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The same Wiggins that was an all-star that year is the person someone is trying to pass across as a bum. Lol. Una go dey alright. I no even get una time. Emotional bunch. Engage them in a conversation and it will be as though you're arguing with todlers. Na why I dey avoid una like covid

Skrrrrrrr:
Lol. Clowns.
So in your mind, adding draymond and Klay to Traes Team would win them a championship...
You guys just analyse sports like those "burukutu drinking" Gwari men.
The combination of Prime Paul, Griffin and Jordan was not enough to win a title for the Clippers.
We just saw the nets Tank with Durant, Kyrie and Harden.
But you clowns want to make it look like Draymond and Klay Thompson, is the difference between steph and those other Bums.
Draymond hasn't even been world class in a while and was getting put out of the rotation while klay was just recovering, last season. Yet the curry led warriors won the chip, beating the celtics with Tatum, brown, smart and Adams.
Smart was DPOY last season by the way.
Make una stop this "feeding bottle" analysis abeg. It's getting tiring.

Goat. Whenever you people just hear Steph getting criticised, you forget your brain and rush to defend him. If I tell you that Steph didn't face any adversary on his way to the finals last year, you'd say I'm hating. Dallas, Grizzlies and Denver is not enough opposition if you look at it critically. Jokic was all alone, Ja was all alone, Luka was all alone. And then when you get to the finals to play Tatum and Brown, good team but there's a reason I call Brown and Tatum two second options masquerading as a big 2.

And Steph has won 4 rings but has only 1 FMVP. What does that tell you? Don't tell me he played well in all those finals or playoff series. That's not enough. Any good player can play well. Did he will his team to those rings?

birdman:
thats the point. he has the skills to become just as good. but he needs more than a good team right now. he still has work to do on himself. before you start asking front office to assemble you a big 3 or whatever, you too must be in that category. He is not there yet, and there is no point psyching him up - he has a lot to still work on to get there. Otherwise, you become like Lillard...dropping 50 pts and getting swept year after year. Like LASTMA

You keep bringing up Lillard. Are you saying a paring of Lillard and Embiid for example won't go all the way? Until he requests to be traded or the FO brings someone in (which might never happe), we just have to accept that his chances of success are limited.

Embiid
Jokic
Giannis
Tatum
Fox
Steph
Harden
LeBron
AD
Kyrie
Luka
Booker
Butler
SGA
Brown
Brunson
Randle
Sabonis
Mitchell
Ja
Bam
Ingram
KD
Haliburton
Markennen
Trae
Dame
JJJ
Jrue
Ant Man
PG
Kawhi
Klay
Siakam

Each of these guys will feel agreived if they're left out of All-NBA teams this season. Some won't make it because of the limited amount of games they played, but all of them played at an All-NBA level.

benji93:
Ofcourse as long as it includes Lebron. . Na me and you. But why would you deliberately miss the key argument you made? Your argument was that this batch is more talented. And I insist they aren't based on the scoring metric alone. No dey forget previous arguments as you dey formulate new ones.

And I'm telling you it includes Steph Don't worry about LeBron, his legacy is set in stone already. He's the GOAT

birdman:
He has the skillset to become a great as well. He is further along in his NBA career than Curry was when he started. Curry was never considered a great in his first few years either. Gotta start somewhere

Trae has achieved more in his first 4 years than Curry did in hjs first 4 years. What are you now complaining about? Does Trae have an all time great shooter or a top 3 scorer of all time or an all time great defensive player for him to go and win a championship like Curry? The answer is NO

The way our resident apuruka analyst sites threes for the reason guys are scoring much, one would think MJ and Oscar and Wilt and all those high scoring dudes took 10 threes a game in their days. Or maybe he's saying that being a better 3 point shooter is a disadvantage. Maybe Giannis too averaged 30 because of his 3point prowess Lazy analysis. And like going to the FT line is supposed to be a knock on Tatum's game . Or perhaps there's a question mark on MJ's greatness because he went to the FT line 8 times too. Lol

benji93:
Do not be one-sided in your thoughts. . Always try to find counter-examples that nullify your argument. Perhaps you couldn't. This could just be the consequence of the fact that they have a lot of freedom. Ofcourse you should score more. It would be weird if you don't. In other words, there is more than one reason why that is the case. You cannot just choose one reason and go straight to a conclusion. Great achievement regardless. Me and you for this playoffs

Yea. Steph too is scoring this much because of the freedom given him. Which puts a question mark on his greatness. I ain't taking any revisionist argument from you bro.

The great Celtics have existed for over 70 years. And you want to tell me this isn't the most talented era in basketball? Sit this one out bro. You have no case.

Khanben:
The best I can say about Steph and Lillard, is that they are combo guards who play PG because of their size

Dame is not even as big as Steph. He's 6 feet. But he plays more PG than Steph. Steph is 6"3'.

birdman:
Too one dimensional. That scoring capability does not translate into championship like game. The discipline and defense and x/os that is supposed to come with that unguardability is not there. Compare him to say, Curry, or even the bigger Durant. We know he can get hot. Thats it.

How can you compare Trae to all-time greats like Curry and KD. Trae will probably never be a no. 1 option. We haven't seen him alongside a great big or wing for us to judge him. And besides, he's an unathletic 6 ft guard and so there's a limit to what he can do on the court. But I like him for just mere controlling an offense and getting others into play. His scoring is just a secondary attribute. But having said that, he'll still give you 25 a night.

.@Rjeff24 explains why he considers Steph to be a shooting guard pic.twitter.com/8lXUVLqZq0

— TheOldManAndTheThree (@OldManAndThree) April 5, 2023

Steph fanboys having a meltdown in the comments. Jus call their boy a shooting guard and all hell breaks loose

birdman:
Some really bad habits have been learned. He is playing below his talent level. I fear he becomes another Damian Lillard

What do you mean exactly? Is Damian Lillard a bust or is he playing below his talent level?

birdman:
thanks for this.

nobody wants to face the suns right now, so no one wants #5. Except maybe the warriors

It will be Clippers vs Suns finally. Except the Clippers are foolish enough to want 7th place instead.

Our 3 point spammer will lead the league in total assists for the second year running.

So this is the West standings as of today. The Clippers have 2 games left while the Lakers and Warriors both have one game. The Clippers are in an advantageous situation, in that they can decide who they play in the 1st round. Win both their games and they get the 5th seed and play the Suns. Lose one and they get the 6th seed and play the Kings. The Warriors don't have that luxury because they could fall to the play-in if they tank their last game. My best guess is the Clippers win their next game which is against Portland, and tank their final game against Phoenix.

UPDATE

The Clippers would have to win out their games if they want to finish top 6. This is due to the Pelicans having the tiebreaker over the Clippers. If the Clippers, Lakers and Pels all finish with the same record, the Pels automatically move to 6th because they have the best conference record among the three, even though they don't have the tie breaker over the Lakers. So it would be Pels at 6, Clippers at 7 and Lakers at 8. So it's 5th or 7th for the Clippers.

I expect the Suns to play their full squad on Friday and try to beat the Lakers in a game that doesn't matter to them

As usual, the Clippers are pumped up for their annual NBA Finals game against the Lakers

steady986:
What is with these teams and playing the Lakers? Everybody ups their game when they play the Lakers. No other team in the NBA receives this type of treatment. Look at Sexton, he basically came straight from the emergency room to make the game tonight.

Kelly Olynik and Damian Jones were a combined 7/7 from 3 tonight. Man I'm done watching basketball. Wtf

LeBron brings us home

Nobody in the entire league gets doubles more than AD. But why are the Jazz doubling though? I thought they were tanking

What is with these teams and playing the Lakers? Everybody ups their game when they play the Lakers. No other team in the NBA receives this type of treatment. Look at Sexton, he basically came straight from the emergency room to make the game tonight.

It's not long ago someone here was comparing AD to Bam, abi na Siakam Those were scary times. And the same person wants to tell us to give AD more praise. O wrong now.

I believe there's not much else to say about AD. He's that guy.

But look at Bridges. I think we'll be hearing more from him in this league

Maybe this man doesn't know that I call AD the best big man in the league when healthy. You won't find a bigger AD fan than me, so just calm your tits

birdman:
Nice try. We had Ariza, Capela and Dwight Howard, all who could still ball at the time, this was like 9/10 years ago. And we had a deep bench with Jason Terry and Josh Smith (our 3rd and 4th option scoring).

We also ran a modified princeton offense, similar to what Warriors played. And if Harden and listened to coach McHale, stopped that iso ball and passed more to Ariza who was just as good as Harden at knocking down 3s that year, we would have beaten the Warriors. Harden gassed out trying to do it all all every 4th quarter. So frankly, we won the regular season because of him, and lost the playoffs because of him. In other words, 0 effect.

Gotta be careful with this stats, they can help you say whatever you want to hear at the moment.

This particular season there was no Capela and Dwight played 41 games. And seriously, Ariza was just a decent role player.

We have to give credit to Harden for leading this sorry team to 56 wins

Warriors fans are an awkward bunch. This is them celebrating the apparent AD injury tonight on Twitter Spaces. They're always up in our business. The other day they were celebrating the Lakers not getting Kyrie like they just won the championship. Just listen to a random Twitter Spaces on a random day and it's the Lakers they're talking about. We live rent free in their heads.

Wow warrior fans celebrating ADs injury pathetic pic.twitter.com/KSBvaf4ymn

— AD FANATIC (@tywow28) April 1, 2023

The way AD cooked KAT tonight though. Man made sure he recognized he was a No. 1 pick before him

The talent level in the NBA today is unreal. Just insane. I've never seen anything like this before. Mikal Bridges is slowly turning himself into a star in this league. And he's only on 22m/yr for the next 3 years. He's having the same trajectory as Kawhi. Started out as a defensive stalwart but is slowly sharpening his offensive game.

AD hurt his foot. It's over