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man the NBA is just turning into a playground for punks to run their mouths. People should just shut up and play the game.
I blame Arenas, he spouts off so much and now it seems other people are doing it more often
I don't think he'd be nothing..dude's got skills, but he might not have won as much. I think its gotten to the point where he expects calls to go his way all the time now, and he whines as much as anybody. If Sheed were to do some of the things he did after a call against him, he'd probably already have been suspended a trillion times.
what the refs do is make him more difficult to stop - a player can't even look at Wade without it being called a foul, and that's just wrong. the mavs should've won, and the bad calls were just so blatant. I agree with you, mavs got screwed.
man the NBA is just turning into a playground for punks to run their mouths. People should just shut up and play the game.
I blame Arenas, he spouts off so much and now it seems other people are doing it more often
Not to pimp my own analysis, but I ran a model to predict FTs a player should get based on the number of shots he took in the paint, dunks, 2 pt shots and 3 pt shots (all attempts, not makes)
http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=56768
And the result is that Wade did not get an unusually high amount of calls in the playoffs last year.
The model has a VERY high multiple R (in the 90's, forgot the exact number), so it is a relatively good predictor.
BTW, my original intent was to go out and prove that the refs are biased, well, I proved myself wrong.
The more Wade talks the more I'm starting to realize that he's a kinda sorry dude. What a joke to think that Dirk didn't give them credit. Dirk gives out too much credit to the opponents in my opinion. Wade is really starting to become one of the most disliked star player in the league. Mostly from him getting so many calls from the officials (which isn't his fault!), but also...a lot the stuff he's been saying lately has just been lame. Even his coach thought he was sorry for not stepping up and saying that he needs to be more of leader on the Heat team.
Wade = owned
He's spewing BS...
Cuban responds at BlogMaverick:
I hope Dwayne Wade was misquoted in an article today in the Miami Herald. I know the Herald has issues with accuracy and they are still probably looking for the boat I dont own in Miami, but according to the Herald, and i have a hard time thinking even the Herald could get this quote wrong, Wade said the following:
DIG AT DIRK
After the Heat practiced Thursday at Quicken Loans Arena, Wade was asked if he believes players are ultimately remembered for what they do at the end of games.
Wade, who usually is selective and subtle with his criticisms of opposing players, took the opportunity to take a jab at Dallas' Dirk Nowitzki, who has failed to give the Heat credit for beating the Mavericks in the Finals last season.
''At the end of the day,'' Wade said, ``you're remembered for what you did at the end. . . . I think that's the reason -- Dirk says they gave us the championship last year, but he's the reason they lost the championship, because he wasn't the leader that he's supposed to be in the closing moments. That's because of great defense by us, but also he wasn't assertive enough as a leader's supposed to be.''
Say what ? Is this the DWade of some of the lamest , boring commercials known to man ? Commercials that are singlehandedly responsible for selling more commercial skipping Tivos than anything else on TV ?
Dwayne I don't blame you for not looking at tapes of the finals. You obviously didn't. You would have seen your unbelievable skills and some other unbelievable elements that if I could discuss honestly here I would get fined for.
You are right, endings are remembered. And the ending of 3 of the games of the Finals will be remembered alongside Game 6 of the King vs Lakers Conf Finals a few years ago.
I guess you have earned the right to criticize Dirk with an obvious display of your own leadership skills.
I know Shaq appreciates your leadership as well. He called out your team a few weeks ago saying it was "embarassing'. Great leadership DWade. Your coach sat players for being fat. I guess you couldnt lead them away from the buffet.
You are an amazing player Dwayne. I love watching you shoot free throws. What you know about Dirk's leadership skills is non existent. You don't have a clue. Your ability to evaluate leadership skills....well you obviously have an overinflated value of your own. Did you take business classes at Marquette ?
Now we know why Charles won't put you in his 5.
And Im pissed for one more reason. Im going to have to miss our next game against the Heat on Feb 22. A previous engagement. I guess its just a missed opportunity to bring a local business class to the game and try to let them interview you about your leadership skills.
He was also the WCSF MVP.
Wade is the biggest in the NBA and this is a perfect example why.
This is dead on. It really speaks to his own insecurities about how they won more than having anything to do w/ Dirk.
Edited to add; I just read the blog, and i know this is probablyan unpopular opinion here, but Cuban is f'in awesome!
Whatever. Tim Duncan lived at the free throw line in that series. Dampier and
Diop got called for a lot of ticky tack fouls and you know why? Because they're Erick Dampier and DeSagana Diop and he's Tim Duncan. I'm not complaining about that because Dirk got the same superstar treatment from the refs.
Posey and Haslem got away with mugging Dirk. None of the guys we threw at Wade got the same leeway.
Oh Yeah???
Seems like everybody forgot that Dirk opened his big mouth about Gasol last season after the Grizz beat the Mavs (regular season) ; talk about being insecure....
Oh Yeah???
Seems like everybody forgot that Dirk opened his big mouth about Gasol last season after the Grizz beat the Mavs (regular season) ; talk about being insecure....
The he did...to refresh, Memphis came into Dallas last year early in the season and beat the out of us and Gasol threw up something sick like 37 and 20....afterwards Dirk said something to the effect of "Gasol's a good player, but we made him look like even better than what he is," because they didn't play good defense on him. It was misconstrued.
Wade = Young Kobe. I think he's started believing his own hype and that's never a recipe for being likeable.
It's going to be very interesting to see where Wade got these comments from. Dirk gives teams all type of credit when they beat them. This is what, Wade has said something regarding this. He is singling out Dirk when you have coaches and players from other teams saying you get the benefits of some calls. Piston fans called him a diva last year in the playoffs. I see why.
I have no problem with Wade. But this came out of the blue.
If players, you know, the actual targets involved here, could care less about what other players say about them, why should we?
LP26 nailed it when he said it's Wade's insecurity behind him spouting off all his mess. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
...Jordan got away with LOTS of calls
Oh Yeah???
Seems like everybody forgot that Dirk opened his big mouth about Gasol last season after the Grizz beat the Mavs (regular season) ; talk about being insecure....
Wtf? Bobby Jackson was the only reason the Grizz and Mavs had a small time beef calling Dirk soft in which Dirk had the game sealing blocl off the backboard on Jackson.
I think that was his point.
This is correct, and Nowitzki picked Gasol as one of the top five international players last month.
Cuban's reponse about leading them away from the buffet was awesome.
ing mavfans, preach that they got robbed on the finals but refuse to beleive we got robbed on the 2nd round. stupid es
OupsyI think that was his point.
Ok ; my bad then
wow, you know just last night i must've confused one of them for being a spurs fan who was talking about how mavs were handed the series against the spurs but went on to choke against the heat, go figure dumbass
Dam there are too many pussy Dallas fans whining in here. Shaq was not gonna let Miami lose last year. Dallas won their le when they squeaked by the Spurs.
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