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Message: [QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 2718767, member: 488"] I think you're being harsh, though I can understand some of the frustration towards him. It's the same reason I tend to root against Duke and Kentucky in college basketball. The whole point as an entertainment product is to generate the most competitive outcome, or at least start with that pretense. As someone who has been on the Warriors bandwagon dating back to the Mark Jackson years, I'm able to enjoy the dominance. But I can understand how others don't. In his defense, one could say that what he has now in Golden State should have been his all along. OKC had an unprecedented nucleus of young talent with he, Harden, Westbrook, and to a lesser degree Ibaka, and ownership cheaped out rather than investing in what could have become one of the most iconic franchises in sports because of those guys alone. I wouldn't blame him a bit for feeling resentful of that and I don't blame him for taking matters into his own hands and restoring the fate of the basketball universe to where it should have been. Karma, the basketball God's getting even, etc. Plus, the Warriors play "the right way." There's value in that. He and Russ approached the game differently. I can see how, for KD, it wasn't just losing, it was losing [I]that way, [/I]with two alpha's taking turns and everyone else standing around. He's an OCD guy who wants all the plants watered a certain way. But he had a hand in the losing, as you say. This was not somebody who had no room to grow as a player. He had weaknesses just as Russ had weaknesses, and they were both exploited by a tougher, smarter Warriors team. He shot under 40% in games 5-7 and tossed in a gruesome 10 for 31 in game six, a game I remain in awe of to this day. To come [I]this [/I]close to a ring with the organization that drafted him and then leave for the team that just beat you? I'm not going to try to talk you into that one. The optics are bad. This was not LeBron leaving Cleveland where seemingly every conceivable resource had been exhausted and they had come to a dead end. I respect the decision because I think in some ways - PR wise - it's incredibly ballsy, but at the same time there are so many other guys I love precisely because [I]they would never even think about doing that. [/I] [/QUOTE]

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