04-06-2021, 09:40 PM
(04-06-2021, 08:38 PM)ItsGoTime Wrote: So, let me start out as saying I really like what JB has done this year. You guys don’t have to tap the breaks on 2nd best player on the team and star player talk, but I’m here to say, it wasn’t long ago that our JB star, second best player on the team couldn’t star his way past OKC. I myself will tap the brakes on that talk until I can see him reverse that outcome.
He is probably the third-best player at this point - on a team that 1) needs to trade its second-best player, and very, very soon, if he and the best player don't work out their on-court differences that are holding the team back, and 2) that has great chemistry outside of that lack of chemistry between its two best players, but is otherwise significantly lacking in talent.
Losing to OKC without Luka and KP is not a huge surprise. A team with JB as its best player isn't winning anything other than probably the lottery. That doesn't mean that JB isn't the second-most important long term piece on the team right now.