Ayton: Post Suns Haters
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I would assume he lives on one of the hills in Portland. Those can be very steep. Hopefully Tuesday and Wednesday was the worst of it.
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Living in a hilly area is a lame excuse when every other player and coach made it there in time for the game. I'm sure Ayton doesn't live on the only hill in Portland. Duop Reath is from Australia where icy roads are never a thing and has lived in America for less than half a year yet he somehow still managed to find his way to the game.
The game is in the evening, I don't think roads freeze instantaneously so he had an entire day to prepare and figure a way out of his place.
Honestly not surprised he acts this way, he's never been serious about basketball but the Suns coddled him and never made him really accountable for anything, so here we are. Book and KD have been around long enough to sniff out the bullsit, so good work and good riddance.
The game is in the evening, I don't think roads freeze instantaneously so he had an entire day to prepare and figure a way out of his place.
Honestly not surprised he acts this way, he's never been serious about basketball but the Suns coddled him and never made him really accountable for anything, so here we are. Book and KD have been around long enough to sniff out the bullsit, so good work and good riddance.
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"I need to be more aggressive getting to the arena. Next game, you'll see me showing up before tip off. I'm getting it figured out"
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To be fair, it was pretty wild for a couple of days. Power was out snow barely melted then dipped back into freeze and iced everything over into that real thick slippery ****. That being said, we all knew it was coming. It’s silly he couldn’t figure something out.sashaturiaf wrote:Living in a hilly area is a lame excuse when every other player and coach made it there in time for the game. I'm sure Ayton doesn't live on the only hill in Portland. Duop Reath is from Australia where icy roads are never a thing and has lived in America for less than half a year yet he somehow still managed to find his way to the game.
The game is in the evening, I don't think roads freeze instantaneously so he had an entire day to prepare and figure a way out of his place.
Honestly not surprised he acts this way, he's never been serious about basketball but the Suns coddled him and never made him really accountable for anything, so here we are. Book and KD have been around long enough to sniff out the bullsit, so good work and good riddance.
I hate this team.
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Dumb discussion. I think he's injured anyway, but if they went to try and get him and still couldn't, it looks like it wasn't something that could be helped.
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sashaturiaf wrote:Living in a hilly area is a lame excuse when every other player and coach made it there in time for the game. I'm sure Ayton doesn't live on the only hill in Portland. Duop Reath is from Australia where icy roads are never a thing and has lived in America for less than half a year yet he somehow still managed to find his way to the game.
The game is in the evening, I don't think roads freeze instantaneously so he had an entire day to prepare and figure a way out of his place.
Honestly not surprised he acts this way, he's never been serious about basketball but the Suns coddled him and never made him really accountable for anything, so here we are. Book and KD have been around long enough to sniff out the bullsit, so good work and good riddance.
The news said Portland Blazers employees tried to reach him but they couldn't reach him so road conditions must have been pretty bad if they couldn't even get to his home.
Unless we know where he lives and the conditions of the roads leading to it it's all just speculation but I imagine a lot of Portlanders got caught out without winter tires leaving them unable to drive on icy roads. Driving on ice on summer or all season tires is just asking for trouble.
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Still amazing we turned 1 useless player into two meaningful players...
Allen and Nurk were exactly what this team needed.
Allen and Nurk were exactly what this team needed.
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The storm thing could have been totally legit but he just seems like one of those guys where it's always something. I know people like that in real life.
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What a great attitude. This plus his “Getting to my 2nd contract is what success means to me” sums up his entire mindset.
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Revived wrote:
What a great attitude. This plus his “I’m looking to my 2nd contract the most” sums up his entire mindset.
good lord it just keeps getting better.
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Ayton needs to either stop talking or take PR classes.Revived wrote:
What a great attitude. This plus his “Getting to my 2nd contract is what success means to me” sums up his entire mindset.
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spanishninja wrote:Revived wrote:
What a great attitude. This plus his “I’m looking to my 2nd contract the most” sums up his entire mindset.
good lord it just keeps getting better.
Only way this could have been better was if Ben Simmons walked into the shot as soon as Ayton said that.
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WeekapaugGroove wrote:Ayton needs to either stop talking or take PR classes.Revived wrote:
What a great attitude. This plus his “Getting to my 2nd contract is what success means to me” sums up his entire mindset.
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He talked his way into being the first overall pick and a max contract.
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But really, this attitude is exactly why Ayton never improved one bit since he signed his max contract.
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WeekapaugGroove wrote:Ayton needs to either stop talking or take PR classesRealGM mobile app
he's being saying embarrassing stuff since his rookie year at least. It worked out quite well for him.
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I’ve tried to avoid dogging on Ayton in this thread, but wow. The man just has no clue, zero self awareness, zero meaningful growth on offense. More people should have panicked about him saying his goal was to make it to his second contract. He got paid and phoned it in. Suns were 100% correct to not extend him early, they knew his only motivation was money. Definitely the most disappointing player I’ve followed (and my expectations were never that high).
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We were the dummies for cuddling him his entire time here. Even gave him a video montage after he quit on us in the playoffs last.
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LV-Suns wrote:We were the dummies for cuddling him his entire time here. Even gave him a video montage after he quit on us in the playoffs last.
that montage was very much just us taking the high road, rather than any sign of true respect to DA. It was even during a game break
and not in the starting lineup announcement like with the Twins, correct?
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Talk about not reading the room.
The fact of the matter is that we're always kind of judging young guys, top picks, full of potential guys as 'what is their trajectory'. It goes up, it goes down. 2021 was a great year, but looking back, it was contract year.
I was dead wrong about Ayton. I saw his trajectory as still being fulfillable.
Dude is a loser, a lazy worker, a non-competitive player in a league full of the hardest workers of their craft on the planet.
The fact of the matter is that we're always kind of judging young guys, top picks, full of potential guys as 'what is their trajectory'. It goes up, it goes down. 2021 was a great year, but looking back, it was contract year.
I was dead wrong about Ayton. I saw his trajectory as still being fulfillable.
Dude is a loser, a lazy worker, a non-competitive player in a league full of the hardest workers of their craft on the planet.
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As fans we just don't have enough information to judge guys on things like mindset, motivation, off court issues. We don't know these dudes.NapoleonII wrote:Talk about not reading the room.
The fact of the matter is that we're always kind of judging young guys, top picks, full of potential guys as 'what is their trajectory'. It goes up, it goes down. 2021 was a great year, but looking back, it was contract year.
I was dead wrong about Ayton. I saw his trajectory as still being fulfillable.
Dude is a loser, a lazy worker, a non-competitive player in a league full of the hardest workers of their craft on the planet.
What I have learned is it's typically an iceberg deal. Teams hide a lot of this **** about guys so when you actually hear about issues with a guy it's typically just the tip of the iceberg.
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