And their league leading 3-point shooter crumbling under pressure.

If KD’s toe isn’t on the line, I think even with injuries they still beat the suns, because the suns were a good team but they were one of the weakest finals teams in t he last 10 years.

And vaccine refusals

edit: I am 100% aware it was the 2021-2022 season that Kyrie had vaccine-related obstacles. My intention was to have a good laugh. Lighten up, smoke a joint, or do whatever you need to stop taking everything so serious. I fucking love Kyrie

Very overlooked factor was Udoka and D’Antoni leaving the coaching staff in 2021. Offense looked a lot more fluid and creative in 2021 not just this your turn my stagnant iso ball gimmick. Defense overachieved in 2021 behind Udoka w their personnel. Nobody was saying the Nets looked poorly coached in 2021 they frankly quite overachieved, the whole super team concept was built on having all 3 which they never did yet they consistently won that year

the bad luck was Kyrie (and Harden) getting injured for the playoffs

The crazy thing is I feel like with full health they would’ve won in spite of all of Kyrie’s bullshit cause their offense was that ridiculously good.

All 3 dudes had bad luck lol. Kyrie and Harden both got hurt and KD unfortunately had too big shoes.

Kyrie was around 75% of the bad luck. Also I feel like at some point KD just gave up too. 

Yeah we basically lost someone who could’ve led the bench and even slotted in with the starters.

he did Mike, Dan and Tony helping him out at least

Is this an inside joke or were you using voice to text?

KD wouldn’t have gone to Brooklyn without Kyrie though.

The bigger problem was that Nash was a terrible leader. KD demanded he be there without him proving in any meaningful way he was ready to coach an NBA Championship contender. The power dynamic was way off and he never put his foot down with Kyrie or KD.

Watching KD get stripped over and over by Boston while bringing the ball up the floor instead of giving it to Kyrie, I kept thinking “a proper coach would have put a stop to this after the first turnover”. But Nash never did.

Kyrie deserves the most blame, but letting KD handpick the coach was what set them up for failure to begin with.

Right? Like if he wore a smaller shoe he’d be uncomfortable and he probably would’ve played worst and would’ve been a blowout.

Saying only if his toe wasn’t on the line is the same as saying “if only that went in” for every missed clutch shot.

Yeah, we’ve seen this in football with Manchester City and Man Utd. Kids just tend to follow success

Nets fans didn’t take over the garden; what? Knicks fans still took over Barclays. Even in that era the get in price at Barclays was under $50

Similiar if clippers win in la they ahve to go a warriors run and lakers have to be really bad during that period and still probably no

As if the Knicks don’t pull a ton casuals also lol. The bandwagon was insane this year.

One of the most dominant playoff performances I’ve ever witnessed.

Funniest possible outcome was KD being behind the line and winning only to lose to Atlanta

Idk about that. Dwight just wanted to party in LA. Rodman went to Vegas during the season. Grown men can’t control other grown men. At the end of the day KD got fucked by injuries in the 2021 playoffs

Super teams aren’t built for the long term. 

You can see why from his answer here.  He felt the whole time he was sacrificing to win.  If you don’t win, it’s going to fall apart. 

I can imagine the Nets probably were willing to give him a shorter deal too. His boy Morey promised him the world and he fell for it.

He said he had a tree company set up to pay me under the table! 

You know what always confused me about the “Daryl morey bad, end of discussion,” narrative? Is that morey really got harden to the team of his choosing. Like, he got put so publicly on blast that to this day, a basketball fan can’t hear his name without immediately also thinking about being a liar.

Keep in mind, the trade didn’t happen until oct 31st- Daryl is a liar happened mid August. harden basically blowing off all Sixers related commitments in that time. And yet, he still got James to the clippers. Dude didn’t even have an agent! Idk, you’d think he’d be too petty for That or something.

Cause the NBA forced us to get rid of Hinkie

Fucking league yes man Colanglo fucked up all those assets

He’s def a playoff dropoff player tho. He can’t hit an open there consistently in the playoffs.

Going into Game 6 in 2023 that series was definitely the third closest unique moment Harden got to a ring aside from 2012 after Finals G1 and 2018 with a minute to go in WCF G5. Only have to hope the Heat came back down to Earth a little bit quicker than how they did against Boston and the Nuggets, and then play the Nuggets in the Finals (who themselves had a notoriously easy path) which would have been a *very* interesting and *very* toxic series lmao.

That might be the most heartbreaking series for the sixers ever. 2019 you still had hope, 2021-Simmons is the issue. 2023- if Niang made a fucking 3 in the 4th we are in the ecf, also fuck Eric Lewis.

the opposite is what i felt as a Sixers fan. i’ve always agreed with the Embiid quote that it isn’t a rivalry and Celtics always kick our asses lmao. which is why that 3-1 comeback was so euphoric. i was on cloud nine for like 3 days before i remembered that Maxey is playing 48mins a game on an injured pinky

After KD was injured in 3rd qt g5, everyone in the game thread was like Warriors are so fucked, Steph played so bad this playoffs, this is Harden’s best chance to get past Golden State.

What happened in the remaining time of the game was Harden went surprisingly passive, he was just kinda passing and setting up teammates, didn’t do a lot of scoring himself, while Steph balled out, scored 12 pts in the last quarter to win the game closely.

Harden also didn’t played “badly” in g6, but Steph had the legendary g6 second half to seal the series.

If you watched it live you would clearly feel that Harden just didn’t want it as badly as Curry. One feels like he’s just playing a regular season game, the other played like his career was on the line. That little difference was enough to determine the winner in two close games and eventually the series.

I remember Harden fans were so confident that Curry was gonna get exposed once KD got hurt

That 2019 team outside of the starters were a shell of themselves

In 2019 without KD? He had Klay and Dray but everyone else was old or injured. Even Dray was far from his 2016 and 2017 self by then offensively

Curry had only 2 good teammates in 2019 on the entire roster after KD got injured and completely carried them to the finals. He averaged 37 ppg against the trailblazers while being down double digits in 3 games in that series and 2 of those games going to OT. He also scored 33 points int he 2nd half of game 6 to close out the rockets. He also scored 47 points in the finals when his whole team was injured and he was genuinely playing with Draymond and a roster full of LA fitness hoopers. The most underrated year of Curry’s career.

John Stockton was a consesus top 20 player up until the 2010’s. ring culture and stat culture sent him way down the lists

No.

Ring culture sent him down, but stat culture sent him up.

Including you. Stockton was never a consensus top 20 player lol ever at any point even at the peak of his career

“Consensus” top 20 player? Who do you have at 21 that Stockton kicks out

like in 2009 if we’re putting Stockton in at 20 on the dot you have to kick out someone like Karl Malone, Charles Barkley, or sixth year MVP Lebron… which would be quite the take. Realistically even sixth year Lebron wasn’t there because the old heads would have guys ranked higher, who are also still ranked than Stockton, like Julius Irving or the Admiral

im not sure this consensus existed like you think it did lol

RING CULTURE HAS ALWAYS BEEN A THING. Why do you think Wilt Chamberlain isn’t the unquestioned, undisputed, no sense in even discussing the matter Greatest Athlete of All Time?

Stockton was an Ironman and consistently showed up tho. They had two finals appearances against MJ bulls.

I mean they made three 3s in that stretch they just got waived off for no reason lol

But they didn’t miss 27 in a row. A couple of them were waived off for “offensive fouls” when the shooters allegedly kicked out their foot. Which we never ever see called.

I swear I saw refs blocking the shots out there in perimeter

They were waving off made 3s it literally happened

Foods are liquified and then consumed intravenously

tiny forks tiny bites

You cant stop your beard being messy from food without being neurotic about it at that kind of size. Ive had a pretty large beard before (not this big) and food gets stuck in the chin hair a lot you just have to brush it off