microfib4thewin wrote:It's time to stop the injury excuse. CP3 has dealt with an assortment of injuries and right now he's on the trajectory of repeating his 2008/2009 season. Deron will never be an elite PG considered in the same breath as other greats like Payton and Kidd, and this is coming from a huge Deron backer who thought he was only slightly behind CP3 until his play plummet after joining the Nets.
I agree. I thought with the media attention, the fact he's got a ton of full support and people looking to lead probably the deepest team the league has seen on paper in years would get him going, then he injuries himself...Okay understandable. Now, he's 100% healthy and he's still playing mediocre basketball. The talent is there. The winning mindset is not. Paul plays on drive, passion and competition not talent, Deron believes he can show up and let his talent do the talking. This team isn't going to any ECF appearance with him at the helm until he plays like an elite PG instead of his usual 5 month stretch which at this point looks unlikely. It's ashame considering Brooklyn fans have been nicer to him than Melo and if he was a Knick, he would have been booed by now.
This team in general right now is straight up coasting on the belief "they need to build chemistry and system understanding" so basically they all believe they can go on a 10 game win streak and erase this. It's disappointing the veterans actually believe they can show up against younger lesser teams and coast because they have a higher IQ level. Which right now, they do not.
So, everyone deserves the blame.