Their Personalities just NEVER Meshed... Carlisle Micro-Manages his PG's, Something Even Doc Rivers DIDN'T Do to Rondo...Rondo WON a Championship Being the Floor General & Primary Decision Maker of the Boston Celtics...& Though he was NEVER Liked by his Teammates, Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett and Ray-Ray All RESPECTED Rondo's Role AND his Ability to Flourish in It... Carlisle Wants to Call Plays from the Sideline, Every Other Trip Down the Floor...Poor Fit for Rondo...Carlisle's MORE Confrontational than Doc Rivers, Which is Another Poor Fit for a Flaky Ass Dude like Rondo... Carlisle IS a Good Coach Though & PG is the Most Talent HEAVY Position in the League... REED:mj:
I noticed that. Not sure how Kidd dealt with it, but Rondo is too stubborn to yield. It's a shame because both of them are two of the brightest minds in their respective roles.
Rondo's VERY Flaky, but the Thing is, Carlisle's a CHAMPIONSHIP Winning Coach in his Own Right...So REED Can't Blame Carlisle for Being UNYIELDING... Rondo's Going to have to Be on his BEST Behavior @ his Next Stop, Because NO Other Teams will Be Interested if he Clashes w/a Coach, is Injury Plagued and/or has an ATTITUDE... REED:mj:
Was watching the Clips / Spurs game last night, and I can't figure out how the Clippers blew that game. They just looked like the better team the whole game. Seemed like the Clips were grabbing an obscene amount of offensive rebounds, and it felt like they should be blowing out the Spurs, and you look up at the scoreboard, and the game is down to the wire. :dunno: Paddy Mills played great in place of Parker, but I have a hard time seeing the Spurs go much further with a hurt or gimpy Parker.
Hopefully Mills and Joseph can carry Parker's load until he recovers. Of their original big three, Parker is the youngest and the oldest at the same time. He should be the first to retire IMO. The Clippers have a great team on paper, but their chemistry is not there. Paul and Griffin have no synergy, they're supposed to be a tandem but they're just really 1a and 1b.
Clips Definitely Let 1 Get AWAY Last Night...Can't Do that Against the Defending Champs...If the Clips Ultimately LOSE the Series, they Can Point to Game 2 as the Reason Why... REED
SHAMEFUL Display of Flopping by Harrison Barnes... Anthony Davis NEVER Even Touched him, yet Barnes Fell to his Back like he was Nailed by a Tyson Uppercut AND the Ref Called an Offensive Foul on Davis... FAG!!! REED:baa:
I hate that shit! They enact anti-flopping rules, and then all they do is fine some scrub once every 3 weeks or so, and everybody else goes on, business as usual.
Flopping Represents Everything that's WRONG w/What's aBEAUTIFUL Game, Otherwise.... An NBA Level Player Should Have Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay Tooooooooo Much SELF-RESPECT and BELIEF in his Own Talent, than to Even Consider Flopping...If You're Good & You KNOW You're Good, Why Bother w/Trying to CON the Ref Into a Bullshit Call???... & Before Anybody Chimes in w/How it's "Smart" to Work Every Possible Advantage you Can, FUCK YOU!!!...It's Chickenshit Basketball; CHEATING, Basically...Just PLAY the Fucking Game... Harrison Barnes DISGRACED Himself... REED:baa:
Must Wins for Dallas, Toronto and the Clippers Tonight... The Mavs and Raptors are OBVIOUS, but in the Case of the Clippers, REED Thinks it's IMPERATIVE they Keep the LEAD in this Series...If they Lose Tonight, Falling Behind 2-1, w/Game 4 In S.A., Things Can & Likely WILL Get Away from Them...To WIN this Series, the Clippers Absolutely Must Win TONIGHT... REED:mj:
If the Clips Lose Tonight, REED Can't See them Winning Game 4 in SA... If they DO Win Tonight, Every Drip of PRESSURE Shifts to the Spurs... REED
Either GS vs SA or Hou. And Neil - Chris Paul takes the LEAST blame out of any NBA superstar in history. Whenever he fails, it's NEVER his fault. That wouldn't be an issue if his overrated ass wasn't hyped by the media to be on the same tier as guys like Kobe, Wade, KD, ect. The media and CP3 fans simply have to admit this guy is a Robin, not Batman. I think the hope was that Griffin could one day become a Batman, but that ain't ever gonna happen IMO. Paul needs to be on the Pelicans or something. He'd be the perfect Robin to AD's Batman.
When Griffin was a rookie he was supposed to be the next Barkley. It's apparent at this point he'll never be able to shine Barkley's shoes. He's closer to Shawn Kemp, only Kemp stepped it up in the playoffs and Griffin shrinks in the PO's. As for Chris Paul, I've been saying it for years and years and years, he's more stats and talent than he is substance. CP3 is an AMAZING talent, and a stat lover's dream............ but he's not a winner. I'll always maintain that.
Honestly, CP lacks the fire to take his game and his team to the next level. If only he had half the heart that Iverson played with...
Iverson was a better basketball player than Chris Paul. Period. He might not have been the playmaker Paul is, and he didn't have the squeaky State Farm image, but he could dominate a game in a way that Paul cant. If you give Iverson in his prime a second option like Griffin, I refuse to believe that the Clips NEVER get past the 1st or 2nd round. Of course, the Iverson haters will say "AI would never utilize Griffin", but that's bs to me. That early 00s Sixers team was built around a bunch of good defenders and Iverson carrying ALLLL of the offensive load.
