My thing is... If you wanna show off, make it work. If you wanna go a tight dunk and show off, well, atleast throw it down so your team gets 2 points. Dont let your ego hurt your team; thats just selfish. Like, with Steve Francis. He'd try stuff like this, but the best part was - he would score.
Nate Robinson is definitely not team oriented at all. The guy needs to learn that he shouldn't be doing that and should have already known. He needs to straighten up.
<div class="quote_poster">AKIRA Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">He still sucks though, what a loser, trying to be all that, thinking he's a star cause he can dunk, i saw the dunk contest and i wasnt impressed, he flat out embaressed himself man, he's not even that good a player. Why nate? Why? LOL, im just kidding, who cares if he missed a dunk,so what, ive seen jordan miss a dunk. You guys stop sayin he should be punished, its not that big a deal its just like missing a shot or travelling or whatever, your not gonna punish a young guy just because he made a mistake, calm down.</div> When your a NBA legend like Jordan who wins titles and who helped create a basketball dynasty for a city your allowed to miss a dunk or two. Nate Robinson has done nothing for the city of New York and the Knicks need every win they can get. No time to showboat. Play like Tim Duncan and get the Job DONE! Youth dont matter. THINK!!! USE YOUR HEAD!
<div class="quote_poster">Trench Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">When your a NBA legend like Jordan who wins titles and who helped create a basketball dynasty for a city your allowed to miss a dunk or two. Nate Robinson has done nothing for the city of New York and the Knicks need every win they can get. No time to showboat. Play like Tim Duncan and get the Job DONE! Youth dont matter. THINK!!! USE YOUR HEAD!</div> I understand what you're saying, but Nate isn't the first nor the last player to make a bad play trying to show boat. He's still young and thrives off the crowd's energy and not to say he isn't wrong, but at the same time, I think he's getting too much heat. He made a bad play in a non-critical moment and will hopefully grow from it.
I think Nate got distracted by the whistles which resulted in him missing the dunk. By the time the ball was in the air the whistle had been blown numerous times. It was a foolish decision by Nate, though. You don't pull something like this during a tight game in the second quarter. Some of you may have seen it when Isiah kicked him out of the huddle in the next timeout. He came back on the court, but I believe Isiah should have benched him, perhaps for the rest of the half (5 minutes left) to send a message. Some of you are overreacting though, he didn't pull a Ricky Davis or anything crazy like that. He still has some maturing to do. <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post"> I bet when Isiah called a timeout later, he probably told Nate Robinson to "get out of the huddle!"</div> lol, I don't know if he said it, but he used his marker and pointed out in a motion implying for Nate to get out of the huddle.
Nate stinks....He is a point guard who is avg. about 1 assist per turnover, dosen't get his teammates involved and is always shootin/slashin first. This missed dunk just shows what a douche bag he is.
<div class="quote_poster">Trench Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">When your a NBA legend like Jordan who wins titles and who helped create a basketball dynasty for a city your allowed to miss a dunk or two. Nate Robinson has done nothing for the city of New York and the Knicks need every win they can get. No time to showboat. Play like Tim Duncan and get the Job DONE! Youth dont matter. THINK!!! USE YOUR HEAD!</div> calm down man, all im saying is that he's young and young players make mistakes, it doesnt mean you punish them. forget what i said about jordan, it was just a little thing i said that didnt really mean much. oh yeah i hope your not telling me to "use my head", cause that would be blowing things way out of proportion, you really take things too far and way too seriously.
<div class="quote_poster">AKIRA Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">calm down man, all im saying is that he's young and young players make mistakes, it doesnt mean you punish them. forget what i said about jordan, it was just a little thing i said that didnt really mean much. oh yeah i hope your not telling me to "use my head", cause that would be blowing things way out of proportion, you really take things too far and way too seriously.</div> Im telling NATE ROBINSON to think and use his head. It was not my intention to point a finger towards you. I have never blasted anyone personally on a forum. Theres no point to it. Its a public forum and its all for the love of basketball!!!
Nate Robinson is scrub in the NBA. I said it. He won the dunk contest because he's short. Now, he thinks he's the ****. Well, he's not. He plays for a bad team and thinks he's good and is ruining the team chemistry which is already bad.
<div class="quote_poster">CLos Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Nate Robinson is scrub in the NBA. I said it. He won the dunk contest because he's short. Now, he thinks he's the ****. Well, he's not. He plays for a bad team and thinks he's good and is ruining the team chemistry which is already bad.</div> Ruining the team chemistry? It was just one play, it wasn't even intentional. If i'm not mistaken, this team's "chemistry" has looked a lot better this season. Correct me if im wrong.
lol @ ruining the team's chemistry. He's one of the few players on the Knicks that hasn't completely given up already. Remembering Ricky Davis really puts everything back in perspective.
meh, there's a borderline between making an exciting play and show boating, I think he did cross it. He probably should've just cocked it back and dunked it hard (but he probably still would've missed it... hehe cheap shot, jp), that would've got his team fired up and still put 2 pts on the board. But w/e, I like his enthusiasm at least.
<div class="quote_poster">P.A.P. Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">I lol, I don't know if he said it, but he used his marker and pointed out in a motion implying for Nate to get out of the huddle.</div> Nice! Glad to know Isiah ain't going to take no b.s. from a non team player. Maybe Nate was trying to garner some excitement from the new york crowd, but he shouldn't have done it in such a low basketball IQ way by throwing it to himself and then travelling. That's about as smart as calling a timeout when you know the team has no timeouts left. Know the rules, Nate! Everyone who has played team basketball hates those kind of guys, especially the coach.
<div class="quote_poster">custodianrules2 Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">I bet when Isiah called a timeout later, he probably told Nate Robinson to "get out of the huddle!"</div> Isiah probally was the one who told him to do it.
There's a time and situation for showboating and Nate picked the wrong one. It's one thing to make a great play, but what he did was clearly self serving. Just because he's dunk champ doesn't means he's all that. And by the way, I don't agree with him winning the slam dunk championship. He's no Spud Webb. And let's not forget that Spud's smaller than Nate at 5"7. Spud had game. Players who has no respect for the game doesn't belong in the NBA.
<div class="quote_poster">hustler Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Ruining the team chemistry? It was just one play, it wasn't even intentional. If i'm not mistaken, this team's "chemistry" has looked a lot better this season. Correct me if im wrong.</div> All of the Knicks PGs are headaches to their team.
That play was ridiculous. On sportscenter when they showed it Isiah looked embarrassed as hell. Did he get taken out of the game after that? I mean I'm not sure who Nate Robinson thinks he is but he's a 3rd or 4th tier PG who just so happens to be able to dunk once in a while.
Get off the guy's case. He missed a dunk, big deal. It's all blown out of proportion. He's a good player and he has a lot of heart. Enough already.
It's not just a missed dunk. The guy has a well documented "Sports Centre" syndrome, and this is just further evidence that he still needs to do a fair bit of maturing before he can maximize his talents.
