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my most proudest downvoted comment
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.
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.
Sure, but people on this sub are also extremely fast to downvote something they don’t agree with.
This is every sub. This is Reddit. When given two options only, what else are you supposed to do? Upvote downvote
Either up or down. Can't be in the middle
It's very weird. I've taken a lot of care to not comment on things I don't have much knowledge about (hence most of my comments here being Sixers related), and am constantly baffled at how frequently people make extreme pronouncements about players/teams they don't follow closely.
People just like to clown takes against the herd here
I try to only downvote when I think someone is being an asshole. Which is also the incorrect reason to downvote but by God it makes me feel better for absolutely no reason.
I mean you’re not using the downvote as a disagree button which wasn’t it’s intended purpose
And across all sports, I think people disregard how quickly players can fall off a cliff from one season to the next. But specifically with basketball, most guard skill sets require speed that very very few 32+ year olds maintain. Happened to Kemba super fast, I think it’s even more apparent with smaller guards since they need the speed to beat rim protectors.
even more extreme, look at IT once he hurt his hip. couldn't even get much more than charity bench spots after the trade to cleveland after being an MVP candidate