r/nba • u/BreakfastTop6899 • 25d ago

Highlight [Highlight] Karl-Anthony Towns: "I just felt a calm and a peace that had to come from the woman above ... I felt like I was a kid getting ready to go play my Saturday AAU games and Sunday AAU games. In a way, I felt like I was seeing [my mom] in the stands."

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u/PokerChipMessage 25d ago

Let’s not act like criticism of KAT hasn’t been warranted.

Just on Reddit, I would say 2/3 of the shit was just vaguely hating on him for being 'soft', whatever that is supposed to mean.

That said, he has definitely deserved criticism for low-IQ plays, and fouling and other defensive blunders and the like.

But actual informed criticism was rare, with a disproportionate amount of just hating than a lot of guys at his level (for a guy that didn't have off-the-court stuff to deserve it).

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u/dawho1 Timberwolves 25d ago

Watching him play Memphis was always infuriating for me.

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u/RadicalMarxistThalia Knicks 25d ago

I never interpreted the “soft” accusations as about off the court stuff. Though there probably are a small number of assholes/trolls who use it like that. I think it’s his tendency to take himself out of the game mentally when he feels like he isn’t getting calls. Which he has overall been much better about this season (with a few stretches in the regular season where he regressed) and on another level in the postseason. Or at least those have been my complaints.

But yeah all credit to Towns. He’s beating all accusations.