[McDonald] The last Spurs game vs Houston, Kevin Durant was frustrated and said “Man, why you guys triple teaming me?” An Anonymous Spur said: “it’s not because you’re good, its because the rest of your team sucks.”
Source: getoffmydickerson
crayon eaters are going to eat crayons, after all
The best burner account name
I’d guess Champagnie because I always see him jawing with the other team’s bench during games
Champagnie
Holy shit there are two of them. I always just thought it was only Justin, didn’t know he had a twin in the league too. Mind blown.
Of course the Boston flair guy thinks all black people look alike
After last night, I’m thinking all white guys look alike and have crazy ass numbers and also somehow none of them are prichard. Very bizarre experience watching the celtics
Garza kind of looks Pritchard sized when he’s guarding Wemby so I get it
I love that dudes game after last night, so much hustle busting his ass to guard a freak of nature for what felt like 40 minutes
He is 10,000% hustle and 0% lateral agility.
He ate a shot to the neck/collarbone and 100% could not breathe but still made it down the court in 5 seconds
Shit was impressive
..and 15% concentrated power of will?
I’m genuinely upset we didn’t get to see the real life Payton Pritchard guard Wemby. Joe is wild enough to try it at least once. Who knows, maybe the trick to guarding him is to be close to a foot and a half shorter.
Gotta wait til June for that
It’s the “if you jump I will headbutt your balls” defense, and it’s worked for Draymond for more than a decade.
Payton and Sam being identical twins doesn’t help either. /s
lol it’s nothing to do with all black people look a like it’s literally a holy shit he has a twin?! I had no idea Justin existed till this year so I get it
It’s cool, no one watches the Wizards.
Except last night lol
Can you cut me some slack on the identical twins haha
lol
Identical twins too. The last time the Spurs played the Wizards, Lindy Waters III confused Justin for Julian and it happened to be the exact moment the camera was focused on them.
Got a link or timestamp?
ESPN posted it on their TikTok
Julian (Spurs) is the 3 and D wing shooter one, I think Justin (Wizards) is more of a slasher/utility forward
Justin can score a little and jump out of the gym unfortunately that doesn’t translate well from college when those guys are a dime a dozen. Julian always had the more refined game.
Rare example of twins who actually have very different playstyles
Robin and Brook?
Cooper and Ace #1 lol
Nah the boozer twins, one is a pf the other a point guard
Coop is an nba superstar small forward and Ace is a lead footed borderline d1 center lol
It really is crazy. Cooper literally stole all the good genes. Taller, longer, more skilled and athletic, and he’s even better looking to boot lol. I’m sure Ace will be alright in life, but imagine having a twin brother that is physically superior to you in every way and is going on to live the dream you both had.
and he’s even better looking to boot lol
I just googled Ace Flagg and I don’t think I would be able to tell their faces apart lol
Eh not really Brook is just a better Robin
Paternal twins are different genetically (so yeah Coop and Ace and the upcoming Boozers are effectively siblings rather than identical twins)
For maternal twins Justin and Julian are very different.
They’d potentially be great on a team together because you need to guard each of them entirely differently and I’m sure they’ll confuse a defender once or twice a quarter., leading to an open lane or an open 3
The types of twins are “fraternal” and “identical”.
Fraternal is Latin derivative meaning brother, or brotherly or something like that. Even a male and female set of twins are fraternal. They do not have identical dna and are essentially the same as brothers or other siblings from the same parents in that they share 50% of their dna.
Identical twins are called that because they’re genetically identical and share 100% of their dna.
Justin and Julian are identical twins. Their DNA is exactly the same.
Chris Paul and Cliff Paul
Cody and Caleb Martin play nothing alike.
In fact I think the Morris twins are the only similar ones
But which one is the evil twin
The one that may have talked shit to KD 😂
Their parents are diabolical for naming them Julian & Justin.
Both are great and went undrafted. Love that each of them made it.
I did a triple take the first time I saw Justin in a non-spurs jersey lol
Yeah, we had the worse twin.
there’s a lot of brothers in the league right now. Simmons’ talked about it on his podcast a couple weeks ago and mentioned there’s 19 sets of brothers in the league right now.
Bro, Julian has been balling out for the Spurs. If you know one Champ brother, how is it Justin?
It was actually Jeremy astral projecting onto the court
Granting anonymity to a player for something you heard him say on the court to an opposing player is not journalism.
They know if they exposed his name then there goes any access to that locker room
Yup, and these guys are the local beat writers with hands down the best locker room access to the team. The only reason they heard this convo was because they were given courtside seats for this game. Personally my money is on either Fox or Castle saying it but just a guess.
Another anecdote they gave was that at one point in the game, Castle went to talk with Mitch Johnson and Amen came up to them to listen in. Apparently Castle said something to the effect of (paraphrasing): go ahead and listen, you’re not going to be able to stop our game plan anyway.
This team has definitely leveled up in their confidence/swagger with this latest hot streak.
ETA: apparently I was mistaken on the Castle/Amen interaction, see below comments.
That wasn’t something Castle said directly to Amen, it was just something he said in the press conference when asked about the moment itself.
Huh, when I listened the context didn’t sound that way to me but I may have misheard or misunderstood.
What they’re referring to are some of the comments made in the postgame presser here: https://youtu.be/P14acaKiVqs?si=XueEpjWxhrGMVqtD. Castle is asked about Amen eavesdropping on his convo with Mitch around 1 minute in, and the next question is when he talks about teams trying and failing to punk them. So not stuff he said on the court, but it still shows that they’re operating with a different level of confidence right now.
Gotcha, thanks for clarifying.
The other guy said that the second statement was relayed to the first guy rather than something he heard first-hand.
It’s anonymous because this whole thing is likely made up for clicks
These people are not journalists. They are mouthpieces for the team.
Everyone in the top 6 in the west feining at the opportunity to draw Houston in the first round of the playoffs.
Rockets vs Lakers will be the greatest fraud-off of all time
Gonna end up being a stalemate at the end 😭
12 ots as bronny and jd davidson, the last two remaining players who havent fouled out, have to 1v1, both held scoreless through the last 6 ots
Hey man- you give Maine Celtic legend JD Davidson some goddamn respect
I still think Bronny ‘Diamond on Siege’ ‘LeOneForAll’ James has a chance
Thats the problem there cant be two vestiges
He’s the real mvp, literally!!
As much as I’d love to see a Bronny 1v1 to decide a series. The last players to foul out get to stay in, teams cant be reduced to less than 5 players. (Also were 2000s coaches stupid just have the non stars foul shaq every single possession and try and beat his 57% on free throw /s)
Lebron and KD will call timeouts for each other to catch their breath
They can combine the teams. Just what they’ll need to lose to OKC in the second round
Luka,Reaves,Amen,KD.Capela.
Bron 6th man
How are we frauds? We have had 0 title expectations this year. That’s yall
I don’t think anyone expected anything from us after Fred went down
That’s fair. Then I don’t see how either are frauds
Problem is if Lebron and JJredick realizes that him being a 6th man is what it takes forLakers to win they might have a chance in knocking out Houston 4-0 especially if theres nobody on houstons bench able to handle lebron if he goes 6thman.
Yea that’s never going to happen though. Is just not a realistic possibility for Lebron to come odd the bench for any team
I mean, never is a stretch when you realize LeBron off the bench would absolutely annihilate a team like Houston. H.rockets’ spacing is pure poverty right now,between Sengun and Amen being total noshooters, the paint is a clogmosh pit. KD is out there fighting for his life in a 2v8 while everyone else just sags off and tripleteams him.
if LBron leads the second unit, he is going to barbecue that rotation. Sengun is a revolving door as a rim protector imean seriously the Spurs literally spammed the same play 15 times in a row just to play him off the floor. LeBron headhunting Sengun every single possession while KD is pulling his hair out trying to carry a broken offense, thats an easy sweep for lakers
I’m not really sure what you’re arguing here
sorry my tone was off im just supporting why Lakers can mow down rockets, more like in fraud off lakers win this 4 out of 7. will edit my first sentence cuz it may come like im screaming for no reason.
think my guy just rants off why houston sucks and why lakers should be the 3rd seed had lebron come of the bench. think heis also bashing Sengun being a trafik cone? i feel like hes supporting for lakers its just him shouting at the clouds lol
Because both our teams could get a high seed only to lose in the first round.
That changed when yall had the like best offense ever at the beginning of the season. I think there was some real hope of whether that’d continue
And then Adams went down with season ending injury
I think that’s what was expected, tho. He was super healthy last season compared to the years before. Yall did look like a different team with him tho im surprised capella didn’t fill that gap, at least a little, sengun has also dropped off heavily since then
the definition of stoppable force vs movable object. does the rockets sorry ass offense against the lakers sorry ass defense create a singularity?
Polyester vs Nylon
coughing baby vs coughing baby
coughing baby vs. baby coughing
LeFraudOff?
I dont think its that unlikely that this ends up being the 4⁄5 matchup, too. Winner gets 4-0 by thunder in second round. Also means my wolves probably cruises to a WCF again, as they match up good against spurs, and then gets hammered by thunder again
Given last year trajectory, or decline for that matter, I think Rockets won. Guys don’t be shy and get your trophy
I dont think they really can be frauds if we already know they aint shit
I mean realistically only 3 teams can make it out, the rest are fodder. Lakers getting smoked, Clippers getting a hole put in them, rockets will be a tough 5 game series, and Minnesota are fucking bipolar lol
Wolves truly baffle me. How they gonna let the LAKERS blow them out? Their two most recent games against the Spurs were wire-to-wire tough, competitive basketball. I don’t get it.
They’re so confusing because when they’re good, they’re REALLY damn good. It’s like they somehow have an even worse case of the “playing down to your opponents” virus that damn near took the Spurs out earlier in the season.
Edwards has that same issue as Tatum where they are really good basketball players all around, but lack any godlike ability they can fall back on if their shots aren’t falling. No byakugan passing vision, no limitless shooting range while triple teamed, no 70% in crunch time middies, no lol lemme just lay it in over everyone else because I’m 8 ft tall. Tatum is bigger and stronger while Ant is more athletic so it sort of evens out. But even though Ant looks like MJ or Kobe when he’s dunking, he lacks body control while airborne that made them unstoppable with a head of steam.
Got it from the steelers
ah so the Steelers were patient zero
To an extent this is true of almost everyone in the league this year. Knicks look mostly good, but got their cheeks absolutely clapped by the Cavs in one of the worst losses I’ve ever seen. Spurs look incredible, but got clapped by those same Knicks. The Pistons are the one seed but have looked straight-up bad against multiple teams. The Rockets have been as high as the three seed but are total buns most of the time. It’s wild.
It’s just this crazy year, you don’t have any idea if your team is good or bad on a nightly basis.
I disagree on the Spurs. One bad game is different from the consistent inconsistency issue that the Wolves have.
Like, I am extremely confident that the Spurs are a top tier team. They consistently beat good and bad teams. Even when the team’s shooting fell off a cliff in January (coinciding with an injured Vassell funnily enough), they still went 5-5.
Knicks were also shooting lights out from 3 all game
I think they’re a top tier regular season team, for sure, but their playoff inexperience is going to kill them. No team in NBA history has won a championship with a core with practically 0 playoff experience like the Spurs currently have, they scream 2023-2024 Thunder to me.
I don’t know if the Spurs can win the finals this year, but I firmly believe that they can make the WCF and even the finals.
Honestly if u saw the team and how they looked before the Knicks it was pretty clear the guys were gassed or fatigued and needed to get home. The offense looks way better since they’ve come back and had a chance to sleep in their own beds
Wolves just randomly decide to not give a shit at all. Been a long term problem for that team, but probably not liable to happen in the playoffs.
Considering they’ve made the WCF twice, they have the benefit of the doubt from me.
The Wolves are a team I’m generally high on but at times they make that so damn tough. Every time I start thinking they’re finally doing what I thought they could, they have a stretch of just inexplicably awful play. Lack of a starting level true PG is hurting them a lot in the consistency camp I’d assume.
Wolves are like Knicks to me. They have ugly stretches in the regular season and then go another level in the playoffs. So that’s when I assess them at this point.
Wolves can convincly beat the Thunder and Spurs while geting blown out at home by the Embiid/PG-less Sixers, in a span of 10 days. Dangerous team to face in the playoffs.
Enigma bro I tell you. No idea what to expect
They literally couldn’t beat a zone last night, and had Luka playing defense of all people
Ant has the ball, lakers playing zone, and NOT ONE TEAMMATE ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE IS FLASHING TO THE BALL. They’re just staring at ANT and his aura, too mesmerized to do anything
🤣 To be fair, same thing happens with the Cavs and DMitch in the playoffs
Clippers are not even in Play-offs quite yet. Still play-ins team so why are we catching strays g?
the team that is 3rd in the west right now despite losing fvv and adams for the whole season? lmao, worry about those lakers
Problem is if Lebron and JJredick realizes that him being a 6th man is what it takes forLakers to win they might have a chance in knocking out Houston 4-0 especially if theres nobody on houstons bench able to handle lebron.
There’s half game difference between the Lakers and Rockets and Lakers have also had Reaves miss 25+, Lebron 20+, Luka 10+. I don’t see the sense in bringing up FVV and Adams anyway when they’re not coming back to help in a run
Bring them the fuck on
Please tell me this is Wemby
For privacy’s sake, let’s call him V. Wembanyama
No that’s too obvious, let’s call him Victor W
Hiding in plain sight
Like a giraffe in a cubicle
Vemby
VeeDub (oh SNAP)
Victor Double-you
It’s definitely him
Your references are off the hook man.
Sir this is a Wemby’s
Wemby’s childhood idol is KD lol highly doubt he’d say something like that to him
Gulp
I’m guessing Fox
I think Fox is too nice to say it! I’m guessing it’s someone who’s a real solid defender. I’m guessing Castle.
My canon is that it was Carter Bryant, but there was no ill intent. He’s too innocent and pure. He was just relaying the actual game plan and stated it matter of factly.
I feel like he’s always lightly trolling on the court lol
Definitely Fox
Players complaining about being double or triple teamed always makes me irrationally angry lol.
If you getting triple teamed then somebody is wide open. Pass the ball you friggin idiot
To be fair, if you’ve seen Houston’s offense you’d understand why that’s not usually an option for Durant this year.
But they suck
skill issue
problem is both Sengun and Amen are non shooters and Wemby can just park under the basket to roam so the ones guarding sengun and amen can just go to durant and triple team him (i mean again since sengun and amen are just clogging the lane). Tari Eason sucks as a shooting guard. So that leaves jabari smith (sometimes reed shephard) and Durant. its like durant is playing the game with 3 traitors against him, guy is playing 2 vs 8.
You still pass the ball. Even if those guys can’t shoot you have a massive advantage on offense by passing the ball to someone open.
That guy doesn’t have to shoot it. They can drive or pass again and keep the defense off-balance
Fkin Thank You. Exactly this. Regardless if they suck, you trust your teammates and pass it out to the open man. Even if they suck, they still have a better chance of being able to score vs. you being triple teamed.
same. it’s a team game. for as much of a basketball junkie as KD is, he still has such a one on one view of offense and defense sometimes, when high level ball is anything but. if your team’s offense gets shut down by a defense overloading one player, that’s a team issue, and it’s on every player and the coaches to come up with a five man plan to beat that. whining about a strategy that any decent team should be able to counter is lame.
Or you could just try and score 83.
One of Durant’s sockpuppet twitter accounts just woke up like a sleeper agent.
“Agreed, but Steph come on. Please get off my dick, err son.”
Everyone saying Fox when I’m 99% sure it’s Castle
i think it’s probably fake
No way Wemby said it. His insults are much classier
I mean, he’s actually great. But yeah, the rest of our team sucks.
Isn’t Rockets ranked No. 2 last year in the regular season in West? What is going on? And what is going on with Sun?
This year with no Vanvleet or Adams they have a better record throughout 64 games 40-24, compared to last year 39-25, they were pretty healthy last year too.
Biggest thing that’s going on with the Rockets is that without FVV, their spacing sucks and they’re missing a good defender and offense-organizer. They fixed that by playing Steven Adams and leaning into a jumbo lineup, occasionally with KD playing all the way down as the 2 with Adams/Sengun/Jabari Smith/KD/Amen. They threw a lot of bricks at the rim, but with Adams, Sengun and Amen their offensive rebounding was beyond elite, like best-ever levels. Then Adams got hurt, and now they’re a good offensive rebounding team, but just good, and they still have no spacing, especially if Jabari Smith is out or not having a great game.
That 2 seed was fake or well overstated. They clutched it in the last stretch of the season cus Jalen Green popped off and they got lucky enough to face and beat the teams that were initially ahead of them in the standings as the season was closing. Even in the playoffs it was pretty clear they were the 6th or 7th best team out of all the playoff teams in the west, and even tho they faced the perfect matchup for them they still lost
I feel like if you really watched ball, you’d know Jalen was definitely not the reason for our success last year, even as the narrowly leading scorer.
I did, and Jalen had his best stretch when yall needed it right around this time. Sure, he had his moments where he was very bad, but yall wouldn’t have had that 2nd seed if he hadn’t gone off straight at the right time
All mad and shit for no reason lol. They ran into papa Steph with a new leather belt. Generational trauma
KD is undoubtedly a great scorer, but is the rockets team that badly off ?
Sengun is a 20ppg scorer , Amen 17.7 ppg. Jabari 15.x
Ngl, the Rockets have a massive playmaking and shotcreation problem outside of KD. Their spacing is absolutely cooked. cuz both Sengun and Amen are complete nonshoters, the paint is just permanently clogged. If they play the teams w/ abovve average rim protection (or even avrage), that center can literally just camp under the rim all game. Since defenders dont have to respect Sengun or Amen on the perimeter, they can just sag off and go tripleteam KD. Tari Eason at the 2 or SG is wildly inconsistent, so the offensive load basically falls entirely on KD and Jabari Smith (with maybe some Reed Shepard sprinkled in). KD gotta be out there feeling like he’s playing 2v8, wondering why his own teammates are basically sabotaging him. Once the playoffs hit, teams are gonna exploit this lack of spacing so badly.
On top of that, Sengun is a massive liability as a rim protector. The Spurs literally played him off the floor on defense. They were just spamming the exact same play like 15 times in a row against him and getting whatever they wanted lol. Even they admitted it:https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1rq5o9j/the_spurs_ran_the_same_play_against_the_rockets/
That makes absolute sense. Thanks..
Of course, even with all that, rockets are #3 in the west, and top 6 overall. Albeit in a very very close cluster significantly behind top 2 in west
Wild
Sengun is a 20ppg scorer
impressive feat with a mouthful of crayons
While the raw numbers are fine, I’m doubtful any of them are actually efficient
That’s really funny. I didn’t expect to like this Spurs team as much as I have this season, but here we are.
Sounds like Fox to me
Also, KD is really good
KD’s post-Warriors part of his career is cursed.
missing that curry gravity
No source, no bueno. The reporter probably made it up for the clicks.
Or getoffmydickersonspursstar99 tweeted it to the reporter.
Anyone who watched the Houston Spurs game knows it’s true. Multiple times Durant passed it out of the double team and his team could not score 4v3.
So from a spurs perspective why wouldn’t you just double team him until the end of the game?
We’re always closer to the next “KD has selected a list of teams he’d like to be traded to” cycle than we think we are.
lmfao
I choose to believe this is true
I’m sure KD, with his trademark thick skin, won’t be bothered by that whatsoever
Houston only won those titles because Jordan was away from the game.
Just saying.
The anonymous is question? Let’s call him Victor W.
Victor said it in French too
L-M-A-O, hope we see them in the playoffs.
Well yeah Rockets don’t have any good offensive impact players outside of FVV, KD, Tari and Adams. Reed bit of a sparkplug but that’s it
Please. despite Amen’s poor 3 pt shooting, he’s avgd 16.3 ppg on 52 % shooting with 7.6 rpg (2.9 Oreb/gm) 5.3 apg and only 2.5 TO/gm, with an avg +/- of +4.8 in his 62 games.
In comparison, KD is ofc a better scorer while taking 4.8 more FGAs/gm, but he’s at 5.5 rpg with a tiny 0.6 Oreb/gm with 4.5 apg to 3.2 TO/gm. His +/- is +4.9 in his 61 games.
ngl you’re right im being too harsh on amen
I would really hope this was Wemby, but I highly doubt Wemby would tell his idol that he isn’t “good”. I honestly don’t know who on this team would have said that, so I’m leaning more towards that it isn’t true at all, since it’s “anonymous”.
Wemby respectfully said that
Damn that’s like a double whammy
It’s both tbh
Kd is the type of guy to either complain about a triple team or use it as a reason why he’s so good, depending on how he feels in the moment
Going off other players takes, particularly Draymond Green’s comments on his back and forth with Wemby. I’m going to say it was Wemby. Lol
Kevin Durant been playing since 2007 i refuse to believe he is complaining about getting triple teamed
The KD effect
Nah it’s because he can’t dribble or pass
Are we acting like the Spurs have won anything to be talking like that?
not a good story teller
Always about entertainment, huh? Not substance.
There was no substance without a source.
It is crazy how Houston lost in the first round last year without Kevin Durant, if they lost this year in the first round with Kevin Durant, the only people that are going to get blamed are Kevin Durant’s teammates the best thing that happened to Kevin Durant is that burner account being leaked, Kevin Durant will escape any criticism and once again Durant losing will be his teammates fault according to most people.
It’s not really the players fault. We’re missing key pieces in Steven Adams and FVV that shaped our identity as a team. Next year would be the real test with a full roster. This year most of us have accepted as a wash. Not anyone fault other than key injuries and a flawed roster as a result of them.
the rockets have playoff experience the spurs don’t (2026 spurs) for the slow ppl in the back
Rockets have an extremely glaring playmaking/shot creating problem aside from KD since 2 are non shooters and 1 is extremely inconsistent. like both Sengun and Amen are non shooters and Wemby can just park under the basket to roam so the ones guarding sengun and amen can just go to durant and triple team him (i mean again since sengun and amen are just clogging the lane). Tari Eason sucks as a shooting guard (like dud is incnsistent as hell). So that leaves jabari smith (sometimes reed shephard) and Durant. In KD’s view hes thinking “why da fack am i playing the game with 3 traitors against me”. In some games KD is playing 2 vs 8. in playoffs this will be exploited really really bad.
Not too mention sengun is not a rim protector so spurs just ran him off the game on offence.
Like they even said it that they ran the same 15 plays in row against sengun: https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1rq5o9j/the_spurs_ran_the_same_play_against_the_rockets/
Lotta talk from a team that hasn’t won shit lol