<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">DALLAS - We have a choice. We can marvel at what Dwyane Wade does on a basketball court and leave it at that, or we can start to do to him what we did to Michael Jordan and what we're doing to LeBron James. Hagiography is one of my wife's favorite words. It is, according to the dictionary (I had to look it up the first time she used it), biography that goes a step further by assigning larger-than-life qualities to the person being profiled. In our little sports world, that means it's not enough to let Wade be Wade - and, as he's proving in these Finals, Wade, the Miami Heat's all-star guard, is pretty doggone good. He's a special talent, with the ability to raise himself to meet the challenge of the moment. He has done it too many times in three straight postseasons, against too many good defenses, for this to be some kind of fluke. Yet it's not enough to let Wade's talents, such as his wondrous 43-point effort in Game 5 against the Dallas Mavericks on Sunday (giving him a 40-point average in the last three games), stand on their own. We have to make him into some kind of basketball superpower deity. Of course, we have to compare him to Jordan. "Tonight, he took over all facets of the game, kind of like how Michael Jordan did it back in '91 and '92, when he really dominated the Finals," Heat forward Antoine Walker said of his teammate. We wallow in the waters of his reflected glow: Isn't Dwyane great? And this is where the NBA can get into trouble, when its star players become bigger than the teams on which they play, becoming nation-states unto themselves. It doesn't allow anyone to think clearly - most notably, the great players' opponents.</div> Source Interesting piece by DA. What are your thoughts on this?
Its a tuff situation. Wade has no control over this and the NBA has minimal Control. Its mostly the media. If making Wade into God makes a better story, sells more papers, gets higher ratings its bound to happen. As we all know we live in a country where Cash is king and the world is slowly following our lead. The sad part about it is the media builds people up just to tear them down for an even bigger story. I hope this doesnt happen to Wade or Bron. They are both good players but everyone makes mistakes. And when they make that mistake it could ruin a life. Go Bulls!
Mavs STOP WHINING!!!....seriously everyone from their owner, to the coaches, to their writers, and to their fans are WHINING!!!........They act like Dirk hasn't ever got the benefit of the calls or like they are the first team to deal with bad officiating.....I have a funny gut feeling that this "us against the world" mentality will carry over to tonight and it will effect the mavs in a negative way.
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post"> They act like Dirk hasn't ever got the benefit of the calls or like they are the first team to deal with bad officiating..... </div> Yes, but getting called for a foul with 2 seconds left in a game which you were leading in by a referee who was standing NEAR MID COURT when he made the call kind of gives you a reason to be pissed off. Furthermore, it must be annoying as well when ONE PLAYER from the other team exactly totals your numbers in terms of freethrows. Say what you want about the Mavs fans whining, but they have every reason to do so. It's not like they clear-cut lost, the refs had an extreme part in it. I don't really care much about the timeout thing but the half-court call by an official who's been known to make bail-out calls (or non-calls for that matter) [Ben Salvatore is his name] for superstars and home teams should strike some anger and yes, even some whining from thier coach, owner, players, fans and everyone else.
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">It's not like they clear-cut lost</div> Yes it is....they had PLENTY of opportunities to close the heat out in that game.....I guess the refs just planned to blow a late whistle on that Howard drive, because they knew he would miss both FT's....and the ref that made the call was right behind the play, not at MID COURT.....and even if he was I'm sure he got a view of Dirks hand on Wade's back......Dallas fans weren't complaining when Dirk shot 24 ft's against SA, and they weren't complaining when Dirk fouled out T.D. by stepping on DUNCANS FOOT in a big close game......bad calls happen, yes you can be angry but you have to get over it and keep playing.
Couldn't have said it better myself Dream lol. This isn't the first time a superstar has gotten the benefit of a call. Dirk gets it all the time and so does Wade. Mavs fans stop whining already it happened get over it.
are you sure you're posting in the right thread?? That really isn't what we're talking about. Please read at least PART of the article/first post before posting in the future instead of assuming that the thread is about one thing or another. thankyou
^^^I've read the article and it's just another piss and moan article about Wade getting the superstar treatment.
Isnt this article basically kissing Wades BUtt and just Talking about the negatives of being larger than the game? Maybe be im not bias enough to get it, seeing im a bulls fan.
Of course they are making him into some huge figure, but over the next few years we will see the true Wade. His supporting cast is old, and that will hurt him greatly. No Shaq, Walker, Mourning = no title for DWade. So maybe after some of them retire and some age wade will be brought down to earth.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting THE DREAM:</div><div class="quote_post">^^^I've read the article and it's just another piss and moan article about Wade getting the superstar treatment.</div> The article was written by David Aldridge, not a writer who covers the Mavs. He's posing a few interesting questions ... 1) Why can't the media just let Wade be Wade? 2) If the media over glorifies what Wade is doing, at what point does it become a negative situation for his team and the NBA?
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting WhiteManCanJump:</div><div class="quote_post">Of course they are making him into some huge figure, but over the next few years we will see the true Wade. His supporting cast is old, and that will hurt him greatly. No Shaq, Walker, Mourning = no title for DWade. So maybe after some of them retire and some age wade will be brought down to earth.</div> He'll always be better than Mr. choke Dirk Nowitzki. Wade=1 ring Dirk=no rings
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting virve119:</div><div class="quote_post">He'll always be better than Mr. choke Dirk Nowitzki. Wade=1 ring Dirk=no rings</div> Robert Horry has more rings than Wade, is he better? I would take Wade over Dirk, but how the hell can you say he choked tonight? The last 5 possessions he only touched it once and the one time he touched it, he made a pass to Dampier that would have been a dunk that Dampier mishandled. I don't see how you can say Dirk choked. Is it Dirk's fault that they lost when his teammates didn't pass to him? btw, Wade missing the 2 FT's tonight was a bigger choke then the 1 that Dirk missed in Game 3 and Game 5. The difference is the Heat took advantage while the Mavs didn't.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting GatorsowntheNCAA:</div><div class="quote_post">Robert Horry has more rings than Wade, is he better? I would take Wade over Dirk, but how the hell can you say he choked tonight? The last 5 possessions he only touched it once and the one time he touched it, he made a pass to Dampier that would have been a dunk that Dampier mishandled. I don't see how you can say Dirk choked. Is it Dirk's fault that they lost when his teammates didn't pass to him? btw, Wade missing the 2 FT's tonight was a bigger choke then the 1 that Dirk missed in Game 3 and Game 5. The difference is the Heat took advantage while the Mavs didn't.</div> To be fair dirk missed crucial free-throws in 2 games. Wade's miss at the end of tonights game came with the heat up by 3 with like 9 seconds left.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Brasco:</div><div class="quote_post">To be fair dirk missed crucial free-throws in 2 games. Wade's miss at the end of tonights game came with the heat up by 3 with like 9 seconds left.</div> Dirk's FT's wouldn't have put the Heat away. The Game 5 one was in a 2 point game(if I remember correctly) with at least 30 secs left, so if he made it then it would have been a 3 pt game, which they still could have won easily. The only reason why Dirk's is more magnified is because the Heat took advantage of the mistake, while the Mavs couldn't take advantage of Wade's "choke". Wade just needed 1 out of 2 to seal the deal, what would have happened if Terry hit that 3. Mavs would have had all the momentum at home for OT and could have possibly taken the series. Neither of Dirk's misses were in that critical of a situation. (don't get me wrong it was still critical. Would you agree that Josh Howard's 2 misses in Game 5 was worse than Dirk's misses?
