For starters that is patently false. The "Durant is soft/not an alpha" narrative started then and then reached a crescendo the next year against the same squad when both he and Westbrook had their struggles in OT but only Durant was singled out.
Nothing patently false about it.
You seem to do this often, only telling one side of the story where a player in question is called out for not being aggressive. I guess it's the LeBron stan in you. That narrative actually started prior to that postseason, in fact most conceded that due to the Thunder having no Westbrook, that the Grizzlies would beat them in 5-6 games. Some were sympathetic towards KD, some brought up the fact that they would've won if they didn't trade Harden and some brought up Brooks' coaching was holding them back.
You had the usual 'KD is choker' and "KD isn't clutch" type comments as you typically do around playoff time but the result of that series was
decided before it even started, that's why there wasn't too much of a fuss made over KD's performance when they lost.
I wouldn't say that KD was singled out, his passiveness and inability to shake Allen was. I remember dudes calling out Westbrook for not passing the ball late in-games to KD though (and to not jack up unnecessary shots), quite regularly.
And even if what you said was true, the scenarios are not comparable. You know damn well that if KD had missed the fukkin playoffs with Russ out injured nikkas would have gone crazy with that shyt.
No they wouldn't. Certainly not the ones with any common sense, especially since the struggles of that OKC team last season were because they had close to the worst defense in the league, with Ibaka out for the last month of the season.
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