06-19-2006, 01:16 AM
Quote:He certainly uses contact to his advantage, but how can you say he's not good at basketball?
Shaq is good at being 7'1" 330. He is not good at playing basketball. I will concede that he is an above-average passer.
Mostly it just disgusts me how much cheating he gets away with though - although it is a problem with the NBA in general. I always like when commentators say things like "Oh, he's just a rookie, no way they are going to give him that call." Huh? Isn't a foul a foul? Either it is against the rules or it isn't. I fail to see in the NBA rulebook where it says that veterans and superstars get special lattitude in the foul department.
I think that it is embarassing for the league to see Shaq stumbling over the line after each feakin' free throw for two years and never getting called for it. Or Shaq putting the ball on the ground while palming it, leaning on it for a while and then picking it back up and starting to dribble without anything being called as he did in last year's playoffs.
Probably my only real complaint against the NBA is the arbitrary enforcement of the rules. The refs have almost become as big of personalities as the players themselves and that is wrong.
--Mith
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack London
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack London