Tarloose League

Un passage à lire absolument, il est signé Eddie Johnson qui répond à une question sur la dureté du jeu aujourd'hui par rapport à son époque. Il parle des gars qu'ils détestent, de certains forts caracteres et des joueurs devenus plus "sensibles" aujourd'hui.

Eddie, I miss the good old days of the NBA, the days when you played and the game was physical. How do you feel when you see a hard foul in an NBA game and the player is ejected or even suspended, when if that happened back when you played, you just got two free throws and that was that? How many points a game do you think you would of scored if no one was allowed to touch you or give you a “Charles Oakley” clothesline when going into the lane?

You have gotten me so worked up now. People ask me all the time about the way the game has changed. I honestly felt it was needed, because players were becoming too sensitive. That might be the one major problem I have with players today… Why so sensitive? During my era everything was fair game including momma jokes. I tell you what, if players were as sensitive in my era as they are now, it would have been a fight every quarter. We had running dialogue all the time during the course of a game. I would have two or three trash talking conversations going on with different players all the time. The difference for us was that we did not take it personally and we used it as motivation to play even harder. Here is an example of players that I would have confrontations with every time I played them…

Xavier McDaniel and I hated each other on the court. I would be shooting and calling him a bald headed so and so at the same time he would come back and try and crack me with an elbow and then proceed to try and tear the rim down. It was vicious, but not one time did we have a fight and believe it or not we shared a drink and laughed about it during an NBA cruise during the offseason.

Larry Bird called me every name in the book when we played and I tried to reciprocate as much as I could and maintain some energy to guard him. The first time I guarded him in my career at Boston Garden he looked at me and said I am going to kick your @#$% and even during a game later in the season I popped him in the mouth with an elbow and laughed because they called a foul on him as well. He never lost his concentration and only waited till after the game to come in the locker room and drop his room key on my lap and said, “Let’s finish this at my hotel.” I reminded him of that years later and he laughed.

Lonnie Shelton was probably the quickest 6-8, 260 player I have ever seen and I hated him to guard me. He would throw me all around the court, but one night I got tired of it and I started talking about everyone in his generation to take his attention off the game. Nothing seemed to bother him till I came by the Cavalier bench and called him a fat @#$% in front of his teammates and they started laughing and he stared at me no matter where I was on the court till it really started to bother me. When he got in the game, he had nothing on his mind other than hurting me. I finally went up to him during a free throw and apologized and he said, “Cool, let’s play.” True story.

Tom Chambers and Frank Brickowski, I will mention them together because I use to get under their skin big time when they played for the Sonics. I would talk so much smack that both of them would take turns trying to pop me, but I was not stupid. I always took care of the wide bodies on my team and LaSalle Thompson and Mark Olberding would always be there to protect me. What’s so funny about those two is that in later years we would become teammates (Chambers-Suns and Brickowski-Hornets) and I consider both very good friends. They understood the method to my madness when we played together and they looked out for me as well.

Believe me, if guys were as sensitive then as they are now the league would have been out of control and David Stern would not have had one chance of turning the NBA around financially like he has done.

The only thing I will say about the defensive rule of not touching a player when he catches the ball and faces his defender is this, I would have scored at least 8 to 10 more points a game in my career. That would have put me at about 27 a game. So now what do you think Jordan would have averaged? Think about this, Jordan catches the ball 15 feet from the basket and he is allowed to turn and face the defender without the defender being able to touch him, are you kidding me. End of story!

Lol c'est diaboliquement vrai ce qu'il dit.

ce qu'il dit est vrai, mais le problème avec eddie johnson, c'est qu'il part vite dans un trip c'était mieux avant.
avant on défendait plus dur, on avait plus de fondamentaux, on avait plus de couilles, plus de panache !

la faute n'est pas tant à rejeter sur les joueurs que sur l'équipe dirigeante de la ligue, des joueurs durs on en a toujours

et lui alors, c'est une tarloose?

"Shaquille O'Neal n'a pas chômé durant l'été. Loin de là. Lors de
la reprise de l'entraînement de sa franchise, le Miami Heat, «Shaq» a
affirmé qu'il avait participé à des combats d'Ultimate Fighting,
mélange de boxe, lutte, et arts martiaux, qui se déroulent dans des
cages.«J'ai beaucoup nagé, lu, et je me suis beaucoup bagarré: de
l'Ultimate Fighting. J'en suis fan. J'en ai fait tous les jours. Puis
des gars m'ont défié»."

Vaut mieux qu'il fasse de l'UF que du rap pourri!

ooohh !! tant qu'il ne se met pas au cinema ...

en plus quelq'un qui parle de tarloose avec un short moulant violet en guise de signature...
je considère qu'il sait de quoi il parle !!

On est fan de Stockton ou on l'est pas

Josh Howard a pris 2 matchs de suspension

Dans la logique de David Stern et pour ça, Howard doit au moins prendre 3 mois .

Par contre, y faudra m'expliquer ce qui s'est passé dans la tête de Brad Miller (Devin Harris ne lui a absolument rien fait sur cette phase...). Et lui s'en sort sans rien, va comprendre la logique...

rip3200 a écrit:

Par contre, y faudra m'expliquer ce qui s'est passé dans la tête de Brad Miller (Devin Harris ne lui a absolument rien fait sur cette phase...). Et lui s'en sort sans rien, va comprendre la logique...

Il a dû se prendre des beaux coups et Brad, il réagit au bout d'un moment. Après, ça ne justifie en rien son geste et il devrait écoper de quelque chose (Cuban a-t-il de l'influence?).
Maintenant, Brad on le connaît, c'est un sacrée tough guy! Je me rappelle encore des Playoffs d'il y a deux ans entre Seattle/Kings et que Brad dans le même match a posé 3 écrans au milieu du terrain et que Ridnour se les ai pris comme une voiture à 100/h dans un mur! Il était par terre sonné, c'était énorme

Ce n'est pas une queens brad...

Cuban de l'influence? C'est sur qu'à force de se prendre des amendes de 100000$ pour ses remarques acerbes, il doit bien connaitre Stu Jackson.
Mais je suis pas persuadé que ça aide le boss à etre comprehensif.