The Love not leading a team to the playoffs is such a lazy thing. Melo has led his team to the playoffs every year of his career except for last year and people then say, "What has he won?" He gets to the WCF and Melo gets "Well, never got to the championship."
If Love had taken the TWolves to an 8th seed in the West, the same posters would say "Well, they've never been a contender." The bar always gets moved when what it comes down to - the people saying that just don't "love" Love as a player. It's just how it is. Does anyone seriously think that the playoff thing matters that much? 40 wins in the West is probably equivalent to 50 in the East. Everyone here knows that. If the TWolves were in the East, would people's opinions of Love suddenly change that much because he took a team to the playoffs? Probably not.
If Love was on LeBron's Cavs from back in the day, you can bet they would make the playoffs. Would that change people's opinions?
How is the bolded any different from what you're decrying?
It's not. It's lazy and irrelevant, that's the point. The part you bolded is a smart part taken out of context that's part of a larger point, and I would guess that you know that. To lead a team to the playoffs requires a complicated set of factors including individual ability, teammates, coaching, injuries, conference, divisions, etc...To say that Love hasn't "led a team to the playoffs" is a lazy point to make. Especially when someone like Melo has almost every year of his career and he still gets similar arguments used against him - except with him it's "has only been out of the first round twice." It's moving the goal posts depending on how much you like the player.
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