Jay555 wrote:NetsWorld wrote:MrDollarBills wrote:Must be nice to have a star player that wants to win and not waste everyone's time.
True dat. Bucks also got a taste of what we did two seasons ago. Karma is a bitch.
What goes around comes around.
**** Giannis. He got what he deserved.
His dirty play on Kyrie essentially changed the course of NBA history.
Without that play, Nets would have won it all. “Big 3 “ would have stayed regardless of what happened the following seasons. Nets would have been a contender all these years.
Giannis would have been labeled as a perennial choker.
Anyways…
You know I was super-excited about the dude when he was making a name for himself. What a story he and his family were, and say what you want about Kidd, but major props to both he and Giannis for making the crazy experiment work, i.e. installing a fairly raw, 7-foot #15 pick as both a playmaker on offense and the backbone of the defense.
Yet, here we are the last few years. The 'Freak has become a routinely reckless player who throws his body all over the place and regularly gets bailed out by the refs.
Still, gamesmanship and being bailed out by the refs is one thing, like Houston-Harden and others through the years. But the Kyrie incident was just one of many dirty or reckless plays of his through the years, and you can bet your bippy that dude's going to injure more players in future unless he gets reigned in somehow.
Anyway, what further lost me respect for him was that right after he gets spanked by Jimmy & the Heat, in the postgame he tried to play it off like it was 'no big deal,' and that 'Jordan and other stars failed plenty of times just because they didn't win a chip.'
No, dude-- most superstars would be absolutely mortified or incensed (choose your personality style) if their #1 regular-season team in the league got spanked right out of the first round.
Get that weak-sauce outta here, Giannis.
To me you're just spouting smug, multi-millionaire BS, like LeBron did when the overconfident Heatles got upset by Dirk & co.
The difference is, LeBron grew right out of that shizzle and became a Mt. Rushmore player, or maybe even the greatest. If Kobe was still alive, he'd have you on blast (either publicly or behind closed doors) for your pitiful bag of weak-sauce the other day.
Get that weak-sauce outta here, my man.
/rant