cladden wrote:jaymo123 wrote:shazam_guy wrote:Another one that aged really well. Nothing like watching fans scream and run for the exits after a bad quarter (not a bad game, a bad quarter).
Horford scores 2 in Game 2, but half this board would have traded Draymond for him immediately after Game 1, and probably thrown in Klay, too.
I'd still rather have Horford despite game 2. I'm a bit biased though because I have liked Horford since his late Atlanta, early Boston run and have been down on Draymond for years.
Horford has at no point in his career been as good as Draymond, most definitely not now. Good lord people do not appreciate our dudes at all.
I actually don't like having to fill the grumpy old codger role on this board, but it's impossible not to react to the short-sightedness of some fans. And I'm not even talking about the distant past, the, "Y'all don't remember what a disaster Chris Washburn was!" past, I'm talking about, "So one game changes everything?" or "A bad shooting quarter means a valuable player should be dumped?"
(And, as I've said, I've been on this board long enough to hear Steph, Dray, and Klay in their early careers all called useless trade-bait, as well as any number of other players -- Kevon Looney, anyone? -- consigned to the ash-heap of history by know-it-all fans because they weren't obvious superstars right away.)
I'm all for new fans -- I was one once, after all, and so was everyone else here -- and new fans sometimes get overly reactive. But for god's sake, can we have a tiny bit of perspective and calm consideration before throwing the team we all support under whatever bus happens to go past? Literally the team that has dominated the NBA for much of the last decade, and some of y'all act like it's the fricking Sacramento Kings. And now we're in the finals again and some of you are saying you'd trade Draymond for Horford, presumably mid-series. Do you really think any of the teams that had Horford, consistent and good player that he is, wouldn't have happily traded him straight up for Green? I kind of doubt it.