C'est clair qu'il a une tête de puceau, pas de style et un charisme d'huitre. Mais bon, il score easy, c'est le principal.
Et puis j'sais pas mais LeBron avec ses pas de canards, ses marchés et son bandeau, je le trouve pas plus beau à voir jouer.
Il est quand meme ultra moche a voir jouer Durant. Un bon geste au shoot mais c'est a peu pres tout. Puis il manque grandement de charisme, il ne degage vraiment. J'ai rien contre lui mais il lui manque vraiment quelque chose pour appartenir a l'elite: lebron, kobe, wade etc...
NBA Commissioner David Stern regrets the Sonics’ contentious exit from Seattle.
“My regrets are that we didn’t do a – weren’t able to do a better job of getting a building moved along so that we could have kept a team there,” Stern told ESPN.com’s Bill Simmons during Simmons’ podcast Tuesday.
Simmons prompted Stern by asking him about previous comments on the departure of the Grizzlies from Vancouver.
“I have regrets about both Vancouver and Seattle,” Stern said.
Stern seems eager to fix the problem. he said Seattle is an attractive destination for a team in the future once it solves its arena problem.
“I think it’s a very prime city for an NBA franchise,” Stern said.
Stern said Kansas City, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, the Tampa Bay area and Anaheim are cities with serviceable arenas that could host NBA teams in the future.
“But our goal here is to keep all of our teams where they are,” Stern said, “but recognizing that that hasn’t been a goal that we have successfully achieved in the past.”
Two years ago, you said pretty emphatically that you were no star. After winning a scoring title, finishing runner-up for MVP and taking home a gold medal, how about now?
“Nah, I don’t”
What would it take then?
“I guess I just got to win a championship, I don’t know.”
What about an MVP or 10 straight scoring titles?
“I guess then you could say that, but right now, I haven’t really done too much. When I go to the other arenas and they call my name I kind of listen to the crowd. They don’t roar as much as they do for a Kobe or LeBron or Dwyane Wade or Carmelo. I’m not there. I’m happy with the progress I’m making as a player, I wouldn’t say I’m a star but I’m growing, I can tell you that.”
A lot of people make a big deal about Oklahoma City being the second smallest market in the league and therefore, you’re kind of hidden. But you were the second leading vote getter in the West behind Kobe. So do you think that stuff is overrated?
“Yeah it is, I think so. I didn’t know I’d be up there in votes at the beginning of the season. But it feels good for people to recognize who I play for and the team we have and just showing that respect to me as an All-Star starter that means I’m doing things more than just on the basketball court. It extends off the court. I just got to continue to be the person and player I am.”
Do you care much about profile and marketability and visibility?
Nah not really. I’m blessed to be in this position. All of that stuff is cool and it comes with the territory but I really don’t try and press it too much. I just like playing basketball. I just like coming in every day and playing with these guys. Anything else is just extra to me.”
A lot was made about your Twitter extension and then you bringing Nenad and Thabo onto the cover of SI with you and a whole bunch of other stuff like that. Do you find it weird people make such a big deal out of you just being yourself?
“Yeah man, sometimes it gets a little annoying. People make too much of a big deal out of it. Because other guys probably have done the same thing. I’m not the first guy to do things like that. But I’m just being myself.
I think the thing that really upsets me is a lot of people in talking about it too much try to say it was fake. That’s something that I think is BS because I’m just being myself. I’m just doing the things I was taught basically. It is what it is. I’ve just got to continue to be me and not let anybody change me.”
You’re known for being super humble, but let’s face it, you’re awesome at basketball. Is it ever hard not to step back and think, “I really am pretty darn good”?
“You know what, when I look at my box scores and see I’m 14 for 20 for 40 points, but I always think if I could’ve made these two jumpshots I could have 44 points. Or if I made a free throw I could have 45. So I’m always thinking bigger. I’m never complacent with what I did.
Of course I’m happy with the progress I’m making. Sometimes I get a little too excited at times but then I need to calm down, but I’m always looking to get better and get bigger, so I can never really get too complacent.”
-- AiR1 a dit : Quand ça veut pas.... Il a craqué sous la pression. Quand il se fera greffer une paire de burnes, il tapera le record. --
Mouais, il le tapera jamais à mon avis. Kenny Smith fait remarquer qu'il ne shoote pas de manière naturel.
C'est un streak shooteur, il lui faut un rythme qu'il n'est pas facile à trouver en concours. Il est bon en catch and shoot, mais tant que son geste ne sera pas naturel, il n'ira pas au bout...
-- Anonyme a dit : -- AiR1 a dit : Sa perf d'acting avec le gamin est quand même à noter, il a scénarisé le 1er dunk du Slam Dunk Contest -- non, même pas: D12 l'avait fait en entrant dans une cabine téléphonique pour se transformer en superman e. --
ne mélange pas tout : entre un drame mêlé de sentiments et un bête blockbuster sans âme
-- AiR1 a dit : - ASG : KD & Westbrook - 3pts contest : KD - Dunk contest : Ibaka - Rookie game : Ibaka & Harden - Skills challenge : Westbrook merci d'être passés ! [/FAILED] --
je l'ai fait sur le topic All Star Game
Histoire d'abonder dans ton sens, Ibaka a été très clairement sous noté sur son premier dunk: il est le premier a réellement passer le dunk de la ligne des lancers francs.
Plus sérieusement, je m'attendais bien sûr à mieux de la part du OKC squad mais à part le gros trouage de KD, les autres se sont quand même pas trop mal démerdés.
Harden a assuré au rookie, Westbrook a terminé 2ème du Skills, et Ibaka qu'on donnait largement perdant a fait le show pendant le Dunk contest !
Reste le ASG demain même si je vois pas KD MVP...
De toute façon pour revenir sur KD, c'est la marque des grands de ne pas faire dans la demi mesure, là c'était tout en bas, la prochaine ça sera tout en haut.
Souvenez vous à l'annonce de sa participation, la moitié des gens pensaient qu'il n'avait pas sa place, l'autre moitié le voyait comme le grand favori, pourquoi selon vous ?
As Mayor Mick Cornett puts it, "Nobody in Paris is waking up thinking about Oklahoma City. But they might be watching an international game and see us playing the Lakers."
Thunder All-Stars Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook were born 44 days apart in the fall of 1988.
They also have become the youngest teammates to make an NBA All-Star squad since Detroit's Isiah Thomas (20 years, 276 days) and Kelly Tripuka (22 years, 349 days) in 1982.
-- AiR1 a dit : Et un de plus ce weekend ! Harden remplace Evans, blessé pour le Rookie Challenge. --
Un 3ème choix d'une draft plus que flinguée qui doit attendre un forfait pour participer à un simple match des Rookies, c'est moche. Définitivement un flop ce Harden.
Sérieusement, pourquoi tu dis ça ? Rien que le text cité ci dessous couvre plusieurs aspects, en efficacité et en défense.
The numbers go beyond just individual achievement. As per 82games.com, the Thunder’s current opening unit of Westbrook, Thabo Sefolosha, Durant, Green and Krstic is the club’s second worst among the top-20 used combinations in sheer plus/minus with a minus-7. Insert Collison in Krstic’s place, and that improves to plus-1.
And it doesn’t stop there.
The starting unit with Collison at center is better in rebounding percentage, turnover rate, attempts more shots at the rim, allows fewer at the rim, and surrenders a lower effective field goal percentage, a stat adjusted to value three-pointers proportionately.
Collison’s performance in Saturday night’s win over the Sacramento Kings was the perfect example: zero points on 0-0 shooting, and just two rebounds. But he was a plus-21 in a 99-97 victory.
Allez martin, c'est le moment de revenir là !
Quelle honte, perdre chez les chèvres...100-94
OKC shoote pourtant à 52% contre 43% pour GSW, mais comme souvent en ce moment ils se font démonter au rebond, 33 à 47.
C'est quand ils veulent pour recruter un intérieur.
Ils se sont fait bouffés au rebond et ont été nuls aux LF, mais c'est passé quand même.
Petite frayeur sur la fin à +2 quand Durant rate bizarrement 2 LF ce qui a laissé une chance à SAC pour la gagne. KD avait pourtant assuré dans le 4eQT en scorant 12 pts et portant l'équipe.
KD, 35-6 2bl à 13/22
Westbrook, 22-5-7 2st à 8/16
Harden, 11 pts 5 st
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