He didn’t play for an entire year during that „peak“
Lots of people seem to take Hakeem over D-Rob and others for a two year peak, why can't people take Kawhi for a similar amount of time peak?
And the game 7 winning shot that bounced on the rim like an interminable period of time before finally dropping.
as if he hasn’t shit the bed multiple times in playoffs before. And Marc Gasol defended him very well, he probably got ill from that defense.Well yea, the point stands his peak was higher than Kobe’s whether it was 2 years or 3 years or 5 years with a 1 year injury gap. I’d actually consider Kawhi peak starting from 16-17 season and ending in the 2023 playoffs where he played 2 games in the playoffs averaging 35 per game then all of a sudden stopped being able to wipe his own ass.
Except that’s the discussion.
Mute cancer is also a much better 3 point shooter.
And yet now every NBA youtuber retcons Kobe as a top 5 player alltime. Ugh even worse than the Kareem glazing twenty years after he retired.
I think, when healthy, he was either the 2nd or 3rd best player in the league during his peak years (2017-2021). Lebron, KD. and then Giannis took turns wearing "the best" belt during that stretch. His lack of durability/availability was the reason many folks were never comfortable putting him above those guys even after winning an extra title and a FMVP. Come to think of it, Kawhi's career has been dying a slow death the moment he turned 30. And it's crazy especially when every other superstar is beating longevity records these days (Lebron, Curry, KD, even Harden) even after suffering devastating injuries (Durant)..
IMO he was the MVP that season due to him being MVP level on defense and top 3 on offense.
I hate en both and I'll grant Kawhi had a better (one season or really playoff run) peak but it's not like Kawhi ever played on a crappy roster, his titles came on teams just as if not more stacked than kobes
It's funny how all the most overrated NBAers played for the Lakers .... Kobe, Kareem (when he didn't even have his prime with Lakers), West, Baylor, Magic to a degree. Wilt is somehow a Laker instead of a Warrior/76er even though he only played 5 of his worst years with Lakers in his 14 year career. Even semi stars (Worthy) and role players (Cooper, Fisher, Fox) are/were ridiculously overrated. But of course, if you play on the losing teams you get vilified (Butler never even existed, Odom is the worst player ever, Gasol is the softest player ever, Smush Parker/Kwame Brown/Chris Mihm aren't even NBA players, let alone starters, as if every single NBA team have 5 all stars as starters). Come to think of it, those players all played with Kobe ... wonder why.
Fuck Kawhi, but I consider Finals MVP a higher bar, because you have to GET to the Finaks, and he has two of those.
