MGrand15 wrote:Gant wrote:gigantes wrote:Granted I might not have been paying attention at the time, but I don't remember Kyrie 'throwing BOS under the bus' at a press conference. Could you give me a TL:DR?
The one thing for sure I didn't like is him promising to re-sign, and then changing his mind. It's one of the things that made me very wary of him as a FA. That said, he didn't try to break his contract like AD or PG, etc.
This series of tweets from Ryan Bernardoni sort of sums everything up:Not sure if it’s frustrating or fitting to have this conversation on Thanksgiving, but Kyrie’s family loss and emotional struggles may be why he left the Celtics, but only like 25% of the vitriol is from the act of leaving.
Declaring he was staying impacted the way the team and his teammates proceeded through the season. If he almost immediately changed his mind and never let anyone know that, it’s a dick move! If you don’t believe it had an impact, look at Horford’s statements upon leaving.
He then spent the season acting like a dick to his teammates and undermining their potential progress, having already decided he had no long-term investment in their success or failure.
He then tops it off with the most unprofessional thing a professional athlete can do: seemingly throwing a playoff series because he was just done with his team. And he does it after talking himself up as a playoff savior for months!
The idea that the fans don’t understand what he was going through and why he left and so are being unfair shows a lack of self-awareness, or a manipulative streak. Everyone, including him, knows that C’s fans don’t feel this way about him just because he left.
https://twitter.com/dangercart
Do you know how dumb it sounds to assume he "threw a playoff series?" He was terrible. No doubt. But the Cs ran through the Pacers in the first round. Blew out the Bucks in Game 1. Why in the world would he choose to lose in the playoffs?? He took the same amount of shots as he did in the regular season. They just weren't going down and he was playing against arguably the best defensive team in the league.
The fan base sounds like a bunch of children TBH. Oh he said he would be a playoff savior and happened to not play well for 4 games. So what? It happens.
You know, I would collectively respect them more if perhaps some of the more level-headed ones amongst the bunch tried JUST A BIT to reign in their toxic asset brigade. Just like you'd expect to see from most fanbases, you know?
For example:
"Okay, some of us are probably being a bit hard on Kyrie, here. But dude-- it comes out of Celtic passion, so you know... we're proud and we show it! Whatever, we'll move on to bigger & better stuff as the season rolls on."
(unstated subtext: we're not totally trying to be haters over here; try to just roll with it, okay?)
Yeah, that would have been fine with me. But instead, it's just crickets over there.
Funnily enough, this stuff also reminds me of various electrical experiments from back in HS physics... like the ones where you take a minuscule amount of voltage and miraculously arc it across thousands of fantastic little pinhead conductors. IIRC those pinheads were made out of copper.