Comments on: Ballin’: Fifteen and Life

By: Sean Jean

Sean Jean — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:32:39 +0000

As long as we agree on one thing: Shaq is hilariously useless.

By: coop247

coop247 — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:55:39 +0000

All good points and I mostly agree. He has always been in or near the top 5 guys in the league, no doubt. I’m just not sure he was ever #1.

By: Sean Jean

Sean Jean — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:49:47 +0000

Agree to disagree coop. I think the year before when he got hurt in the Eastern Conference finals, had he been healthy, they knock off Detroit and play San Antonio in the finals that year. I thought he was, if not the, the best of 3 players in the league those two years. He shot a great percentage, filled the stat sheet, made great decisions with the ball, and was just a great all around player. He played solid d, everything. Sure, those finals were very one sided in the way they were officiated, but that shouldn’t diminish how great he played. He was truly unstoppable in both of those entire playoff stretches. Lebron has played a good game here and there in the playoffs. Same for Kobe. Wade consistently was great. He came up time and time again in huge pressure situations. I think two years ago most would agree with me too. It’s just that now all has been forgotten because of how they look now and because Lebron scored 40+ in a big playoff game against Detroit last year (then was a complete no show against the Spurs btw).

Excuses are excuses. Plenty of titles have been officiated questionably (just ask the Kings about the Lakers 3 straight), but you either win the title or you don’t. The NBA is the poster child of bad officiating. Good officiating is more newsworthy than bad.

Doesn’t matter either way, I just think it’s another example of how the ever evolving mass media machine just devours everything in it’s path and shits it out at an ever increasing rate.

By: coop247

coop247 — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:39:02 +0000

@Sean Jean
At no point in time was D-Wade ever the best player in the NBA. I like DWade, he plays hard, plays through injuries, seems like a good guy, and genuinely cares about winning. But that one title came in a year when the east was brutally bad and the finals were the worst officiated sporting event in history. He is a very good player, but he can’t singlehandedly take over a game like Kobe/Bron can.

By: spencer096

spencer096 — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:38:42 +0000

tk…that’s a pretty crazy name.

Mags…do the stache, it’s totally worth it.

By: tk

tk — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:31:31 +0000

http://gobearcats.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/muhammad_jihad00.html

By: tk

tk — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:30:48 +0000

spencer – No. Totally a real, turnover-prone PG.

By: spencer096

spencer096 — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:28:03 +0000

tk…are you making that name up? wasnt that the name of a terrorist in Team America?

By: irishmafia

irishmafia — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:27:21 +0000

steve logan and i graduated the same year, same high school
him and sam clancy were beasts that year, clancy went to USC and didnt amount to much though as did logan

By: Magglio Merkin

Magglio Merkin — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:27:15 +0000

@ tk

Nope, it was totally Logan.

@ Spencer096

My buddy and I are growing out pretty magical beards right now and I plan on cutting mine into just a stache when it thickens up. The stache is the new chic move. Nodoby is doing it and it looks rediculous, but it is a solid play to look different. My girlfriend doesn’t mind because she knows no women will approach me due to my similar appearence to a 70’s porn actor.