Why does Chris Paul get blamed for the Clippers chokes

[TripleA]

Chris Paul has played well in playoffs while Blake Griffin has shit the bed many times in the post season. They only time I can see that Paul messed up badly was when he turned the ball over flopping against OKC

[GIF REACTION]

Because the players were better in the 80's and 90's

Chris Paul wouldn't even be top 20 in the league

[KembaWalker]

Because it's fun I guess, I see myself as a logical NBA fan and sometimes I'd crack a few CP3 choking jokes to friends who are fans of LAC or him

Same as the whole LeBron 2/6 thing, I KNOW it's not all on him, it's just fun to joke about

[notatop29pg]

The same reason Jordan, Kobe, Lebron etc all get hated on.

[Lebronxrings]

he has a stacked team and still can't get passed the second round. Its not like people are blaming him for not winning a title, but how can you allow your team to blow a 3-1 series lead with you as the self proclaimed best pg.

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[R.I.P.]

Watch him during the Rockets come back and you know why. Also CP3 is still touched with kids gloves. Do you see people lay into Steve Nash all the time. At least he could get his teams to conference finals playing against Peak Duncan, Peak Dirk, Peak KG, Peak Kobe and so on. Paul can

[DMAVS41]

its certainly not only his fault, but he's been a part of some absurd chokes the last two years

[Young X]

Because people always wanna blame the best player when things go wrong regardless of what happens. Stupid.

Shit that makes zero sense to me. Like why would you blame the best player when they're the ones positively contributing the most to the team?

By blaming them, you're saying everybody else was fine and THEY were the ones hurting the team when it's literally the exact opposite. How does that make ANY sense?

Now I'm not saying they don't deserve any kind of criticism, but saying the player who played the best is most at fault for a team losing is incredibly stupid.

The only time you'll ever see me blame someone for a team losing is if they either underperform individually or do something that negatively impacts a team.

The only time CP3 deserves serious blame is his game 5 against OKC where he made those stupid mistakes at the end that cost the Clippers the game. That's the only time I've seen him "choke".

[Goro]

Because he is the leader. That is how ISH works.

[Smoke117]

Because so few people know about actual basketball. He carried the clippers on his back on one leg in game 7 vs the reigning champions (and throughout that series in general)...and then was injured during that Rockets series. They lost because they let Jamal Crawford do whatever he wants...and he's an idiot. He's got a lot of talent...but hasn't developed the skill. He can look so great, but he plays the game like a ****ing retard. Then as their starting 2 guard they have the most streaky "great shooter" ever..J.J. "go kill yourself" Reddick who was almost useless half the time. Those two assholes shot them out of the Rockets series.

[T_L_P]

He has had some chokes, but people will always blame the best player on the team when you lose.

[FreezingTsmoove]

He got injured Game 6 against the Rockets

DJ and Blake should have took over but once again we find out..Useless without CP3

The man who operates the #1 offense in the NBA (2 years straight)

[bobopenguin]

U cant blame the white guy (Blake), that would make u look like a racist.

U cant blame on a mental midget kid (DJ), cos u dont jst laugh at disable like that.

U cant blame on a elderly (Doc), cos our society taught us to respect the elder one.

so the best option is to pick on a smallest and brightest black male.

[Fiasco]

Paul is perceived as a leader of the Clippers. He will never escape the criticism losing invites, even though it's flat out naive to blame any one player for a loss in a team sport--especially something as lengthy as arduous as a playoff series.