KGdaBom wrote:Note30 wrote:KGdaBom wrote:I am going to really enjoy how much Rudy will prove you wrong. I mean spectacularly wrong.
He didn't really prove us wrong last year. He had a full year to live up to his value and he couldn't.
The bar for Rudy's respect is commensurate with the value he was traded for. The only player who had a trade of that value in recent years was probably Paul George. And even though Kawhi was technically the reason that deal was done, PG still hasn't lived up to the hype. He still gets dogged on all the time and I actually like him.
Donovan Mitchell is another player who had a similar trade. Yet people aren't **** on him because he was a fringe MVP candidate last year.
He played a lot better than the piece of **** that YoungGuns clearly thinks he is whether he says so or not. YoungGuns as far as I can tell believes Rudy is a POS regardless of what he was traded for.
I am making very specific points about what I do not like about Rudy's game, his significantly negative effect on the team offense, and his lack of willingness to change to make the team and his teammates better.
Maybe I'm jumping the gun and Finch will fix things and the spacing will look drastically different in the regular season than its been in preseason. But I don't want a repeat of last year's offense. I don't think the rest of you do either.
You specifically, and most of the rest of you here in general, can't make any legitimate counterpoint to that argument,
and Instead you all just bark that Gunz hates Rudy.
You all want to put your fingers in your ears and live through the cognitive dissonance, that's on you.
You lash out not because I'm being cruel or mean or unfair, but because I'm over the target.
I'm looking for ways to fix the offense, and that doesn't happen without Rudy bringing the BBIQ up, spacing much better, and being much more unselfish.
Sure Ant's decision making can improve a lot, but those problems are exacerbated by having a guy who is always in the way who needs to be spoonfed with little margin for error, who has no skill whatsoever to help Ant carry that load.
It is night and day difference for Ant when he is playing with Rudy and when he is playing with Naz.
Because Naz gives him space and options.
Rudy can be a lot more effective and help us be a lot more effective than we have been, but he needs to calm down and take a step back for that to happen.
I don't like those stepbacks from Ant, it's really poor offense, especially in crunch time, but they are often the result of the offense really breaking down from lack of spacing, playcalling, and really poor synergy between teammates.
But muh FG%! If a guy makes 5 of 8 shots with 4 or 5 forced turnovers and an incredible amount of offensive capital spent getting him those 5 buckets, with his teammates taking lower quality shots all game because of the poor spacing, what is that really worth?
You look at a guy with a similar skill floor and body type like Steven Adams.
He was very effective playing with superstars like Durant, prime Westbrook, George, Morant.
Why was that? Because he understood his role very well, he understood spacing, he understood what his teammates were trying to do and how he needed to move off the ball to help them, at a high level.
He understands his limitations and the need to pass the ball to his much more talented teammates unless he's got an open dunk.
Those are the things I want to see from Rudy. I could care less what his FG% is or how many lobs he finishes in a game.
If he started doing that and played just above average defense, not even DPOY level, I could learn to appreciate him.
Right now all I get is frustration from watching him play.
