• 29May 09

  Same old story.

  "LeBron's great performances last few games"

  "Magic stave off LeBron's 49"

  "LeBron has 44 in losing cause"

  "LeBron's efforts not enough, Cavs lose"

  "The King's team struggles"

  If one doesn't know that the NBA consists of 30 teams, 16 of which makes the playoffs, 4 are left in each conference's finals, it would be easy to think that the NBA is essentially one man. No words on the great Magic performance in these playoffs, almost none on Denver's revival or LA's struggle. Mainstream media are on their knees before a 24 year old arrogant and overrated young man.

  The NBA is one man. One only person whose stats, tatoos, efforts, dunks, commercials, words, etc. rule amongst a sea of 400 hundred-something worthless opponents. Of course, that man is the King.

  The King is a King, so he's on every headline of every newspaper, whether he's hurt, blocks a shot, whines for a foul, misses 10 free throws in a game or averages a triple-double in one week. The King doesn't need to win to make the front page of a newspaper, he just has to be the King.

  You see, the King commands respect from the men in grey, who have to obey and give him free opportunities at point from the stripe. The King rarely commits a foul, according to the referee, he's given much more freedom than the other simple players.

  The King has to be on every highlight reel. He does the same dunk every single time, but that dunk is the King's dunk, so even though onlookers are sick and tired of it, the NBA has to make the King happy so they'll still put it on the highlight reel.

  The King rules, no matter what. If the King only scores one point in a game, that point will be in this week's top 10 plays.

  If the King is on the bench biting is nails, it's him the cameras will show, commentators going "Oh, look at such grace, you can't tell me you've been expecting that so early in his career" "He's scary good, isn't he? Look at those broad shoulders, that gracious headband and those marvelous shoes, the King knows how to look good, and he's gorgeous." "He should win every MVP for 20 years for being so great sitting on the bench, even though he's the King, he should have a throne by himself" "In fact, why does he even sit on the bench, because he the King, he should play every minute of every team every game forever"

  Long live the King, for as long as he lives, the NBA will be great, everyone else s*cks but him.

  • Posted May 29, 2009 11:56 am PT
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• 22May 09

  If the Cavs make the Finals, I'm not watching.

  Most people don't care about that. In fact, nobody cares.

  I only felt like I had to write it.

  And that's why I'm not stupid enough to write such a blatant opinion on a forum.

  I just wouldn't be able to stand all those basketball "experts", "analysts" and "journalists" shoving LeBron down our throats longer. If you want NBA fans to like the player, stop acting like he's a God.

  At first I was like "Cool, a potentially great player coming in." Then they started treating him like a superstar a month into his career : "Did you have any idea he was gonna be this good this quick?" was the sentence I heard the most during the 03-04 season where he should actually have lost the ROY award to Carmelo. And the man himself simply loves to be atop the NBA world.

  This is sickening me.

  Another message to the NBA, who doesn't care what fans think anyway, you're losing credibility by the years with poor refereeing and choking people with LeBron here and there.

  But I gotta say refereeing was good in this game, maybe the first and only time in the playoffs that's gonna be true.

  Well I know you don't give a ****. You'll probably say "hey look at this bitter loser".

  You know what? That shot he just hit. GREAT shot, released perfectly before the buzzer. Superb. I mean it. The shot itself isn't bad to me. The bad thing about that shot is that we're gonna see it on SportsCenter (I watch Score Tonight, to be honest, but it's the same thing) EVERY F*****G DAY until the playoffs are over.

  Talk about over saturation.

  Like that "block" in game one on Howard, that was a HORRENDOUS non call and a foul as obvious as Dick Bavetta being more of a clown than a ref. He had at least another block I saw, which was clean, no problem.

  So freaking what? I'm not watching a Cavaliers game again, EVER.

  EDIT : Oh of course, they'll refer to LeBron's 3 as a Miracle Shot. It was a fade away 3 pointer from about 23 feet. No hand in the face. But if a dude like JR Smith, Michael Redd, Iguodala or even Caron Butler makes the same play, it will still go way below a normal LeBron dunk in some SportsCenter top 10.

  And don't come and tell me LeBron's dunks are great. Look, he sucks at variety. He simply elevates and jams it in.

  'Oh look, Trevor Ariza just posterized a dude in heavy trafic, and Rudy Fernandez did something as great! And Tyrus Thomas dunked over Chris Bosh, that was amazing.'

  'Shut up, dude, LeBron had a break away one handed normal dunk, the closest player was 40 feet away, that's much more impressive, and deserves top spot on every top 10 EVER'

  Soon they'll be putting LeBron's free throws on Sportscenter. Or they will be showing him on the bench during a live game, that's much more interesting than an actual game. If he buys a CAT it'll make the cover of Sports Illustrated.

  • Posted May 22, 2009 8:51 pm PT
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• 18Apr 09

  Have fun.

  In 54 minutes (3 full games) :

  My team has a 83-overall GK : I had approximately 80 shots on target, 40 shots off target and 50 shots blocked by mostly non-moving defencemen. One ugly backhand bouncing goal in traffic at the very end of a 5-0 game.

  Other team with one 73-overall GK : approx. 90 shots. Maybe 15 off target, 10 blocked. 10 goals.

  I had more attack time, more faceoffs won, more better opportunities to score.

  12 penalties for my players, 2 for the opposition, resulting in a total (not a joke) of 3 seconds of power play.

  How is that supposed to be fun?

  I played a game once. I obliterated the other team in Shots (56-28 ), attack time (2-to-1), faceoffs won (3-to-1). And I lost 2-1.

  Great.

  My better scorers (88-overall, which is freaking great) have between 8% and 14% Shots being goals this season.

  Other teams, as well as in real life : most OK players are over 10, good players over 15 and great players over 20%.

  I sometimes wonder why I even bother. It's a GREAT game, great gameplay, graphics, etc... It's simply insanely hard and unrealistic.

  And games are supposed to be fun.

  EDIT : Oh yeah. Of course

  I just played another game. In fact I wanted to, then the game started...

  They scored on their first two shots.

  I was pissed, so I started another. I was leading like 3-0 for the first time in my life I think, middle of the second period. Then they scored 5 straight goals in less than 10 shots.

  And how come my "poke checks" don't work and theirs do?

  Yes. Now I really want to play the game.

  • Posted Apr 18, 2009 3:55 pm PT
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