MartinToVaught wrote:TrueLAfan wrote:Yep. And agreeing with esqtvd about the Ruin of Paul George ... who seems to get $#!t on for having bad stretches. I mean, dude is averaging 24-6-4.5 on a 45/38/93 line and leading the team in on/off. He must be doing
something right.
The standards are always going to be sky-high for PG because of how badly Frank got fleeced in the trade for him. It might not be fair, but it is what it is.
Paul George is paying for Lawrence Frank and the front offices sins and lack of ability to go into the future, that's tough. Then we ask, wait, how come Kawhi gets away free as the one who handcuffed the Clippers into making the trade? Simple, Kawhi is just liked much more, we all know it, he's criticized far less for all the same things as PG, because, for some, well, in the past he won on other teams, as if that helps us or matters for us now.
PG would get more flack for having like 2 turnovers and missing some random shot in an otherwise pretty good game where Kawhi at the same time shoots like 35% in that game and we'd say, "well, tough games happen". PG has just been given the scapegoat role, so his actual performance becomes less relevant.
24/6/5 on 45/38/93 with inconsistent play when compared to tier 1 stars is exactly the level of player the Clippers traded for, there was no trick there, but we conclude that it makes sense to criticize him for being exactly what we knew we were trading for
Poor guy...