Yao Ming was really held back by his injuries he had a season with 25 and 10 and spans of games where he showed he can put up great numbers. He even had a little MVP talk going on one season. So had really had potential but I guess at that size you can't abuse your body for so long. Speaking of great numbers... what do you think of Kevin Love with his 26 - 13 and 4 this season. Worse team of course but the numbers are right up there with the Lebrons and Durants, yet he doesn't get a quarter of the hype.
Put it this way: Replace Durant with George on OKC, and they'd be fighting to make the 7th or 8th seed in the West. ESPECIALLY if you take out Westbrook. You know DAMN WELL that George isn't capable of shouldering an offensive load the way Durant is. There is NO ARGUMENT on the planet that makes Paul George as good as KD. George is a better defender, but not by a wide margin. KD has become a well above average defender, and George isn't some all time great defender, yet. The gap between them offensively is HUGE! The margin is rather wide there. Durant's a better basketball player. Period. He'll always be a better player as well. Two years ago, when Durant was 23 (same age as PG now), he was STILL a far better player then. This year, at 25, he's hit his peak. Most great players peak between 25-28 anyway.
Kevin Love is a BEAST & Has Been for the Last 2-3 Seasons...The "Best Power Forward in the NBA" Debate is btwn Love, Blake Griffin and LaMarcus Aldridge...
Heat w/an Impressive Win vs. Chicago, Sans LeBron... Bosh had 28 & 10 & has Quietly Been BALLIN' All Season...He's DRAMATICALLY Improved his 3pt Shooting Stroke...Wade Finished w/23, 10boards, 7dimes, the 1st Time Since 2011 that he's Put Up Numbers of that Ilk... REED:kidcool:
DOUBTFUL he Has...In Related News, Greg Oden Played Nearly 13 Minutes in the Heats Win vs. the Bulls & had 5pts, 5boards... Vegas Should Placed Betting Odds on the Likelihood of Oden AND Bynum Being on the Court Together @ the SAME Time... REED:l2:
Might be clever to not get him injured again and save him for the play-offs. If he can stay healthy and use his potential, Oden is a scary last piece of puzzle in an already great team.
if the heat had signed bynum what were the odds that he and oden were goin 1 on 1 in practice and injure themselves on the same play? akin to a double knockout in boxing
Fat ass Felton was arrested last night, and charged with felony gun possession. I feel bad for Melo. He really is trying his best season, and what's really messed up, this has probably been his peak season individually. Not only has had to carry the ENTIRE scoring load this year, but he's actually made more of an effort on defense this season as well. He's simply surrounded by a bunch of bums, and knuckleheads. He's gonna leave NY, and I don't blame him. He deserves to be a title contender while he's still in his prime.
George has his Fucking NIPPLE Out & Hill Needs to CLOSE his Fucking Shirt:doh:...REED Blames Jason Collins... REED:limp:
Yeah, I watched that game. OKC played some really shitty defense making the game hard on themselves. They'd fight to get the scores back even and then watch as the Clippers would make wide open shots followed by the OKC guys making pissed off foot stomps like it was somebody else's fault. What I saw from most of the OKC team is just a lack of pride when it comes to playing defense and I saw this a lot from Durant and Westbrook. It seems like a lot of their attitudes is--if I don't challenge the shot and he makes it, I won't get embarrassed--which is just a serious statement about not taking pride in playing defense. This was just a terrible defensive effort with several wide open dunks from the Clippers because nobody on OKC saw their man leak out to the rim. And you spoke about Crawford's high scoring, Barnes who'd been in a slump just missed tieing his career high in 3 point makes by one 3 pointer. He made 6 of them before halftime and then somebody must have told him he was one away because he couldn't buy a 3 after that and you could tell his form had gone south. I think OKC will be in a funk for a while until Westbrook gets his game all the way back.
Here's something I don't get about the NBA that pisses me off. After a whistle has been blown to stop play and the guy with the ball shoots it just for kicks, some guy on the other team will jump up and block the shot. What is the point of that? First of all you're wasting energy and putting unnecessary stress on your knees and back for nothing. Whether the guy makes it or not has no bearing on him making his next shot. If anything I think him making it means he's do for a miss on his next shot. I blame Kevin Garnett for this dumb shit.
im not 7 feet like garnett but if some asshole wants to toss up a shot between plays after a foul call or something during a pickup game I'll put my hand up to contest it so its less likely he sees the ball going in the basket. it seems logical to me
It Makes PERFECT Sense to REED... That Could Be the Shot that GETS a Guy on a Hot Streak...Shooters GAIN Confidence from Seeing the Ball Go Through the Net, Even on a Dead Ball Situation...All it Takes is 1 MADE Shot for a Guy to Start Feeling GOOD about Himself Again & Next Thing You Know, he Drops 8-10 in a Quarter...Or, Maybe he's Already Made 3-4 Straight...If the Whistle Blows the Next Play Dead, he Shoots & Makes it Anyways, REED Guarantees the Shooter KNOWS he's Now Made 5 STRAIGHT... It's All about PREVENTING a Shooter from GAINING Momentum or Looking to KILL the Momentum he Already Has... KG Started It & REED Looooooooooved when he Did It...It May SEEM Inconsequential, but there's a Clear PURPOSE Behind It, @ Least... REED:hammert:
Yeah always seemed to me like some kind of "not in my house" you can't even score when it doesn't count type of approach.
