It’s funny how quiet these threads are when Kawhi plays well and efficiently, versus when he has an off game. Those will get like hundreds of comments in an hour with people proclaiming its over for him, he is overrated, he’s over protected, etc. What happened?
Kawhi had an efficient game? I thought he was washed /s
This could also be a graph representing the gulf between Steph and the other greatest shooters in NBA history
I would wait a few months before saying anything more definitively in either direction. If he came out of the gates hot, all people would say is that he’ll be injured the next game, and it’ll mean nothing. He could have a hyper efficent game tonight, and this post will look ridiculous.
Ten games in just isn’t a large enough sample size to determine anything, frankly. I know people love being reactionary and in the moment, but the NBA season is a journey, not a sprint.
He’s genuinely been through 8 games, the best free agent signing we’ve had in like 15+ years.
Genuinely, I don’t think the team has ever had better vibes
They don’t pay people $$$ based solely on your PPG, though. If we lived in a reality where PPG was the only true determining value of one’s worth as a player, then sure, you could make that argument.
In our reality, Professional basketball is a lot more complex than that.
Because they hyped him up to be better than LeBron coming into the league. Not LeBron first year, LeBron PERIOD. All this talk about him being a GOAT before he even played a second of NBA basketball.
This is not to say he can’t ever become a great, as I am confident he will health barring. It’s just that people had these ideas that he would come into the league as an MVP candidate off the jump. Like that’s any sort of actual possibility.
Now reality is starting to hit them, and they realize he’s just a rookie like every rookie this year.
Only one guy the past 20 years has lived up to this GOAT potential off the jump status, and he doesn’t even play Basketball. He plays Baseball and he plays/ played for the Angels.