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Message: [QUOTE="triplethrea, post: 1366459, member: 1574"] I was the one who started that thread. I stand by starting it at the time. It came from a place of showing support for one of our former players and hoping he reached his full potential. That's nothing to be ashamed about. I felt Dion didn't get enough chances in Cleveland, which he didn't. I felt at the time that Kyrie wasn't showing THAT much more than Dion to not give him a shot. I felt that Dion's current ability + his ambition would form an unstoppable combination of growth. At the time I attributed a lot of Dion's troubles to a poor environment for him, which was probably true. Since watching him a lot in OKC it started to become clear to me that Dion had his current abilities and he had his great ambition and confidence. What he didn't have was a drive to relentlessly improve and be the best player he could possibly be. He wanted to be treated like a king, but not put in the work to be a king. I know MANY people like this in real life, especially living in Miami, and this strongly turned me off Dion since that thread. He was simply not the guy I thought he was. He improved his defense but he remains brainlessly inefficient and has done nothing to fix it. He is either stupid or stubborn and I lean towards the latter. I still support him and check box scores after every Thunder game, but I'm not as big of a fan as I used to be. That's not coming from a "screw all the guys who left early" mentality (which is 100% true on here by the way) but from a "I really believed in this guy, gave him a chance, but he's not who I thought he was" place. Watching Kyrie lately has made me even more annoyed with Dion. Also, I still don't think Lebron is an above average leader and no smiley face you put up will change that. The vibe I get is a "the young apprentices look up to the old master" type leader, not a true motivating force. There's nothing wrong with that but watching Lebron's interactions with Kyrie on the court, it seems like Lebron is "too big" to give him too much attention. It's actually how many people act in Miami, I have no doubt 4 years in South Beach rubbed off on him. Plus his relationship with Kevin Love is strange. How could you let that happen? As an introvert myself I know what it's like when extroverts show up and make a clique, but then look at you weird when you're not extroverted like them. I have a feeling Lebron is the same way. [/QUOTE]

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