Let's be honest about what the NBA's biggest problem is now. Zion Williamson and Ja Morant failed to step into roles the league was preparing them for

[concise]

If these dudes were playing on a regular basis, all this side talk about ratings and 3s would be a lot quieter. The stan machine would be fed and distracted.

Everything was set up for these dudes to be the next faces and now there is a void where they were supposed to be.

 

[Black Hans]

That's definitely a part of the problem.

 

[jdubnyce]

Zion fat
Ja frail

Put your hopes in un able bodied players

 

[THE 101]

Zion was the one. I think all the hype Wemby has got has made people forget how much excitement Zion had coming into the league.

Bro squandered it all for porn, wings and pizza

 

[L68]

Nba should start the season around Christmas or early in the year . Then end right before football season. July sucks sportswise cause theres only baseball.

 

[tremonthustler1]

Zion was the one. I think all the hype Wemby has got has made people forget how much excitement Zion had coming into the league.

Bro squandered it all for porn, wings and pizza

when you put it that way, we can't blame him

 

[tremonthustler1]

Nba should start the season around Christmas or early in the year . Then end right before football season. July sucks sportswise cause theres only baseball.

July has the WNBA too

 

[pete clemenza]

Saw this tweet yesterday

 

[SchoolboyC]

Like I just said in the other thread

Also I wouldn’t give full blame to Zion & Ja

Folks forget that Wiggins & Jabari both came in with crazy hype, Canadian Kobe & the next Melo and didn’t live up to it. Wiggins is good but never took that leap to be great and after two torn ACL’s Bari’s NBA career was basically done

Then comes Ben Simmons in 2016, Klutch’s heir to LeBron. Basically peaked as a rookie, never learned to shoot, fukked up his back and now he’s a role player no one cares about

Tatum was never supposed to be the guy out that 2017 draft, it was Fultz & Lonzo. Fultz a mental midget that’s not even in the league anymore, Lonzo injury prone and even when healthy never became more than a high level role player

That whole era of YouTube HS/college were supposed to be in their prime right now.

Basically the most popular players of that high school/college era disappointed in the league for one reason or another.

And now at a time when they were supposed to be in their primes leading the conversations, the players that people weren’t as interested in are the ones who made it

 

[Diondon]

Zion is disappointing
He should have been running the league by now

 

[FukkaPaidEmail]

This outdated playbook of trying to find the next “guy” is the cause of this.

Doesnt matter if Zion reached his peak he was never going to be the face of the league because he was never going to be better than Jokic,Giannis,Luka or whatever final form Wemby takes .

Can’t be the face when you’re borderline top 5 which he would’ve been

Time for the NBA to stop being lazy and archaic and actually find a new way to promote teams .

It makes ZERO sense that fanbases can rock with the Lions and Browns for 60 years but it’s impossible for the NBA to have the same loyalty

 

[Doctor Doom]

Ja is barely 170lbs

Dudes thought he'd hold up better than Rose/Wall/Westbrook but forgot all three of them were a legit 195

 

[FTBS]

Imagine if Mike got hurt or didnt pan out or wanted to be Ice-T? Whats the 90s? People's whole perspective on that decade and the ball played in it is different. NBA might be NHL status right now.

 

["It Was Always Jerry"]

Zion was the one. I think all the hype Wemby has got has made people forget how much excitement Zion had coming into the league.

Bro squandered it all for porn, wings and pizza

Sometimes the JBO gets to the best of us.

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

Nba should start the season around Christmas or early in the year . Then end right before football season. July sucks sportswise cause theres only baseball.

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