therealbig3 wrote:I'm sure Durant is really happy for himself personally, and credit to him, he did his part in this title...but did any superstar ever have it any easier?
He wasn't even the Cavs' priority on defense, they gave him the Harrison Barnes treatment, and credit to him, he capitalized in a big way, but that doesn't really scream superstar to me. And it seemed that Curry had more of an impact for the Warriors, just like LeBron had more of an impact for the Cavs. Durant is gonna be FMVP because he scored the hell out of the ball and played good defense, but it's hard to ignore that there were two guys that quite honestly seemed to affect the game more (LeBron and Curry), and that Durant wasn't even really the main focus of the opposing defense for the vast majority of the series.
I really dislike the way society evaluates players. Social media has only made the prevalence of hot takes even worse.
- The "championships or nothing" argument needs to die.
- Box score numbers need to be evaluated with a more critical lens.
- The methodology of advanced statistics such as PER need to be understood so that people know what they actually mean rather than spouting them as self-evident, infallible metrics for understanding the game.