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KarnBarlow:
Wow. Max Holloway just lost his belt. Volkanovski just came and kicked the sh-t out of his legs and ran away with his belt. Damn. Feel kinda bad for max, one of the nicest guys in mma.

No contest. Holloway only survived because of his takedown D. Far too passive. Was disappointed

If Holloway wins this fight then UFC is rigged. Volkanovski was better by a bit

The Mavs took it to OT. A miracle

Roland17:
Haha! J. Howard his 2nd best player you said? Baba abeg stop the exaggeration!!!Dirk through those periods had J. Kidd, defense Marshall S. Marion, J. Terry, C. Butler, T. Chandler, not forgetting Stackhouse and a young G. Green . These cats were legit, in their prime and had the stability of a great coach in R. Carlisle.. So what are we talking about here?

Josh Howard was literally the only guy that made All-star in Dirk's first run to the Finals.

What prime?? Is this a joke?? Shawn Marion 33, Terry 34, Kidd was 37 bruh, Stackhouse was 32 back in 06, Butler missed their title winning season. Wait did you just mention Gerald Green? Did he even play?? Lmaooooooo you're name dropping at this point. Tyson Chandler was a cast-off from New Orleans that failed his medical don't try to paint him like he was some star. In isolation these were all role players

AD had Holiday, Tyreke Evans, Ryan Anderson, Eric Gordon. All young and were good enough to be led to playoff contention by a transcendent talent

Monty Williams was their coach and he's hardly a scrub

Roland17:
Harden player one season where I can say he was by himself, after that he got D. Howard as a 1-2 punch for the Rockets, T. Ariza, JT, Sweet Lou, E. Gordon, CP3.. Oh, did we forget the Rockets were a game away from the next round when CP3 went down and the Rockets choked the lead and lost to the Warriors?

Na wa. The same Eric Gordon you didn't rate as a teammate of AD you're now rating him as a Rocket. Lol smh

Did you call Howard 1-2 punch? Lmaoooo smh. Harden went an entire regular season averaging 29 pts, Howard averaged 13. The first season almost double his average. It's not one two punch when the other person is scoring twice your average. You even mentioned Lou Williams that spent only one year with the Rockets. Adim weak oh

Harden maximized the limited talent he had, AD underperformed with his. Nothing wrong in admitting this

Roland17:
AD is not a passenger on this Lakers team, he is in conversations for different individual awards because he is earning it on the court! This is perhaps the first time he has a 1-2 punch and he is not slacking.. This is not a case of L. Doncic/ Porz where one star is literally carrying the team on his back..

Yes his 1-2 punch just happened to be another top 5 player and some would argue still the best player in the league. How many elite players will be teammates with LeNomad and slack? The likes of Giannis, Kawhi did not need LeNomad before running things

This Mavericks squad are a lottery team without Luka. More proof

DeRozan and Aldridge. Two perennial bottlers in one team smh

For those wondering why we don't respect Harden's regular season numbers

Harden in regular season: 23 games with 50+ points

Harden in playoffs: 0 games with 50+ points

airmark:
How far? Always jumping the gun like a juvenile on track.

Your useless Boathand won't stop disgracing you and raumdeuter. Every Muniru and Ambali have turned the calamitous Ghanaian to a mugu.

Mumu like you are always moved by one game. Where is Werder Bremen on the table?

Boateng has played the last two games Bayern won. Boateng was subbed vs Gladbach from 1-1 we ended up losing. Difference

afrodoc2:
To all the shekpites


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNtYXXys9Ks

I have booked Opportunity by Sir Warrior down in advance for the next Parte After Parte wey go shele for here

Roland17:
Failed to lead New Orleans to where? With what? Abeg make una just stop! How many of the current superstar is playing by alone with the expectation of making team progress in the dreaded western conference? Show me one western conference playoff contender that has only one star player and have made consecutive playoff appearances..What was he supposed to do? You yourself in one of your recent post agreed there was absolutely nothing he could have done with that squad! We freaking had people bringing ridiculous arguments about his stats when he plays with J. Holiday and was done!

He won one playoff series in 7 years. That's not good enough for a transcendent talent. Stop making excuses. We saw Dirk lead the Mavs to Finals and multiple series wins with Josh Howard as his second best player

He was supposed to make more than 2 playoff appearances in 7 years. Even the much maligned Harden is doing it with Houston and he didn't let his team crumble when his top 2 options get hurt

I did not agree there was absolutely nothing he could do with the squad? Where are you getting that from? I said perhaps it was not entirely his fault not that he could not do anything with the squad. They are clearly underperforming like they did even with AD

Roland17:
I don’t think anyone has any problem with the Giannis comparison and that is because it is a good and fair one. We had issues with the Siakam thing and from what we have seen this season, AD would have to stop playing before Siakam catches up with him and it is no diss on Siakam.
Right now he clearly the most important Laker on the court because it is almost impossible to take him out and if that is not leadership I don’t know what is.

Nobody said Siakam is at AD's level. We said he can get there. It's not unattainable

One does not have the luxury of playing with LeNomad either but still has his team 8 games over .500

I'm sure steady and Ersan will not agree with you that AD is the most important Laker on the court. The LeNomad hive won't either.

afrodoc2:
Oil dey your head. The guy dey play like Quincy Owusu-Abeyie. Shey na Kumasi pattern be dat?

Lmaooo na so dem dey play oh for Kumasi and Obuasi. Kick and sare kabakaba

lordfalcao:
the guy dy play ball like iwobi

Ko mo ori eku gba. Chai! England hype product. See what small boy Ansu Fati dey ball for Barcelona and they will be hyping this slim version of Owusu Abeyie


Lmaoooo WTF is Kepa Aribambiala

Thank God una no sell this Hudson Odoi to us, just dey run around pitch like okete. I don't know who was smoking what that thought he was Bayern level among our scouts

steady986:
When you people said Harden didn't deserve MVP what was your reason?

The year he was on same level with Giannis? Wasn't that the year Giannis led his team to 60 wins?

Roland17:
The AD disrespect on this thread was rifle..

What was the disrespect? That he failed to lead New Orleans? Did we lie?

That Giannis is comparable to him. Is that disrespect?

Because he has the luxury of playing with LeNomad we no go hear word?

Parte After Parte

chic2pimp:
Bruh I said It's all in His Head. Once He gets it all figured out, you'll see the beast in Him unleashed. I reckon either Him or Embiid has to be traded first as I firmly believe He has to have a team built around Him to enable Him to flourish.

Also I said, He had "MVP Potential" coming into the League and that Still stands. Most overwhelming Numero Uno NBA draft picks have it. King James is probably the odd one out here. His was a case of "MVP in Waiting" not "Potential MVP".

Lool I trust you to show up when he plays well against one of the worst teams in the league. A team that's 6-20.

You were nowhere to be found the day before when he dropped a Triple Single.

There's a very long queue of players ahead of him. He's not even the best player on his team so that says it all

This Jazz team looking like a scam. Their bench is butt crack

birdman:
bro calm down. take orijin. or gulder. or guiness.
no wound yaself on top billionaire matter

d way una go dey para on top dis matter. lol

Alaye make person hear word jare. Nobody was not calm. It's you that took it upon yourself to misunderstand simple matter bringing completely unrelated yarns

birdman:
i dont know what you are arguing here. I didnt say what you implied in 3rd paragraph.

If you had researched Battier, you would have seen that his defensive prowess was more important than his 3s. His defensive IQ is just as good as anyone in the league. That would have helped your argument. But no, in your haste to condemn LeKing, you chose meaningless stats

Ill say it again, shooting spot up 3s with no defense around you doesn't mean you are good. Anyone, even college players can do that.

I know you cant bring yourself to admit how much Lebron makes others better. Thats on you....

Why are you needlessly jumping into a debate you're clearly oblivious of the trail and orisun of the entire discourse.

In your desperation to defend your man you're just veering off tangent without rhyme or reason. We're arguing about the depth of the Heatles and not who LeNomad made better or worse. The bulk of these role players rely on teammates to get them open shots. I don't know why you're playing Captain Obvious and acting like you just discovered fire.

This thing where you people feel the constant need to play defense when LeNomad was not actually even under attack is worrisome

steady986:
Does he play defense?

And?

KarnBarlow:
But what you said about him being a beta is literally an indictment on him? hence what you are saying is without LeBron AD is not an alpha and can't lead this team to anything other than the lottery.

Indictment on his mentality. A #1 pick in his prime should not be joining a team where he is being questioned as the best player. Had he gone to Boston for instance with the season he is having do you think anyone would not have him as a runaway MVP candidate?

AD did not consistently show his ability to lead his team to anything other than the lottery. His first chance to do that and he opts to be a second banana to Bron.

KarnBarlow:
Make up your mind, its either hes not alpha enough to lead or hes good enough to lead. You can't have it both ways.

Of course regarding his mentality not his skills. Like I said he was ranked as a top 5 player going into this season. I wasn't the one that made the rankings.

Is he good enough to lead? Lol if he was he wouldn't join the Lakers so that's pretty self explanatory

Great as AD is do you think anyone would ever mention him in the same breath as a Duncan, Dirk or Karl Malone? No!

KarnBarlow:
Therefore, the lakers without LeBron will also be a lottery team yes? especially since this supporting cast is worse than the one he had in NO no?

That would be an indictment on AD. You still don't get it

Bear in mind LeNomad traded the entire squad just to get AD. They were literally a lottery team last year without AD

airmark:
Did you see that beautiful assist by Boathand for Tottenham's goal few days ago?

Garbage match. Even Mourinho called it a glorified friendly. If Boateng scores 10 own goals what difference does it make?

KarnBarlow:
Ohh please, all the hot takes on this thread, calling him all sorts of names from a beta to overrated because of what happened in NO. Now you're admitting its not all his fault. Hence you're learning to respect him a bit more.

What hot takes? You can be super skilled and still have a beta mindset. People call KD a beta after all doesn't mean they are not elite ballers. I will still question ADs mentality till he proves me wrong but that doesn't mean I don't recognize what he is capable of

Don't get it twisted. AD should have led the Pelicans to more wins. That is not debatable. However one must also point out the team is playing far worse than even it's floor level. You can't tell me with a straight face you expected the Pelicans to be the second worst team in the West

afrodoc2:
Almost all of the Hazardinhos have abandoned him to his fruitlessness.

The guy finally moved to Real like they wanted, only to be outshone by 2 teenage boys who are still trying to settle down in Europe.

I thank Fenibeso for making the Real transfer possible. There is no hiding place in that place, and their fans who are used to decades of excellence won’t be deceived by a few twerks per game.

When trouble come your way everybody Ben Johnson

Them go deny you them no know you again

KarnBarlow:
Hence getting the respect he deserves.

Nobody was not respecting Anthony Davis. I don't see your angle

KarnBarlow:
I'm glad AD is starting to get the respect he deserves. I guess so far the move has worked out after all, wouldn't you say?

When has AD not gotten respect though. Going into the season when ESPN made their list he was #5 if I recall correctly. And I also recall Stephen A picking the Lakers to win it all largely because of AD and the matchup problems he would pose to the Clippers.

I think the consensus was he kinda underperformed with the Pelicans, their performance thus far this season shows it might not entirely have been AD's fault. Whether it's the coaching or something there is a problem there

KarnBarlow:
What are the rockets without harden? What are the lakers without LeBron? Objectively...

The Rockets have Westbrook who can shoulder the load. The Lakers have Anthony goddamn Davis a top 5 player in the league and like you said a DPOY.

On the Mavericks team can you point to a top 30 player in the league not named Luka Doncic?

KarnBarlow:
You lot are going to make me hate this kid aren't you?

Really the Mavs are a lottery team without Luka Doncic. Can't say that for any of the other contenders. Just give him MVP already

Melo still looking MINT. Bleep analytics and the Rockets really played themselves for mismanaging and screwing Melo. You can't tell me he doesn't help that team last year

Or maybe he hit rock bottom and found himself again because this man can still Hoop!

Luka Doncic for MVP.

Spoke Spanish and proceeded to drop 42-12-11. This guy is unreal