Shaq is a sham. Shaq gets OWN3D!

[GmanJoe]

http://espn.go.com/page2/s/webb/020612.html

[videoholic]

Great freaking article.  Sums up everything I hate about the game and why I stopped watching it.

after reading that, im not sure what to say, the guy who wrote that made himself look like a complete idiot

im so shocked a sports reporter would write something like that, something so so yeah thats it jealous


lets say the guy who wrote the article had a team, would he want vlade divac or shaq for the center?

you know some people say the darnest things

Royce is completely right. The man gets away with anything...if he elbows somebody in the face while going to the hole, it is not he who gets the foul called on. It is the person who just got an elbow from a man who is 7\'1, 350 pounds.

It\'s pathetic, and it\'s why basketball has sucked for some time. It\'s only fun to watch the game when this man starts to lose.

See Yuz.

Originally posted by ROL Jamas


It\'s only fun to watch the game when this man starts to lose.

 

Sorry Shaq is so dominate, if there was a good team they could beat him, the rockets swept him in 95\'

And the elbows, its the refs fault

Hmmm only point guards can be great players?

i dont know one center that doesnt bump in the paint

and if what shaq is doing is so easy, why doesnt everyone do it?

the guy got a big body and he uses it to his advantage, geez that guy was so double standard, its like saying well michael jordan only uses his quikness to get points, so hes not a  true athlete, plz give me a break

I can just see where the game is going, in 10 years it\'ll just be big 4oo fat asses at center, that way neither player can musscle their way to the basket.

That article is just plain dumb. I can\'t say it in any other way.

That guy is saying things like Shaq won\'t play well as a point guard if he was a smaller player. Well no ****. But players like Iverson won\'t be able to play well as a center even if he were as big as Shaq because he has the skills of a point guard; therefore, he won\'t be able to play good low post defense or offense or get rebounds.

shaq wouldn\'t be able to be the superstar he is, if he had to play within the rules of the game.  If every foul of his was called he\'d be fouled out with 2quarters tops.  He has no game other than his own "specialized" game, which in other words mean run over people, elbow them, and hook them.

Its nice to see so many anti la/shaq fans gather in once place except for cerebral,

its funny how they get so mad at shaq because he is so dominating

It\'s not that, it\'s the way he does it. If you were to sit down and watch what he does for one game, you would see where half of us are coming from. Hell, even the play-by-play men for NBC catch on to this stuff, and they point it out on the air.

You would be surprised at the number of Anti-LA people are out there, had a nice chat with Cerebral (Who is from LA, no less) about it, too.

See Yuz.

I used to like Shaq, hell I used to sport his jersey.  But I just can\'t stand the way he plays now, he just bulls his way to the basket with no regard for the rules.  I would say that he fouls about every other play.

And saying that he has a physical advantage and makes use of it, is true.  Yes he takes advantage of it, yet it doesn\'t mean that he isn\'t breaking the rules.  That\'s like saying, since shawn bradely in 7\'6, he should be able to goal tend, because it takes a physical skill to do that.

[videoholic]

I\'m not mad at shaq.  I couldn\'t care less about shaq.  I just think it\'s absolutely ridiculous what the players get away with.  Sometimes there are fouls you can\'t even see and then other times people get slammed and nothing.  Just plain stupid.

AHHHHHH, I love the smell of this

Someone with the balls actually said something about the big man. It\'s just ashamed he thinks he\'s like the high pride of criticizm and he actually thinks that if he works for ESPN he\'ll get credit for what he just said. I hope he knows Shaq is negativity-fueled by the media. Once Aldman said sh*t about his free throw shooting, he went out and shot what, 12-14 or something like that?

It\'s hard being the person who is redefining his position and the league for that manner. If it wasn\'t for Shaq, I bet you the centers wouldn\'t be as good as they are now. You gotta admitt, it\'s crazy seeing how he can man handle people in the paint. But again, you get homesick for a little "dream shake" time and time again, because it was classic basketball.

People are just whinning on the tremdous respect Shaq has been earning these days. He certainilly hasn\'t won 2 (working on 3) championships by eating milk and cookies. He had to take the dark road before the road to success. It was a huge blow to him when he lost to the Rockets in the 95\' NBA finals. Now he\'s winning, and everyone is jelious because no one believe he could do it.

When you are that successful in the industry of media, your intitled to your little cheesy commercials or movies or apparrel lines, because it\'s part of the media, accept it.

When you have a championship ring(s), you earn a lot of respect from the officating crew, I\'m sorry. It\'s extremly evident. Michael Jordan is by far the person with the most officating respect.

I do see where you anti laker/shaq people are coming from, but to a certain extent.

Shaq does get away with some calls, but a lot of other players do too. And even if Shaq gets away with more calls than others, how can you blame Shaq for that? Blame the refs. Shaqs just taking advantage of it like anyone would. Also if the refs start calling more fouls on Shaq, Shaq is smart enough to find a way of playing alittle less agressively. Of course hes gonna be less dominating but he would still be the most dominating player.

Why has this man always had a nack for having a final thought, it ceases to amaze me, it never fails

Shaq, yes, he wins titles, but with his girth, does he need the help of the officials, too? His game is extremely aggressive, it\'s a good game, but aggressive, so why should he even get help from the refs? It\'s a shame...not a shame on Shaq, a shame on the NBA. The officiating is pathetic.

See Yuz.