I dislike Kyrie(merged threads)

[Monkhouse]

[Rohrbach] Jaylen Brown with maybe a subtle shot at Kyrie, praising Kemba for boosting his confidence with a pep talk after he forced a shot early in the clock during the fourth quarter. “You don’t always get that. Someone might throw a tantrum or something“

So yes, Kyrie thank you for everything...

Now go eat !#$& and get knocked out in the first round of the playoffs per usual.

[Jiri Welsch]

I motion a ban on the use of “Kyrie” until the Celtics face the Nets.

(Jk people can post whatever they want)

[mobilija]

I motion a ban on the use of “Kyrie” until the Celtics face the Nets.

(Jk people can post whatever they want)

TP for the idea

And another later for being a good blogmate with the parenthesis afterwards

[shut_the_gate]

Hindsight is 20/20 and Ainge had to go for Irving and Davis but I really wish we stayed the course and used that 2018 Nets pick and SGA looks like he was the perfect player to compete this team.

[Ogaju]

watch some of the early games and it seems to be all about him ...jacking up shots, taking his jersey off after the game. Yeah good to be rid of that showboat.

[rocknrollforyoursoul]

Why are we still talking so much about Kyrie? Serious question. Given how much so many Cs fans wanted the team to move on from him, I'd think the fans would want to as well.

[Ogaju]

Why are we still talking so much about Kyrie? Serious question. Given how much so many Cs fans wanted the team to move on from him, I'd think the fans would want to as well.

its entertaining, and that is why we follow the game.

[Ogaju]

hmmmm I dont like the title of this thread. Folks do not dislike Kyrie. Most people just do not like how he destroyed the Cs 18-19 season.

[Roy H.]

hmmmm I dont like the title of this thread. Folks do not dislike Kyrie. Most people just do not like how destroyed the Cs 18-19 season.

I dislike Kyrie.

[KGs Knee]

I like Kyrie better than 99% of you {not very nice people}.

[RJ87]

Change the name of this thread to "Rent Free"

Because Kyrie is really living in some of your heads rent free. He's not here, you don't have to watch his games. You can move on if you want to.

[Moranis]

Sometimes great players just have a bad string of games.  Even Larry Legend ended the 87 NBA Finals with games shooting 36.8, 38.9, 37.5 (Boston lost that series).  The next year in the ECF (again a loss), Bird shot 35.1% for the series and ended the series with a 4 of 17 night (23.5%) which was coming off a 9 of 25 (36%) night.  Boston lost both those games.  Bird had other games in the series at 30% and 35.3% along with a 40% and a series high 46.7%.  Did Bird quit on the Celtics against the Pistons in 88?

It sucks when it happens in the playoffs, but streaky shooters get cold sometimes.  Them the brakes.

Bird's shooting struggles in '87 and '88 were due to injuries and fatigue, not from quitting on his team.
He was not out there jacking up fade-away 3's and purposely sabotaging the defense for his own sick enjoyment.

Kyrie missed a greater percentage of team games than Bird had as a result of injuries.  Irving also had several very deep playoff runs and only had 1 less year of experience than Bird. 

And for the record, Bird had plenty of terrible shooting slumps before that point in career.  I just used those because they were more recent and thus more people might have actually seen them.

81-82 Eastern Conference Finals (Boston's 2nd of the playoffs) a 7 game series loss to the Sixers, Bird shot 41.2% from the field and 20% from 3.  In the last 3 games of the series, Bird shot 42.1, 31.6, and 38.9.  He had another game at 37.5 and was above 45% 1 time in the 7 game series.  Against the Bullets in the Semis (Boston's 1st series), Bird had games of 30, 37.5, and 25.  So in the 12 playoff games half of them he shot under 39%. 

The prior season, in the NBA Finals which the C's won (against Houston), he had 3 consecutive games of 27.3, 27.3, and 31.3 (that was games 3, 4, and 5).  Of course the C's won 2 of those 3 games because his teammates were very good and carried him through the poor shooting. 

I take it you don't think Bird was tired and injured in either of the 81 or 82 season.  Yet there you go.

Look I don't think Bird quit on the C's at any time, but point that out as evidence that shooters go through slumps.  It happens to the greats.  It happened to Irving.  Sucks it happened when it did and that he got very little help from his teammates, but that is more a roster issue than anything.

[ozgod]

Well as the starter of what is now the merged thread, it all started with posting an interview Jaylen had where he seemed to throw some shade at Kyrie. Not necessarily about disliking him but about how in the past if Jaylen made a mistake someone would have thrown a tantrum, where this year Kemba was cool with him. I must say that I don't necessarily dislike Kyrie - in fact when there was an avalanche of criticism going his way when he broke his promise and signed with Brooklyn after going AWOL during the Bucks series, I was suggesting we all move on, stop acting like a jilted lover, focus on Kemba and our team this season. He did what he could for our team, whatever much or little that was, and now he's now someone else's problem. Just as he was a part of our ****ty 2018-19, we must also acknowledge that he was also a part of our fun 2017-18. Still, I've personally moved on from him, I probably got over him once I heard Kemba was coming.

Why are we still talking so much about Kyrie? Serious question. Given how much so many Cs fans wanted the team to move on from him, I'd think the fans would want to as well.

its entertaining, and that is why we follow the game.

Exactly! Now that we've all moved on from the flawed genius malcontent because we have a fun team again, it's fun reading about his misfortunes and things like that  We need a villain to galvanize and unite against and he will do as good as any. It's good to have just one thread to put it all in, kind of like having one of those punch pillows you had when you were a kid and were mad about something, you could go punch it to get your frustrations out. 

[Ogaju]

love how folks that lost the narrative want to move on. Truth is Kyrie may be gone but the stench he left behind is not totally gone. Funny how it is those that defended him till his disgraceful exit are the ones that want to move on.

[gouki88]

love how folks that lost the narrative want to move on. Truth is Kyrie may be gone but the stench he left behind is not totally gone. Funny how it is those that defended him till his disgraceful exit are the ones that want to move on.

I defended him, but I am more than happy to not move on and keep threads like this going!