Why is reddit so miserable lol

I mean to be fair he’s on the Clippers so it’s not like he’s out there just chucking shots and doing whatever he wants on some bad team, but I wouldn’t want that attitude on my team either

“aspersions” that good old galveston education

This is crazy its just about basketball I get he exaggerated it but all he said is he didn’t like playing his role in the Cavs and enjoy playing his current role on the Clippers….

Wow, perfect indicator of garbage reading comprehension. Please, explain to me your interpretation of what again means…

I’ll help, it means he had joy, lost it and found it again.

Unlike you, who writes as if joy is a punching bag. Also, its aspirations if you want to land that joke for the infinity time…

You sound like someone that has lost their joy in life. Can’t blame you though.

the problem with this is that if this was merely dudes throwing around a leather ball for money like you suggest…..you wouldn’t give a fuck about it or be posting on the Internet about it

if you care about what happens as a fan, why isn’t it logical for a player to care about enjoying the situation he is in?

Garland woulda been on the bench with a toe injury.

With Garland, they wouldn’t have gotten past the Raptors.

The hospital Raptors would’ve beat them with Garland instead of Harden

He would’ve been targeted relentlessly on defense.

Cade would’ve owned him, Robinson off ball would’ve tricked him (think Otto Porter shaqtin a fool clip) or Ausar would powered through him.

a lot of people that shit on harden don’t understand that darius garland is even more of a no show than harden while still being an inferior player to james harden

i agree

For sure, the Cavs aren’t beating the raptors with him.

Aren’t you guys almost assuredly drafting a point guard if you stay at 5?

Pretty much every great player in that draft range is a ball dominant guard. So is DG just going to “lose his joy” again when you draft Wagler, Acuff, or Brown?

Bro still had crazy high usage rate playing alongside mitchell for the calibre of player he was.

His team should get a lot of reps running the offense through others because he’ll never be healthy when they need him

Curry is the best PG of all time and the dude was willing to play off ball to his center. He took pride in developing the best off ball action of any player in the league. Garland is playing next to a top 10 offensive player in the league and refused to do anything off ball. It’s so dumb, he has a great ability for catch and shoot 3s, but he didn’t develop it at all. Instead he stood around and watched for the most part and took very little effort to dissuade from working for it. He could have so easily been running toward the basket every time Mitchell goes for a screen and been ready for a pass into a floater or curl back for a C&S 3 but he hardly did it at all. He was never zooming into the open space for a passing lane or anything. Just so lazy off ball and his comment really shows why. He thinks it’s beneath him to play off ball, and he sure as hell played that way. Guys like curry figure out that off ball action is the easiest way to get an open look. You can play point guard off ball and open the floor for all your teammates if you want to, but he didn’t.

He was an All Star before Donovan came too.

Kobe was a great off ball player and played off the ball a ton

DG doesn’t have half of Kobe’s talent. He’s the exception not the rule

You wanna know what else was part of Kobe’s mentality?

Good riddance man.

Imagine having more fun having more touches on a non-playoff team than competing in the ECF

I understand when Jimmy said it because the whole Heat Culture and Pat Riley situation. But im tired of this “I got my joy back” talk. Money might not be everything, but they are getting paid WAY too much to even have these entitled feelings. They have the luxuries of the lifestyle, most things are handed to them once they get into the NBA, whether its strength/conditioning, massages, sponsorships, chefs, free merch everywhere, ya im sure it doesnt resolve internal problems but c’mon…most of us are lucky to get jobs we want let alone a dream job of being in a professional league. You get a job, do it well, find your role in it, and if its not how you prefer your role to be then figure out how you can find happiness within the career. Its not that hard. If Kobe was still around he would just shit on these guys with their feelings.

Glad to know armchair Redditors can tell a player that his feelings about his own basketball situation is ignorant LMAO

It’s mostly Harden and Duren getting clowned on individually

detroit definitely got clowned on more than the cavs

Don’t want to beat a dead horse but blowing a 21 point lead with 8 minutes left is pretty bad. Then there’s basically giving up in Game 4 on your home court in an elimination game.

Neither Garland or Mathurin are good enough to build around but not bad enough to tank with. It’s going to be painfully mid if Kawhi is gone.

Snarky? I’m just saying what I think.

If you’re shorter than 6’2, you have to be defensively elite (prime FVV/Lowry) or incredibly consistent offensively (Brunson) to be a productive playoff player.

Garland surely isn’t a great defender and like I said he’s not as consistent offensively as the top point guards. Maybe that can change in Los Angeles being the top guy but we saw him become a liability for Cleveland in the playoffs just last year

Problem is he’s getting paid like a 1st/2nd option. Plus he misses oodles of time.

Disagree. You need to be able to contribute off ball or defensively if you’re a 3rd or 4th option. A lot of these undersides PGs/SGs with all offense no defense are ok in their role but awful as a supporting player. Beal is fine to play as the best or 2nd best player on a fringe playoff team. Put him with other stars and he’s fucking useless. The problem with garland is that he was good enough to be the PG for a very good regular season team, but for the playoffs you’re so much better off with a lowry, Conley, white or tons of other guys who would never be the 1 or 2nd best player on a team.

Problem is his defense outweighs in offense as shown against the warriors. Gui santos dominated him and he was in foul trouble instantly.

So is James Harden.

You got upset over the something that doesn’t involve your team, then managed to make 0 sense in your reply 😭😭😭

Bravo. Just what I’d expect from a low IQ fanbase.

Sixers haven’t made the conference finals since Allen Iverson btw

But congrats on beating the Celtics. Only took 10 years.