Lee Je Dong (Jaedong), “I think I may have let my guard down a bit.” I may have advanced partly due to maps
Q: You advanced to the Semifinals after a hard fought full-set Bo5. A: I fought a much harder battle than I had expected. Even though I won, it was a really difficult set of games. Snow seems to have prepared extremely well, and I was surprised at how good his harassment play was.
Q: What did you think of Snow’s play today? A: I do think I let my guard down a bit, and that’s something I need to reflect on and try not to repeat. To be honest, I’ve been losing a lot since this morning in practice, and I did kind of have a bad feeling about this series. And accordingly, coming into the series today I didn’t play as well as I could have. I did win, but I feel iffy about it.
Q: Snow’s High Templar harassment was top-notch. A: With my style, I’m usually not very vulnerable to harassment. So I was pretty confident in that regard, but I ended up getting harassed at almost a dizzying pace. Because of that, I ended up even allowing a comeback in a game I was ahead in (*sigh*).
Q: Which game was the most difficult? A: Set 4 on Benzene was the hardest. Snow came prepared with a build that I did not anticipate. Combined with that, getting harassed just once I couldn’t really focus that well. I was really disappointed with that game partly because Benzene was my most confident map. It even made me think to myself that I may lose the last set; I entered the last set with a ‘we'll see what happens’ sort of attitude.
Q: You’ve made it to the semi-finals 5 seasons in a row now. This is a chance to wash away the unpleasant memories of two silvers in an MSL in a row. I feel like you’ll be confident because the semi-final will be against a Zerg. A: It is quite amazing. It is quite satisfying that I’ve been in the semi-finals for almost a year now. [T/N: This is not a translation error; I realize that 5 seasons is more than a year and almost approaching two years. That’s just what the interview says.] Firstly my goal is a gold, and I am confident in meeting a Zerg in the semi-final, but as long as I don’t underestimate my opponent and play to the best of my abilities I feel like I could win.
Q: What do you think were the major factors involved in winning this series? A: I didn’t think I’d win on Triathlon. I was so confident in winning on Benzene and Circuit Breaker that I hardly practiced at all for Triathlon. So I thought ‘I should try to win the rest of maps as much as I can’ but winning set 3 was really the winning point for me, I think.
Q: Any last words? A: Thanks for the teammates that helped me practice and thanks to Killer for giving me advice on builds. Yesterday and today, the coach and the manager both gave me lots of support, and I think that helped. I do feel like my fans will be a little worried about my play recently. I feel like Snow played extremely well, but I advanced at least partly because of maps. I had a good experience today, and I learned something too, so I’d like to take home the winning trophy without causing too much distress to my fans.
Kim Myung Woon (Zero), “This is my prime chance for a championship.” I want to face Kal in the semi-finals
Q: This is the first semi-finals in five seasons. A: I’ve had this quarterfinals jinx for a while now. I think this is because of the mental pressure I face before really important games. Today I think I advanced without those sort of pressures. I’m still having a kind of difficult time appreciating the fact that I am in the semi-finals.
Q: Your advancement to the semi-finals was easier than expected. A: I did come to the stadium aiming for a 3-0. I won with some luck in set 2, so I feel like that helped me solve set 3 patiently.
Q: There is a prevailing opinion that the maps are favored for Zergs. A: I don’t think it really favors Zergs that much. There are certainly maps good for Protoss. I personally think that just as much as there are maps that favor Zergs, there are two maps that favor Protoss as well. Luckily, I think the order of the maps favored me in this series though. I thought the maps that favored Zergs over Protoss were positioned at the beginning of the series, giving me an advantage to win.
Q: After a 2-0 lead, I feel like you would have felt that you had a good chance at taking the series with Dante’s Peak as the third set. A: I did think that, but I shook off the thought immediately considering such thoughts could lead to my defeat. I tried to focus on the game immediately.
Q: You are now the team captain. A: It was actually decided before announcement within our team. Even in yesterday’s game I was taking on the role of captain of our team. I have seniority over most members of my team, and even in age I am older than most other members as well. As a team leader, I need to show leadership, so I feel that my ambition for winning my matches has grown as well. I will take the position of team leader with good responsibility.
Q: Did your loss streak in Proleague affect your games today? A: It’s been kind of hard for me recently because of my stagnant results in Proleague. But the games I need to play are there, so I tried to focus my best on the games that were right in front of me. It would be a lie to say that the losses didn’t affect me at all, but I thought that I needed to work my hardest for the upcoming sets.
Q: Who do you want to face in the semi-finals? A: Honestly, it is more comfortable for me to face Kal. Not only is he a Protoss, but I am ahead in head-to-head statistics, so I think I’ll be more comfortable if he makes it to the semi-finals.
Q: You must be ambitious about a championship. A: I think this is my prime time for a championship. With me gaining some age, I feel like my hand movements have slowed down a bit, so I think I need to win right now (laughs). I really do want to win.
Q: Any last words? A: There is a Proleague match on Sunday. It’s the last match before the Lunar New Year, and our team’s been kind of in the dumps recently due to us not been doing so well recently, but I really want us to win, and go into the holiday with a relaxed mind.
Congratulations to Jaedong for taking the series after a well-fought, extremely awesome set of games!
Kudos to Snow, my favorite rookie, for putting up the games of your life, and showing us that you are capable of great things
Congrats to Zero, for getting a well-deserved advancement far into the leagues after a long time!
As for Stork, dual-leaguing is hard, and I wish you the best in the OSL Finals anyway.
Also, totally unrelated to this topic, but best of luck to Violet; get well soon.
Man when I heard that JD was fighting Snow I never would have guessed it would have been such an intense and impressive series. I was staying up mainly for stork vs zero (which I will not comment on in order to avoid spoiling it)
Wonder if Flash will ever admit his dual golds were probably helped by maps
Anyhow, quality interview...I just feel like nowadays JD is always apologizing for shaky play, and it never seems like he's playing 100% to me at least.
Jaedong is such a good sport. When maps favor zerg, he's willing to acknowledge it (unlike Flash) but when maps are terrible for zerg (last 3 MSLs), he never complains or tries to use that as an excuse. Also, I'm glad he acknowledged Snow's amazing play rather than just putting himself down for letting it get that close.
On January 28 2011 04:40 DarkMatter_ wrote: Thanks for the interview.
Jaedong is such a good sport. When maps favor zerg, he's willing to acknowledge it (unlike Flash) but when maps are terrible for zerg (last 3 MSLs), he never complains or tries to use that as an excuse. Also, I'm glad he acknowledged Snow's amazing play rather than just putting himself down for letting it get that close.
He'd have to be delusional not to acknowledge that Snow played much better in that series than he did in their first game in the MSL Group B Winner's Match:
The difference between Snow in this game and Snow in their quarterfinals matches is really striking, I thought.
I'm glad the series with JD and Snow went 3-2, even though Snow didn't win he is showing that he has the ability to become a champion sometime down the road with his continued improvement.
Like many others, I was amazed at how much Snow put up a fight against Jaedong. Everyone was saying that Jaedong would easily 3-0 Snow, but Snow proved us all wrong. Had Jaedong slipped up a bit more, we could have seen Snow advancing to the semi-finals. I am thoroughly impressed with Snow's performance; he definitely has a lot of potential in the future and may advance even farther next time. I'll have to watch this guy more often now.
Great translation, thanks for your hard work and effort! It's very appreciated!
I'm laughing at the fact that snOw's PvZ looked a hell of a lot better than Stork's.
Not to say that snOw's a bad player but isn't he (still somewhat) a rookie? Stork's had a lot of time to perfect each of his match-ups but I can only see him as an S-Class PvT player and a B-Class PvZer....
Getting over Stork's terrible results, I think Jaedong needs to start changing his perspective on how to play out ZvP; Protoss players are starting to get better at countering the presently standard greedy macro style that Zerg's are used to abusing against Protoss players, and I wouldn't be surprised to see Jaedong's greedy playstyle get punished by a decent PvZ player during an important match.
While it doesn't have to be necessarily Jaedong, I think it's somewhat necessary for a Zerg to change things up to counter the Speedlot movement that's taking place these days.
EDIT: I'm looking forward to good things from snOw; that's twice now where he has pulled off a stunning performance against an S-Class player (FlaSh in an Ace Match in last season's Proleague, now in this series vs. Jaedong). I'm hoping he won't burn and fade out like mOvie did though.
On January 28 2011 04:09 Jaester88 wrote: Q: What do you think were the major factors involved in winning this series? A: I didn’t think I’d win on Triathlon. I was so confident in winning on Benzene and Circuit Breaker that I hardly practiced at all for Triathlon. So I thought ‘I should try to win the rest of maps as much as I can’ but winning set 3 was really the winning point for me, I think.
Jaedong wins when he thinks he'll lose and loses when he thinks he'll win
He completely dismantled Snow on Triathon, so I'm wondering why he felt that way. I guess it's just due to Snow's incredible Sair/Reaver play that was completely countered by going super fast muta, iirc.
On January 28 2011 06:56 HitoriTomoyo wrote: I'm laughing at the fact that snOw's PvZ looked a hell of a lot better than Stork's.
Not to say that snOw's a bad player but isn't he (still somewhat) a rookie? Stork's had a lot of time to perfect each of his match-ups but I can only see him as an S-Class PvT player and a B-Class PvZer....
Getting over Stork's terrible results, I think Jaedong needs to start changing his perspective on how to play out ZvP; Protoss players are starting to get better at countering the presently standard greedy macro style that Zerg's are used to abusing against Protoss players, and I wouldn't be surprised to see Jaedong's greedy playstyle get punished by a decent PvZ player during an important match.
While it doesn't have to be necessarily Jaedong, I think it's somewhat necessary for a Zerg to change things up to counter the Speedlot movement that's taking place these days.
EDIT: I'm looking forward to good things from snOw; that's twice now where he has pulled off a stunning performance against an S-Class player (FlaSh in an Ace Match in last season's Proleague, now in this series vs. Jaedong). I'm hoping he won't burn and fade out like mOvie did though.
well if stork would play against any Zerg like he does vs Jaedong he would easily be a P bonjwa!^^
Thanks a lot for the translations. Zero is such a cutie-pie. Best of luck in the semi-finals against Great (the games on Saturday are just a formality)
On January 28 2011 06:56 HitoriTomoyo wrote: I'm laughing at the fact that snOw's PvZ looked a hell of a lot better than Stork's.
Not to say that snOw's a bad player but isn't he (still somewhat) a rookie? Stork's had a lot of time to perfect each of his match-ups but I can only see him as an S-Class PvT player and a B-Class PvZer....
Getting over Stork's terrible results, I think Jaedong needs to start changing his perspective on how to play out ZvP; Protoss players are starting to get better at countering the presently standard greedy macro style that Zerg's are used to abusing against Protoss players, and I wouldn't be surprised to see Jaedong's greedy playstyle get punished by a decent PvZ player during an important match.
While it doesn't have to be necessarily Jaedong, I think it's somewhat necessary for a Zerg to change things up to counter the Speedlot movement that's taking place these days.
EDIT: I'm looking forward to good things from snOw; that's twice now where he has pulled off a stunning performance against an S-Class player (FlaSh in an Ace Match in last season's Proleague, now in this series vs. Jaedong). I'm hoping he won't burn and fade out like mOvie did though.
B-class PvZer? You must not have seen many of Stork's games this season. And "greedy macro syle" wasn't the reason why Jaedong dropped those 2 games against Snow.
On January 28 2011 05:33 newvsoldschool wrote: Watch as either Stork himself or his fans make more drama out of this.
Anyways, I'll be watching game 4 of Snow vs Jaedong, it sounds really good. Thanks for the translation!
Watch game 3,4,5. I mean it. Especially game 5 for that last minute pulling all the stops. And game 3 was nice, too, for the recklessness and ballsiness of it.
Basically, all 4 sets were must see's. Just look at those :
On January 28 2011 06:56 HitoriTomoyo wrote: I'm laughing at the fact that snOw's PvZ looked a hell of a lot better than Stork's.
Not to say that snOw's a bad player but isn't he (still somewhat) a rookie? Stork's had a lot of time to perfect each of his match-ups but I can only see him as an S-Class PvT player and a B-Class PvZer....
Getting over Stork's terrible results, I think Jaedong needs to start changing his perspective on how to play out ZvP; Protoss players are starting to get better at countering the presently standard greedy macro style that Zerg's are used to abusing against Protoss players, and I wouldn't be surprised to see Jaedong's greedy playstyle get punished by a decent PvZ player during an important match.
While it doesn't have to be necessarily Jaedong, I think it's somewhat necessary for a Zerg to change things up to counter the Speedlot movement that's taking place these days.
EDIT: I'm looking forward to good things from snOw; that's twice now where he has pulled off a stunning performance against an S-Class player (FlaSh in an Ace Match in last season's Proleague, now in this series vs. Jaedong). I'm hoping he won't burn and fade out like mOvie did though.
Well its kinda like how Zero's zvp looked a lot better then Jaedongs. He absolutely crushed stork in all 3 games (first game being my favorite ). Dunno its a good thing Jaedongs zvz is still god mode so hopefully he does win this msl :D
As for stork I am not going to lie I wanted Zero to win (2nd favorite player after Jaedong :D) but man I did not expect a 3-0 sweep especially with how dominating stork has been lately I thought zero would lose but zero just played phenomenal.
On January 28 2011 06:56 HitoriTomoyo wrote: I'm laughing at the fact that snOw's PvZ looked a hell of a lot better than Stork's.
Not to say that snOw's a bad player but isn't he (still somewhat) a rookie? Stork's had a lot of time to perfect each of his match-ups but I can only see him as an S-Class PvT player and a B-Class PvZer....
Getting over Stork's terrible results, I think Jaedong needs to start changing his perspective on how to play out ZvP; Protoss players are starting to get better at countering the presently standard greedy macro style that Zerg's are used to abusing against Protoss players, and I wouldn't be surprised to see Jaedong's greedy playstyle get punished by a decent PvZ player during an important match.
While it doesn't have to be necessarily Jaedong, I think it's somewhat necessary for a Zerg to change things up to counter the Speedlot movement that's taking place these days.
EDIT: I'm looking forward to good things from snOw; that's twice now where he has pulled off a stunning performance against an S-Class player (FlaSh in an Ace Match in last season's Proleague, now in this series vs. Jaedong). I'm hoping he won't burn and fade out like mOvie did though.
Well its kinda like how Zero's zvp looked a lot better then Jaedongs. He absolutely crushed stork in all 3 games (first game being my favorite ). Dunno its a good thing Jaedongs zvz is still god mode so hopefully he does win this msl :D
As for stork I am not going to lie I wanted Zero to win (2nd favorite player after Jaedong :D) but man I did not expect a 3-0 sweep especially with how dominating stork has been lately I thought zero would lose but zero just played phenomenal.
Not the same at all. Zero had some clever builds and props to him for that, but my overall impression from that series was that Stork just did not play very well. In Snow vs. Jaedong, on the other hand: game 1 was a little sloppy from both players and game 2 featured some awful decision-making by Jaedong (in retrospect; to be fair, Snow's defense was absolutely clutch that game and it's hard to fault JD for thinking he had it). With those two exceptions aside, the level of play from both players throughout that series was jaw-droppingly amazing.
Thanks for the translation! Interviews were awesome. Snow really did play amazingly and had me really worried, luckily JD pulled through tho.
I'm pretty disappointed with Stork, I was hoping he'd pull through so we could have JD vs Stork finals Zeros still my second fav Zerg after JD, but I just don't think his ZvZ is up to par compared to his other two matchups.
So would you guys say it was Stork played poorly, or Zero played well? Ratings for each player (for each set maybe? :3)
I was devastated to see Stork lose...I was also rooting for Federer and I woke up to see that both of them were 3-0'd hard. T_____T Both apparently(?) also came back strong in the 2nd "set" but lost anyway...ugh...disappointed in Stork and Federer equally as I thought it was both their time to shine in the finals... OSL won't even be that amazing because either Stork wins with SvT, or Fanta just pulls off an upset and Stork loses, which is terrible in and of itself.
GG Zero and Jaedong, but definitely Jaedong for MSL gold!! :D
I disagree with the above post. The quality of last 4 games was ridicously high; both players might look up sloppy cause harras requires lots of multitask and obv trolles the zerg. Also haters saying jd just needed more scourges its nonsence; snow built many sairs on all games and always cleared the path with sairs before storming. On game 5 snow play ridicously well (harrass, good storms, reavers with main army) and would have won prolly on any smaller map. That said, JD played very good as well.
The only problem i'm having lately is that I finally like the progamers who are actually winning (Flash is losing) and i'm not sure who to root for. Hope either JD or Zero win this. Would love to watch more Zero vs P/T in bo5 =(.
I disagree with jalstar's rating for set three: I would rate that more like Snow 2.5/5 (decent try, but could not avoid getting steamrolled) JD 5/5 (dominated)
For the Stork/Zero games, some rough ratings:
Set 1: Zero 5/5 (for clever build) Stork 3/5 (played all right but was completely fooled by Zero)
Set 2: Zero 3/5 Stork 1.5/5 (honestly hard to rate this; both had risky and utterly bizarre builds; Stork ended up getting crushed badly)
Set 3: Zero 4/5 (opening didn't pan out the way he hoped; adapted and played very well all game) Stork 2/5 (by this point Stork looked like he was just waiting to get out of the series)
So consensus is that last 4 games of JD vs Snow were very, very high quality, while Stork essentially played terribly throughout the series against Zero? :'(
So much for Stork not appearing in SPL because he wanted to practice...T_T
I thought games 4 and 5 were really good. Games 2 and 3 were both decided by critical stupid mistakes though, i.e. JD's hyperaggression at the front instead of expanding behind a contain... Snow's repeated attempts to take his 3rd without any defense, and then overreaction with the 3rd stargate. I thought games 4 and 5 were some of the best play I've ever seen. Though the outcome of game 5 can arguably be said to have resulted from a poor choice by Snow to base trade on such a big map...
On January 28 2011 10:12 Gummy wrote: I thought games 4 and 5 were really good. Games 2 and 3 were both decided by critical stupid mistakes though, i.e. JD's hyperaggression at the front instead of expanding behind a contain... Snow's repeated attempts to take his 3rd without any defense, and then overreaction with the 3rd stargate. I thought games 4 and 5 were some of the best play I've ever seen. Though the outcome of game 5 can arguably be said to have resulted from a poor choice by Snow to base trade on such a big map...
Game 2 was fine imo. His decision-making wasn't bad and he lost the game because of one single scarab. Even with Snow's awesome control and placement, Jaedong eventually broke the defense. Would have preferred a 3-0 sweep but at least he won.
I think it is often impossible to tell if a player wins because he played well, or the other player simply played badly. A good player playing well can make another player look bad with fantastic play. It really is all relative.
I do question Stork's decision to play such a risky build on Benzene though, being behind already and on a map that is good for Protoss he should have stuck to standard play to give himself the best chance in that series.
As for game 2 of JD vs Snow, it wasn't badly played by JD at all. His killer instinct and willingness to really go all-in when he goes all-in (not some half-hearted BS we sometimes see from pros) is one of the things that makes him such a strong player. He was very, very close to winning the game too, it was Snow's absolutely clutch reaver defence that won the game for him (mad props for that!). One dud scarab at the wrong time or one slightly to slow reactions pulling back the reaver and I think he would have lost that for sure.
I agree with Lucumo and Goragoth. Maybe if JD was playing at his absolute peak, he would dominate with 3-0. But all the games were close, and they both played at an extremely high level. Maybe JD could have practiced harder, and I felt like he under rated Snow a bit. I can only assume that's why he was disappointed - he found himself at a disadvantage in the mind games, when Snow turned out to play better than ever.
But not practising hard for a match that you're by far the favourite to win is a natural, and often strategic thing to do. Almost everybody expected JD to have a much easier fight than he did, and Snow really was playing much better than anybody thought he would. If Snow hadn't played that well, not practising so much would have been the best strategy for JD. It's impossible to practise for every game as if it's going to be the OSL finals.
In regards to game 2, in retrospect the best option for JD would probably have been to snipe the nexus. But I remember as I was watching it that I thought JD was being clever for walking past the nexus and going for the kill - it looked to me like he had it. It would also have looked equally bad if JD had tried to kill the nexus, but failed, and there was no way of knowing in advance if that could happen.
And I think it's incredible that JD even managed to break the natural to begin with, because Snow showed some of the best reaver control that I've ever seen. I don't think it was JD's fault that he lost so much to the reaver, but rather skill on Snow's behalf, to make it turn out that way. His reaver play throughout the whole series was amazing. And had those reavers had 30 kills instead of 35, JD would have rolled right over him.
On January 28 2011 09:37 jalstar wrote: Didn't see Stork vs ZerO, but here's what I think of Snow vs Jaedong:
Set 1: Snow 1.5/5 Jaedong 3/5
Set 2: Snow 4/5 Jaedong 2.5/5
Set 3: Snow 2/5 Jaedong 3.5/5
Set 4: Snow 4.5/5 Jaedong 3/5
Set 5: Snow 4/5 Jaedong 5/5
You think Jaedong should have expected the best reaver micro in the world in game 2? If he had broken Snow there, he would have looked very dominant. He did micro mistakes that cost him the game, but 2.5 is an very low rating imo. The same thing goes for Snow in game 1: he played great, but got his first shuttle killed by scourge. If the scourge wasn't exactly there at that exact moment, he would have had a good game. In conclusion: your rating is opportuistic imo.
On January 28 2011 10:07 Z3kk wrote: So consensus is that last 4 games of JD vs Snow were very, very high quality, while Stork essentially played terribly throughout the series against Zero? :'(
So much for Stork not appearing in SPL because he wanted to practice...T_T
More than saying that Stork played badly, one should say that he prepared badly. Zero came in with three well-crafted, Stork-tailored builds, and Stork obliged by playing right into his expectations.
For all intents and purposes, Zero won the series all the way back in the practice house. Stork should've skipped more Proleague games because he was made to look very bad by Zero.
JD looked like he was disappointed that he actually won the series. I did feel like at parts of the game he was almost deliberately losing. Sending his drones straight into storms repeatedly? Sitting back in Game 5 while up 2 bases? No game face? This is one of the times I was really looking forward to the winners interview translation to explain what was going through his head. Now at least it explained a few of that. Thanks for the translation and JD go get that game face back!
On January 28 2011 10:07 Z3kk wrote: So consensus is that last 4 games of JD vs Snow were very, very high quality, while Stork essentially played terribly throughout the series against Zero? :'(
So much for Stork not appearing in SPL because he wanted to practice...T_T
Totally disagree. Stork played his ass off and came with unique ideas and preps, his play was solid and he wasn't sloppy. Zero just played and he played *hard* A case of getting outplayed, it happens sometimes and Zero isn't exactly mediocre, he just drops games awkwardly.
That first set he simply read him like a book and the way he used units instead of overlords to scout was a really slick move IMO since Protoss have taken the skies as a form of running away with the lead.
Also, every game in the Jaedong VS Snow was something I was not expecting and was surprised beautifully. I expected a walk over by the dong and Snow showed here was a reason why he made it that far in the first place.
On January 29 2011 01:24 polgas wrote: JD looked like he was disappointed that he actually won the series. I did feel like at parts of the game he was almost deliberately losing. Sending his drones straight into storms repeatedly? Sitting back in Game 5 while up 2 bases? No game face? This is one of the times I was really looking forward to the winners interview translation to explain what was going through his head. Now at least it explained a few of that. Thanks for the translation and JD go get that game face back!
^ Did you see when he banged his fist against his knees after game 4 while talking to his coach? He looked so dejected and so beaten I thought he would lose... That's why I'm so proud that he actually made it. It is like Yellow says, Jaedong knows how to win:
In any given circumstance, he reads them all. He's not just good at playing the game... He knows how to win the game. What I mean by that is, he has a way to win even in the most desperate situation. He's not just GREAT at game (like the rest of the progamers), he KNOWS how to WIN the game. From the start to finish, everything he does is to WIN the game, heck, I don't even know how to describe this! Watching him play, upsets me.
Is it just me, or does Jaedong look "happier" nowadays? Sometimes, I just wished he looked scary all the time lol.
Nice to see Jaedong's views on his sets against Snow. Those were tense, fantastic games. Watching Jaedong getting drop-harassed like crazy while simultaneously getting pushed back to his expos was a very tense experience. Glad to see him pull out a very close and well-deserved win.
On January 29 2011 02:44 eviltomahawk wrote: Is it just me, or does Jaedong look "happier" nowadays? Sometimes, I just wished he looked scary all the time lol.
There are actually two Jaedongs, the StarCraft Jaedong and the normal Jaedong. StarCraft Jaedong is scary as shit and isn't afraid of anybody, the normal Jaedong is happy and cute as a bunny.
I feel like the "Win or Die" mentality JD used to have is gone these days and he's more playing with a relaxed mentality. That's not to say JD doesn't want to win, I just feel like he's not in rage mode anymore. I mean in interviews its been hinted at that he's not feeling competitive these days, and his play has kinda been showing that. I'm glad I got to see JD show some old school competitiveness in this Bo5.
All that said, I think that JD taking a break from rage mode is a good thing right now, he looks less tired, and I think he's enjoying his wins more. GoGo JD to tie Nade :D
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