Posted on 01/10/2003 1:27:18 PM PST by ewing
Anyway, my main complaint with Shaq is in his attitude toward the sport of basketball. If he doesn't want to give 100% each time out, then he should quit.
You bet wrong, moron. In high school, in practice we ran a drill called "big balls" - you took three straight full-speed charging fouls. I would do two sets in a row. Took so many charging fouls in high school, I still have a touch of bursitis in my elbows. When I played, if someone took a hard shot for the team, it was an act of strength that really pumped up your team, not something to be belittled. Shows what you're about that you try to downplay the concept.
Shaq gets as much punishment as he dishes out. What would you do in a game a street ball with no officials? Cry foul?
No, just whale the crap out of someone if they insisted on pulling such moves. If they weren't gonna play within the game, then I would exert whatever force was necessary to counter their lack of respect for basic rules. If they played within the rules, I in turn played clean.
However, that really doesn't matter - Shaq plays in a realm populated with refs, and if you watch his game, he just simply pushes people out of the way who have position. Ten years ago, the refs would call that. The game of basketball is properly based on the concept that the defender has the right to hold his ground. Instead, the NBA has made that concept a joke with Shaq.
Geesh. Haters are everywhere.
Oh, so because I think that whenever a player has a special set of rules for them, that there is something wrong the league, that makes me a "hater?" That's rich. Call up Jesse Jackson, he and you pull the same nonsense to counter valid criticism.
Kobe went to high school a mile away from where I lived. Saw him play a couple of times then. He has a poised game and a lot of class. You seem to think that critisim of Shaq somehow makes me a Laker hater. I rip into the actions of individuals, not teams, unless the team itself is a mess, in which case I figure the coach is at fault.
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