Originally Posted by
Pelicanidae
Kyrie has made 1 all NBA third team in his career. That's it. This is not a player even on the same planet as Kawhi, KD, or similar. If KD had an awful series against a great team, you understand that and chalk it up to match ups. When Kyrie has an awful series against a good team, what are you supposed to fall back on? His Indiana series? Where he had ONE good game (game 2) but otherwise shot 5 for 16 from three (31%) and 17 for 49 from the floor (that's 34.6%) against a team that had NO Oladipo?
Then last year, we can't say what he would have done because he didn't play.
So yeah, when you're talking about Kyrie and how awful he has been recently, you can't fall back on this series, or last series, or his resume and achievements to make excuses for him. You have to go back three whole years to when he was playing side-man to Lebron James in order to find something that explains his hype. How long are we supposed to pretend that Kyrie Irving is some top tier superstar while he continues to disappoint? Is he going to be 30 years old, bombing out in the second round and having 7 for 25 games on the regular before we stop having people bring up the 2016 finals?
Kyrie has one major skill: he can score. When he's not scoring, what is he doing? He doesn't play D, he's not a great passer, he isn't a hustle player. And he's not a leader, he's made that abundantly clear, and he's a toxic personality in the locker room. Forced his way out of Cleveland because of his ego, told Ty Lue that it wasn't his job to get other players involved in the offense, went to Boston, underwhelmed there before getting injured. Then the Boston young guys did really well without him, he came back and took that in his feelings and has spent the whole season burning bridges and taking shots at those young players. Toxic, petty, inconsistent, spiteful, and - how can we forget - a grade A moron with one skill that he can't do consistently.
No thanks.