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Stop saying Rudy Gobert was played off the court in the playoffs, it isn’t true

If you’ve been anywhere near the dumpster fire that is NBA offseason twitter, you probably ran into the garbage opinion that Rudy Gobert cannot stay on the floor in the NBA Playoffs due to some combination of Clint Capela, PJ Tucker, or—if people want to go three years back—Draymond Green. The NBA twitter hive mind usually runs like this:

The problem is it’s patently false. In today’s NBA fandom, it’s easier to judge a player by their most memorable twitter highlights which are five to nine seconds snippets of someone getting posterized or embarrassed rather than seeing the entirety of a game.