NBA 2008-2009 Season Thread

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Originally Posted by Jesus Shuttlesworth I was trying to say that his game looks mad ugly either way, its just that when he has a bad shooting night it looks so terrible because he puts shots that look awful, he isn't a "pretty" shooter like a Ray Allen. People just don't notice seem notice how awful the shots look when he is hitting them, which happens a lot. I haven't heard all of his speech from before the 1st game and I don't really care about it anyway. I did notice people calling into WEEI and bringing it when flicking through the stations so I'm not surprised you brought it up. All I know his with him the Celtics wouldn't won have the NBA Championship and he was the MVP of that series, not to mention he's a consensus All Star. If he brought up injuries a bunch of times I guess I haven't seen it, I only saw one quote where he mentioned how this year was still pretty successful considering all the injuries they had, which I would agree with. I don't really see that as making an excuse but maybe that's just my opinion. As for him being a leader I don't really know, I'm not in the locker room or anything but I would have to think he is after hearing the way guys talk about him in the media. Just a quick question, do you think it was selfish of him to ask if he could guard Kobe in the NBA Finals last year when he wasn't initially? And for the Lakers/Nuggets series everyone is asking "Who is gonna guard who?" but each team presenting some really interesting match ups going both ways. I think it will be a good series.

A Captain should ask for that, but they should also understand when they need to pass and make others better.

You're right, he is always an ugly shooter.

Also, the point about they wouldn't win last year without him is moot because they wouldn't have won without Allen and/or KG...

I'm not saying he's a horrible player, I've just been sick of his attitude for a long time... and this year it just seemed to stick out more.