Damian plays flat out awful defense. Even in the Olympics Pop isnt playing Dame late in the 4th. Is he really in a position to demand a trade? I love Damain but jeez he may not be the caliber of player to lead a team to a championship.
Who is he to demand a trade wanting better defense when he cant even defend 50 year old Sergio? Maybe we should trade him from a treasure trove of picks and young talent.
Everyone got owned by Ricky tonight, including a taller Durant on many plays. Dame was on Ricky a few times, but not the whole game. I watched.
Dame isn't a good defender... that's not news. The fact is he isn't used to trying to get it going and then deferring for long periods of time. The team has their "bigs" bringing the ball up a lot. If Dame doesn't have a rhythm on offense his defense is even worse. Despite all of these things he's still one of the top six or seven players in the NBA. Some of you just wait to talk shit on anyone you can, it's pretty pathetic.
No one was stopping Rubio tonight. Also once Rubio went all in on himself, they stopped sharing the ball, the early passing and off ball movement was what got Spain that lead. Me ball killed it.
Once Dame plays in an offense that produces better looks and spreads out the scoring load a bit more, and he doesn't have to save all his energy for hero ball night in and night out, he will be able to exert more defensive effort and his defense should improve.
Fiba rules are silly. You barely touch a guy, foul. Get pushed in the back on a shot, no foul. Those unsportsman penalties are serious weak stuff too. But i do like the knock the ball off the rim when a shot bounces off the rim.
Ha. No. He played bad tonight. That is a fact. If he played well most of us would have been happy and saying hell yeah.
Damian was flat out awful on both sides tonight. In an extremely important and high pressure game. If Durant played like he did he would never hear the end of it. If you think Damian is on the level of durant in that he is the lead pice to a championship contender he needs to be held to the same criticism. His "offensive rhythm" is off so its okay is defense sucks is not a good excuse for a player of his perceived statue.
His passing was good. He had 4 assist and should have had more but perfect passes were bobbled at the rim. He was 4 of 10 from the field. Lets not act like he was 4 of 20. But it was a flat performance, and he can do better. But Flat out awful, uh...No! Sounds like you're Dame trollin' Frogger.
He wasn't flat out awful on offense. I watched the game. He missed two or three shots he should have made... that's all he did wrong. He had four assists and no turnovers. So believe me when I say you are trying to find reasons to shit on him. Then to try to project your misperceptions from tonight's game onto Dame's entire value as a ball player and say how you don't know if he's good enough to be demanding better teammates. Come on. If you don't know that you're just a hater, then that's sad.
he was benched to end the game for a reason... sounds like you don't like to hear any criticism of Damian. For the fact I'm a fan and really like him.
