I'm saying though, you can't pretend that if any of the races were switched to any other race in the same context, this would still be some bigotry.
A black guy saying you can't win with 3 hispanics - Bigot
A white guy saying you can't win with 3 blacks - bigot
Etc etc etc
No one played more than 30 mins per game. Leonard had a +9.3 on the court and outproduce his opponent +7.1.Ah, get off that bullshyt, no one had Kawhi as a top-20 player back in 2014. He averaged 12.8ppg that year and hardly handled the ball. I mean, damn, he didn't even play 2000 minutes that season - there were 137 guys in the NBA that played more minutes that Kawhi that year.
And Duncan was arguably the best player on the team, but he was NOT a superstar.
The fact that that team was so dominant PROVES my point. No way in hell you're calling 37-year-old Duncan, 31-years-and-fading TP, or 22-years-and-raw Kawhi NBA "superstars". Yet they were a dominant team. Because the bench was so damn stacked with Belinelli, Green, Splittler, Diaw, and 36-year-old Ginobli? Come on now. You have to admit that the ensemble cast system can work, and can even work dominantly.
They had a 15-point lead in the 4th quarter of Game 7. Have two more shots fall or two more calls go their way and they win that game. So obviously they COULD have beaten the Lakers, it just didn't happen.
Three teams built that way had a strong shot at a title in the last 17 years, and two of those three won it. That proves that it's a viable strategy. Yes, it's easier to have superstars, but without a superstar you can still win. For instance, let's say things worked out differently in Golden State, and they never got Durant and had a non-superstar point guard like Mike Conley instead of Curry. A Conley-Klay-Barnes-Draymond-Bogut Warriors team with Iggy/Ezeli/Livingston off the bench would still be a title threat. You can still win that way. Utah could put together a threatening team like that.
It's #BBB for life
Can't win jack with cacs :drakebronoh::cacpls3:
They had superstars via the analytics, Detroit did not. They had an elite squad via the data. Detroit did not. Detroit is a team who did it without elite players, San Antonio had elite players. Detroit will always be the model for winning a title without a superstar. It's the team that teams like Atlanta wanted to be. San Antonio had superstars, no one confuses one from the other.The 2014 Spurs had no SUPERSTARS.
That's why they called their game the beautiful game.
I'm saying though, you can't pretend that if any of the races were switched to any other race in the same context, this would still be some bigotry.
A black guy saying you can't win with 3 hispanics - Bigot
A white guy saying you can't win with 3 blacks - bigot
Etc etc etc
Have you heard of Duke???
Yeah if Lonzo had 25 pts and no one else showed up, there wouldn't be much argument to what Lavar said. But if you didn't know who made the quote, you'd think Lonzo was one of the white boys getting ripped.This would be alright if those three white dudes weren't carrying the fukk out of Lonzo while he was getting cooked by Fox and being passive
I posted a video literally naming them.Okay, name me the starting lineup of their championship team that had three cacs .
Okay, name me the starting lineup of their championship team that had three cacs .
He wasYeah if Lonzo had 25 pts and no one else showed up, there wouldn't be much argument to what Lavar said. But if you didn't know who made the quote, you'd think Lonzo was one of the white boys getting ripped.
There is no merit to that dumb ass shyt.This is more truthful than saying what he is saying lacks merit. What he is saying has merit regardless if you like it or not. But his reasoning is the question. It comes off as excuses. The bottom line was that uptempo pace and offense was no where to be found v. Kentucky.
This thick yellow bone brotha gonna learn the hard way.