Crying thread for fellow Kawhi fans

[Doranku]

Kawhi is still a better player. He just didn't have Anthony Davis.

Instead of Anthony Davis, Kawhi had the biggest playoff meme in NBA history as a teammate in Playoff P.

Kawhi had 2 bad games out of 13 in the playoffs. Playoff P had seven. AD? Also 2 bad games out of 15 in the playoffs. Imagine if AD was doing this in 7 of the first 13 games of the playoffs for the Lakers:

14 points on 4-17
11 points on 3-16
9 points on 3-14
15 points on 6-19
22 points on 7-19
10 points on 4-10
10 points on 4-16 (game 7)

And this isn't even mentioning how awful the bench and other role players for the Clippers were. Kawhi had a bad game 7.... but outside of that he only had one bad game in the playoffs. Don't underestimate the impact of Playoff P.

[TheCorporation]

Don't show them this

[TheCorporation]

Kawhi is still a better player. He just didn't have Anthony Davis.

LeBron elevated Davis over Paul George. Did you already forget Paul George's 2019 run?

2019
Paul George > Davis

2020
Davis > George

What changed?

In 2019 Paul George was 29-8-4 and 3rd in MVP voting Check mate son

[TheGoatest]

Paul George was all-NBA 1st AND all-defense 1st team last year.

Imagine having a player playing worse next to you than he did next to Russell Westbrook.

[FireDavidKahn]

[kuniva_dAMiGhTy]

LeBron elevated Davis over Paul George. Did you already forget Paul George's 2019 run?

2019
Paul George > Davis

2020
Davis > George

What changed?

In 2019 Paul George was 29-8-4 and 3rd in MVP voting Check mate son

Remember when people thought Bron was going to hinder AD? And then reduce him into a spot up shooter?

Gotta keep those narratives in order!

[FireDavidKahn]

Don't show them this

OH boy, is that bad for Kawhi?

[FireDavidKahn]

Remember when people thought Bron was going to hinder AD? And then reduce him into a spot up shooter?

Gotta keep those narratives in order!

Now it's AD is carrying LeBron

[LAmbruh]

Yes, yes come cry with us, fellow beta Kawhit fan. This is our safe space

[J Shuttlesworth]

Paul George was all-NBA 1st AND all-defense 1st team last year.

Imagine having a player playing worse next to you than he did next to Russell Westbrook.

Another thing hard to come to terms with is that my Kawhi makes teammates worse

[TheGoatest]

Remember when people thought Bron was going to hinder AD? And then reduce him into a spot up shooter?

Gotta keep those narratives in order!

[Phoenix]

1,450 minutes for Kawhi in back to back playoff seasons 2019 and 2020

1,537 minutes for Jordan in 1996/1997 rings.

Not that far off actually.

Kawhi an asterisk ring, finals MVP, no season MVP and load mangement

MJ back to back rings, finals MVPs and a MVP

Pretty far apart I'm afraid.

[LAmbruh]

[Basketball r Us]

Don't show them this

4th quarter stats on elimination games is missing.

[J Shuttlesworth]

4th quarter stats on elimination games is missing.

LeBron had 0 pts in elimination games against the Nuggets. WEAK.

Kawhi had 14.

If only LeBron was facing elimination, he could have scored more than 0