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Well shit, dude elevated a team all the way to getting embarrassed in the 2nd round of the tournament, he must be the best player in CBB.  |
A team that had 6 playable NCAA scholarship players with no shooting on it, yes. Without Dickinson, they’re missing that tournament for the first time in over 3 decades.
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It's the same lazy argument when Mahomes is crazy indecisive and not playing well for weeks at a time and people can't take off the homer glasses for a second and simply call a spade a spade (except of course Mahomes actually elevates his game when it really matters)..... the best of the best don't need excuses when it comes to "well, if only they had better talent around them, better coaching (? ), better everything". We already know what THAT looks like, when Mahomes or any 'best player in the league' puts forth a monumental effort to overcome their own team.
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The lazy argument I see regularly here is from those who pretend (or perhaps don’t know any better) that because Mahomes makes a bad throw or two behind a shit offensive line in a regular season game that he is playing poorly compared to nearly any other QB not named Josh Allen or that he has somehow ceased to be the best player in football and not the guy literally every other fanbase would trade their entire franchise for.
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And that wasn't Dickinson last year... at all. He wasn't Caitlin Clark throwing dimes to shit players over and over, making crazy shots or going well above and beyond despite the talent around them (and if you're that ****ing reeruned, it's not a literal comparison where Dickinson is supposed to be a PG, so shut the **** up). He's just a 7'2"/270 dude who can walk onto the court and get his 20/10 because he's 7'2"/270.
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What a silly and specious argument. It’s basketball. Is Shaq somehow less of a dominant NBA player because of his immense size? Dickinson got 20/10 even on a team with no depth or shooting because he’s one of the best players in the sport.
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I don't hate the guy and I certainly don't want to hate him... but, if you have to reduce everything/everyone around him and make enough excuses to make him look better, then what are you even watching?
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There’s nothing to make excuses about. He was statistically one of the best players in college basketball last year and has been so again this year. Without him on the court in both of the last two seasons, the team has been very poor offensively.
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Not sure I've ever once seen anyone comment about Dickinson having some monstrous effort/game to will his team to.... anything. He shoots his 50% from under the basket and gets his 10 rebounds and that's that.
Like I said though, he did look significantly better today, probably his best game since Michigan State.. and who cares if that was a month ago, heh.
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Dickinson is 4th in KPOY this year behind only Broome, Flagg, and Kam Jones. If you think he’s playing poorly, I wonder what you think about literally every other player on this KU team (including the guy we are paying over a million a year to average 6 points a game).