Roland17: Please tell me you are kidding with the attachment you have included! Please tell me this is a joke! I don’t know where you cropped it from but it is extremely obvious it lacks any kind of mainstream following which buttresses my point.
Let me get you straight, your idea of respect for Giannis is for him to be included in the conversation of GOAT or the face of the league? Habamana!!!! Dis Na the real problem..The fact that you deem that block better than LeBum’s and it is the narrative in the NBA today’s speaks to my point that Giannis gets a whole lot more respect than you are admitting. Like I said earlier, I could care less whose is better.
What exactly has Giannis achieved since he became a superstar to be placed on the same pedestal as LeBum/Kawhi/Slimreaper? I am LeBum’s biggest critic on this thread but the man has earned his stripe to even be in the conversation! This is nothing about back to back 40pt games, bro, anyone can put up that number! Booker nearly did, does that make him better than Giannis? Giannis performance or lack there of in the post season is open book for anyone to spy!
Outside of this season, what exactly has Giannis achieved in the post season? Please, this is not a conversation of his supporting cast! This is a conversation about him! Come on now!!! You guys have gone way too far with this thing.. At any point in time, can you make a credible statement that Giannis is the best player in the league? I am not talking about regular season MVP titles here! I am asking you to beat your chest and say over the last 3-4 years, there has been a year Giannis was better than LeBum, Slimreaper, Kawhi or even Curry? That Giannis was the best player in the league! This is what I mean whenever I question his mental strength. What effrontery !!!
Kawhi at his physical peak took a rubbish Raptors team to the finals and won a chip! Without Kawhi we can see the scam Siakam and the Raptors are! How about with the Spurs? Man these cats never made excuses because of team mates! Infact in the world of superstars, the excuse of team mates is not admissible let alone debatable. What are we even talking about here?
Do you have any idea how the league reveres Doncic? This man was projected to win the MVP even before the season started last season! Man just stop! There is no book where Doncic is disrespected because he is not American!!! He is ranked top 5 player in the league today on anybody’s list, so where is the disrespect? Embiid? You do realize Philly gave up its present and future to an African who can barely stay healthy! The entire City had trusted the process from day one and Embiid is the face of Philadelphia sports..Do you have any idea how much the Sixers and the entire City of Philadelphia have invested in Embiid? Man, this is about territory.. You earn it, nothing is given! Damian Lillard just turned 31, he is respected but he has to reel himself to the finals someway or somehow, he knows it..
Whoever wrote that stuff even had the nerve to bring up Shaq? Haaaaaaaaa!!! Make I leave that one because he is not anywhere close to the level of Shaw’s dominance.. Did you watch the pregame video by Spike Lee before game 4? I would encourage you to do that and focus on when Spike was flipping through jerseys and tell me what you see! That is respect. You want to talk about players that have been disrespected? Talk about Charles Barkley, talk about Patrick Ewing, Talk about Isaiah Thomas, this man like KD was hated not even disrespected..Talk about D. Howard (there is even a debate questioning his HOF eligibility), talk about Penny Hardaway, Talk about David Robinson, Talk about “the Mail man (K. Malone)! There is no space in this world where Olajuwon is not respected.. There is no conversation about big men in the NBA where Olajuwon does not dominate the narrative.
Man, I know we are Africans and Nigerians by heritage but we are over doing this tin Na! Whatever Giannis achieves this season is what he is supposed to be doing! He is not an average Joe here! He is a superstar.. Make una stop with all these tins..No other superstar has enjoyed this degree of protection from the media.
Giannis is loyal? I get that but is he getting paid average Joe money? Giannis is getting paid a super max contract! The man is on a $228M contract with over $100M guaranteed and an annual salary of $25M in A SMALL MILWAUKEE and you are talking of disrespect!!!!!!!! what in God’s sacred name are we talking about here? The NBA is consciously looking to reward him for this decision. Let’s not act like he is getting paid peanuts or he restructured his contract to stay! The NBA has done its job by getting Giannis and the Bucks, a small market to the finals with a good chance of winning it all which will be great. Make no mistake, the league is ALL ABOUT THE MONEY! If Giannis left, the Bucks would have been in tartars. That would be another small market that went crashing after its player left and the impact would affect the pockets of the league owners in their revenue sharing!
The annoying part be say, I am now seen as a Giannis hater because I expect a certain level from him..
Roland17: My “Me Against The World Award” goes to Monty Williams.:
What a coaching head this man is turning out to be.. The Clippers make an adjustment with their starting five especially on how they defend Booker by starting Beverly, catching Booker high up what does he do?
He changes ball handling duties at the start of the 2nd and has C. Payne handle the ball and control the direction of the game with Ayton having another monster game.
And that winning play after the timeout with 9 tenth of a second remaining to set up Ayton for the Alley was exceptionally impressive. First he misdirects Booker deep, rotating Ayton from the top of the side into the restricted zone to catch the Ally for an easy dunk over Zubac!
What a set play and the execution was perfect!!!
Take a bow Monty Williams.. This one is for you! It’s you against the World!
Roland17: Jaylen Brown is perhaps one of the most intellectual basketball/ sports individual I have seen in a very long time. I am talking about people who have immense gift of critical thinking when speaking about numerous issues.. not just issues bordered on social justice but different spheres of life. He is quite composed and calm when he is making his case which is uniquely different.. He reads a lot of books like me and it doesn’t shock me when he makes different analogies in relation to the topic discuss. The man has a great future ahead of him after basketball for sure. When it comes to enlightenment, I try to be careful because it is subjective to principles and values identified to the specific individual. In most cases, I just listen and that is what I do when Kyrie speaks. He comes off bullish but it’s coming from a different place me and you may never understand I guess.. if that makes sense. His take on Kyrie’s comment was exceptional and perfect. Good thing the Celtics fans backed him up by not doing anything silly last night..it would have given credence to the narrative.
Mehn Tatum on fire but for the Celtics to beat the Nets,that means he has to play like this throughout the series...Can he keep up the smoke?? We'll watch and see....
chic2pimp: This is not definitely not the same Bucks team as last season and this is most certainly not the same Heats team as last season.
Really happy for Jrue. After wasting His time on the pelicans for years, He finally has a team that will at the very least give Him a chance to compete. Also who would have thought replacing wastepipe Bledsoe for one of the Best guards in the League would automatically make your team better? .
Nets are still my favourite though providing everyone is fit. I don't see anyone outscored those dudes 4 times in a 7 games series.
He was once compared to Bledsoe on this thread?you can imagine
Sports › Re: The NBA Begins by aliondo: 12:54pm On Aug 12, 2021
