Post#289 » by SonicMcMahon » Sat Sep 26, 2020 7:03 pm
I typically find myself as the last member of any kind of mob. Always annoyingly telling my friends or whoever to consider the other side...
But I really do think this Clippers team brought this karma upon themselves. At some ponit the come-uppins can go too far, but I don't think that point is now.
KAWHI:
As a raptors fan I wished Kawhi well, and I certainly do not hate the man. But he made quite clear from the way shrugged Lowry off in the closing seconds v Golden State and in his parade speech etc. that he is very self-interested. And you do you, man, that's your way and I'm not hating. But neither am I going to be the first to cheer. It's very impressive what he has made of himself, but ultimately I see Kawhi as more of a weapon for hire than any kind of leader. And as this Clippers team showed, leadership was sorely absent.
LOU and HARRELL:
These guys seemed to have been buying their own hype pretty hard, being arrogant without having really earned it. The stuff to MKG is pretty gross and the stuff we don't teach our kids for a reason. Lou has shown to be a very effective regualr season scorer and a weapon in his own right, but he needs humility in the playoffs to figure out how to get his game off and its never happened for him. Harrell, meanwhile has only been an effective player for ~1.5/2 years. Stop celebrating guys, you had work to do and you didn't ge tit done.
PG13%
I actually feel for him on some level. He is a good player who has had some effective playoff runs, but those were some time ago, and yet again this man is buying his own hype and not digging deep. As a Lowry fan I saw that pressure he had to have been feeling last playoffs to figure out his role and keep the team glued together when there was an obvious disconnect with Kawhi (who was so much greater, yet so much less freindly than the rest of them). And Lowry, VanVleet all the guys, really found a difficult balance of humilty and confidence in their roles. They dug deep. PG never did, so far as I could see, he coasted and did not accept responsibility. And here we are. I can see Lowry, Van Vleet, Gasol and other on the raps if we lost that Philly series (in which almost all of them were struggling) and those guys would be teary-eyed, red faced, angry frustrated and admitting they let their big time weapon down. PG is sort of laughing it off as best he can. And its hard to respect that. I hope he grows up a bit next year.
MORRIS and BEVERLY:
Straight up, nigh irredeembale, jerks so far as I can see. Morris is always an instigator who takes competition beyond basic human decency. And Beverly is that way too. He's sort of a homeless man's Lowry/Smart, acting like the kind of guy who will jsut 'do what it takes' and yet guys like Lowry and Smart are beloved by their teammates - I think you see the difference in a sort of common decency you don't have to sacrifice to 'do what it takes.' Just meanies and thugs, these two, by my estimateion, and not easy guys to cheer for. Neither of them.
So until some kind of humility hurricane strikes this team down (and maybe that's what this thread is) I'm okay with this online mob delivering the cummupins. And... I'm happy to be a part of it. The Clippers lauhed at the basketball gods, laughed at their fellow NBA brethren, and laughed at all of us. So yeah, it's our time to laugh, at least for the time being.
