hayward that Had to Go to Stevens and Suggest Coming Off the Bench...Team Advances to the Eastern Conference Finals, Yet the Following Year You Insert 2 Different Starters???...






REED

 

Don't forget...he wasn't in the arena for game 7. He didn't show up to support the team.

He had septum surgery and was recovering...as if he couldn't have scheduled the surgery for another time.

 

Kobe was an asshole but still was the alpha who brought in two rings. I can't see Kyrie doing the same.

Kyrie is more Carmelo. Great scorer, not a leader and not an alpha despite how badly he wants to be. I always felt Carmelo thought his salary automatically made him "greater" than he was. Same goes for Kyrie.

 

Bryant laid an egg in game 7 against a shorthanded celtics team without perkins. Artest bailed him out

Bryant was a better player but not a great leader by any stretch. A harder worker, sure but I didnt see any great leadership qualities in him

 

I'm with Muzse - let's compare Kyrie to Melo.

I feel weird even mentioning him in the same sentence as Kobe.

But no, Kobe wasnt a great leader. Not if you compare him to a Magic, or Duncan.

Theres a lot of greats who weren't really leaders though.

Hakeem wasnt much of a leader. But he was so incredibly dominant that he carried Houston to two rings anyway.

 

Kyrie DOES have an alpha mentality, and that's his problem. He's not good enough to be one. He's a Robin.

Kobe had an alpha mentality AND was good enough to be a Batman.

 

i dont ever recall Anthony going 17-24 from the field on the road in a playoff elimination game, or hitting a game winning shot on the road to win a championship

 

Kobe was about 500000000x the defender Kyrie is

 

REED Wasn't Aware of That...

Definitely Could've (Should've) Been Rescheduled, but Kyrie Couldn't Stand to Be There in Case Boston Eliminated Bron and the Cavs While He was On the Sideline...

Ego...






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Thing Is, Cleveland NEVER Came within Smelling Distance of the Playoffs UNTIL Bron Returned...

Kyrie was a HUGE Contributor in their Championship Win, but That Doesn't Make You Fit to LEAD Another Team, All of a Sudden...When You Think About it, Kyrie "Cheated" the Process in a Sense...Went from No Playoff Appearances EVER to 3 Straight Finals Appearances, to Boston...No Babysteps or Progressions from 1 Round to the Next...

And Besides All that, Kyrie's Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay Tooooooooooooo INJURY PRONE to Be a Leader...








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'Melo Never Had a Teammate as Good as Bron Either...






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Reminds REED of a Kyrie Post Game Rant, Where he Admitted Kemba Walker REGULARLY Torches the Celtics...

Motherfucker Bitched About Coaching w/Out Ever 1nce Pointing Out Kemba was HIS Responsibility In Those Games...How About NOT Letting YOUR MAN Torch You Kyrie???...







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Kyrie makes Stephen Curry (who I don't think in my mind is a very good defender) look like Scottie Pippen on defense

 

No one as good as James, but He had some pretty stacked teams in Denver

 

Ben Simmons finally looks like a #1 pick

 

Like Embiid, He Provides FLASHES for Certain, Just No Consistency...

Don't Show Me in THIS Game, Show Me in EVERY Game...






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Kyrie became overrated as a result of having Curry's number.

 

Nuggets / Blazers has turned into a very entertaining series. Hard to pick against the Nuggets at home in Game 7.

 

Portland Needs to Pay Russell Westbrook to Be in Denver for Game 7, to Properly Motivate Dame Lillard...





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Yep...

Kyrie didn't have Cleveland anywhere near the playoffs before LeBron returned.

2012 - 4th pick - Dion Waiters (who he hated)
2013 - 1st Pick - Anthony Bennet (bust)
2014 - 1st pick - Andrew Wiggins (Bron traded him to Minnesota for Kevin Love).

 

Irving was what, 19-21 before James arrived?

 

Durant's chicken legs die, and all of a sudden the bench goes back to 2015 levels

 

So this team, i think in my mind, even without KD and Cousins, would still be favored against an un-proven Bucks team

 

Rockets are to the Warriors to what the Knicks were to the Bulls in the 90's

 

Houston let these guys outhustle them and grind it out until curry got going

Golden state wanted it more

Looney earned himself some money in this postseason

 

Softden and Chris Fail once again can't get over the hump.

 

I think Harden would quit life going up against the 90s Knicks' D.

 

He'd go to the line about 100 times