Post#199 » by younggunsmn » Sat Oct 2, 2021 12:50 am
Its really discouraging to hear all the whinging from Debbie Downer Anthony Towns.
Of course we all have empathy for him losing his mom, and he gets a pass for having a subpar season and playing last season out of shape because its heartbreaking to lose a parent young like that, and it's all fine and good to open up about that.
But your franchise player whinging about former teammates saying mean things?
Puffing up your chest about being professional during the Butler fiasco when Butler carried a new set of teammates to the finals and your team fell off a cliff after he left?
Your old coach who yelled too much riding Julius Randle and a bunch of nobodies to the playoffs?
Whether he likes it or not KAT has a reputation around the league as
1. Soft
2. A whiner.
If he thinks Jimmy Butler was bad, he would have been in tears after every single practice with Michael Jordan.
He's already had half a dozen teammates more talented than anyone KG played with here, and KG made the playoffs 8 straight years with a much worse supporting cast.
You want to change your rep, you have to change yourself.
That starts with ending the whinging and not living in the past.
There's a lot that happened for him to be positive about. We've added a lot of talent with Ant and McDaniels.
Bolmaro coming over, Naz and Nowell have made strides and have a couple of years under their belts.
Full Season with Russell and Beasley.
New Coach, New Ownership, new GM in Gupta who we keep hearing great things about.
Can you imagine a 25 year old KG surrounded with this much young talent and shooting?
So many better things to talk about than poor put-upon Holden Caulfield Anthony Towns.
As Ricky famously said, "Change your face".
Leaders will always say "I need to be better" after a loss before talking about anyone or anything else.
I'm discouraged because I don't think we can win with KAT until he learns to be positive and just make the next play, whatever comes.
It's one of the things I'm so encouraged about with 19 year old Anthony Edwards who already seems to get that.
Ant does look like a beast, looks like he's not only added height but muscle too.
He has that top 1% of 1% size/strength/athleticism profile thats super rare like Adrian Peterson.
If he keeps improving he has a top 5 player ceiling, especially if he is really 6'6 with muscle, and it changes the game for us offensively if he can play a big wing game versus just being a scoring guard.
I really feel this will be his team by the all-star break and we'll be speaking of the rest of the team as supporting players.
Almost makes me want to pump the brakes on the SImmons train a little bit.
