I think people are saying that nobody cares. Except for you.Originally Posted by JapanAir21
You can't, because it's true.Originally Posted by Kevin Cleveland
Second best blocking guard.
How can that not spark a substantial debate...?
RT @HPBasketball Uh.... if Irving hits 1 more free throw out of every ten.... he's going to be a rookie going 50-40-90. With 23 points and 6 assists per 36.
Yea, he's not ROY
Originally Posted by CP1708
*I need that MJ popcorn gif in here STAT*
Fool, you even ADMITTED that conditioning is a part of it...which is what I was getting at. And
But there was someone who follows the Mavs here on NT who was justifying Dirk's early struggles (before he took his 4 game 'breather") and giving him a pass because he's coming off a championship. There are PLENTY of out-of-shape guys in the league right now. No one is denying this. However, Dirk is in rare company as far as being one of the few guys in the league who actually had to take time off to get their conditioning up.
In all honesty, I don't see the issue of him taking four games off. Do you believe he doesn't have a knee issue and is just taking time off to get his conditioning in shape? Because he's been doing two-a-days, lifting to strengthen his knee, doing drills to get his knee right, things he couldn't do if he were playing. The reason why he took the games off is because Carlisle, and the training staff, believed it'd be beneficial with our previous four-game stand.
We won three of those four games, and were dominating for the first half of the one we lost. Carlisle believes in the depth of the team, and wanted to help get Lamar right. He wanted to give Lamar time to try and get his shots up. Was it successful? Yes and no. His games against New Orleans, Phoenix, and Utah were pretty good. Minnesota was a travesty and he was terrible.
I think we have one of the deepest teams in the NBA, thus being able to rest our star to get the rest of our team right, and try to get some cohesiveness with the new guys. That's why we saw Beaubois go off for 22 and play his best game as a Maverick, and that's why Lamar had three of four games in which he played well. Vince was also very good when he played while Dirk was out. Carlisle just believes in the depth of the team.
So what's the issue? Is it the fact that Dirk took time off and you think he was just trying to get his conditioning right and you're not cool with that?
And I'll gladly admit I'm wrong if you can show me something I'm wrong about. Erick Dampier helped bring us a championship in Tyson Chandler last year, and I said that he would be a trade-piece to help us contend.
I brought up Dirk's conditioning being the reason why he missed 4 games...JapanAir got mad and said that wasn't the reason why he was out and we're a bunch of numbnuts...then only to then say conditioning was part of the problem.
It's his knee that he rushed back from last year when he hurt it. You're blaming the root of the issue on his conditioning, when it's his knee.
How about we just say he's conditioning his knee and call it a day?
Yes, Dirk winning a ring was a good story and everybody's happy for him, but its unacceptable to go into the season out of shape and then have to sit games out to work on your conditioning no matter who you are.
Except, that wasn't you, that was someone else, my bad.
Still though, I don't see what's wrong with him taking four games off to get his knee right. That's what he did.
I think conditioning is a part of every players hardship right now with having so many games packed into a short schedule. Taking a week off of games to have two-a-days and working on his knee was the reason Dirk decided to sit out. His coach went ahead and said it was his conditioning, which he may not have been happy with, but Dirk felt his conditioning was fine.
I really had no clueOriginally Posted by PMatic
Poor DoubleJs didn't know what he was getting into.
I saw the size of his response and immediately skipped over it.
I didn't know JA had it like that in here...
