Real Deal

He was one of my favorite players in the NBA, but the little things he would do started piling up...the stats shirt, not shaking hands at the end of a playoff series, the dancing around during games...and I changed my opinion about him.

Whatever, Tyrone.

Miami fans were getting pissed at me when I told them back in July that this team, and the city, was now LeBron's. I'm sure they will still be pissed to hear it, but it's being written, and it's LeBron who's holding the pen, not me.

Pfft, I did that on NBA Live 2007 with Brian Cook.

Nope, said he would text me if he was allowed to...but I doubt he could. My uncle wasn't allowed to do anything like that. ---- Unrelated note...some castaway OTR members need to stop bringing me up on other sites. It's not my fault they are elsewhere because they couldn't hang with our bad ass basketball knowledge.

Yep, I counted that one as one of his four (it was already mentioned, so I quoted it).

Those are my three favorites.

Someone go tell Blasco he needs to be the third singer of the group.

Terrible way to close the game out for the Bucks. Mbah a Moute jumped off the wrong foot if he was going to use that left hand, one big reason why he was swatted.

What if we gave you Steve Blake and Shannon Brown for Brandon Jennings, would you change your mind?

I'm sure only a few will want to see that, but look at this... Phil's last season, beating the team he started with Phil's first title came in 1991, and it was against the Lakers...20th anniversary of that Finals match-up Kobe ties Jordan with his 6th ring Split season series in 1991 and 2011 (Lakers win at home, lose on the road) What are the chances? :o

I really didn't think that shot was going to go in. Nice game-winner.

I know, I was mainly addressing the thing about LeBron having one game-winner. It's one of the few times I'll ever defend him, though, don't worry.

I think LeBron has hit two playoff game-winners against the Wizards as well, one being a travel on a layup...the other was off the glass over Ruffin. There may be one more than that...think it was against Detroit, before they went to the Finals, GW layup. Should be four total. Wade has one against the Pistons in 2006 (championship season), and he hit one as a rookie, against the Hornets. Counting free throws, he beat Dallas in the Finals with two, can't remember which game. Three for him.

These bench players aren't going to produce if they are getting one shot attempt per quarter. It was obvious the Heat's second unit was going to struggle, but all I heard was how they would keep one superstar in at all times, to negate that. Well, it's not working, because this isn't a team. It's one superstar doing work, one watching him and happy he doesn't have to do as much as he did last year, an all-star that nobody cares about, and a bunch of shooters that mean absolutely nothing to the team for 50% of the game. Kobe and Shaq were averaging 24 and 20 in 2003-04, both in their primes (Shaq was still in his, really), and it was to fit in Malone and Payton...two guys who were actually old vets that weren't in their primes. Had Malone not been injured, who knows what that LA/DET series would've produced. LeBron wants to drop 40 on all of these teams. He holds back a bit, but he still gets into that mode and misses a lot of wide-open shooters. Wade goes 5-6 minutes without attempting a shot, gets cold, and he's done. All the while, these bench players playing behind James, Wade and Bosh will sit the bench and get cold knees, come out late in the third and look bad. Plus, everyone on the team not named LeBron is scared to death to handle the ball. It's LeBron's city, and he'll go down in flames with it before he turns into Scottie Pippen, and no coach or player (not even Riley) will do anything about that, the same way Phil couldn't do anything about the Kobe/Shaq feud.

Doesn't matter what Nash does against the Heat, dude. Their PG position is almost irrelevant. Over the years, spanning more than just one game against the Blazers, Nash has been horrible. I can give you one game where Brian Cook went ballistic, and scored 20+ and shot like Ray Allen, played perfectly in the triangle...but that doesn't reflect his total offense. Videos mean little to nothing, unless we're asking what happened in that particular game. Bryant completely ditched the triangle in the second half of last season a few times, and through the entire game, and was doubled and shot 30%. If I use that video, I can "prove" that Kobe is probably among the worst offensive starters in the NBA.

SportsCenter highlights with no Blake dunks? :o Good win by the Clippers. Eric Gordon hurt himself again, though...bad news.

Not counting his game against the Raptors earlier in February (which was weird), Cook has shot a combined 3-22 in his last seven games. To me, Cook not only avoids defense, he doesn't even play...and hasn't, since the 25th...so basically, he's not even in the league, in my opinion. Far too irrelevant for me to remember during a question like this. ------- Nash understands team concepts well? You mean defensive rotations and such? He's never proven that. He's never played on a team with a defensive anchor, and all of his opponents seem to light him up. It's extremely easy to lead a player right or left...just switch your feet. However, once you give him one of those options, you have to actually DO something with it. Nash doesn't. And Bargs is a post defender? There's no way I can agree with that. I'm sure his length bothers the smaller PF's in the league (same with Gasol), but can Bargnani really defend someone like Dwight Howard, Tim Duncan, or Pau Gasol? Those true post players crush him.

Dennis Rodman or Gary Payton. I've seen Rodman make life tough on some of the greatest bigs in the game, especially at the end of the game, and I've also seen him pull down the most important boards. Payton put the clamps on prolific scoring guards with seconds to go, and his hands were too damn fast.

You don't necessarily have to come out and say "do drugs" if you want to encourage someone. In his interviews, he's saying it's a great thing to do what he's doing, that we're all boring. Drugs are awesome? How many pre-teens should be hearing the stuff he's saying? He runs through numerous interviews, and suddenly, people are praising this scum. Some want to be like him, and half of them are 20 year olds that think it's cool. Kids that are 7-8 years younger will be even more manipulated, especially those that are having trouble socializing and having friends/relationships with others. There's absolutely nothing good about what Charlie Sheen has said. He has thrown people under the bus, basically took a jab at everyone that is not a drug addict or a male whore in the country, flipped off those who actually write this man his paychecks (he's very replaceable), and above everything else, he is something that no decent human being should want their kids or family members becoming. No matter what anyone says, there is not a single person on this site, or anyone that I know in the right state of mind, that can say they would encourage family and children to follow suit. No one. Why? Because Sheen is in the wrong, and that's all that matters in my half of this debate.

He's not going to dominate, but I wonder if this one bites Miami in the ass sometime in the playoffs. Arroyo can hit open shots. He hasn't been a stellar three-point shooter, but last season with the Heat, he dropped a lot of shots into the hoop at an efficient rate. Put Bibby on him, and I'm not so sure what happens. Maybe this is Arroyo giving Miami the middle finger.

Well, I wouldn't know when I would die if I was driving 80 MPH down a highway, blindfolded, but I know it's going to happen a bit sooner than your average highway driver. It's a fact that excessive drug use will greatly increase your chances of dying. Just a question: when you have a kid, and let's say he's 12 years old...would you encourage him to do drugs and be reckless, all because we hear about young teenagers dying in car accidents, committing suicide, etc. every day, and because you never know when he's going to die? There's no legitimate reason Sheen can give anyone for his drug use, other than ignorance. If he OD's tomorrow, you don't sit there and say, "Well, he could've died in a car accident on Monday, so one day early doesn't mean much because he lived it up!" It's just cool because Sheen isn't connected to anyone around here, but I would bet my house and car that everyone would be flying off the handle if their brothers, sisters or children were acting this way.

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It's different from me, and loads faster.

He puts it out there so people can do just that. It's interesting that anyone has the balls to judge those that judge those that basically ask to be judged. Hypocritical of you to say something like that and you ignore the fact that Sheen has trashed "normal people" because they have boring lives and ugly family members and friends. Sheen doesn't have a mind, let alone a superior frame of mind, to pass judgment on anyone. Yeah, I'd be pretty pissed if my son (if I had one) caught a glimpse of this on television, right after school, and decided he was going to model his life after a rich drug addict that admits doing drugs is cool, and that paying women for sex is awesome. I wonder how much fun Corey Haim was having. I bet River Phoenix was partying hard. If I have a daughter, I'll encourage her to live it up like Anna Nicole Smith did. Hope my son does become a basketball star, so I can tell him he should go all out like Len Bias. I bet my [expletive]ing friend thought it was awesome when he OD'ed behind the wheel of a car. Very smart. I look at the member list and find many people to be interesting. Charlie Sheen is interesting because, soon, he'll be used as an example...just as those I named above are. Cool for him that he's actually living his dream of porn stars, movies, money and drugs. Some of us have been with girls that have a similar body and faces to Bree Olson, without the train wreck between her legs. Some have enough money to live good. Some don't need a shot of heroin to get through their day. When Charlie Sheen is laying on his death bed, taking his final breath of air and regretting what he did, I'll probably still be living my boring ass life, drug-free, no Bree Olson to share with 60-year old men, probably posting on OTR. If that's your thing, if you share the same dream as Sheen...well, good luck. Live short and fall from prosperity, I guess.