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Loose said:
Maybe I'm ignorant but what was Shaq suppose to be that he didn't live up 2?
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Poor conditioning and injury prone...

Never improved his FT percentage...

The biggest most athletic player of his era and never once led the league in blocks or rebounds..



I would still take his career over 95% of the centers that ever played, but he didn't always finish his breakfast

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gator_king said:
Poor conditioning and injury prone...

Never improved his FT percentage...

The biggest most athletic player of his era and never once led the league in blocks or rebounds..



I would still take his career over 95% of the centers that ever played, but he didn't always finish his breakfast

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yeah, the conditioning is the biggest thing

and his prime years coincided with the the beginning of the dead center era. Instead of absolutely dominating, he got flabby and sick.

Still one of the best to ever play, but I do understand the feeling that he didnt become the player he could have been.
 
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Lucky_Lefty said:
listened to this Friday...he shytted on Shaq and Sam Mitchell something serious. I still hate BS as a individual
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Dropped a few jewels too..

The '08 Olympic team didn't like D. Howard and thought he played around too much..

Pierce and KG were talkin reckless to Bron and getting personal and pushed him too far before he exploded in game 6 last year..


Rondo has had a personality transplant and is now a great leader that flies the team to the Westcoast to play flag football...
 
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Why does Sam Mitchell keep getting mentions from him ? Of all the players past and present to talk about during his career,a relatively unknown coach whom he played with for 2 seasons keeps coming up ?
 
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Mitchell probably scrapped with Rose. It's already confirmed he fought Alston and VC as Raptors coach :laugh: . Dude's post game conferences were always comedy, he definitely needs a head coaching job again.
 
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They are gonna be on ESPN's NBA Countdown too

 
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Shaq could have been the GOAT if he had the work ethic of Kobe or someone similar. He was good enough to get by with doing the minimum and while it's disappointing, I kind of understand why. But he and Lebron might be the 2 most special human specimens I've ever seeen

He was just having fun out there and was able to perform at a very high level for a long time doing the minimum and a lot of athletes are like that.

The average Joe doesn't work hard to improve on any aspect in his/her life so I can't be to mad at him. Being a pro athlete is just a job to a lot of these guys, no more no less.
 
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