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Donovan Mitchell Highlight Videos, Spectacular Plays

Thee jazz fan said:
No one will be that guy as long as there are super teams


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I'm not so sure that super teams are going to be around forever. Sure, guys will link up, but Golden State is an outlier. I think "super teams" will go more like OKC than Golden State. Miami got three good players together, but that team was not a super team. Not in my opinion. Dallas beat them because they were a better, more balanced team. San Antonio too. Boston will be good, but I'm not buying they will be a super team because I have zero faith that Kyrie can be the alpha on a title winner. He's not going to do the dirty work that makes their team defense work. Philly looks strong, but I don't think Embiid will ever stay completely healthy and Simmons has major issues shooting which will always limit his ceiling.

I would give Golden State 2 more years and then this thing will fall apart. Curry is already a liability on D and it's gonna get worse. When he's making $40 million per year at over 30, he will go from being awesome to a liability. Klay is going to get a massive payday in 2019, but I'm not sold that he could carry a contender. There is already talk about KD leaving. There is some chatter he could leave this summer but I don't buy it. I do, however, think he's gone in the next few years. Draymond with an older Curry and no KD doesn't scare me one bit. And he's going to get overpaid too. Iggy and Livingston are unique, key role players who leave before long.

San Antonio won 5 titles without being a super team. They were just balanced and made good, timely decisions. That's what we have to do and we'll win a title or two. In 2020 (which is only 2 years away), I don't think a super team exists. There simply isn't a team set up like Golden State was in 2016 when they had superstars and max space to add another superstar. They made decisions in response to LeBron and by 2020, LeBron won't be the dominance we see today.
 
The super star this kid is in year one is just.....almost unheard of. Especially with the fact 90% of the country hadnt heard of him in Louisville and to be here a year later and be what he is now and is on his way to being....is insane.

PS- watch a little past when Donovan leaves the screen Stephen A and Willbon take a brief moment to mention how much of a super star Donovan is.
 
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oneye said:
He’s always got his teammates backs. It’s admirable and even further endearing for sure. I remember why I can’t stand Steven A Smith watching the show though. He loves drama and story lines just a bit too much.

I liked Donovan’s answer to the question....until he said it’d be okay for him to go to the Rockets. Then we get to deal with another ridiculously stacked team in the west. If the NBA continues to just turn into this non-competitor come join us league at some point it’s not worth watching. Lebron needs to stay in the east.
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Jesus, people, it’s ESPN. Why do you watch that garbage? It’s likely not even Steven A’s real opinion. It’s the network pinning one people’s ideas against another’s just to create drama and tension for the ratings. It’s basixally “reality” tv and is awful.
 
stitches said:
One of the best highlight videos of Mitchell I've seen:

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WAY too many cuts in that video, almost unwatchable. And only on bout 4 or 5 of the plays did it give enough context to know exactly how awesome it was. It was mostly dribbling at the top of the key, cut, then he is at the rim, cut, then closeup of the ball going into the hoop. Hardly anything of DM and what he does that makes him so awesome. They cut to what they think are the exciting parts, like the very end of the dunk or the ball in a net or a 3 pt shot, when really what makes it exciting is the 4 guys he blew by on the way to what you think is a layup or a mis-guided attempt to move into traffic and instead ending in a huge dunk or a euro-step impossible-english layup. Lots of flash but no substance in this one.
 
Small things that didn't warrant another thread, but are further proof that DM might be a God. A couple of things from his promo tour in the Phillipines:

https://www.rappler.com/sports/by-s...it-recruitment-pitch-lebron-james-paul-george

Donovan, though, had a way simpler response on whether he also wants to bring LeBron James on board with the Jazz.

"Would I want to [play with him]? Who wouldn't?" he said.

But he also made it clear that the challenge of facing against the 4-time MVP feels better than playing with him.

"If I had a choice on playing [with] him or beating him, I'd rather beat him," said the reigning NBA Slam Dunk champion. "But if he wants to play with the Jazz, then we'll take him of course."
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Bold text added to highlight key phrase. He knows exactly what to say and how to say it. There are very few young men like him in the world.

Also, if anyone heard Quin howling in joy last night, this maybe why. But few 21 year olds have this attention to detail:



Also, just because:

 
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If I had a choice on playing [with] him or beating him, I'd rather beat him," said the reigning NBA Slam Dunk champion. "But if he wants to play with the Jazz, then we'll take him of course."
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Sounds like something Kevin Durant would say. Hahaha.

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