Austin Rivers tells Ant that he can drop 20 on a certain player right now.
Rivers scored 20 or more 44 times in his career, if you’re curious.
And I still believe it cause podz is cheeks
Hey man show the white Ohtani some respek /s
Lmao nice. I was about to google that.
Still had the best HS mixtape.
D.Rose would like a word.
John Wall would also like a word
Then Seventh Woods or whatever his name was came along and didn’t do shit. Those are the big 3 of high school mixtapes.
Aquille Carr
Honorable mention at least
My buddy was a senior when he was a freshman I’m pretty sure he used to torch him in high school.
felt like at least 10 of those times were against the Rockets
Someone told me Austin Rivers look like Andrew Tate and I cannot unsee it. Makes me uncomfortable.
Tristan Tate. Tristan is his brother and I can see it now
https://tenor.com/bdQLB.gif
Austin Rivers going on a rant abt podz the entire 4th quarter was hilarious to watch.
There will probably be a lot of comments on here about him getting where he is because of his dad but dude is a natural
austin rivers is a way better reporter/commentator than doc is a coach
Also a better media personality than he ever was a player lol
I don’t feel like that’s saying much tbh
not really, his dad won a championship and a coach of the year. you like him now but if all his schtick is ranting about random players for an inordinate amount of time i doubt you’ll want to hear more from him.
Brother. His dad took 4 HOF players and won 1 championship. He has more blown 3-1 leads than any coach in history.
He underperformed with the clippers, Magic and Bucks and he’s still eating off the one championship he won.
Whose calling card was defense, which was ran by someone else lol.
Are you suggesting he performed well in Philly?
I forgot he was even there. So no I wouldn’t call turning Ben Simmons from all NBA to out of the league doing good.
that’s still more than what austin rivers achieved both in and out of the court
Rivers also genuinely was a decent nba player.
If Doc didn’t give him that big salary then no one would say shit. He is an average role player who was paid above his skill set. And because it was nepotism that paid him more he is universally hated. Guy was solid in his role and has been ok as a commentator. There are a lot more malignant NBA personalities to hate on than Austin Rivers lol. The fact people are glazing Doc in this thread is mind blowing. Guy blew more 3-1 playoff leads than any coach in the history of the league. His only accomplishment was a championship literally built on the backs of KG, Ray Allen, and most importantly Thibs.
Idk there’s a new chief nepo-baby in the league. This one’s not nearly as egregious.
Watch him somehow fall upward into a long coaching career like his dad.
Why ain’t you in the league then cuz
Gotta do more than score to play
Also gotta shoot better than 41/34/65 to play
The most egregious part of that is the FTs. You are a coaches son, a smaller guard, and a professional basketball player how in the fuck are you not shooting at least 75% from the line.
The ironic thing is that Rivers actually became a plus defender for LAC, but he just never figured things out on offense. Could hit the open 3 at a decent clip and would get downhill at ease, but then everything else was just bad. Had complete tunnel vision, would make silly passes, etc.
He had such a good first step. The second step and beyond was a disaster.
So his defence is worse than the guy he’s clownin?
He never said how many points he’d give up himself
Can’t play Podz 82 times a season
Doc ain’t have that pull anymore
Austin Rivers is a bum by NBA standards and him getting on a microphone has not helped his reputation in that regard.
He couldn’t drop 20 on Trae Young in an NBA game right now.
And his career scoring numbers aren’t too different from Podz. Guess it takes mid to know mid
Just looked up their stats, Podz averages more points, rebounds, assists, and steals on 4% better TS.
And plays much better defense
Rivers on LAC was actually a really solid defender who comfortably played up in size. In his best season, he gave us 15⁄4 on pretty solid efficiency (though it was always dragged down by poor FTs) as well.
Podz does a bit more than him, but I’m not sure Podz is a notably better defender than when Rivers was playing his best ball.
Statistically Podziemski in his worst year was a better defender than Rivers. Also statistically speaking Podz in his worst year was more efficient than Rivers in his best year. Also a better assist rate, similar turnover rate and a much better rebound%. In short, even at just 22 years old Podziemski is a significantly better NBA player than Rivers was at his absolute peak. Rivers has the name and may have looked the part much more than Podziemski does, but if Austin is still serious about trying to get back in the league he should stop talking and take notes from Podz on how to be a successful rotation level guard.
And compared to league average? IMO they’re very similar players
Have you seen Austin Rivers play? He was a significantly better shot creator than Padamaski & could jump out the gym tbh lol. Padamaski plays with Steph Curry…the player with the most gravity in NBA history lol…He’s gonna be open…but he can’t create his own shot & bringing up TS just screams you really don’t know Austin was a bucket lol. He used to play Paul Pierce & KG 1 on 1 when he was in still in high school.
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It’s a meme from when a guy was playing him in 2k my guy. He called him several names mispronounced on purpose being funny. Get over yourself lol. & Get your meme game up if you gon be on Reddit. Weirdo.
He could definitely drop 20 on Trae Young right now lol
Why does Podz get so much flak? he seems to be an above average role player that is pretty versatile with regards to his playset. He would be appreciated by any contender imo.
A couple factors lead to the warriors sub just hating this dude. Inexplicably Kerr has played him while Moody and Kuminga sat. Those two have short leashes for mistakes but Podz can be out there sticking up the joint and Kerr leaves him in. He said that he felt he could be the next Steph Curry for the warriors. He plays too much hero ball for his respective skill level. And his floppy hair looks stupid.
The warriors sub does not hate the dude - some loud assholes hate on him and jk, Kerr and anyone to focus their incel rage.
Podz and rivers are stupid close to each other in what they are as nba players. Both also get way more flack ànd fame than they should
He made some dumb comments hyping some people up and now people talk like he’s Kyle Singler lol. He’s not a star but he’s a quality, versatile player who would get regular minutes on any team in the league.
Austin Rivers talking shit while in a suit.
Austin is like an overexcited, agitated baby who nobody takes seriously at all. 🤭
Damn, Chet has thicker arms than Austin?
dude averaged double figure twice, 15 being the most in 61 games.
does he really not realize he was terrible and only stayed in the league because of his dad?
Same dude who called himself an elite scorer and isn’t on a team interesting.
Ant said “nothing” like a parent to a kid being nosy lol.
Austin rivers has one of the greatest high school mixtapes of all time
tbh i’d rather take austin rivers over perkins or pat bev
People are taking this way too serious lol
Whatever it is, it is some kind of bias you are not supposed to have as a journo. Weirder to that his brother in law is on the warriors and a fan of BP.
Dude had 4 games per season with over 20 points in his NBA career. 44 total in 11 seasons. That is less than 7% of the regular season games he played in, not including playoff games. And thinks he can just go out and drop that today?
Nobody likes podz
I like Podz
The fact I’m not the only person who’s confused as to how he’s getting minutes is hilarious lol. Feels like it’s tanking on purpose lol.
He’s not a bad player. He’s a solid bench role player being asked to be a starter.
He’s a quality player lmfao, do you watch him play? Even if you just box score watch he’s still a good player. You think Buddy Hield should be getting his minutes instead?
buddy gets buckets
Buddy is averaging less points per 36 on worse efficiency than Podz
yeah but he gets buckets
I fuckin love this