ozwizard8 wrote:joesha1698 wrote:ozwizard8 wrote:haha acting fool as always.
wow Luka asked for a vet big and Mavs did not get him a great one!
hOW CAn MAvs not sIGN Bam-A.Davis-Myles Turner for vet min?
Everyone act surprised like 41Dirk41 !!!
Wow Mavs team with $65m/year contracts of THJ+Luka signing Kyrie for $40m/year this off-season and then not having any trade assets or cap space to sign a proper big man!
Who would've thought that paying $105m for Luka+THJ+Kyrie was not a wise choice??!
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For any other sane person: Mavs team must trade Kyrie!
Mavs need another fool GM, or a new owner acting fool. I dont know maybe someone desperate.
Talking to the existence, I wish Masai would make another wrong move and go for Kyrie.
Raptors really **** up with their Poetl trade. Spent draft picks for not even making playoffs. Team still sucks. They also lost FVV and their PG need is so obvious. They are not getting king's ransom for their Siakam, OG etc to rebuild.
Maybe Masai would do another wrong move and go for Kyrie??
Kyrie being lunatic, antisemitist, antivax, flat-earth, injury-prone, playoff loser for last 6-7 years are enough reason to not even think about Kyrie. But then again, some GMs act desperate. Poetl was never the guy to fix Raptors problems but they went for it. Who knows maybe they'll bite for Kyrie??
Kyrie is not a lunatic. He just posted a link to a documentary that was disputing religion. I see nothing wrong with that. I personally believe these religions were wrote by men, so why shouldn't other people have a right to challenge religion beliefs and historical events? The lunatics are the people who claim to be "Semitic" but any dna test will show European ancestry. They just weaponized something they pretend to be. Its obviously being used a weapon to attack free speech and punish people who they do not like. Kyrie Irving was being punished for his VAX stand and for speaking his mind. He became unruly and they were trying to punish him. The same way they did Dave Chapelle and now Elon Musk.
As for your other comments, a lot of great players have been injury prone. I could easily make a list of all the games they missed and i'm pretty sure they havent won a ring or hit a big shot. Additionally, teams win together not one player. How many of those teams have won since Kyrie left? I'll wait.
Seriously **** off with all your anti-semitism and other hateful beliefs. This is how Kyrie infect many uneducated people or whomever is likely to prejudiced due their race or political leanings. Your racism going as far as ancestry dna's of people is disgusting. jews were black BS is worse than nazi stuff. I am glad you are not at power to ethnically cleanse people.
stop with revisionist history BS. shame on Kyrie to promote those ****.
being a kyrie fan you may not think he is a lunatic, and you may want to think he is a great NBA player that helps his teams. This is not true.
* Kyrie being injury prone is a player-specific thing. Kemba Walker was also like this and he got worse with injuries and get out of NBA. Lillard and Kyrie may be the next ones to quickly disappear. When you invest in any NBA player, you need to consider the injury concerns. I dont care if some other stars have injury history, this does not make Kyrie being injury-prone is okay. It is not fine.
* Kyrie only brought misery wherever he goes in last 7 years. Epic fails on each and every solid teams. These teams had Tatum-Brown, Durant-Harden, and Luka. Boston doing better without Kyrie. They lost on their Kyrie investment but they have solid chance to win.
* Kyrie's playoff performances without Lebron is abysmal. Even if he had one or two games good, him being injury prone showed up.
What is the point of having Kyrie if he cannot advance to 2nd round of playoffs?
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I guess I'll have a little more fun with your bad faith arguments...As for the injury prone thing - there are a lot of players who have been injury prone and they do not get nearly as much hate as Kyrie. K Leonard, Paul George, Anthony Davis, Gordon Haywood, etc... Those guys have been just as injured or more so than Kyrie. So, If I made the time, I could do research and show a lot of guys who have missed as many or many games than Kyrie because of injury.
Kyrie only brought misery whenever he has gone in the last 7 years? Once again, another disingenuous argument and it has nothing to do with the present moment. So, let's talk about it.
Kyrie Irving was on Boston for 2 years from 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 season. With Kyrie as the #1 player they finished 55-27, second in the East and unfortunately he had knee surgery at the end of the season. How is leading your team to the 2nd best record in the East an epic fail? That's actually really good considering it was his first year on the team after he was traded.
He lead them to a 49-33 record the next year as well. Once again, no epic fail. Kyrie lead them to a swept in the first round but they lost to the Bucks in the 2nd round. This is far from failing. Many players have lost year after year in the playoffs as the #1 leader including Luka, Harden, Westbrook, Durant, Lebron and Lebron missed the playoffs his first year in LA.
Boston is doing better without Kyrie? Let's dissect this.
1st, Kyrie left Cleveland because Lebron was going to LAL at the end of the season (this is my belief and Kyrie had inside knowledge) and he was not about to sit around and wait for Dan Gilbert to waste the rest of his career. I think it was a good move by Kyrie to get off a sinking ship while he had the chance. He was traded to Boston - Tatum, Brown, were young and developing players at that time and if it wasn't for injuries who know what they could have accomplished. With that being said, making the playoffs and having the 2nd and 4th best records in the East is not an epic fail. Your first lie squashed.
As for Boston today, what have they won since Kyrie left? Have they got better? Of course, the younger guys have developed since Kyrie left and they have added players to the roster. With that being said, Jason Tatum and Brown have underachieved since Kyrie left and do they deserve criticism for that? Look at Tatum's performance in the finals vs GS (completely didnt show up) or look at his performance versus Miami last year - weren't they suppose to go back to the Finals? Why not the same level of criticism for them as Kyrie is getting? Kyrie seems to get all the blame from people like you when a team he is on doesn't' do well or meet expectations but once again, what has Boston won since he left? Where is the criticism for Tatum when his teammates carry him through poor performance after performance in the playoffs?
Plus, it would be unfair to judge Kyrie on what Boston does in the future because the young players (Tatum and Brown) are way better than they were when he got there and the team has improved as a whole. But the fact still remains, these teams that have got way better since Kyrie left yet have still won nothing. Why is that?
BTW, Kyrie's time in Brooklyn had its issues but they were a James Harden injury and Kyrie injury away from winning the East and potentially winning the championship that season. Kyrie and KD had the Nets up 2-0 on the bucks before injuries. Additionally, if they didnt trade Harden for Simmons, there's a big chance they could have won a ring. Who knows? I understand there were mitigating factors to Kyrie's time in Brooklyn and it consisted of injuries and the VAX issue - but aside from that they were successful. Once again, its unfair to blame 1 player for the entire success of a team. My opinion is the Nets did not know what they were doing and the straw that broke the camels back was the Harden for Simmons trade. You trade a superstar talent and got nothing back in return - still to this day.
Once again, in Kyrie critic's mind, no one questions Kevin Durant, the front office, James Harden, or the coaching. Kyrie Irving and KD were basically playing 2 on 5 on offense because the front office never got value for James Harden. Ben Simmons literally never played doing that time. Before that trade, the nets only really lost to the Bucks because Kyrie and James Harden got hurt. But why is it that Kyrie only gets blame but not KD, James Harden (who have flipped teams 2 times since he left the Nets), or the front office who was completely clueless by taking on Simmons?
Lastly, like Boston, what have the Nets won since Kyrie left? Nothing.
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What's the point of having Kyrie? The point is Kyrie is weapon X. He is the most skilled player in the NBA pound for pound. He's not the most accomplished pound for pound, that honor goes to Steph Curry but skill, Kyrie gets the nod. If you use him right and keep him healthy he has shown that he can play on a very high level under pressure and help you win a ring, like he helped the Cavs win a ring in one of the most epic finals in NBA history while hitting one of the biggest shots in NBA history. It's not Kyrie's job to single handedly get you out of the 2nd round or win you a championship. That's an impossible standard that someone like yourself has for him because you lack objectivity. No player is held to that standard - not Lebron- not Luka - not anyone. It takes a team to win in the end and everyone needs to do their part.
I'm going to end by saying this - Kyrie Irving pound for pound is better than Luka, Lebron, Tatum, KD, and all these guys he has played with. If you look at Kyrie's game you will see that he has more skill. Those guys are fortunate to be 6-8 and 6-9, 220-230 pounds. Kyrie at his best is 6-2-6-3 and 170-180 pounds. He doesn't have the luxury of just being bigger like those guys. One of the biggest disservices to the small guy in the basketball is (people dont consider size differences) when discussing how good a player is.
A lot of these analysts will sing Jason Tatum's praises but he doesn't even have the same caliber of skill as Kyrie. If he wasn't 6'9 he wouldn't even be in the discussion. Plus, how poorly has he performed against the GSW in that finals and how poorly did he perform last year against Miami? How much criticism did he get? Very little to none.
So, i went on a little tangent but I just had to say this. We live in a world where someone with less advantages (smaller players) do 10 times what someone (6'9 + does) but the smaller guy (who clearly has to be better even to compete) is criticized more while the world tells us how great the people with all the advantages are. Do not get me wrong, a 6'9 player can be better than a 6'3 guy based on skill alone - I'm just saying, when you start getting to the highly skilled guys (Kyrie, Steph, Lillard, etc) these guys have to have more skills to make up for the size they do not have to play on a high-level whereas a guy like Tatum can be slightly above average and still play at a high level because of his size and athleticism alone...while getting less criticism.
If you want to be critical of Kyrie - criticize his ability to stay healthy - fair or not - you can criticize his past off the court situations that may have distracted the team. You can criticize his size and style of play as he struggles as a true #1 option. All fair game. However, its unfair to blame the success and failure of a whole team on him or call his time in Boston an epic fail when he leads a team to the 2nd and 4th best record in their conference. Lastly, I think smaller skill players are judged unfairly compared to bigger skill players who often lack skill but are able to maintain their play with their size advantage. With that being said, if a player like Kyrie is going to be successful a smart coach / organization will have to use him strategically and reduce the physical punishment he takes. The team that did this the best was Boston. Hopefully the Mavs understand this. I personally think Kyrie should be moving a lot more without the ball ala Iverson in Philly - cutting and catch and shoot. Less drives to the basket unless absolutely needed. Kyrie is so skilled he doesn't even have to dribble to score in 25ppg in this league. I actually think because of his injury history (partially due to him playing like he's 6'6 at 6'2) it will benefit him to really just become a jump shooter in the regular season while only driving to the hole here and there to keep himself sharp.