For all the Durant haters...

[stalkerforlife]

1. He plays in a real ass conference. He's now facing a second CHAMPIONSHIP CALIBER team in the playoffs BEFORE THE FINALS.

2. He didn't collude with TWO OTHER SUPERSTARS...NOT ONCE...BUT TWICE...IN AN ALREADY HISTORICALLY WEAK CONFERENCE. Westbrook is a GREAT player, but they definitely do NOT have that consistent THIRD scoring SUPERSTAR.

Durant is arguably the SECOND best player in the world behind Curry and you must have PERSPECTIVE when assessing him.

IMAGINE KD playing with Wade, Bosh, Irving, Love, etc...and having the HIGHEST PAYROLL IN THE LEAGUE IN A HISTORICALLY WEAK CONFERENCE...HE WOULD MAKE THE FINALS EVERY SINGLE SEASON.

[stalkerforlife]

Make sure you read this, haters.

[kuniva_dAMiGhTy]

I logged in yesterday for maybe 5 minutes and saw another poster bump one of your threads... Believe it was something to do with not faulting OKC for Golden State making an "epic comeback".

You called it, so props there.

There's some merit to this post as well, though. The Warriors are an ATG team and KD, as you pointed out, never ran to stack the deck in a pathetic conference of all places (twice). They built this squad from the ground up, ditto with Golden State, who just happens to be...better.

Curry & co will completely redeem themselves with a win Monday night.

[stalkerforlife]

I logged in yesterday for maybe 5 minutes and saw another poster bump one of your threads... Believe it was something to do with not faulting OKC for Golden State making an "epic comeback".

You called it, so props there.

There's some merit to this post as well. The Warriors are an ATG team and KD, as you pointed out, never ran to stack the deck in a pathetic conference of all places (twice). They built this squad from the ground up, ditto with Golden State, who just happens to be...better...in a loaded f*cking conference.

:cheers:

[Doranku]

Relax, KD's gonna come out tomorrow night and drop 40+ in an OKC win.

[ArbitraryWater]

I logged in yesterday for maybe 5 minutes and saw another poster bump one of your threads... Believe it was something to do with not faulting OKC for Golden State making an "epic comeback".

You called it, so props there.

There's some merit to this post as well. The Warriors are an ATG team and KD, as you pointed out, never ran to stack the deck in a pathetic conference of all places (twice). They built this squad from the ground up, ditto with Golden State, who just happens to be...better.

Curry & co will completely redeem themselves with a win Monday night.

Meanwhile all the reasonable posters not biased in this thread:
http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/showthread.php?t=408498

:lol

[stalkerforlife]

Relax, KD's gonna come out tomorrow night and drop 40+ in an OKC win.

He may drop 40, but they aren't winning.

That ship sailed, bro.

[livinglegend]

KD let his stacked team down.
He played like shit the whole game and the game was still close. STACKED.
He played one of his worst games ever in a such a big stage.

[tmacattack33]

...why would KD leave a team with Westbrook and Ibaka (and previously Harden)?

Also, eventually, KD will pass Kobe. At that point are you going to go back and try to delete all of your threads propping up Durant? :roll:

[stalkerforlife]

Let me reiterate...KD WOULD MAKE THE FINALS EVERY SINGLE YEAR IN THE EAST JUST LIKE BRAN IF HE LEFT AND COLLUDED.

[kuniva_dAMiGhTy]

Meanwhile all the reasonable posters not biased in this thread:
http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/showthread.php?t=408498

:lol

KD definitely laid an egg, and you obviously judge a player by how he performs, but in the grand scheme of things MOST had GSW winning anyway.

They won 73 f*cking games, dude.

[livinglegend]

Let me reiterate...KD WOULD MAKE THE FINALS EVERY SINGLE YEAR IN THE EAST JUST LIKE BRAN IF HE LEFT AND COLLUDED.

here comes the ''would'', ''if''.
Nobody cares about those.
Let's look at the actuals facts: He choked in the biggest game of his career. He let his stacked team down. His teammates kept the game close despite his horrible play.

[stalkerforlife]

here comes the ''would'', ''if''.
Nobody cares about those.
Let's look at the actuals facts: He choked in the biggest game of his career. He let his stacked team down. His teammates kept the game close despite his horrible play.

He WOULD MAKE THE FINALS EVERY SINGLE YEAR IN THE EAST HAD HE COLLUDED LIKE YOUR HERO.

[Young X]

Here we go again. He plays WITH RUSSELL WESTBROOK A TOP 5 PLAYER IN THE LEAGUE who has been carrying his ass all postseason. And you're here complaining about his team.

How many players have that luxury? To be clearly outplayed by a teammate and still have a chance at getting to the finals?

His team was good enough to keep him in the game when he was chucking. It was up to HIM to bring them home. His guys supported him. HE's the one who let his team down not the other way around.

He has a 20.2 PER in the playoffs. He's had more mediocre games than good ones. This is someone who is supposed to be a top 3 player.

I'm tired of you guys giving these guys passes just because you like them. Hold everybody accountable. If OKC loses this series I don't want to see you or anybody else letting him off the hook. It's not like he's doing his job and he's not getting support, it's the other way around. He's the one FAILING his team.

[livinglegend]

He WOULD MAKE THE FINALS EVERY SINGLE YEAR IN THE EAST HAD HE COLLUDED LIKE YOUR HERO.
Let's look at the actuals facts: He choked in the biggest game of his career. He let his stacked team down. His teammates kept the game close despite his horrible play.
Durant's legacy just took a huge hit. He didn't have much of a legacy, but still...

[stalkerforlife]

Here we go again. He plays WITH RUSSELL WESTBROOK A TOP 5 PLAYER IN THE LEAGUE who has been carrying his ass all postseason. And you're here complaining about his team.

How many players have that luxury? To be clearly outplayed by a teammate and still have a chance at getting to the finals?

His team was good enough to keep him in the game when he was chucking. It was up to HIM to bring them home. His guys supported him. HE's the one who let his team down not the other way around.

He has a 20.2 PER in the playoffs. He's had more mediocre games than good ones. This is someone who is supposed to be a top 3 player.

I'm tired of you guys giving these guys passes just because you like them. Hold everybody accountable. If OKC loses this series I don't want to see you or anybody else letting him off the hook. once again it's not like he's doing his job and he's not getting support it's the other way around. He's the one FAILING his team.

LITERALLY stopped reading after that BS. :lol

[Doranku]

Here we go again. He plays WITH RUSSELL WESTBROOK A TOP 5 PLAYER IN THE LEAGUE who has been carrying his ass all postseason. And you're here complaining about his team.

How many players have that luxury? To be clearly outplayed by a teammate and still have a chance at getting to the finals?

His team was good enough to keep him in the game when he was chucking. It was up to HIM to bring them home. His guys supported him. HE's the one who let his team down not the other way around.

He has a 20.2 PER in the playoffs. He's had more mediocre games than good ones. This is someone who is supposed to be a top 3 player.

I'm tired of you guys giving these guys passes just because you like them. Hold everybody accountable. If OKC loses this series I don't want to see you or anybody else letting him off the hook. once again it's not like he's doing his job and he's not getting support it's the other way around. He's the one FAILING his team.

:lol bro you do this all the time for CP3

[stalkerforlife]

I don't like you anymore you're such a ****ing retard

Truth hurts, kid.

[Straight_Ballin]

Relax, KD's gonna come out tomorrow night and drop 40+ in an OKC win.

I wouldn't put it past him. Anything can happen and there is still a game left to play, but Iggy will be trying his damnest to lock him down.

[Hey Yo]

Silver St. is lucky they won. Both Durant and Russ shot like shit and OKC only made three, 3PTA while SSW made 21.

Should have been a blow out.

[jayfan]

1. He plays in a real ass conference. He's now facing a second CHAMPIONSHIP CALIBER team in the playoffs BEFORE THE FINALS.

2. He didn't collude with TWO OTHER SUPERSTARS...NOT ONCE...BUT TWICE...IN AN ALREADY HISTORICALLY WEAK CONFERENCE. Westbrook is a GREAT player, but they definitely do NOT have that consistent THIRD scoring SUPERSTAR.

Durant is arguably the SECOND best player in the world behind Curry and you must have PERSPECTIVE when assessing him.

IMAGINE KD playing with Wade, Bosh, Irving, Love, etc...and having the HIGHEST PAYROLL IN THE LEAGUE IN A HISTORICALLY WEAK CONFERENCE...HE WOULD MAKE THE FINALS EVERY SINGLE SEASON.

All may be true. But he deserves every bit of criticism he's taking for last night. He was horrible.




.

[stalkerforlife]

Westbrook is so much better right now

And saying "what if he did what Lebron did" doesn't make him a better player. Lebron still owns him

Westbrook was 10-27 last night, made huge errors down the stretch, went 0-5 from 3 and had 5 turnovers.

But whatever helps your agenda. :lol

[Akrazotile]

Durant's cast on this year's Thunder is absolutely, unequivicoally better than any cast LeGirth has had in his entire career.

It's sad that OP doesnt respect the game and the history of professional basketball enough to appreciate LeTop3's dominance. But whatever. Haters gwan hate.

[NBAGOAT]

Durant's obviously been worse than Westbrook these playoffs(who might actually be the 2nd best player in the world right now). His shot selection has been bad and his shot has been off and he has more to's than assists. He's even shooting worse than lebron from 3 and his advanced stats are shit compared to the regular season. Tbf, Durant's been awesome on defense but that's not nearly enough to make up him being worse on offense.

[livinglegend]

Durant 10-31

1-7 on 4th quarter with 2 turnovers.

Westbrook also had 11 assists and 9 rebounds and 4 steals

Yeah what ever helps my "agenda". ****ing retard. Start focusing on being successful and not whatever you can do to make lebron look like shit

ether

[stalkerforlife]

Durant's obviously been worse than Westbrook these playoffs(who might actually be the 2nd best player in the world right now). His shot selection has been bad and his shot has been off and he has more to's than assists. He's even shooting worse than lebron from 3 and his advanced stats are shit compared to the regular season. Tbf, Durant's been awesome on defense but that's not nearly enough to make up him being worse on offense.

He's scoring more points on better efficiency than RW in the playoffs. :lol

[stalkerforlife]

And KD has been ELITE defensively all playoffs long.

[kuniva_dAMiGhTy]

Nah it's not the same thing.

Durant's teammates are keeping him in the game, he has a teammate clearly outplaying him...all he has to do is play decent basketball and he's in the finals. He doesn't even have to be great.

You can't play the worst basketball of you're season when you're in a position like this. He looked weak out there.

I was rooting for OKC and rooting for the Warriors to lose and he let me down big time.

...Sounds like CP3 last year versus Houston

:confusedshrug:

[Straight_Ballin]

Durant's cast on this year's Thunder is absolutely, unequivicoally better than any cast LeGirth has had in his entire career.

It's sad that OP doesnt respect the game and the history of professional basketball enough to appreciate LeTop3's dominance. But whatever. Haters gwan hate.

Why do people confuse hate with a full understanding of ones game and their capabilities? :confusedshrug:

I've seen lebron play live so many times and it's not hard to understand what kind of player he is and the shortcuts he tries to take.

Is 6 ECF finals appearances impressive? Sure but it's not out of the realm of possibility that another superstar player in his shoes couldn't have done the same thing in the current east. It's not hard to see the big picture. If he was as good as his stans thinks he is, he'd be 5/7 after this years finals. He's not, so people need to quit being biased simply because he's the best THEY ever saw.

[Young X]

:lol bro you do this all the time for CP3Nah it's not the same thing.

Durant's teammates are supporting him and keeping him in the game, he has a teammate clearly outplaying him...all he has to do is play decent basketball and he's in the finals. He doesn't even have to be great.

You can't play the worst basketball of the season when you're in a position like this. He looked weak out there.

I was rooting for OKC and rooting for the Warriors to lose and he let me down big time.

And then it annoys me to see people blaming everybody else but the guy who isn't doing his job. Especially when that guy is being talked about like he's the best player in the league.

[NBAGOAT]

He's scoring more points on better efficiency than RW in the playoffs. :lol

and Westbrook has 11apg and is playing great defense too. He's been better for 2/3 series. If you can't see Westbrook has been better than Durant these playoffs, you've proven again how little you know about basketball.

[stalkerforlife]

and Westbrook has 11apg and is playing great defense too. He's been better for 2/3 series. If you can't see Westbrook has been better than Durant these playoffs, you've proven again how little you know about basketball.

Westbrook couldn't even make the playoffs without KD as has been proven.

[NBAGOAT]

Westbrook couldn't even make the playoffs without KD as has been proven.

has KD ever made the playoffs with Westbrook out for over half the season :confusedshrug:? Also that deflection being your best response is laughable.

[DoctorP]

Durant choked, you can apologize for him and compare him to LeBron all you want but it still on KD to make better plays.

[Young X]

LITERALLY stopped reading after that BS. :lolMaybe "carrying" is going too far but he is being clearly outplayed by Westbrook up to this point. You can't complain about his supporting cast when he hasn't even playing the best on his own team.

He's the one not doing what is expected of him. His level of play has gone down significantly from the regular season.

[ArbitraryWater]

people still giving KD a pass :ohwell:

[k0kakw0rld]

:cheers:
If he does not win this year, his ass is gone. So what's the difference?

LeBron waited 7 years before leaving. They never were able to draft/trade or sign a WB, Harden or Ibaka caliber player for LeBron to contend vs (COlluded Celtics for example.

[SouBeachTalents]

Durant deserves all the criticism he gets for last night. Dude was dreadful all game, especially crunch time in the 4th

[Ben Simmons]

Durant would get a pass for losing if he wasn't playing so stupidly. I dont care if Curry and Klay got hot and he lost a shootout.

But he was throwing up 3s and chucking shots. That's aside from the dumb turnovers.

He got a pass in game 2 and game 5 when he lost. Game 6? After all the hardwork he put in on defense? His teammates put in all series long?

Even he wouldnt give himself a pass for that.

[fragokota]

It's not only this game though. He's been off pretty much every other game. He had like a 7/33 fg game against Dallas, he's at 27% from 3 and at low 40 fg%. Sure Westbrook had a terrible game also yesterday but KD is the one who lost them the game.

[rasko]

Most people(including myself) thought the thunder were pretenders.They did choke this game and prolly the series but they've proven they have enough to win,that's the most important thing for them going forward.
Big picture is they knocked out a historically great defensive team and were up 3-1 against one of the best teams ever.

[Paul George 24]

Make sure you read this, haters.
DURCHOKE DID HIS THINGS :lol

[j3lademaster]

Westbrook couldn't even make the playoffs without KD as has been proven.Missed the playoffs by one game, and only because the Spurs rested all their starters against the Pelicans. Also Westbrook was digging okc out of a deep hole to even have a chance at making the playoffs, if he was healthy for the season OKC makes the playoffs for sure. Weak ass argument.

[j3lademaster]

He's scoring more points on better efficiency than RW in the playoffs. :lolAren't you a Kobe > Lebron guy? More points on better efficiency, right?

[nba_55]

Aren't you a Kobe > Lebron guy? More points on better efficiency, right?
:oldlol: Burn

[Lebron23]

He sucks last night. 10/31 from the field. KD needs to bounce back in Game 7 to earn my respect again.

[stalkerforlife]

He sucks last night. 10/31 from the field. KD needs to bounce back in Game 7 to earn my respect again.

:roll:

[InsanityKills]

OKC in 7.

[BedroomBully]

Even a piece of $hit like you should know better. I like KD, heck I was cheering for him all game long! But he choked worse than you fat wife did on the neighbors bbc when you go around the corner to the liquor store to cash your welfare check. Truth is, KD has a super stacked team! The bench is great, his supporting cast is stacked! No excuses. You were up 3-1 and couldn't close. They will probably lose by 20 in game 7.

[InsanityKills]

Even a piece of $hit like you should know better. I like KD, heck I was cheering for him all game long! But he choked worse than you fat wife did on the neighbors bbc when you go around the corner to the liquor store to cash your welfare check. Truth is, KD has a super stacked team! The bench is great, his supporting cast is stacked! No excuses. You were up 3-1 and couldn't close. They will probably lose by 20 in game 7.
HOLY SHIT! Savage as fvck!

:roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:

[PickernRoller]

I don't hate KD I just think he's soft and his length does impede him of certain attributes as a player. Nonetheless I would gladly take him in a Laker's jersey. If Lebron can become a "winner" so can Durant - anything is possible.

Pau is a soft ass nikka - next to Kobe he's a two time champion.

[Nilocon165]

I'm so glad that stalker is gone.

I got mad reading his posts in here.