Admittedly, I do find quite funny the visual of Kawhi Leonard, of all people, leading some Whose Line Is It Anyway?-style comic relief in the locker room of franchise making their first appearance in the NBA Finals. Unfortunately, I think I'm going to go ahead and assume that the Raptors didn't spend halftime of a 5-point game sleeping on/laughing at an opponent whose championship runs have largely been fueled by the fire of NBA Jam-esque hot streaks during the quarter in which they've proved most fatal. In fact, I might even go as far as assuming that the person who suggested they did wouldn't have a job analyzing professional basketball if not for him playing it at a high-level for damn near two decades. At this point of a postseason during which he has proved anti-prophetic in predictions, I think it's fair to say that Paul Pierce has become more insufferable than Skip Bayless. I mean, at least the latter only exists on a platform in which shamelessly spreading your cheeks and talking directly out of your ass is encouraged. Meanwhile, 'The Truth' is both figuratively and literally (as whiffed below) farting out blatantly fictional fabrications all over otherwise credible outlets, as if his knowledge of the game he dedicated his life to compares favorably to someone who needs traveling explained to them.
It's not that I don't think that unadulterated stupidity has a place in NBA Finals' analysis, but I would like a sign that Paul Pierce is self-aware of his role as NBA Countdown's court jester. If anything, he's always struck me as the type to have an inflated view of himself, so it's not that he said the Toronto Raptors performed sarcastically in the second half, but rather that I think he might actually believe it. I genuinely don't think it's in his DNA to proudly parade around as the punchline, which would mean that all his preposterous hot takes are delivered in stone cold sincerity. Being able to take them at face value is what I find about 1,000x more worrisome than the objectively idiotic opinions themselves, so I'd greatly appreciate it if he started taking his seat on the panel wearing a dunce cap. Ya know, just so I could stop taking seriously someone who appeared to take himself very seriously when he said that a first-time NBA Finalist didn't take the most important game in franchise history seriously.
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