The Official Dwayne Wade <<<<<< you thread

Luca wrote:Didn’t seem malicious, just unlucky. I swear a player lands on another player’s foot just about every game

Anyways, this opens up a potential mirror match in the east between the cbucks and the 76ers

Which 3 do you prefer?
Giannis, Middleton and Jrue vs. Embiid, Simmons and Tobias Harris

76ers for me

which do i prefer? like just personally?
I think the Sixers trio is more complete and complement each other better... however i haven't watched a lot of Sixers recently... and i just have a feeling about the Bucks making the finals. Jrue is the x-factor for me granting Middleton doesn't choke.

I'm getting a Bucks v Suns finals feeling.

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:He's just boxing out lol. There's nothing to really talk about, which is why nobody except random emotional Twitter plebs are talking about it.

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:Believe me if there was any chance of Giannis doing it on purpose the media would be all over it, they're looking for a chance to shit on him lol.

jesus

did you even watch the game... no no scratch that, did you even do the bare minimum and watched the video i linked?? Literally the commentators themselves said in that instance in that video it should have been a foul by Giannis. But i suppose the comms are just Twitter plebs too who suck at their job.... right?

no wonder he always gets a niggling injury here and there, exaggerated fall after exaggerated fall

looking at Middleton's numbers... 8 for 22 36% from the field won't be enough.. especially when they let Jeff Green go off on the offensive end 7 for 8 from three.

KD after an achilles injury return is historical. I think he chooses his spots and movements more carefully now and may never have as sharp a sudden burst again as he had before but he doesn't really need one because he's tall af and everything else is as sharp as ever.
Here's hoping i get back 90% of my Klay Thompson

The Franchise wrote:I have held this view since then and still hold it today, that being KD has been the best player in the game since Warriors year 1.

People have not seen that conclusively since he has been on super teams, not having to have the colossal work load but when unleashed (Finals, game 5 here) you see the level he is capable of playing at.

It is true, Curry without KD and Klay is forced to show his entire game and you see how good he actually is.

But its the same for KD, except he is even better.

Unstoppable player. I dont know what more evidence is needed.

i'm not mad at this opinion at all because it is more than fair... KD's height, overall skillset and his shooting ability make him close to unstoppable in a vacuum.

But then again yet, just to play devil's advocate, and make a case for Curry...
- Steph Curry is the only non-centre in the history of all of the game to rank top 10 (8th) in effective field goal percentage.. the next non-centre is pure 3-pt sniper Kyle Korver at 16th. KD ranks 53rd overall. That to me is soooooo crazy. I mean just think about it... with the constant weird traps and double teams this 6'3" man has seen over his career, especially more recently... how is that even possible?? that's really special man. Almost unthinable. He has seen more weird defenses than any other player i've seen because that's what it takes to slow him down. People try to keep it as simple as saying "yea Steph is the best shooter ever, no doubt but that's all" but it's so more than that. Steph gets to the rim and does some of the most crazy moves and layups just like Kyrie. He can maneuver the court as well as anyone has ever done it in the game - at his height he kind of has to in order to keep defenses honest, get of his shots which is sometimes just crazy ridiculous, make space for his teammates, and consistently let his team rank one of the highest in assists every single season. Please man, this thing of just reducing Steph to being the "greatest shooter ever and that's all" needs to stop. I'm not saying you have this opinion @Dani, it's just a narrative out there that is used against Steph when it comes to all-time ranking of players. The man literally changed the way the entire game is played and perceived mostly of his own doing (with the help of Klay and Kerr's system of course).

- He's also the only non-centre to rank top 10 all-time in true shooting percentage (3rd). KD ranks 11th. And yes, now this stat is more an indicator of just pure shooting ability. We tend to think KD is so automatic with his length, now just think how good of a shooter Curry really is... it's a shooter's league these days... and to me the statement that "Curry took 3 rings off LeBron" is more true than "KD took 2 rings off LeBron". Meaning, hypothetically without Curry and with KD the Warriors would not have been as much a success as compared to how good they actually were before KD joined. People tend to forget they were only a few Harrison Barnes makes away from winning in 2016. So they could have easily moved on Barnes for more depth and better shooters if they never got KD and still could have beaten KD and Westbrook and LeBron and Kyrie.

- And then lastly, he has never proven that he can get past a team where Steph is the best player. Is he capable, i damn sure think he is, but he has never done it, and that's just pure facts