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LOL. is you serious?
stupid.this generation's best 2 players (LeRoids and Ethiopia) are possibly the most mentally weak #1 and #2 players in the history of the game
fail tbh
the only time lebron showed any kind of mental weakness was 1 playoff series against the mavs
aside from that, im curious as to where all this mental weakness was shown
LOL. is you serious?
not worth my time.
I can't name all of Jon Cryer's ty movies either but I'm confident saying he's done ty movies. So many that I don't bother to note them.
but here's some mental weakness anyway....
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Pretty spot on actually.
I actually enjoy Lebron's love and passion for the game ... but not a fan of the shucking and jiving. And wasnt your boy Danny Green one of the main supporters of this? I get his is older now but Danny wasnt doing dat on Pop's watch ...
yep. that is him grinning right behind him ...
Indeed. The s on board had to navigate the lack of space to give brain. The coco, though, was by far a better product back then...
I don't really consider Green as part of the discussion. I guess I was just thinking about those in the category of all time greats. I don't know anyone else on that list so unfocused that they'd decide to shuck and jive during a game while it was going on. This act alone doesn't prove anything but I think it just helps to underline his overall approach.
Well this thread quickly backfired on OP
He was a Jewish Rabbi from Galilee
It did? Nobody argued against the numbers in the OP
No shock Mavfan, has mental weakness on block, Nazi Dirk made chocking into an art form for over a decade, despite being on stacked teams year after year. Until finally the stars aligned and he had a decent shooting stretch of about 20 games in the playoffs in order to receive his Fluke Championship, thereby becoming according to mavfan, a top 10 player of all time in history of the nba.
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How is that mental weakness?
That does not prove he is mentally weak. It proves he makes mistakes, same as every other great player.
That doesn't prove anything, other than perhaps physical weakness, as a result of being overused by his team.
Lack of HGH/recovery drugs and crooked refs like Knick Bavetta in the 90s TBH
Hahah sounds like a circus. I watch Shark Tank and Cuban tried to straight up buy a small company that made clip on ties. He was going to use it strictly for Maverick merchandise inside the stadium
I remember Bill Simmons (I know most hate him) exposing this years ago
That's a crucial point: Most NBA games these days are overshadowed by a misguided attempt to turn the game into a scene. Every team turns down the lights for the introductions, blasts the same Black Eyed Peas songs, shows the same inspirational movie clips, trots out the same semi-skanky-looking cheerleaders, plays the same musical cues to get fans to cheer ... really, it's organized manipulation that doesn't differ from city to city.
NFL - 2008
"Attention Home-Field advantage has left the building"
I realized this during the Bears-Colts game in Week 1, when Kyle Orton waltzed into Indy and ruined the grand opening of Lucas Oil Stadium, the latest state-of-the-art football venue that seems much more interested in looking cool and making money over, you know, actually helping its home team win games. The place was so dead for four quarters that you could almost hear John Madden salivating over his postgame meal of fried turkey legs, blooming onions and Lipitor parmigiana. You could have laid a baby down at midfield, and it wouldn't have woken up.
The chasm between the "haves" and the "have-nots" was jarring. I've attended three Pats games in the Gillette Mausoleum and always felt like I had been transported into a David Lynch movie in which everything looked slightly the same, only it isn't even remotely the same. Throw in the dirty secret that it isn't really fun to attend an NFL game in the 21st century -- the routine of "kickoff, TV timeout, three plays, punt, TV timeout, five plays, field goal, TV timeout, kickoff, TV timeout, someone gets hurt on first down, prolonged TV timeout, three more plays, touchdown, extra point, TV timeout, kickoff, TV timeout" gets old after about 25 minutes -- and by 2006 Bug's friends were making pro-and-con lists for keeping their tickets.
Patriots opened Patriot Place this season, a super-mall/mega-complex that bumped fans out of the main parking lot unless they paid an extortion fe— er, a premium fee. Team Buggy now tailgates on the other side of Route 1 for $50, crammed between a zillion other cars in a miasma of charcoal fumes. It takes them 35-40 minutes to walk from this space and find their seats inside. It takes them another 90 minutes to get home because common fans can't use the special access road for high rollers. Suddenly, it's an 11-hour commitment -- and a relatively expensive one -- to hang out and support their favorite team in an increasingly somber stadium."We used to stand for every big down and every big drive," Bug says wistfully. "Now people yell at us to sit down. The old stadium was a dump, but we felt like we were at a football game, you know? Now we're at ... I don't know. The fans don't affect the game anymore. It's really sad. Grover calls it the wine-and-cheese crowd. We've become the fans we always made fun of."
That brewing disenfranchisement keeps popping up at these home games. You can not hear it, if that makes sense. And not just in New England. Thirteen teams have built SOTAS (state-of-the-art stadiums) since 1999; 14 if you include Daniel Snyder's overhauling of FedEx Field in 2004. Each stadium follows a similar let's-rake-in-the-cash blueprint. The first section of seats hug the field. At the top of those sections, the club seats start. That's followed by a phalanx of premium luxury suites. More luxury suites dominate the second section. And the majority of blue-collar fans are crammed into the upper decks. Fundamentally, it's a flawed way to cultivate a home-field advantage; beyond the emotional compromises and festering resentment of the blue-collar fans, the newer stadiums don't reverberate noise the same. Look at Lambeau or Ralph Wilson Stadium -- just rows and rows of fans, one after the other, rising for something like 75 rows before you hit your first luxury box. Watching the Browns-Bills game Monday night, I found myself enjoying the fans as much as the contest itself. Now this was football!
So embarrassing for the NBA. He did the same tonight. His own teammates had to grab and tell him "It's not over yet" (6 seconds left in game and Blazers with ball
Fair point. Not saying I equate dancing to mental weakness but I do think it shows how nonchalant he was about the focus it takes to ring. After that season he stopped clowning around ... and played with more edge. Maybe it was just maturity or he needed to lose enough however he still did that punching Dwade stuff in the 2011 Finals and Dirk & JET made him pay. Agaimn i like the joy he has for the game I just think he was better off without this type of .
it's stupid though, if you're pointing out that it's totally different because basketball changed as a sport with the ins ution of the three point line then doesn't the road runboth ways? Your record is no longer applicable to the sport we play today? So your record is what, ingETERNAL now if any of those points higher than your total come from the three point line? Dudes gotta play like it's 1978?
I love the Iceman but I'm always not-down with old basketball players ing and moaning about contemporary trends and players (it's getting even ing worse with dudes from the 90s or dudes STILL in the league like Kobe, back in my day blahblahblahblah grit heart DANG THESE STATS!!!) and I'm not really changing that opinion because he happens to be a Spur. Retired players unable to play anymore, stuck in the past, just grasping at whatever they can in the present, often diminishing the achievements of contemporary players, whatever dude stop shouting at me to get off your lawn.
You better believe this just makes him look like a petty hater to all the non-Spurs NBA fans unless they're specialized fetishizers of the past or ing Bill Simmons.Like sorry dude, I'm pretty sure most of those glorious classic Celtics teams would look like old men on the court in today's NBA.
And before you start ranting about monkeyball vs. b-ball IQ and all that bull , we wouldn't be anywhere in this current era without Kawhi Leonard's athleticism and physical abilities so you can stick that racist Eurotrash bull right back up your ass (UUUHHH YOU'RE RUNNING FASTER AND JUMPING HIGHER IN THIS SPORT OF BASKETBALL, HOW DARE YOU FILTHY AMERICANS!!!!! WHAT WE ARE BAD AT IS CLEARLY CHEAP AND DUMB!!!!). Except for a set number of old legends (including admittedly dudes like the Iceman, and obviously Wilt was enough of a unique specimen to own the top athletes of today's age) a lot of those dudes would get totally owned by today's athletes.
Retired athletes just need to be able to nod, smile, and go, "Not bad young fella". Keep that petty "BUT WAIT A MINUTE!!!!!" to yourself dude. There's a reason it's funny. There's a reason everyone laughs.
I think this is why a couple of years of college would have been great for him. Actually learn the game in a system under a great basketball mind. Understand the team aspect. As a teen, he obviously was a one man show so never picked up this part of the game. Not that I wouldn't have done the same thing. Take the money and avoid any risk of injury. That being said, I think parts of his game have not come along like they would have had he gone to college.
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