Charles Barkley: Kevin Durant is a Bus rider, not a Bus Driver

[Peruvian Connect]

He is a fukking bus rider because that team already had a bus driver. That was a championship bus, my man hopped on and told Steph to slide over, cuz "he got this"

Now he wants us to consider him the baddest bus driver on the planet fukk outta here

GS choked away the series to CLE , lost to Toronto without KD and ain't did shiiit since KD left, sohh.....

 

[Techniec]

KD is a former MVP, former scoring champ. FInals runner up with a great finals series before GS, but yall shiiiting on him for not winning without the Warriors. Kareem ain't had but one ring before Magic. Yall can't have it both ways.

Bruh we seen Kareem lead a team to a championship that we know for a fact they would not have done without him

You know we cant say that about KD

 

[Techniec]

GS choked away the series to CLE , lost to Toronto without KD and ain't did shiiit since KD left, sohh.....

Whatever they did after is a different story, that's a different team, bench depleted, Klay injured etc

We talking the Dubs that KD joined...

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

Not many times we get an answer to a ‘what if’ legacy wise. We got a year of pippen without Jordan…got to see Kobe without Shaq …got to see Jordan vs Drexler….this is another one, KD without GS and simultaneously seeing GS minus KD, thriving

KD failing both as a player and as a leader too. He chose to play with kyrie then couldn’t manage the relationship w/ Harden.

And this is exactly what I think Barkley was bringing up. It’s not all about who’s the best player. I think when he started, he really meant, who is leading the team here.

KD was leading okc and couldn’t get Russ to do shyt. Now we all know Russ won’t even listen to bron, but dammit then have him shipped out. You’re the leader. You think Jordan would let a nikka keep taking his last shot and fumbling games away? KD was obviously mad about it as he said on his burner accounts. But did nothing as a leader to fix HIS TEAM.

He goes to GS and a championship team is gifted to him. Yes he’s the best player. But Dray still talking to him greasy let’s you know the entire team felt like they was already hot when he got there. There weren’t following him. They were following Steph cause it’s always been his team. Hurt, playing, playing bad, whatever.

Then he goes to BK. Picked them over the Knicks cause kyrie wanted to go there. More following shyt. But it’s his team. They wanted him. He brought kyrie. He brought harden. He let kyrie do what he wanted. Which fukked up things with harden. He let the new big 3 break up. He didn’t press kyrie bout playing. He wanted a coach who never coached shyt before.

And here we are. So it goes back to, what do teams do when YOU are the man on them. You run the show. This is your team. Not even a question. What does that organization look like ala a bron team or a Steph team or a harden team (also not a good leader) or an Embiid team. Whatever. A KD team ain’t looking so hot

 

[NYC Rebel]

He was in his feeling because he in the 5th row of the Rockets bus when Hakeem was driving. Chuck was talking about Kenny too.

But Kenny never posed to be a KD type and its widely known, so what does Chuck get out of saying the obvious about a no time all star?

 

[keon]

A lot of great players weren’t necessarily “leaders” in the sense of being a commanding type of dictator vocally on the court

 

[Loose]

Because the Bucks let him play 1 on 1 all game. But once a teams hits him with the same defensive attention as a Steph or a Giannis, we now see what happens.

Yeah warriors did it against okc when he was there. He struggles with doubles and will turn it over

 

[Braman]

And this is exactly what I think Barkley was bringing up. It’s not all about who’s the best player. I think when he started, he really meant, who is leading the team here.

KD was leading okc and couldn’t get Russ to do shyt. Now we all know Russ won’t even listen to bron, but dammit then have him shipped out. You’re the leader. You think Jordan would let a nikka keep taking his last shot and fumbling games away? KD was obviously mad about it as he said on his burner accounts. But did nothing as a leader to fix HIS TEAM.

He goes to GS and a championship team is gifted to him. Yes he’s the best player. But Dray still talking to him greasy let’s you know the entire team felt like they was already hot when he got there. There weren’t following him. They were following Steph cause it’s always been his team. Hurt, playing, playing bad, whatever.

Then he goes to BK. Picked them over the Knicks cause kyrie wanted to go there. More following shyt. But it’s his team. They wanted him. He brought kyrie. He brought harden. He let kyrie do what he wanted. Which fukked up things with harden. He let the new big 3 break up. He didn’t press kyrie bout playing. He wanted a coach who never coached shyt before.

And here we are. So it goes back to, what do teams do when YOU are the man on them. You run the show. This is your team. Not even a question. What does that organization look like ala a bron team or a Steph team or a harden team (also not a good leader) or an Embiid team. Whatever. A KD team ain’t looking so hot

Exactly, it all comes down to his personality. Case in point when young Claxton said that slick comment about Al Horford, KD quickly checked it. Oh, so you are capable of speaking up huh.?

But when a vet Draymond got up in him he was muttering himself ‘that’s why I’m outta here’,…never spoke up about how he felt while in GS, until after he left…doesn’t seem like he talks to Kyrie forget about the vaccine how bout tellin him to be more of a distributor…let James harden walk out the door. Kobe and shaq made it work at least for 5,6 years, Jordan got Rodman out in Vegas, etc. We seen time n time again there’s always some ‘other’ internal strife/bonding that needs to happen to win a chip. But KD wanna just hoop and go home that’s not him

 

[Methodical]

He's in that same class as AD and Kareem (imo). Always gonna be the most talented player on a team, but they just lack something internally to be the driving force.

EDIT: but fukk all that, what was Charles then

at Kareem?

 

[cobra]

fukk outta here. They make fun of Chuck every damn show because of his lack of rings.

Shaq holds that shyt over him constantly. No one, including Chuck, will ever take away KD winning 2 FMVP's and 2 titles. No one.

Maturing is realizing that chick and Kd have the same amount of earned rings to date

 

[Ohene]

Kevin is unfairly catching all the flack

the blame should go to kyrie first, nash second and Ben third before kd

 

[El Bombi]

Kevin is unfairly catching all the flack

the blame should go to kyrie first, nash second and Ben third before kd

 

[Ohene]

You have to blame kyrie first

he was garbage in game two and three

he also fcked up the final possession in game one which allowed Boston to have the final shot

not to mention her the reason harden said fck this
And he the reason brooklyn has zero chemistry

 

[HimmyHendrix]

 

[Dwight Howard]

6th best shooter of all-time Harris is hurt but they added the 5th best shooter of all time Curry…

The other iterations are *better*, sure, but the Nets still have enough. How is Boston getting juice out of 35 year old Horford but 36 year lamarcus and 33 year old Blake can’t sniff the court. Peyton Pritchard getting buckets where’s party mills? Bruce brown doin what teams beg for 3&D. They got enough

Would help bolster everyone else if they had a real PG tho :/ …..oh that’s right but KD chose him …would help if they had a better coach…oh that’s right KD’s man’s n em said they don’t need a coach …

Like I said I'm not making excuses for them losing. They have 2 arguably top 10 players in the league. No excuse to be losing period. But using this to invalidate what kd did in the past is idiotic.