Klomp wrote:Note30 wrote:winforlose wrote:I saw a clip of undisputed talking about game 2. The link is below, it talks about the Suns first and gets to us at about 12 minutes and change. But during the video they talk about why the Suns are imbalanced and why the Wolves are rising. This is the perfect example of someone watching us and not seeing us. They talk about how Rudy is not that important to our defense, Jaden is on the verge of becoming a star, they basically say we don’t have a big 3, (filmed hours before Naz becomes sixth man of the year, and with 3 max players besides him,) and talk about Ant as more of an energy guy when he isn’t scoring. No mention of Ant’s defense in the entire clip. They only reference Mike to say he is the missing piece for the Suns. People need to watch more Wolves if they want to understand the Wolves.
My guy undisputed is basically looking at the tabloids hoping for the WSJ.
You are taking this as an insult, but I don't see it as one. Unless you want to add it to the "Rudy Gobert disrespect" pile, which I would understand. But in the sense of Big 3 as three superstars, we don't really have one. Gobert isn't a superstar in the traditional sense, and that's okay. People never talked about Dikembe Mutombo or Alonzo Mourning that way and they're both Hall of Famers like Gobert will soon be.
But to your broader point, it's a little annoying to hearthe first 2/3rds of the clip focus solely on the Suns, but isn't that the gist of talk radio/television in general? It's Monday Morning Quarterbacking. It's watercooler talk. What would you do different if it was you running the teams? They don't have to focus on Minnesota because we shouldn't need to change that much.
I hear you. From my perspective, Rudy is averaging 14 and 13 and is the defensive force of this generation. Does a star really need to average 20 points? What if the efficiency is over 60% because Rudy’s is 66.1%. Rudy outscored Beal and did it in less than half the shots. He tied KD and did it with 7 fewer shots, and was 2 behind Booker and did it with 5 fewer shots. If that isn’t star power, what is? Also Rudy is making a super max. If you are gonna talk about his value relative to other highly paid stars shouldn’t he get recognized for things he does to earn that money? I don’t only hate how under appreciated Rudy is, I hate the evaluation metric as well.
