Load management rest in the 5th game of the season.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Is this your king?

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

Not much you can do. Lebron’s legacy is the scared play with super teams only thing and Kawhi’s legacy is don’t need super teams but I’m gonna take off 25% of the season. If I have to choose I’ll take the latter.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Kobe played no matter what. He even scored 60 on 1 leg.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

Yeah but Kawhi is better

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Kawhi doesn't even believe that.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

True but everyone else who watches basketball does. Kawhi doesn’t give a shit.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Kawhi is Radio mixed with Forest Gump.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

And he’s better than every NBA player since Mike.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Stop yourself. I love Kawhi, but this is not true.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

It is true but I won’t argue if you say it’s Duncan. There’s no other options.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Duncan wasn't better than LeBron or Kobe. This is Kawhi's first season as the best player in the league and he already needs a vacation.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

Kobe was better. Duncan was better. Lebron was better.

Kawhi is great and he is he best player right now in the NBA. But he is not better than any player since MJ.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Duncan was easily better than Kobe to the point it’s not worthy of discussion. Duncan was better than LeBron if you care more about winning basketball games than assists.

Condolences on missing all of the last year and the 2016-2017 NBA seasons. I can tell you’re rusty but yeah Kawhi is easily the best player alive now. There’s not a close 2nd.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Kobe and LeBron have never been as good as Kawhi is now or was last year. Just stop. Duncan was and is the only other person worthy of consideration.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

You are crazy or drunk...or perhaps both.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

No. What’s crazy is the idea that Kobe or LeBron is better than Kawhi. Defense matters. When you pretend it doesn’t you need another All NBA player to win a title. Kawhis won 2 without one. LeBron and Kobe have won 0 combined.

Instead of questioning if I’m crazy I’d suggest questioning the media you follow that told you both players were much better than they ever were.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Eye on the prize buddy.. don't be short-sighted..thought you was a popocich pupil, smh

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Pupil? I’m a fan, not a coach. Same as you.

It’s the same shit with baseball and football to an extent. It’s the same thing as tanking. We aren’t GMs. I don’t root for the GMs. I watch sports for my entertainment and want the most entertainment possible. I’m not cheering teams for making “smart” moves that make the sport less enjoyable.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Come on man, stop with the weak media shit. I watch quite a bit of basketball and the media is not why I think Lebron, Kobe, and Duncan were better.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Duncan over Kobe..all day

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Well then I don’t know why you do because they aren’t and LeBron has an especially weak case considering their head to head matchups.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Right. This shit isn’t complicated.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

I'm a smart fan, not some numbnuts painted orange with a 50 inch waist and a Bear head on...

I don't want any cub to make the all Star team..I want em to feel slighted and rest up. I wouldn't run my starters into the ground in a long 82 game season. The goal is to win it all.

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You’re not a smart fan. You’re Jerry’s ideal fan.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

I'd say if anything the same media has also given Kawhi loads more passes than the likes of Lebron, Durant, Steph, and even Harden. Exhibit A would be the very thing this thread is based on, as any of those guys would be ripped from pillar to post for taking it as easy he has in the regular season, even if they had a chronic condition. The stuff he's pulled on San Antonio and in free agency is arguably shadier than both Lebron to Miami and Durant to Golden State yet he's received a fraction of the widespread criticism those two faced (outside of Spurs fans, who no one cares about, and Lakers fans, who everyone else enjoys laughing at). He was the best player on the court or even on his team for maybe 2-3 games max in the finals, yet doesn't get held to the same standard that Lebron, Curry, and Durant have been when they've had similar underwhelming performances in the finals.

I actually like Kawhi more than any of these guys, but I'd say if anything he's gotten a lot more of the perks of being mentioned as a superstar without anywhere near the kind of backlash or criticism that comes when one doesn't live up to those standards usually associated with that status.

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Sherman remarked, "Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day, haven't we?" Grant looked up. "Yes," he replied, followed by a puff. "Yes. Lick 'em tomorrow, though."

I hated load management when we were trying to have kids

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

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