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This may sound overly negative, but people expecting Kyrie to ever be a guy who averages 8-9 assists are going to be disappointed. Does he even have an assist in this game? Had only two yesterday. We can't blame the talent around him now.
 
And rose is a good character guy so they hate is even more baffling.
 
This may sound overly negative, but people expecting Kyrie to ever be a guy who averages 8-9 assists are going to be disappointed. Does he even have an assist in this game? Had only two yesterday. We can't blame the talent around him now.

Who cares how many assists he averages? He doesn't have to average double-digit assists for us to win games.
 
And rose is a good character guy so they hate is even more baffling.

What does that have to do with anything? A guy doesn't have to have ran over your dog for you to hate him. He plays for a divisional rival. That's enough for most of us. I don't want him to get hurt or anything, but I don't mind him playing like shit.
 
This may sound overly negative, but people expecting Kyrie to ever be a guy who averages 8-9 assists are going to be disappointed. Does he even have an assist in this game? Had only two yesterday. We can't blame the talent around him now.

Are you watching the games or just going by statlines?

Context is everything. Kyrie has been great on Team USA. The games are shorter, he's splitting time with Rose, the team has a lot of new guys to the program, and Kyie is making good decisions and passes regardless of conversions and assists.
 
Kyrie looks a little winded today, affecting his shooting and defense slightly. Overall, Kyrie has played great for team USA offensively and defensively.
 
People are shitting on him because of the hype. Always better to over perform rather than under perform. I also agree it is ok to hate guys on teams that are rivals. It makes everything more fun.
 
This may sound overly negative, but people expecting Kyrie to ever be a guy who averages 8-9 assists are going to be disappointed. Does he even have an assist in this game? Had only two yesterday. We can't blame the talent around him now.

1. FIBA is notorious for being stingy with awarding assists in box scores.

2. He is almost always playing next to another pg at the SG position, sharing the distributor role.

3. He is playing his role on Team USA, and playing it very well.
 
And rose is a good character guy so they hate is even more baffling.

What I don't understand is why certain posters are giving other posters grief for shitting on players that play for either division rivals or major markets? This isn't your first post complaining about this. The Lakers, Celtics, Bulls, Knicks, and Heat are all on my shit list. I wish those teams and their rosters great misfortune. In an ideal world, the lot of them would finish in the 10th through 14th spots every year. Mired in mediocrity and never receiving a valuable pick.
 
If you think we're being tough on Rose just take a peek at the Bulls board and see what they think about Kyrie...

Yep. A small sample of the Bulls board:

"When we're out of the FIBA/all star game setting, and Rose has some games under his belt. No one's actually worried about Kyrie. He's always gonna shine in these settings. I'm worried about the Westbrook, John Wall, and CP3's that will exploit the hell out of his rustiness. Kyrie is meh on my PG radar."

"At what point will Rose clearly be a better player than guys like Kyrie and Lillard?
Do you think when the season starts? By January? etc?


imo as soon as the ball drops in October"

But whatever makes them sleep at night. We all know Kyrie's a top 5 point guard already and maybe will become the best point guard soon...
 
Yep. A small sample of the Bulls board:

"When we're out of the FIBA/all star game setting, and Rose has some games under his belt. No one's actually worried about Kyrie. He's always gonna shine in these settings. I'm worried about the Westbrook, John Wall, and CP3's that will exploit the hell out of his rustiness. Kyrie is meh on my PG radar."

"At what point will Rose clearly be a better player than guys like Kyrie and Lillard?
Do you think when the season starts? By January? etc?


imo as soon as the ball drops in October"

But whatever makes them sleep at night. We all know Kyrie's a top 5 point guard already and maybe will become the best point guard soon...
Even if Kyrie sucks and will never be good, they stil have nothing for love and Lebron so hey.
 
Player Points Rebounds Assists FG%
Kyrie Irving 10.7 3.7 3.0 .520
Derrick Rose 5.7 1.7 1.7 .222
FIBA.com

LOL @ Bulls fans

Had no idea minus his athleticism how poorly skilled he is. He needs to change his game around all together now focus on team ball opposed to thinking he is the man.
 
Rose has the second worst player efficiency for the USA. He's a little ahead of Mason Plumlee.

He's in the bottom 20 percent of all players in the tournament.
 
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