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wufpup76
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He makes it look so easy, that sometimes you don’t even really appreciate how hard he is working.

^There was a tweet last night from that pretentious blowhard DeCourcy that made it clear he had watched exactly 0 of our/Warren’s games this season.

(Paraphrasing) He said Xavier was not playing any D and not making TJ ‘work’. For shame. That’s all the kid does. His motor is always going and he puts himself in the best possible position ALL THE TIME on offense *and* defense (2 steals a game – hello?). Too bad he doesn’t always get credit for it, moreover his hapless opponents get ripped for not “working hard enough”.

DeCourcy’s (and I’m sure many other journalist ‘experts’) logic is that Warren is primary focus of opposing defenses, yet when Warren takes over it’s because those defenses just “didn’t work hard enough”. Some people. I just …

How ’bout just giving the kid credit for the special talent that he is? If his name was Harrison Barnes and he wore blue every expert journalist out there would be on their knees. Warren gets a lot of love – don’t get me wrong. I just don’t understand where ‘logic’ like this comes from …