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Sotto suffers back injury against Boston and sits out the entire second half. He played only 2 of the 5 Summer League games. He was a -10 against Portland and -11 against Boston.
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Welcome back IBN.
Also, Kai Sotto better not sit out the WC. It's a once in a lifetime opportunity to play in the World Cup in our home soil. Stop the excuses. IMO, and this might be a hot take, but he should have skipped SL and went straight to Gilas for the WC build-up. It's pretty clear from his past performances in NBL and B-League he's still not yet NBA material, not to mention tournaments like these it's always the ball handler that gets the shots up. It's a free-for-all. Look what happened in BWB.
The World Cup is gonna be as good as it gets for him to showcase his talent. He's gonna get the minutes and the shots up. Guaranteed. It's up to him what kind of showing he's gonna present to the scouts, etc. Either a good one or yet another blunder. No excuses!Comment
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words of wisdom from lolo rajko
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Kai Sotto in the summer league was enough to crash the IBN servers. LOL!
I wonder if his mediocre but expected performance will be enough to pull PeeZones out of the cave he is hiding in.
Toroman making more sense than Tony Ronzone and all the nuthugging advantage-taking vloggers combined.Comment
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I'm convinced most people don't watch actual games and just base their opinions on stats and "highlights". It was a couple of bad games which honestly could have gone worse. At least he showed good hands and made his shots on the first game. Made good use of his length and blocked some shots. But he looked so slooow and was often out of position and sometimes looked like he's lost. I don't even want to comment on the second game. They said he was injured hopefully not a sign of things to come.Originally posted by greenarcher View Post
And people still commenting he should have been made the focus of the offence, get more minutes etc. SMHComment
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I'm not worried about Kai, he'll still earn a lot of money even if he won't make it to the NBA. I'm more worried about Peezone's mental health and to a lesser extent Linusport's mental health.Comment
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What happened to the server? Kai should play in FIBA WC, to boost his stock in his professional career, whether he will should go.. No problem if he skips Asian Games (reasonable for being non stop playing since September 2022), But he should play for FIBA WC, for his career too....Comment
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This. I would rather focus on him trying to be the best basketball player he can be, instead of whether or not he makes it to the NBA.Originally posted by NightShift View PostComment
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And another thing... He doesn't owned anyone... He doesn't care about people who criticizing him about his playing style... As long he plays w/ happiness then it should be it... I think being a Filipino athlete playing in a sport that considered as the most popular sport in the country getting pressured to perform according to the expectations of their countryman... By the way, One of the reason Kai should play in FIBA WC, because KAT of Dominican Rep, is 90% sure thing to play this summer... He will get experience playing against one of the best bigs today....I'm sure he will love it to play against KAT....Originally posted by paulrenzo View PostComment
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Same sentiments, a number of journalists and vloggers (who leech off Kai) hype the heck out of that 1st game where Kai posted 6 pts, 4 rbds and 3 blocks, claiming that his output is close to Wemby's stat. Furthermore, they also argued that Kai would have scored more (like wemby) if he was given additional minutes. Damn, vloggers and peenoise has no concept of stamina.Originally posted by thatweirdguy View Post
Another annoying narrative that the media and vloggers have floated is Kai is a great defender due to those blocks (despite limited minutes), there's more to defense than blocks, kai can't even box out properly nor defend the pick and roll properly.
Heck even Bill Velasco is floating the narrative that being Asian has something to do with it, though he pointed out the lag of experience among Asians compared to Euro and American counterparts
Last edited by CoJ; 07-19-2023, 01:25 AM.Comment
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It's starting to look like Kai is going the Ben Simmons route. Lots of hype, realized he's really not good enough, play a bit for clout then will shut it down & dog it hehe.
But for real if he's really serious about his basketball career he should be all in in this world cup and give everything he has. Coach Rajko on point in this one.Comment
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I'm super tired of all this stuff, I'm going to change my tone from here on, rather than cite the obvious ( Kai's super far from NBA material, no one should need to be convinced about this, either you know levels or not) , we should just focus on what Kai needs to do , to incrementally get better, whether that's improving his impact for Gilas or B -league , so be it. the NBA is the least to discuss at this point. If we never seriously discussed BRP NBA chances after a more productive SL , then we shouldn't discuss Kai with the NBA.
on comparisons with wemby, well Wemby is predicted to win the NBA defensive player of the year within 2 years. while Kai is viewed as can't make the NBA primary due to his defensive deficiencies (Not offense) , enough said. with that you can throw away all stat comparisons , they become meaningless in that context.Last edited by DAdmiral; 07-19-2023, 01:44 AM.Comment
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We have seen what he can do when he goes "all in".
If he doesn't do anything to improve himself then that's it. He won't suddenly turn into superman in the WC.Comment
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He looked awkward and I was relieved that his shots went in. Dunno if the blocks though are sustainable but I don't think he'll ever be a good rebounder. It's just not his strengths.Originally posted by CoJ View Post
Yeah I saw a lot of pages just posting his statline and highlights people concluding that he had a breakout game.. and it's just plain embarrassing what they had done to the Magic's FB page.Comment
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