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Re: Kawhi didn't believe Toronto would repeat 

Post#61 » by SharoneWright » Wed Sep 16, 2020 4:58 am

Rust_Cohle wrote:
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Rust_Cohle wrote:Bizarre how people are laughing at Kawhi when Siakim was terrible and cost the raptors the series far worse than Kawhi did the clippers in theirs


blowing 3-1 lead is always worse. lol get outta here


It’s bad but Kawhi wasn’t the problem. Raps looked poor in their series too if we are being honest, quite flattering it went to 7. and if nugggets give a good fight to the lakers it’ll look better in hindsight.

But 3-1 is bad, yes


The point is the Clips went ALL IN to acquire this group. And it failed horribly. And they gave up the next decade of their future for this group. And Paul George wasn't nearly as good of a batman as they paid for. And they might see Kawhi and George both bolt in less than 12 months. They have no Plan B. And Plan A looks lazy and beta and temporary. Panic move by the Clippers gonna blow up in their face. Masai didn't panic. Trust Masai.
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Re: Kawhi didn't believe Toronto would repeat 

Post#62 » by Rust_Cohle » Wed Sep 16, 2020 4:59 am

MixxSRC wrote:
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He wasn't a solution either tonight :lol:


Neither were Siakim or lowry in game 7 in fairness


and Paul George?


Oh he was brutal, but his highs from the playoffs were as good as most of the raptors had. He turned it around for a bit there and then remembered who he was in game 7
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Re: Kawhi didn't believe Toronto would repeat 

Post#63 » by Rust_Cohle » Wed Sep 16, 2020 5:00 am

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Basketball_Jones wrote:Kawhi wanted to go home badly, but also wanted to eat his cake too orchestrating that Paul George trade. Part of me feels he did underestimate the talent on the Raptors team.


People have to remember that Kawhi has been spoiled his entire career.

He came to the best organization in the league led by the greatest core in the league with the greatest coach in the league who slowly groomed into the player he became. Pops, Duncan, Manu and Parker are some of the best professionals in the league.

Then he got traded to an established contender that had just won 59 games and built a winning culture over 5 seasons.

He's never come to a team that did not have a winning culture and pedigree like he had with us and the Spurs.


This is a great point.
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Re: Kawhi didn't believe Toronto would repeat 

Post#64 » by TheAlchemist » Wed Sep 16, 2020 5:02 am

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Read on Twitter



I honestly hate this D-bag Loserberg.

He always comes out with the sleaziest things ever and doesn't really have much sources.

Kawhi probably said that he doesn't think it'll be easy to repeat, especially without a second star. Hence why he wanted another star like Paul George.

Yeah it back fired on him, but Loserberg is just taking this out of context.

I remember he was out on Twitter fully denying any Kawhi trade to us, literally a day before it was announced. He knows nothing and is exactly the type of problem TSN and these old guard broadcast stations embody.
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Re: Kawhi didn't believe Toronto would repeat 

Post#65 » by Chandan » Wed Sep 16, 2020 5:04 am

its all about the money. I think Kawhi admitted how important money was to him, stemming from losing his father at a young age.
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Re: Kawhi didn't believe Toronto would repeat 

Post#66 » by tanuki1031 » Wed Sep 16, 2020 5:04 am

Whatever assumption he made about the Raptors not being able to was equally as egregious as the Clippers being able to. That's all on him.

Off-court, hope he enjoys being home although much earlier than he probably expected.

And now we start the Kawhi going home to Toronto 20-21 redemption tour.
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Re: Kawhi didn't believe Toronto would repeat 

Post#67 » by jimmy keys » Wed Sep 16, 2020 5:04 am

HeadtopChunes wrote:this and forcing the clippers to give up their future for Paul George just reinforce why most players would make terrible Gms


It reinforces why well run teams don't cater to player's demands like the Clips did. They got desperate and mortgaged their future when he was probably signing there regardless. What happens when he bounces in a year. Exactly.
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Re: Kawhi didn't believe Toronto would repeat 

Post#68 » by MixxSRC » Wed Sep 16, 2020 5:05 am

Read on Twitter


:lol: :lol: :lol:
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Re: Kawhi didn't believe Toronto would repeat 

Post#69 » by Rust_Cohle » Wed Sep 16, 2020 5:05 am

TheAlchemist wrote:
TeamDino wrote:
Read on Twitter



I honestly hate this D-bag Loserberg.

He always comes out with the sleaziest things ever and doesn't really have much sources.

Kawhi probably said that he doesn't think it'll be easy to repeat, especially without a second star. Hence why he wanted another star like Paul George.

Yeah it back fired on him, but Loserberg is just taking this out of context.

I remember he was out on Twitter fully denying any Kawhi trade to us, literally a day before it was announced. He knows nothing and is exactly the type of problem TSN and these old guard broadcast stations embody.


I agree. Even when Kawhi quit on the spurs it was always about forcing a love to LA. That was his gameplan for years. Toronto winning a title and him still leaving said to all that he just wanted to go home.
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Re: Kawhi didn't believe Toronto would repeat 

Post#70 » by Kingsway_fan » Wed Sep 16, 2020 5:08 am

HiMyNameIsTrey wrote:He signing in LA no matter what, all this stuff is just noise



This.

If toronto was in Southern California, he stay....otherwise....sorry cold winters...
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Re: Kawhi didn't believe Toronto would repeat 

Post#71 » by Rust_Cohle » Wed Sep 16, 2020 5:09 am

Chandan wrote:its all about the money. I think Kawhi admitted how important money was to him, stemming from losing his father at a young age.


Doesn’t make any sense at all considering Toronto could’ve signed him for a lot more than anyone else. He left a decent amount of money in the table
just to leave and go home.
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Re: Kawhi didn't believe Toronto would repeat 

Post#72 » by Chandan » Wed Sep 16, 2020 5:10 am

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Chandan wrote:its all about the money. I think Kawhi admitted how important money was to him, stemming from losing his father at a young age.


Doesn’t make any sense at all considering Toronto could’ve signed him for a lot more than anyone else. He left a decent amount of money in the table
just to leave and go home.


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Re: Kawhi didn't believe Toronto would repeat 

Post#73 » by VancouverRaps » Wed Sep 16, 2020 5:14 am

Rust_Cohle wrote:
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Rust_Cohle wrote:Bizarre how people are laughing at Kawhi when Siakim was terrible and cost the raptors the series far worse than Kawhi did the clippers in theirs

The point is that we wouldnt have been force feeding the ball to Pascal possession after possession if we had Kawhi. The defense wouldnt be loading up on him and hed actually have space to operate and wouldnt be facing the other teams best defender every possession. We saw what this team can do with Kawhi, he left for the unknown and the grass definitely wasnt greener.


This season it wasn’t greener, but the raps looked quite poor in their series too. I don’t think watching that series would make you feel “man, I wish I could play with those guys” nurse coached a terrible series.

But I do think if Kawhi stayed raps would’ve gone to the finals as the east is a little weak this year

Based on what?
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Re: Kawhi didn't believe Toronto would repeat 

Post#74 » by ItsDanger » Wed Sep 16, 2020 5:15 am

Happy Clippers lost, one of the more unlikable teams in recent memory. Makes our team look is a bonus.
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Re: Kawhi didn't believe Toronto would repeat 

Post#75 » by Rust_Cohle » Wed Sep 16, 2020 5:19 am

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durka wrote:The point is that we wouldnt have been force feeding the ball to Pascal possession after possession if we had Kawhi. The defense wouldnt be loading up on him and hed actually have space to operate and wouldnt be facing the other teams best defender every possession. We saw what this team can do with Kawhi, he left for the unknown and the grass definitely wasnt greener.


This season it wasn’t greener, but the raps looked quite poor in their series too. I don’t think watching that series would make you feel “man, I wish I could play with those guys” nurse coached a terrible series.

But I do think if Kawhi stayed raps would’ve gone to the finals as the east is a little weak this year

Based on what?


Based on a very winnable series with no plan B, sticking with Siakim for far too long, poor timeout management and getting out coached by brad Stevens
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Re: Kawhi didn't believe Toronto would repeat 

Post#76 » by VancouverRaps » Wed Sep 16, 2020 5:24 am

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This season it wasn’t greener, but the raps looked quite poor in their series too. I don’t think watching that series would make you feel “man, I wish I could play with those guys” nurse coached a terrible series.

But I do think if Kawhi stayed raps would’ve gone to the finals as the east is a little weak this year

Based on what?


Based on a very winnable series with no plan B, sticking with Siakim for far too long, poor timeout management and getting out coached by brad Stevens



Plan B? He made plenty of adjustments, there's multiple YouTube videos out that detail the adjustments he made. His guys just couldn't hit their open shots. The fact the Raps were that close to winning the series despite their starting front court shooting so poorly and FVV also not shooting as well as he usually does tells me he did just fine, his players just didn't execute like they had all year long. What should he have done differently? It's not like he was telling Pascal to ISO like he was Kawhi or Harden, he just wanted Pascal to play within the flow of the game.

If anything, Stevens almost blew that series, it shouldn't been that close with how bad some of the Raps were shooting on open looks. Nurse wanted Kemba shut down and in most games it worked.

The coach's job is to put his top players in positions to succeed, he did that, but they didn't get it done. Nurse can't shoot 3's from the bench.
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Re: Kawhi didn't believe Toronto would repeat 

Post#77 » by Childs » Wed Sep 16, 2020 5:30 am

Rust_Cohle wrote:
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Rust_Cohle wrote:Bizarre how people are laughing at Kawhi when Siakim was terrible and cost the raptors the series far worse than Kawhi did the clippers in theirs

The point is that we wouldnt have been force feeding the ball to Pascal possession after possession if we had Kawhi. The defense wouldnt be loading up on him and hed actually have space to operate and wouldnt be facing the other teams best defender every possession. We saw what this team can do with Kawhi, he left for the unknown and the grass definitely wasnt greener.


This season it wasn’t greener, but the raps looked quite poor in their series too. I don’t think watching that series would make you feel “man, I wish I could play with those guys” nurse coached a terrible series.

But I do think if Kawhi stayed raps would’ve gone to the finals as the east is a little weak this year


Well its kind of dumb to get to the Finals, and think you don't have a chance to win a chip. Oh well.
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Re: Kawhi didn't believe Toronto would repeat 

Post#78 » by bon » Wed Sep 16, 2020 5:31 am

Hmm...

Read on Twitter


wonder what team fits that description
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Re: Kawhi didn't believe Toronto would repeat 

Post#79 » by visionquest » Wed Sep 16, 2020 5:32 am

I don't buy that Kawhi said that fresh after winning a chip
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Re: Kawhi didn't believe Toronto would repeat 

Post#80 » by Childs » Wed Sep 16, 2020 5:32 am

DG88 wrote:The slander on twitter :lol: :lol: :lol: . I can't this Clippers team is hot garbage.


They deserve every second of it. Morris, Paul, Beverly, Williams. Bunch of very unlikable players.

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