Oso planning to go pro
Quote from: ilovefreeway on June 17, 2007, 08:34:19 PMQuote from: PuertoRicanNightmare on June 17, 2007, 08:03:59 PMI am also announcing I am no longer a candidate for the NBA draft. The difference is I'm a better shooter than James. where's the ignore buttonThanks for ignoring my post by responding to it. NukeEm, too.
Quote from: PuertoRicanNightmare on June 17, 2007, 08:03:59 PMI am also announcing I am no longer a candidate for the NBA draft. The difference is I'm a better shooter than James. where's the ignore button
I am also announcing I am no longer a candidate for the NBA draft. The difference is I'm a better shooter than James.
I think the majority of fans are glad that he's back, but we are all concerned because of DJs actions. First, he looked like a shell of himself last season from the Duke game on (honors not withstanding). Second, it seemed like he was doing everything he could to give himself an out at MU and he's still coming back. Lastly, his jump shots were just terrible last year.
I think the concerns people have about DJ worrying about DJ first, and the team second are valid. We won't know until December. So expect to see a lot of fence-sitting regarding DJ.
Quote from: Niv Berkowitz on June 18, 2007, 08:43:33 AMI think the concerns people have about DJ worrying about DJ first, and the team second are valid. We won't know until December. So expect to see a lot of fence-sitting regarding DJ.I personally don't have any concerns over DJ worrying about DJ first. It sounds like the knock on DJ from the NBA evaluators is that he needs to improve his PG skills. That in and of its self means that he needs to think about the team first and run the team the way it should be run. In other words, play more like Nash (team concept) and less like Marbury (stat stuffer).
I never said that next year if he comes back that no one will recognize him and that he will suck. That was 77ncaachamps.Get your facts right before you start calling people ignorant. Man, you are tiresome.I love how you single me out when I am one of scores of people on both boards who criticized DJ's play in the second half, and also criticized his entering the draft. People have said a lot worse about DJ than I have, yet, you like to attack me personally and toss the insults around.I don't know what I did to piss in your Cheerio's, but man you are sad. But, I guess personally attacking me through the safety of an internet message board makes you feel like a big man.Get a grip, and a life. People differ with you on DJ. Don't throw around insults and quotes that are incorrect. I think DJ is the second-best player on the team. I think that he was bad in the second half of the season. You disagree, fine. Whatever your hard-on is for insulting me and singling my posts out, fine. You are not the God of basketball knowledge.Why don't you attack PRN for his crack about that he can shoot better than James? I'm not playing your game any more. You are a perfect example of why the ignore button is needed.
Then he'll earn himself another vacation.
I guess I recalled it as OZ considering so many of his posts have some sort of qualifier towards me. It just gets old when a certain group of people, led by Oz cannot appreciate a player for waht he is. That they would welcome him back if he can do this or if he does that. Well it does not work that way, Mu is either better with or without a player and Mu is exponentially better with DJ. A player has NBA aspirations and then everything he does is hyper scrutinized as him being a selfish person, etc, etc. It's sad.
I think DJ is a tremendous athlete, but last season, he wasn't half the player he was his freshman season. Name some athletes who declared for the draft, pulled out late, and impacted their team greatly (i.e., Elite Eight, Final Four).
Quote from: 77ncaachamps on June 18, 2007, 02:51:14 PMI think DJ is a tremendous athlete, but last season, he wasn't half the player he was his freshman season. Name some athletes who declared for the draft, pulled out late, and impacted their team greatly (i.e., Elite Eight, Final Four). The notion that James was a "shell of himself" or "not half the player he was" as a freshman is laughable. His shooting was down a whopping one made basket per game on average and his free throw percentage, though still poor for a guard, actually improved. His assist to turnover was about the same and his steal were up slightly while his rebounding was down slightly (the latter not all that important for a point guard).The real difference for James between his freshman year and his sophomore year was that he was facing defenses designed to stop his penetration rather than those designed to curb Steve Novak's open looks. As a result, and through no fault of his own, getting to the hole became significantly more difficult. One can fairly argue that DJ did not adjust all that well to being the defensive focus of every opponent, but to argue that he somehow was - or will be - a negative force on the team is flat-out ridiculous. DJ wasn't so much a lesser player last year than opponents did a much better job of taking away his strengths.