The King’s Mental Note
by pardonmybias on Aug 18, 2010 11:20 PM CDT
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Once again LeBron James came out with another controversial statement. "Don’t think for one min that I haven’t been taking mental notes of everyone taking shots at me this summer. And I mean everyone!"
LeBron has been truly messing with his image over the past few months. Being a LeBron fan, I truly believe that he needs to get his act together. "The Decision" was obviously a horrible way to announce his team choice, but this tweet was actually not so bad. I’m sure he took many hits for this tweet, but it shows passion and determination. If I was the Miami Heat management, I would be excited about this. LeBron is determined to prove his doubters wrong and is ready to bring another championship to Miami.
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Just think, a few months ago everybody was on LeBron’s case because it seemed as if he had given up in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals. Now they are giving him heat for speaking out on Twitter and showing some passion. LeBron is one of those players who just can win with the public. People say he needs to win a championship so he goes to Miami to do exactly that and he gets crap. People say that he needs to show more passion and killer instinct so he does and once again he gets crap.
This is something that LeBron has to deal with, especially if he wants to do one-hour shows and have all the attention but I am excited to see him prove himself. I am excited for him get revenge on those that took shots at him and to see how he works with Dwayne Wade to finally put rings on his fingers. LeBron James…make it happen!
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Oh, and never wish LeBron James rings on here. Just leave.
"Before I write I let my mind go blind and let the Lord do His thing. " -Tupac Shakur
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it looks like work." -Thomas Edison
Don’t ever come on a Cleveland Cavaliers, or for that case any Cleveland teams SBN page and tell the fans how good of a person LeBron is. Wheter he was criticized for championships or not, why couldn’t he do that here. This team has been building for a title the last 7 years. Are you trying to tell us as Cavaliers fans that in order to win a ring he had to leave? Jordan didn’t have to leave, Kobe didn’t have to leave, Duncan, Parker and Manu didn’t have to leave… Finally, last time I checked, the computer world is far different than what happens in real life. Lebron tweeting a passionate statement doesn’t prove he is shwoing more passion. It just proves he has learned how to use modern technology to express his opinion. Until he can jump into a time machine and actually put 110% of his effort into game five, LeBron James will never play with the same passion as the greats.
by ClevelandCrazy29 on Aug 20, 2010 12:45 PM CDT reply actions
Jordan had Pippen. Kobe had Shaq and then Gasol. Duncan, Parker, and Manu had each other. Lebron had…..Mo Williams? A 33 year old Antawn Jamison? Say what you want about LeBron, but saying he bailed on a team anything like the others you mentioned is just straight bull.
The Cavs had back to back +60 win seasons. He wasn’t playing with scrubs. I’m tired of jokers like you making fun of what LeBron had when you clearly don’t look at stats. Yea he didn’t have his Pippen or Shaq (in his prime), but you don’t win +60 games back to back with a bunch of people who can’t hack it. If he would have stayed, in 10 years we could be talking about JJ Hickson as Lebron’s “Pippen”. But he wanted the easy way out. After 5 years of the front office cleaning up bad contracts, he started to get some decent pieces to the puzzle. If he would have given the Cavs front office those 5 years of cleaning up back, I guarantee he would have at least one ring. OR heres a novel idea. Sign a long term contract and say “Hey I’m in it for the long haul, stop wasting draft picks and salary cap space to win it this year. Let’s build something good.” It’s all pre-fabricated for him just like his AAU teams. He’s in the easy lane and surround by the 20 people left in this world that like him.
He also said he doesn’t like Cleveland and obviously didn’t put any effort into recruiting people. It’s hard to get a “Pippen” when a wannabe “Jordan” cant commit to a team. Or even talks trash about it behind the organizations back. It makes me wonder what he was really saying to all these people that our front office wanted to bring in.
You're retarded
First of all he had back to back 60 win seasons because he’s had the best statistical seasons since Jordan. How about we see how many Cavs make the all star team this year? You just compared a BENCH PLAYER to Scottie Pippen. Scottie Pippen is in the Hall of Fame, and was one of the best players in the league. Hickson can’t hold a candle to him.
As far as recruiting, Bosh even said that LeBron recruited him hard to go to Cleveland. After Bosh decided Miami, and they weren’t getting anyone else, then he left. He also recruited Artest and Ariza last year, but neither of them wanted to come. He also never said he hated Cleveland as far as the city, he said he didn’t like a lot of the people.
Okay... so you're saying LeBron was the only reason we had 60 wins the past 2 years?
You seriously need to watch the NBA before you try to talk about it.
"Before I write I let my mind go blind and let the Lord do His thing. " -Tupac Shakur
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it looks like work." -Thomas Edison
Obviously there were other people on the court
And the Cavs played good defense and showed up to play every night, but when your best player averages 38.5 points, 8.3 rebounds, and 8 assists against Orlando in the whole series….and you lose? Obviously nobody on the team showed up to play.
Do you think there is any way, ANY chance at all, that the Cavs have 60 wins WITHOUT LeBron? They probably don’t have 60 COMBINED wins the last two seasons. Cavs fans need to relax. He was a FREE AGENT. His contract expired. He didn’t quit on anybody. Yes, the way he announced it was not the classiest or the best, but he took you higher than you’ve ever been and now you guys are trashing him.
Yes I am retarded. Thanks for pointing that out. But you obviously are illiterate because you are arguing things that I didn’t even say.
You just compared a BENCH PLAYER to Scottie Pippen. Scottie Pippen is in the Hall of Fame, and was one of the best players in the league.
I believe I said
If he would have stayed, in 10 years we could be talking about JJ Hickson as Lebron’s "Pippen".
Did you see the “In 10 years” or maybe the quotations around the name Pippen. I nowhere said that Hickson was RIGHT NOW as good as Pippen. Pippen didn’t come into this league as an All-Star and he obviously couldn’t do it on his own. I am saying Hickson could become that side kick that Lebron I guess “needed”.
Pippen and Hickson have put up pretty similar numbers in their first 2 years.
Pippen’s Stats
Hicksons Stats
But I guess that doesn’t mean anything cause Pippen is in the HOF and Hickson( a 2ND YEAR PLAYER) is not. Good argument. You should be a lawyer.
And the recruiting is all speculation on my part. So you can ease up there cowboy. He hates Cleveland and the only person that have said anything nice about Lebron’s “hadrcore recruiting” is now a fellow teammate in Bosh. Gee I wonder why. I have a hard time believing that Lebron put any real time into recruiting anybody when he knew he was leaving.
So before you start calling people retarded and spouting off about information you clearly have not researched. Shut your mouth. Open another tab in your internet window and do some research. Or just don’t post at all because obviously you have no idea what you are talking about.
Thanks and have a nice day.
You're welcome.
I know you are retarded, that’s why I said that. I would also be willing to bet a considerable amount of money that my literacy and reading comprehension abilities are far higher than yours.
You try to back off your argument by saying you meant “in 10 years Hickson would’ve been Pippen.” Yet the previous sentence you say
you don’t win +60 games back to back with a bunch of people who can’t hack it.
So one sentence you say he clearly has good players on the team, and then the next sentence you talk about how good somebody is going to be in TEN YEARS. In 10 years the Cavs may draft the next Shaquille O’Neal who is right now a 7th grader, and guess how much that helped the 08-10 Cavaliers? That’s right, not at all. LeBron and the Cavs didn’t win 60 games with the “full potential” version of themselves, they won it with who they were right then. And speaking of good arguments, way to project your mythical best case scenario for Hickson and assume he will turn out to be anywhere near Pippen. You should be a lawyer too.
Once again you try to back off your argument on the recruiting side of things. First you say he “obviously” didn’t put any effort into it, and now you’re trying to say it is “all speculation on my part.” So yeah, I still think you’re retarded.
Also on the recruiting aspect, Bosh talked about how hard LeBron recruited him BEFORE LeBron decided where he was going. As in a week or so before, so they weren’t teammates then so the fact that they are “now fellow teammates” is irrelevant. You also conveniently didn’t address the points about LeBron recruiting Artest and Ariza pretty hard the summer before, I wonder why that is?
To go back to the Pippen vs JJ Hickson argument:
Pippen’s stats from the first two years-11.15, 4.95, 2.8, 1.55, .75
Hickson’s stats for his first two years—6.5, 4, .3, .3, .5
(points, rebounds, assists, steals, blocks)
I tried to make it convenient and line up Hickson’s stats right underneath Pippen’s, but for some reason Hickson’s numbers were much smaller…hmm, why would that be?
So to compare, Pippen averaged 5 more points, 1 more rebound, 3 more assists, 1 more steal, and .25 more blocks per game. Not a HUGE or mind-boggling difference, but definitely a significant one. Another point to consider is that Pippen was a lockdown defender, and Hickson is terrible on defense. I guarantee if you asked any NBA personnel guy if they’d rather have Pippen over his first 2 years or Hickson, they’d take Pippen every single time.
Do you want to know the biggest difference between Pippen and Hickson their first two years? Look at their minutes that they played during the playoffs.
Pippen Year 1: 29.4 Year 2: 36.4
Hickson Year1: 0.0 Year 2: 8.8
For “pretty similar” players, that’s a huge disparity in how much they are playing when the games count. So maybe you cold try opening another tab in your browser and doing some research, if you bother talking at all.
Oh, and for someone who clearly values their superior comprehension and literacy, look at your own writing:
So before you start calling people retarded and spouting off about information you clearly have not researched.
Yeah, that’s a period after researched. So what exactly did you want me to do before I started calling you retarded? Oh, it’s in the next sentence “shut your mouth.” I believe what you were looking for probably would’ve been more like this:
“So before you start calling people retarded and spouting off about information you clearly have not researched, shut your mouth, open another tab in your internet window, and do some research.”
That’s how it is done. You should be an English teacher.
I guess illiterate wasn’t a good word choice. I would say more comprehension of my argument for JJ being a legitimate side kick to a superstar. Sorry, I’m not an English major.
Last time I’ll defend myself because my point is obviously not getting across.
JJ Hickson has comparable numbers to Pippen in their first two years. I blame the coach for the minutes in the playoffs. He should have played more. So that is irrelevant. And why would I not predict best case scenario for JJ? It’s called projections. Sports thrive on them.
I never once said JJ was going to BE Scottie Pippen. I am not a moron. Pippen was in quotations because I was referring to a side-kick type of player. Maybe I should have just used the word “side-kick” instead of a name like Scottie Pippen. My apologies. But Hickson does have the potential to be a legitimate side kick to a star player. I think this season will prove his true potential. But that is more projecting and I guess I am not allowed to do that.
So in review. JJ Hickson is a horrible player compared to Scottie Pippen. He will never be Scottie Pippen. He is obviously not a HOF type player. And I am horrible at sentence structure. You reign supreme on the blogosphere. Congratulations.
Thank you, your last paragraph is correct
And yes, you SHOULD have made that clearer. Just because somebody is a sidekick doesn’t mean they are THE best sidekick ever.
“Hickson has comparable numbers.” Debatable. Pippen definitely doesn’t blow him out of the water, but there is a significant difference in 5 points per game, etc. The playoff minutes are not irrelevant. If the player is that good, they’ll play a heck of a lot more than 8 minutes per game when the season is on the line. Especially when there weren’t exactly any All-NBA players ahead of him. Even though Pippen’s statistical production was not FAR better than Hickson’s, he used his defensive prowess to get onto the court, which is something that statistics have a hard time measuring. For example, I would take Anderson Varejao over quite a few players who have better statistics than him.
Projecting is absolutely fine, but it helps if it’s realistic. Just about any player in the NBA has the athletic ability to be great, but to assume someone who can barely crack the lineup with nobody in front of him will become good enough to be considered LeBron’s “sidekick” is a stretch. I think Hickson is a decent player, but not a second banana type player.
Only thing
I have to add is that Hickson was younger his first two years in the league than Pippen was. I am not saying Hickson is going to be nearly as good of a player as Pippen was and most likely he never will be but Hickson has more upside at this point in his career than Pippen had at this same point. I do think Hickson would have become an excellent side kick to LeChoke but he didn’t want to wait to find out. LeChoke would rather play with his buddies and All Stars taking the pressure off him now than wait to have some one grow into an All Star beside him.
All Truth Goes Through Three Stages 1.It is ridiculed 2.It is violently opposed 3.Finally, it is accepted as self-evident. kinesiologist
Baseball’s biggest busts Andy Marte.
by E5 on Sep 1, 2010 10:46 PM CDT up reply actions
Why
the hate for LeBron? He’s not a choker, you can’t honestly say you believe that. I understand he left in a really bad way, but what he gave SHOULD far outweigh that.
but what he gave SHOULD far outweigh that.
But it doesn’t so why bother trying to turn us. You are fighting a losing battle by trying to defend Lebron here. I suggest you either stop or take it somewhere else. You bring a good discussion to the table (as seen above), but the Lebron loving needs to stop.
Oh and on recruiting.
Also on the recruiting aspect, Bosh talked about how hard LeBron recruited him BEFORE LeBron decided where he was going.
Chris Bosh? You mean the guy who has slipped up multiple times by saying that they had this all planned for months? Yea I am sure Lebron was doing a ton of recruiting with him. And Artest and Ariza both didn’t want to come because they knew Lebron was leaving. Why would they commit to a team when they knew the star player was obviously leaving. All I can say is I have heard a lot more positive recruiting press about Lebron in Miami than I ever heard in Cleveland.
A person who says they hate Cleveland isn’t doing any “real” recruiting. He knew he was leaving a long time ago and to think anything different is being naïve.
Have you even seen the quote?
“Clevelanders, because they were the bigger-city kids when we were growing up, looked down on us.… So we didn’t actually like Cleveland. We hated Cleveland growing up. There’s a lot of people in Cleveland we still hate to this day."
That’s a completely reasonable thing to say. I don’t think someone who hates the CITY of Cleveland would stay there for 7 years. Also, please don’t try to rewrite history and act like everyone “knew” LeBron was leaving. Especially since LeBron reportedly told Ariza last year that he was going to stay. He tried to get people. Cleveland was still basically his hometown. I’m sure there are far more people he likes in Cleveland than he hates.
That’s a completely reasonable thing to say. I don’t think someone who hates the CITY of Cleveland would stay there for 7 years.
You’re joking right? You are obviously delusional. It’s right there in your quote. “We hated Cleveland growing up.” You don’t say something like that if you actually liked the town you were playing in. Especially after all that had transpired in the last few months previous to this statement.
And yes, I have read that quote many times wondering why any player would ever say that even if it was true. But that’s what you get when you have uneducated 25 year old buddies running your multi-million dollar life.
Also, please don’t try to rewrite history and act like everyone "knew" LeBron was leaving. Especially since LeBron reportedly told Ariza last year that he was going to stay. He tried to get people. Cleveland was still basically his hometown. I’m sure there are far more people he likes in Cleveland than he hates.
Reportedly eh? That holds a lot of merit. And you were getting on me earlier for speculation? Comon’ you are better than that.
You obviously are sucking on the proverbial sack of Lebron. Are you Maverick Carter? Just tell me now so I can at least have some sort of reason of why you are making all of these delusional statements. It’s OK, you are obviously infatuated with Lebron and want to defend him to the very end. I would just suggest you do it somewhere else. Cleveland fans aren’t going to change their mind about him. So there is no use trolling around here trying to prove your point.
Oh and Cleveland is definitely not “basically his hometown”. If you have kept up with all his statements over the summer, you would have never said that. He has made it very clear Akron is his hometown and Cleveland was just a place that was privileged for the last 7 years to watch him work.
But I’m done with all of this. I’m glad you like Lebron. Good for you. He needs to all the people he can get to boost his ever growing ego.
Funny
how he is being all confident and showing passion when he isn’t the lead dog and Dwayne Wade is clearly the lead dog in Miami. It is sort of like the kids that show up after a fight is over and starts talking smack about how tough they are but they totally missed the whole fight and wouldn’t fight because they are scared. Lebron is trying to act like the man when clearly he is a boy who can’t be the man.
All Truth Goes Through Three Stages 1.It is ridiculed 2.It is violently opposed 3.Finally, it is accepted as self-evident. kinesiologist
Baseball’s biggest busts Andy Marte.
wha?
People say that he needs to show more passion and killer instinct so he does and once again he gets crap.
so him tweeting with some emotion means hes shown passion and killer insticnt?
"they try to do what he do, and been where he's been, but they get folded in two.....he's the dude"
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