Dame now have big haters. #MVPSEASOCOMING

[BrunoSOC]

So after we get sweep by new orleans, now Dame have a lot of HATERS in social media. A lot of people calling him overreated.


Honestly, where you guys rank dame along the PG in the league. He's now have a big list of haters to shut down. I hope next year he's coming back strong to shut up all this haters. Dame knows he needs to prove's himself more than never now.





Toughts

 

[riverman]

all nba ....no worries for Dame...he's proven haters wrong all his life...nothin' new...he's broken records and accomplished things only guys like Oscar Robertson have achieved

 

[julius]

Most people on social media are fucking tools. It's the chat rooms of the 21st century.

Take for example Meyers Leonard.

 

[Mediocre Man]

Same position for me

 

[SlyPokerDog]

We should have drafted Anthony Davis instead of Lillard.

 

[THE HCP]

Sheeeeeeeeiiiit! I’ve got more haters on here than Dame does.

 

[riverman]

Sheeeeeeeeiiiit! I’ve got more haters on here than Dame does.

yeah but you've got that long, long losing streak going for ya

 

[Mediocre Man]

We should have drafted Anthony Davis instead of Lillard.

We already had Telfair

 

[santeesioux]

Most people on social media are fucking tools. It's the chat rooms of the 21st century.

Take for example Meyers Leonard.

All the cool kids are on Discord now, Twitter is pure cancer.

 

[1eyejack]

Not much you can do when teams throw double and triple teams at you when you cross half court. They forced him to give the ball up early and chased him off the 3pt line and when he drove they had two good shot blockers waiting for him. Stotts didn’t make Offensive or defensive adjustments.

 

[jlprk]

Toughts

 

[jlprk]

Here's my tought.

I vastly prefer the rookie Simple Lillard to today's Tricky Lillard. Stotts has taught him to take many hopeless shots to try to get fouled. Usually he misses and gets no foul. Stotts and Lillard only make themselves look stupid when they assume the defender will be stupid.

Trickiness = inefficiency.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Well, he sucked when it counts. So it's kind of deserved

 

[riverman]

Well, he sucked when it counts. So it's kind of deserved

If we won that series they wouldn't be as active in the offseason trade market...Dame did what was necessary!

 

[Reep]

I will be very interested to see what Dame works on this summer. He does always seem to surprise by eliminating a weakness each year. I remember when he couldn't finish strong at the rim--so he worked on finishing with contact. Then it was defense, and while not perfect, he is much better than he was. I wouldn't be shocked if he worked on his ball handling more to be able to work through and around double/triple teams to open up the court.

 

[THE HCP]

Well, he sucked when it counts. So it's kind of deserved

I wish The Mrs. HCP did.......at least with me.

 

[Lanny]

Sheeeeeeeeiiiit! I’ve got more haters on here than Dame does.

I tried to find the flaw in your statement but I can't

 

[KingSpeed]

We really have zero bragging rights now and Dame can't shut up anyone til next year's playoffs.

 

[Strenuus]

We really have zero bragging rights now and Dame can't shut up anyone til next year's playoffs.

It's been a long time since we could brag about anything team related.

*goes and gets his seat for the division championship parade*

 

[FlashWad]

He disappeared in the playoffs. Until he proves otherwise their words will have merit.

 

[kjironman1]

I kind of look at it like Chris Paul. Dame has only been in the league 6 years. Paul is in his 13th year and is only now on a favorite contending team. Even that is no guarantee he will get to the Finals. Paul had to change teams a couple times to get to where he is. Nobody anywhere is questioning how good Chris Paul is at this point in his career. I doubt anyone with any real knowledge doubts Lillard is a great PG.
The whole narrative that only playoff success can determine a great player has been debunked over and over again with player after player. Great players get their teams into the playoffs. You have to be in the playoffs to win in the playoffs. Getting into the playoffs without injury and or with rest at the end of the season seems to be a key to winning in the playoffs. So saying a team can win in the regular season but not in the playoffs also is fundamentally wrong also.

The Warriors this year had a number of injuries with a month or so left in the season. Their regular season record allowed them to get everyone healthy and rested going into the playoffs. Then their seeding allowed them to pull a first round opponent that they could beat without Steph Curry on the court. Right now he is listed as questionable for their opener against the Pels. He better be available because my thinking is the Pelicans are better than most thought.

Point is Finding a combination of players, building a contender takes time. Dame will eventually be part of a great team either here or somewhere else. I know he has said he is happy here and does not want to leave but 10 years in this league is an absolute eternity. Heck 8 years and a third contract is almost unheard of. Only the very best and special players actually stay in one place their entire career. Trying to make a judgement on Damian Lillard at this point in his career is like saying a series is over at halftime of a closeout game. Now if you get to his 15th year in the league and he never wins a championship then you can add him to a long list of great players that never won a championship. But even then he will still most likely hold pretty much every record the Blazer franchise has. That again is assuming he stays with this team.

 

[julius]

Ok, ive given it some thought and I still don't have any idea wtf "mvpseasocoming" means.

 

[Lanny]

He disappeared in the playoffs. Until he proves otherwise their words will have merit.

Yep, he disappeared in a crowd of three defenders. If he was any good at all he would have shook those three off like they were ants and scored every time he got the ball on offense.

Brilliant logic there.

 

[Lanny]

Well, he sucked when it counts. So it's kind of deserved

Well, he sucked when it counts. So it's kind of deserved

Brilliant post!