Durant is monstrous
chillThis league is a joke. The lack of parity in the league is a joke.The fact that LeBron can magic his way to the finals is a joke. GSW/Cavs is a joke. The fact the Warriors are able to have a team of 5 superstars is a joke.
Go watch hockey instead of this joke.
Ayeee we're in the minority together.Then again, I've also never bought into the anti-KD takes because I think a free agent should just do whatever he wants. The only free agency decision that kind of bothered me in recent years was DeAndre Jordan reneging on his verbal agreement. So maybe I'm in the minority on a lot of this stuff.
This. All of this.I don't really get the "Finals repeats are bad" take. All-time great teams like these Warriors are what fans talk about with some wonder decades later, and it's weird how people don't seem to appreciate what's happening at the time. Obviously we all have our particular favourite teams for other reasons, but my opinion for the last few years has been that the next-best thing after the Raptors winning rings is for the Warriors to keep making history by collecting more of them. There's a bit of wishing that the Raptors would be the team to finally beat the Warriors mixed in there too; I don't know what seeing someone else do it is supposed to do for me.
Then again, I've also never bought into the anti-KD takes because I think a free agent should just do whatever he wants. The only free agency decision that kind of bothered me in recent years was DeAndre Jordan reneging on his verbal agreement. So maybe I'm in the minority on a lot of this stuff.
Hockey gets the same complaints as soon as parity slips even a little. There was one Stanley Cup Final rematch ~10 years ago, and I kept hearing how boring that was. Didn't get it then; still don't now. And on the flip side, I know hockey fans now who are embarrassed that an expansion team got to the Final, as if their interest in parity doesn't quite extend to that team yet.
This is what annoys me. The same people who want to tell me Zaza ruined a great series and potential upset are telling me that these Warriors are unstoppable. No, the Spurs did not beat the Warriors and no, the Rockets didn't either, but they definitely made the Warriors look vulnerable. The WCF was the real Finals and the Warriors/Cavs are only less exciting comparatively is because the Cavaliers are trash, the Raptors are trash, and the Celtics had injury issues.Like let's not forget what San Antonio could've done had Kawhi not gotten injured last year or how Houston took GSW to 7 games but CP3 got injured toward the later end of the series.
Please, Kobe is barely top 10, if that.The future is NOW.
But I agree that legacy discussions are moot because Kobe is obviously the GOAT
I don't care for legacy/player rankings either, but it doesn't bother me as much as it appears to bother you. I just don't care about other people's opinions about who is better or the best. That said, I think it can be interesting in the future to look back upon these years to see how these Warriors changed the game, but that discussion isn't for now.Can I be honest with all of you? I'm a history teacher and one thing that bothers me in sports is this little word: legacy.
"The legacy of LeBron James"
"The legacy of Kevin Durant"
"The legacy of Stephen Curry"...
Things we'll know, I don't know, 10 or 20 years ahead. And I ask, why the hell do you ask about it now that they're active? Why am I going to wonder about the impact or their career 20 years from now if they are here and now? It makes no sense to discuss the distant future and the impact of the present in that distant future when this present is happening right in your face. And people waste time asking:
"who is the best player of all time"
"who is the greatest of all times"
Sorry, but I think that all those discussions are bullshit and a schizophrenic daydream.
What is happening is now.
Let's leave the future to be discussed when it arrives.
It's almost identical to how the Patriots have dominated with Tom Brady dinking and dunking up the field for the last 15 years, but you still manage to be entertained by them hahaI’m not super big into basketball so take my onions with a grain of salt but I can tell you it’s not a sense of jealousy that makes me dislike the warriors dominance. I love dominant teams and learning about dominant players and teams in different eras is a favorite hobby of mine. What I don’t like is how boring the Warriors in particular are. The dominance I enjoy the most is more on the defensive side to begin with but also I want to see people “struggling to succeed” or rather I want to see a dominant team be forced to be creative to access their dominance. Something like Steph Curry or Klay Thompson pulling up for a their fast release long range threes just... it’s the same thing. They’ve been doing it for years. There’s no defensive solution to them being able to shoot that quickly or that accurately from that far out. And until there is their dominance just isn’t gonna be entertaining enough for me to give a shit. It’s more interesting to watch the guy who can do it all than to watch the guy who does the one thing no one has figured out how to stop yet.
Lakersso where is lebron dropping?