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Hard to be motivated? He probably has 6 pictures like this posted up on his wall: http://thebestten.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/michael-jordan-first-trophy.jpg

I'm indifferent. On one hand he made the right basketball play, but on the other I would have been content with him driving or stepping back there. Given the circumstances, specifically the kind of game he was having, I don't know why he doesn't go up with that. If he was having a bad game, then okay, but damn how does this guy not have the confidence to put it up himself? But that is a shot Udonis feasts on, so I definitely will not hold it against him.. it is entirely different than the all-star game, he didn't force his way out of taking the last shot with a stupid forced cross-court pass, he made a play that was probably drawn up to be executed like that.

Found this on HFboards posted by a Ducks fan. I don't know, I just really hope we don't lose Eakins in a year or two over this shit. I heard Eakins actually doesn't want to come to the big leagues yet. I really think he is going to be a great coach in the NHL one day. It would be really cool if he could get on the bench as an assistant next year or the year after, then move up in a couple years... though honestly think he will have job offers before then.

Really unsure of this. Sounds like Carlysle is pretty redundant (hard ass, not a player's coach, etc.) but hopefully a new system will benefit us. I would have liked us to stand pat and ride the season out, looks like 9th in the east is inevitable. Would have liked to see us either ride out Wilson or name an interim then explore all of the available options in the summer, rather than change everything with 20 games left. Either way, just so ecstatic Wilson is gone. Guy is a stubborn old bastard who only refers to the team as us when we are winning, then refers to the team as them when we are losing. His style sucked, and exposed all of our weaknesses and caused us to have to be scoring 4-5 goals a game to win all year. Hopefully a new voice and a new system will get this team where it needs to be, if not this year, but by next. Also, really hope Carlysle isn't a huge twat when it comes to our prospects. nazem Kadri either needs to be traded or kept up, he is learning nothing in the AHL.

I honestly feel like Rondo is the kind of player who is more valuable to the team he is on, than the team he would be going to. For that reason I picture him as a very difficult player to trade, because to be competitive with him, you need a lot of other really good pieces in place already, and the Celtics are going to want a shit load for him because he's an all-star.

Beat me to it. Then again, Danny also traded one of the few defensive anchors in the league for a player who doesn't have a position, so I guess anything is possible? if Clippers swindle Allen from the C's, they take another step as a serious threat at the top of the west.

Eminem baby.

One of the softest players ever during our era of basketball watching. So much talent, so little to show for it (compared to what he probably COULD have achieved, dude has still had a pretty solid career).

We save the money on not overpaying for Chandler, just so we can overpay Barbosa to keep him this summer

Ainge should be fired immediately if he trades Rondo for Pau. They didn't wanna give Perk 7M a year, but they would be willing to pay a 31 year old 20M for the next 3 or 4? I wonder how many times KG would make Pau cry too. Pau is everything the Celtics aren't. I don't get how Rondo might not be staying, you do realize his contract has 4 more years on it right? If they are trading Rondo (or anyone for that matter), you have to think it is in the same mold as the Jeff Green deal. Save money, and get younger. Not add money, get older, and get worse.

I will never feel sorry for a professional athlete no matter how hard I try.

I don't get where this sense of entitlement is coming from.

So... is the late season run not coming this year? Or do we wait until we can't make the playoffs to start winning games? Part of me wants to make the playoffs, but another part of me wants to lose out and hope the lottery is rigged for us.

You move a Rick Nash at the draft IMO, and you trade FOR a Nash in the summer as well. I see Toronto upping their offer this summer if we continue this slide and finish with a pretty high pick, for example (don't even want him, but could see us dangling a top pick if we have one due to this terrible end to the season). You trade nash, you do it like Philly did with Richards., you get one A list prospect (and a nice supporting piece), not a bunch of solid prospects/late firsts. Quality over quantity, at least that should be your philosophy while you have absolutely no quality in your lineup. Luckily for Columbus, they should have a new, competent GM in charge before Nash has to be moved. If I was Columbus I'd have done everything to get Couture, but I wouldn't blame SJ if they refused to give him up, seeing as he already better than Nash Hopefully for that franchise's sake they rape a team in a deal, cause Nash is absolutely not worth it.

I don't think I hate a player anymore, realistically I hate fanbases far more than players. I guess right now it would be Dwight, just because he seems like a really annoying guy (personality wise) and this whole situation is just so stupid, the way he has carried himself.

Constructive? Lmao no. Dude was talking straight trash and I love it. Kobe was just saying what the entire world is thinking. It sucks it was just an exhibition game, because in a moment like that in a real game, well that would have just been amazing.

Wade is a punk, hopefully people will realize it now. Everyone has painted LeBron the douche, but Wade is no saint either. What I don't get is why Wade didn't just D up on him, he let him go by, no help (as expected, all-star game) then just hammered him. If Kobe had been expecting a foul, then he probably wouldn't have gotten banged so hard, but don't play the first however many minutes soft, then all of a sudden hammer a guy.

His man defense would get exposed against those guys, but in general i think he would still be statistically the same, and would still be a great defensive anchor. I think where Dwight would get exposed would be in the playoffs, where he would have to play a legit big man every night in a 7 game series, something he doesn't have to do right now.

Wade is one of the biggest punks in the league. I don't know how people don't notice it.

Why are you guys wasting your words on Rick Nash? I hope for their own sake Columbus is gonna have a real franchise player in Yakupov this summer. Teams should be trying to get Dustin Brown, not Rick Nash.

I literally want to kill Chris Brown. He just has a face you wanna stomp imo.

Both teams should have done this deal months ago. Shit is getting ridiculous. LA is seriously going to regret not giving up everything except Kobe for Dwight when they had the chance (assuming they did).

1. I wasn't 2. I just call it how I see it. You're telling me Ovie, Semin and Kovalev were/are just in slumps? I would question anyone who demonstrated a lack of heart or determination to win (hell I have had to witness two of the biggest my entire life in Chris Bosh and Vince Carter). Russians are supremely talented typically, it just SEEMS like a lot of them don't care. Obviously none of us can say definitively, so I just go off what I see, just like you. I will question Phil Kessel's desire to win or heart (has come a long way but still so soft) just as fast as I would someone like Alex Kovalev.

A biased Canadian Let's see if Malkin is the playoff MVP if he isn't being shadowed by Datsyuk and Zetterberg every shift. They have both had bad linemates as far as I am concerned, so that point is pretty moot. You'd have an argument if Crosby had been playing with all-stars on his lines through his career, which he hasn't. They had Marion Hossa for 30 games, other than that absolutely nothing spectacular. If you think Kunitz and Dupuis (Crosby's most frequent wingers I believe) are something special then we have bigger issues in this thread than Malkin vs Crosby. In regards to Letang, he was never above 33 points until last year, so I'm not sure how Crosby can be some sort of a product of him as you seem to be suggesting. Also, didn't Malkin play with Sykora? Who was Pitt's 4th leading scorer a couple years ago. Also I could be wrong, but didn't Malkin also get Guerin on his wing, the 5th leading scorer a couple years ago? (going purely off memory here, so I could be completely wrong, not sure) Crosby has a higher hockey IQ, and brings intangibles to the game that Malkin simply doesn't. He is a smarter, more effective player. I admitted Malkin is probably the more talented of the two, in fact he is probably the most talented player in the league. I just choose to take the empirical evidence that Crosby's production is superior opposed to your opinion. Any Russian star is less in my eyes? No. Players like Datsyuk, Malkin, etc are amazing, cream of the crop. Players like Ovechkin, Semin, Kovalev, those are what give Russians a bad name, not me. If every Russian had a quarter of the heart that someone like Datsyuk does, then this wouldn't even be a discussion. Both are absolutely amazing, and Malkin has closed the gap more than anyone ever has (even Ovechkin a few years ago wasn't this good imo). It really is hard to say who is definitively better because Crosby before he got hurt last year was brilliant, better than Malkin right now production-wise, and the team was winning. Hopefully Crosby can get back to full health so that instead of talking about ifs, we can talk about what is actually happening. Crosby vs Malkin isn't really worth arguing over, because the gap isn't that big anymore. All I am saying is that for you to act like Crosby's superior production is a result of linemates/conditions, then your argument is hugely flawed, because Crosby has played with equally mediocre players. For the record, I watch Pittburgh all the time, because believe it or not, I love watching Malkin play. He is amazing, Crosby is just better.

http://www.lakers-fan.com/wp-content/uploads/fishfancopy.jpg If that ain't hostility I don't know what is. Toronto would be up there too if we ever had a contender I feel. Our building gets loud even in times of mediocrity.