Minny going to show the Grizz up. Love Ja but they are about to learn the lesson of talk and bravado. It might be fun, it might be a real laugh on the sideline with your teammates but when the game matters it doesn’t mean jack shit. Congrats KAT, after the year you had you and your team earned this the right way: with your play. I’m sure this will be a tough series but I doubt many picked Minny to win many games this series in Memphis.
KAT Emerges
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April 16, 2022 8 Comments
Folks picked Memphis before the games even started. I hope they get a brutal wake-up call. This is the playoffs, man.
Yeah, I read a looooot of articles about how the Grizz are going to have fun when they want, rub it in people’s faces and not care what anyone thinks. Those are the words of young men who have yet to learn hard lessons about competition. Now they get Patrick Bev who yaps more than their entire team but shows up when you need tough and gritty. Like I said, love Ja, but every parent knows that some lessons need to be learned the hard way. Gonna be a fun series.
Teams and stars that win championships always have to go through growing processes. That’s what we’re watching right now. The other thing that jumps out at me is we are seeing a transition to a new generation of NBA stars, which is making these playoffs very exciting. Just a shame the Lakers didn’t make it.
Yeah, definitely a new crop coming up and it’s quite possible the Lakers window slammed shut as quickly as it cracked open. The shame is in the Lakers. They were given every chance to do something smart and blew it.
There’s still maybe two years left in LeBron’s window but the competition has gotten better while we’ve gotten older and less healthy. Going to need to be lucky to win another with LeBron though. But there’s a chance.
I don’t think we should be predicting he’ll be here in 2 seasons. He’s shown everyone for awhile now his first loyalty is to his legacy. Which is totally fine, just means that he’ll walk if we’re mediocre.
Lebron’s window was pretty much closed after that last one in Cleveland. He needed two all-NBA guys at all stops, short of the bubble. Even the most homerific of you have to admit, without that 3 months off, both Lebron and AD would’ve been far off the peak condition they luckily found themselves in. This was my fear from the moment they signed him. He’d show up, realize he couldn’t cut it with some emerging talent, and force some shortsighted moves to become competitive asap. Well he did, and then realized AD was fragile and pushed for the absolute disaster that was the Westbrook deal. Now it’s clear he can’t get it done as the focal point of a roster, and neither can AD. So there’s literally no scenario where this roster becomes championship caliber. It’s time to cut losses and look to the future. Old Lebron, hobbled AD, and a handful of rotation players keep you relevant, but really not in the championship discussion. Who tf needs that?
We’re at that late stage where the player rankings will come out. Lebron will passive aggressively tweet about how low he’s ranked, and come season’s end, everyone will realize it was too generous to begin with.
This isn’t some career Laker. This isn’t even a dude with sustained excellence throughout his Lakers tenure. Dude was a bad houseguest who threw one cool party in 4 years. He stuck around too long, you found your house trashed, and if you don’t get him out soon, your wife will leave you, your kids will be flunking out of school, and your ass will be left with nothing.
Yup. You made a great point about Pat Bev, as much as I disliked him.