Batum leads the entire league in rebounding in the month of March

That's right. If he's doing it now, why wasn't he leading the league in rebounding all season? Or last year? Unless Nicolas Batum continues to lead the lead in rebounding from now on, he's an inconsistent unmotivated slacker.

 

Look. Batum has shown he can lead the league in rebounding. He has shown he can lead the league in assists. Lately he has shown he can score more than 20 points a game. Clearly he should do all three, every game, while keeping his turnovers below two a game. Anything less is unacceptable. Have you seen his contract? He just doesn't care, I tell ya. I say we dump his lazy lackadaisical ass. He's holding us back.

 

That's a healthy attitude. It would be like blaming a guy with an insane drive to be good, who lacks the physical talents, for not living up to his desire to be good. It's a package deal. The mental with the physical.

I disagree btw that Batum 'doesn't care' or doesn't have the drive or whatever. I think he busts his ass to do what he can for the team, for his teammates, and for the win. Everyone has bad games. Everyone gets sick or hurt and it affects their performance. Everyone has good days and bad days, and most humans have confidence issues from time to time. Batum gets an unfair rap around here IMO.

 

Just bumping this because... well you know why. It deserves to be highlighted.

 

Quod erat demonstrandum.

 

Let's trade him for an honest toiler who can't do this when he wants to.

 

Yes, he's basically lucked his way into being an NBA player, in spite of his laziness. :MARIS61:

 

He is most of those things when he has LA to lean on.

 

Batum is more aggressive without LA on the court and that is a fact. Now we need to figure out how to sustain this effort with LA on the court.

 

That is awesome. We have a good teAm.

 

No, that's an opinion.

 

I repeatedly see this cmeese guy use the word fact incorrectly

 

Bullshit.

 

Batum is clearly lazy since he leads the league in distance travelled on court this year.

http://stats.nba.com/playerTrackingSpeed.html?pageNo=1&rowsPerPage=25

Only a lazy ass slack would be 8 miles ahead of slack ass second place Damian lillard. Also interesting note is his average speed at 4.4mph which leads the top ten in distance travelled folks (3 of which are blazers who are clearly lazy)

 

How is that at all what I said?

I think he has the raw talent to be one of the best in the league, but he doesn't have the same drive as a Kevin Durant or even a Damian Lillard. He has never seemed to be one of those guys that is truly driven to be one of the best. That was my point.

 

You do realize that:

"Natebishop perceiving inconsistent play" does not equal "lack of drive"

right?

 

Fact- Something known to exist or to have happened, all it takes is one night for Batum to be more aggressive without LA on the court. That has occurred therefore it is a fact and not an opinion.

 

What a retarded way to word your reasoning

Your post sucks

 

Here's a question for the stat folks out there. Has Nico won the title for 9s in the stat lines this season? He had a triple 9 once I think and consistantly has 9 something, rebounds or assists. Should be a #9 club, the guys who didn't care about getting the double digit but were as close as you could get to it. Ever since I thought about this I've had my least favorite Beatles song in my head..you know the one

 

I will agree Batum does not have the same "I am the best and the king and all shall bow down before me or I will eat your heart while it beats in your chest" attitude, like Russell Westbrook or Kome Bryant. It would be nice to have one of those on the team, but only if he had the talent to back it up. Lillard might be the closest we get to that. Batum isn't. Oh well. Some people need to get over it. (Nate already has.) Batum is a damn fine player in his own right and his "team first" "glue" mentality is equally important on a contender as having an ego maniac team leader. And we're lucky to have him.

[/my two pesos]