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Did you enjoy the game tonight, ballijuana?
Who uses the word bot with a straight face? I hope you get that splooge cleared out of your throat that findawg launched in there.
Did you enjoy the game tonight, ballijuana?
May 3, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah: Don Nelson and Calvin Booth celebrate after the Mavericks erased a 14-point fourth quarter deficit to defeat Karl Malone and the Jazz, 84-83, in the deciding Game Five of their first-round series. Booth scored the winning layup.
Dallas was making its first post-season appearance in 11 years and dropped the first two games in Utah to fall into an 0-2 hole. The young Mavericks then proceeded to reel off three straight wins to shock the Jazz and move on.
"At halftime, we just said 'Stay positive', and we did all the way."
- Steve Nash
Calvin Booth looks like Sarah Jessica Parker after she's fallen asleep on the beach for eight hours.
That's not fair to Calvin.
I lol'd. I lol'd hard.
Exactly. He would have gotten a suspension. There was no sense to risk that. Thus he tried his best to help the team, but unfortunately New Orleans was better. If Ballijuana calls him soft due to his decision not to slap West in the face, he is a moron. Yeah, slap him in the face, get ejected, your team has no chance anymore without you, but you protected your image has a hard guy. Very good! You are simply dumb if you can't understand Dirk's decision!
Dirk was in the top three in PER during the playoffs last year, that's how good he played in that series. People who call him soft have no idea what they are talking about.
Being soft has nothing to do with playing well, or extremely well for that matter. IE: Gasol is a soft , and he can put up good numbers.
Dirk is soft, and that's my opinion. We had this conversation many, many times before and most Mavs fans here do not agree. Fine, I have no problem with that.
I didn't realize Jazz fans were such cheese s. No wait, yes I did.
Well Gasol doesn't put up nearly Dirk's numbers. And he shied away from the big moment in the Finals. Dirk doesn't do that, with exception of the GS series (which is completely another debate) he has always played well when it counts, for the Mavs or for Germany. He comes back from injuries, and plays hurt, like almost no other player in the NBA today.
So if he isn't soft in that way, than you have to define what soft means. Because just like "choking" has become completely synonimous with losing, same thing is quickly happening with "soft". You have to give me a clear definition.
Why is it another debate?
Dirk is definitely tough, but you can still call him "soft" in some ways. Mavs fans make the mistake of thinking that just because he can come back from a high ankle sprain in record time, it mean's he's not "soft". But they don't understand what "soft" means.
Soft is resorting to off balance fadeaways instead of taking it to the rim, especially at the end of a game. Soft is hearing how you need a post game year after year but never developing one. Soft is taking a shot to the mouth from Shaq and never getting within 10 feet of the hoop for the rest of the series. Soft is letting Stephen Jackson and Baron Davis and Nellie punk you time after time and never doing anything about it.
Dirk is a physically tough guy, but he absolutely plays the game "soft". Not always, but the large majority of the time he does. There's been flashes of tough play (like the and-1 against the Spurs) but for the most part, Dirk has always resorted to weak like fadeaways when the game is on the line. I don't think it's one bit unfair to call Dirk soft in that regard. He doesn't have that killer mentality that guys like Duncan, Shaq, Kobe, and so on have.
Because one series should not define a player's career, especially when the other series show completely another trend, of a player playing even better in the playoffs than he does in the regular season.
Because that one series, has many other culprits besides Dirk, who with an heroic game 5 pushed it to 6 to begin with.
Nope. I didn't even watch 90% of it. Like I said 20 hours ago when I tried to stop this conversation in the first place- I got better things to do on a Saturday night than sit around arguing with your dumb ass. Considering how much you tried to keep talking to/about me, in this and the two other threads I didn't even post in, I can only assume you didn't. That sucks.
Dirk will never ever have a good post game. NEVER! He is not physically strong enough, and never will be. He doesn't have a strong back to do that. It is silly to ask him to do that. How many 7 footers in the world can play basketball to begin with? Few, and even less have a post game. The mistake that some people do is that they think since Duncan, Shaq have strong post games as 7 footers than everyone should. Yet many big man never were physically strong enough to develop one. We are especially tough on the big man in basketball, because we think of them as invincible forces, yet we often forget that it's remarkable that at this height they can move around in a basketball court.
It is a testament to Dirk's greatness that while never being a naturally strong person, he developed such a unique and unmatchable game. You say he should go to the rim more often, yet very often he does and doesn't finish. Some think it's because Dirk simply doesn't get calls. But the other truth is that Dirk doesn't have a high jump, and is often easily blocked close to the rim. It is not very smart for him to do that. On the other hand, his jumper is extremely accurate, and he has won many games with it. And while you say Dirk never went to the rim again in the Finals, look at the end of Game 5 again where all his plays were near the rim.
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Every ing team will rather have Deron than Dirk. Even though Dirk is a good and sometimes a great player, i would rather have Deron on my team.
BTW for some reason Deron always owns CP3, and almost single handedly beat the Lakers the last post season. If Boozer hadn't chocked, they may well have beaten them.
So when you say Dirk owns the Jazz, thisis all i can think of.
He's like 7 years younger. Thanks for chiming in with a completely obvious statement.Every ing team will rather have Deron than Dirk. Even though Dirk is a good and sometimes a great player, i would rather have Deron on my team.
You previously said all you wanted to do was enjoy your Saturday night Jazz game. I was simply inquiring as to whether or not it turned out to be an enjoyable experience for you. It's nice to know that it doesn't take much to activate the manic part of your psychological profile.
And in Game 5, if Dirk had done more of that before the end of the game, the Mavs win. He was terrible for the majority of the game. Dirk's biggest shot in Game 5 was also a fadeaway over Shaq. Great job that he made it, but you could certainly question his shot selection there.
If you say that's the player Dirk is, great. He's a spectacular finesse player, but that still doesn't make his game any less soft. And it's Mark Cuban's fault for putting all his faith in a guy whose game isn't conducive to winning championships.
How about two series?
Couldn't have written it better myself. Findog said a few days ago that Dirk is a 1.5 player. Not a number 1 or a number 2, just somebody in between. And I think part of what makes him a 1.5 player is exactly that, playing 'soft' and not wanting to change his ways about it year after year.
i agree with the view that dirk is what he is, a very very good player, and its not that he is a wimp or uncompe ive, but his style isn't a winning style. he'd be better off playing 2nd option and i think he's yet to have a coach/team that maximizes his strengths.
what sucks is that from interviews i read, dirk comes off as a genuine bball addict and i think he sees his flaws but he cant shake them.
another thing about dirk- i cant think of another superstar with as many sloshed-at-a-bar pics online. theres probably someone worse in american sports but dirk's pics are too funny.
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