Does anyone still think Kyrie would resign with us? The media kind of torched him and fans are pretty irate.
Only if Anthony Davis was a guarantee, considering they're friends.
I couldn't blame him though. People are holding him solely responsible for the mess that was this team, which is lunacy
I don't understand why people think it's unreasonable to hold Kyrie accountable when
(a) He literally said, all season long, that he was all about the playoffs and that the reason a team should want him on the roster is the playoffs
(b) He laid one of the all-time eggs in four straight games on the way to the Celtics getting totally trounced in a five by the Bucks.
(c) Afterward, he acted like it was no big deal and if he could do it all over again he wouldn't do anything differently -- "I would have shot more."
You can't expect to avoid major criticism when you spend all season acting like the regular season doesn't matter, chemistry doesn't matter, talking to the media doesn't matter, none of it matters because only the playoffs matter, AND THEN play like absolute dog crap in four straight games against a quality opponent.
Who said it was unreasonable to hold Kyrie accountable? He shares blame but that doesn’t mean he needs to be a scapegoat for all of the Celtics problems.
In my mind any conversation about what went wrong this season that doesn't start and end with Kyrie is missing the point.
There was a lot of adversity facing the Celtics this year, but none of it was insurmountable except for the fact that the de facto franchise guy repeatedly torpedoed the team chemistry, hijacked the offense, undermined the coach, threw the young guys under the bus, and then when the time finally came for him to make good on the whole year worth of bluster about how he's a basketball genius born to make shots in the playoffs, he completely disappeared.
What happened was more complicated than just Kyrie, a combinations of egos out of control the coach failing to make the right decisions and a player like Hayward being played too soon. You’re angry about Kyrie I get that but this was more than just him. By the way I would like to see links to where Kyrie thinks he’s some basketball genius because that’s the first time that I’ve heard of it.
He literally said he was “actually a genius at this game” like 3 weeks ago in a press conference.
Oh okay, still think he shares the blame but not all of it.
Sure. Not all of it. But it's a simple bit of math, right? A 'star' player playing star minutes, taking the most shots, controlling the ball the most, etc., etc., should get the most credit when he plays well and the team wins, right? Far more credit than some bench kid who takes a fraction of the shots, right? That 'star' player gets rewarded with praise and all-star votes and $$$$.
Well, when that star plays poorly and the team doesn't win, it seems reasonable that he might get most of the blame. Kyrie played pretty poorly in these playoffs and the team didn't win. All while playing huge minutes and dominating control over the game.
It's certainly fair to point over at say, Rozier, Smart and Theis and notice that they shot pretty poorly in the MIL series as well. Worse than even Kyrie. But can you really say any of them had anywhere near the impact on the outcome that Kyrie did? I mean, he touched the ball more than all of them combined. He attempted almost 3 times as many scoring attempts as all of them combined.
So, sure. Not all the blame.