I can think of (3) crazy ass passes, (2) terrible 3-point shot bricks, and a various telegraphed layups. Do I think hes terrible? No. Do I love Dame and realize he's the boss? Yes. Do I love his leadership? Yes. Does he make stupid decisions sometimes? Yes. Can we talk about it on here and bitch and moan about it? Why not. He's elite and susceptible to criticism. It's how sports fans work, whether we're at a bar or on a forum. If everyone just talked about the same thing you guys would just be in one big circle jerk and I can think of no one other than SLY that would like that.
Out of his 15 shots I literally only saw 4 or 5 bad shots and I can tell you what they were. The shot against Austin rivers, and three threes he took which were pretty poor shots. Here we go again though with calling out dame. It's really crazy. It's like nobody sees that he's the reason we are here and winning. If he was putting up ass shot after shot and we lost, then I would have something to say, until then move along
My post kinda contradicted itself in saying in a totalitarian way that he never makes a bad decision, and then said he did make a couple bad decisions. It's true, he can. But he makes up for it with everything else... I can take a couple bad decisions if he does have that nice ast/to rate. The ONLY thing I get on Dame is his rushing shot sometimes (especially if he's leaning)... but if we win, it doesn't matter. If he scores 50 and we lose, then the 50 doesn't matter. The opposite is true if he sucks but we win, it doesn't matter. We won.
"Calling out" and having a discussion about bad play for one game I believe are two different things. I'd 'call out' Batum and LMA (back in the day), but I don't call out Dame. But I will discuss the results of his game after his game. Good or bad.
Yet we still won. And discussed why Dame still did well last night despite 4-15 shooting. If Dame was invisible, how did he get 6 assists? If Dame was invisible, how did he hit that 3 to pretty much seal the game?
I did not say he was invisible at all; that was the OP. I was adding to the discussion a tad, offering my take on portions of his bad (and good) play.
You can have a discussion about this and when the points used to back one's opinion are inaccurate, prepare to read rebuttals.... Maybe if one of these guys made a positive thread, then threads like this wouldn't be jumped on as much. Relax and make a positive thread about Dame.
Then why does a lot of people on here constantly make dame posts? Why not aminu when he was playing like shit or cj mcollum? Nobody ever points out their bad games. Barely do I ever see a post of how good dame did in a game, I don't think I remember a lot of positive posts when he was averaging 30. When he does bad though, everybody comes out and wants to trash his play. What do you want the man to do? He's being trapped. He's not turning the ball over much and he's making the right passes. People refuse to look at that though, only checking whether or not the ball is going into the hoop. Tired of hearing it. For as much as I'm told I make excuses for dame, you guys make excuses just to call him out. There you go.
Nah, Blue32 is fine. He has a right to his opinion. I can see what he's talking about so I do see it. It's not negative... Blue32 is my boy! I got what he was saying.
There were plenty about his 30 point games, but those were in the form of "See, he's an all star! Snubbed!" etc...
It's called confirmation bias, on both sides. Those who have issues with Dame's decision making will see poor decisions. Those who have issues with Dame-bashing will see those more than threads that praise him. We all have a tendency to see what we want to see, or what we expect to see.
Find me one NBA player... hell find me one forum poster... Shit find me one HUMAN BEING that NEVER makes a bad decision. Ill start a thread about them!!!! Nobody is perfect. Everyone has highs and lows. But when a person is mostly high, Why do some feel the need to kick when they are on a low? Kick him while he is down, even though he is rarely down... great fandom! Its not a circle jerk to not care for this....Its realizing that we are all humans and accepting that nobody is perfect. Why people just cant be happy with having one of the best Leaders in the NBA on this team...
