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my most proudest downvoted comment
YOU CAN'T POSSIBLY BE SERIOUS
It's way weirder to have saved this for 2 years
No problem... just rush hour
King
Never thought I'd die fighting side by side with a Celts fan...
You sonned the one who called you nephew
Props to /u/DilipKSV , too.
This was a very bold prediction and as much as I've always liked Maxey, I would have disagreed with you quite strongly tbh. So, props.
Lmao this sub is full of bozos who can only count playoff wins at best or media awards. I got downvoted all summer saying herro n maxey weren’t close in terms of assets; msxey I’d a better player last year and is better prospect in every way . Not to mention msxey stepped up in the playoffs. Can tell this sub is clueless sometimes but so is most of bball Reddit. I did expect maxey to eventually be this good: the combination of athleticism and absurd , like legit absurd especially considering his athletic tools too, shooting talent made me think maxey is gonna be huge eventually. I would’ve guessed one more year tho to be at this years lvl .
Someone cooked here
Jesus
Would anybody even be surprised if maxey is better than harden in 2 years?
That ones actually embarrassing haha
u/Niceguydan8 NBA 1yr
Probably 99% of anyone with a decent amount of NBA knowledge would be surprised by that
… Jesus. That one is embarrassingly bad. Love it when they’re smug and stupid in one swoop
paging u/Niceguydan8
I can't give you full credit, OP. It seems that you and the other posters who responded were discussing if Maxey can reach Harden's 2021 level of play, not just simply pass him up.
Yes, Maxey improved in two years, but not THAT much. Harden's regression since then plays just as much of a role in the upside switch between the two as any other factor. I mean, by the '01/'02 season, Ray Allen was a better player than Jordan, so it happens.
I just thought it would be fun to look up that stats.
Jordan averaged 23/6/5 with 1.5 steals, 0.5 blocks on 42% FG.
Ray Allen averaged 22/5/4 with 1.3 steals and 0.3 blocks on 46% FG .
That's actually pretty close lol. I expected a really big difference
He is the Messiah!
god the smugness in the replies, I fucking hate this sub lol
Take the upvote
I love your follow up downvoted comment, "in 2 years Harden won't be there either"
People don't realize that Harden was on the decline and you plan for the future, not what they used to be... especially for a player who has no real connection to that city
Wish I saved mine where I said I wouldn’t trade Jaylen Brown for Harden a few years back
u/jayowenwest is Juntaos nephew
goat
You deserve your "i told you so" moment 👊
I really like seeing these kinds of threads where there are like 20 comments calling the downvoted person a nephew and in hindsight being completely wrong lol.
In this case I feel like the take wasn't even that far off the rails, especially as recent as it was (w/ as little disrespect to Harden as possible, obviously dude's still the 4th best SG and one of the greatest offensive players of all time)- he was already 32 back then, with a heliocentric game relying heavily on athleticism, and was already notorious for being a pylon on defense and going wild in the offseason. I don't think I would've gone as far as saying Maxey would be better by now, but I was definitely on the side of thinking he'd decline pretty rapidly.
I love this man's vocabulary
Because we’re in the now. It’s hard to evaluate the future.
I can say in 3 years Lively is going to be the better than Embiid and you would have to call me nephew and I would agree.
Meanwhile in 3 years, lots of things can happen. Like injury.
Nah that actually is nephew take; because I don’t see that skill set . It’s like with the Utah kid cebtre : the tools him n lively have immediately were useful but OUTSUDE of growing defensively into a gobert type or in that mold day I can’t see them magically getting all the skills embid has.Msxey was an absurdly good shooter b absurdly athletic , people not on this sub who have an idea how players progress woukd guess he’d be atleast a sub all star lvl player : I mean I did and I’m not a Philly fan or a massive draft nerd even if I read stuff once in a while. Players tend to snow flashes : it’s why projecting Wemby n Chet to mvp centre lvl is easier even if lively is very good now I wouldn’t project that way .
I don't think that's necessarily a nephew take, even absent major injury. 3 years is aggressive, but in five years, sure, when Embiid is 34, there might be a lot of centers better than him.
Father Time is undefeated, and even 2 years ago Harden was past his physical prime.
Maxey had nowhere to go but up.
OP wasn't even suggesting that Maxey would definitely be better, just that it was entirely possible. And, of course it was.
They really called you a nephew 🤣
How do you keep track? Reddit's save function is so bad. Or did you have a RemindMe set?
No, didn't have a remind me set. Don't know how you access reddit but I still have the rif app and it's very simple on here. I literally have 100s of comments saved from memes to reaction gifs to prediction comments lol
I have stuff saved too, but how do you sift through all the old ones?
....you still have rif? bro, how? the official app is so garbage, half the time when I play a video it just starts autoplaying audio from another video on the sub
To be fair, you were right but we're all still surprised
Time proves you're correct my bro
they called him a nephew