Anthony Davis Discussion: Only Player On Both All NBA + All Def

Jokic has mastered this against AD - I wonder if there is a way AD to adjust to make the foul more obvious? Also why can't the Lakers seem to get Jokic isolated on the perimeter vs a guy like Reaves who he has no chance of staying with.

 

but guyz, he did marshall ahts over the Summer

 

This is why I preferred a big bodied Big over Wood this summer. AD just can’t handle Joker down low.

 

But you’re kidding right, and do know he’s not fat and in great shape?

 

He will score 40 tomorrow vs Nurkic.I don't know how Jokic do it.
According to news he was drank all summer long and never trained,but when it matters he just go and scored triple -double

Maybe a little bit on the court, I was skipping it, a couple of days or a month, or two months," Jokic laughed.

 

I don't blame fan's for being po. We waited all this time for that. Average to good players can be taken out of their game by defenses. IMO great players adapt and over come. As much as I like AD I can no longer consider him a great player till he can consistently start showing up. Not just a few games but for the season and especially against the better teams. He looks mentally weak and his excuses are getting nauseating. Bad coaching, other players were off as well. Not all on AD but he is supposed to be the guy so the buck stops with him.

 

AD is frustrating because he looks like even in the same game that should be him that should be in the conversation for best player in the league.
In the first half, he was awesome - he scored tough basket after tough basket and was physical.

Oh well, it's still one game, if he plays like he did in the first half people will forget quickly one bad second half of a game

 

lol, no they won't. they'll focus only on the times he didn't do what they wished happened. rinse, repeat.

someone even referenced him dominating playoff games a few months ago as if it were a bad thing.

the parts of the game i watched that swung it were denver's guards hitting and ours missing. same shots.

 

He's built a rep unfortunately but I do think if he's consistent it will make this one half go more mute. His rep was going great last year despite the offensive fluctuations till they ran into Denver.

Feel like his legacy will be more of a David Robinson rather than a Duncan or Hakeem the way things are going. He's going to have one of those runs in the playoffs that Dirk and Hakeem had to change that going forward. It is what it is.

 

agree with all but the bolded. AD simply doesn't get a fair shake, imo. he can basically do no right. when he puts up big games, it's "why not all the time?", when he doesn't, it's "see i toldya". he wasn't why we lost to denver in the playoffs or last night.

but i guess i'm also one who thinks david robinson was pretty badass (and the gap between him and hakeem/td wasn't that big).

 

Not till he shows up against good teams consistently. Right now look across the internet. He is a meme...lol. and not in a good way.

 

Lol..until Hakeem destroyed him head to head in the playoffs.

 

internet reactions is not where i go for my truth. years ago, the internet told me james harden was the best offensive player in nba history, for example. all the internet. all the time. crickets now from that internet, btw.

 

the playoffs were a 1 on 1 competition between hakeem and drob? like in game of thrones?

 

AD is no where near Hakeem/TD in my opinion. Robinson was a badass and if AD can get to his level we are good.

 

lol, drob was indeed a badass, and AD has already had a better career, imo.

as for the "nowhere near", i'm not sure we can adjudicate it if we tried.

anyway, a simple reading of the AD thread supports my general point that it really won't matter what he does, people have decided where they fall and will just grasp for evidence that supports the existing position whilst putting forth impossible hypotheticals that could shift it.

 

255 lbs still waiting by the phone.