<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>As the NBA All-Star Game came down to an MVP showdown in the final seconds, LeBron James got the upper hand on Tracy McGrady.James scored 29 points, fueled a second-half comeback and disrupted McGrady's potential tying jumper as the Eastern Conference rallied for a 122-120 victory over the Western Conference in the 55th annual midseason showcase.There was plenty of individual brilliance, led by James, the superstar swingman of the Cleveland Cavaliers who at 21 years old became the youngest All-Star MVP."He has a chance to maybe be the best ever to lace them up," said Detroit guard Chauncey Billups, who joined his Pistons teammates in sparking the second-half comeback. "At 21 years old right now, and doing what he's doing ... I mean, the kid should be a junior in college.""The MVP was never in my mind," James said. "Just winning the ballgame was."</div>http://www.nba.com/games/20060219/ESTWST/recap.htmlAlthough he could have passed more, he still played well and deserved it
Anyone in that game couldve taken that many shots and won the MVP. The point of all-star games is to put on a show for the fans and have fun, LeBron, instead, decided to jack up a bunch of shots and, in my opinion, was very selfish. I think for the most part everyone else played good basketball, spreading the scoring around and gettin everone involved. I think the coaches did a nice job of getting everyone minutes..
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (hoopskidd5 @ Feb 20 2006, 12:35 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Anyone in that game couldve taken that many shots and won the MVP. The point of all-star games is to put on a show for the fans and have fun, LeBron, instead, decided to jack up a bunch of shots and, in my opinion, was very selfish. I think for the most part everyone else played good basketball, spreading the scoring around and gettin everone involved. I think the coaches did a nice job of getting everyone minutes..</div>I feel the same way. Someone I thought played the game better than James was Kobe. Kobe Bryant only had a mere 8 points, but add 7 rebounds and 8 assists. Something you don't see often from Bryant but he wasn't dribbling down the court and just shooting jumpshots like LeBron.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (TheAnswer3 @ Feb 20 2006, 12:46 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I feel the same way. Someone I thought played the game better than James was Kobe. Kobe Bryant only had a mere 8 points, but add 7 rebounds and 8 assists. Something you don't see often from Bryant but he wasn't dribbling down the court and just shooting jumpshots like LeBron.</div>I think everyone but LeBron played unselfishly and tried to get other people oppurtunities to score. T-Mac scored alot too, but his teamattes were foccusing on him because they wanted him to get the MVP in front of his home crowd, LeBron just flat-out kept shooting. Two possesions in a row I watched where he got the ball dribbling up the court and throughout the entire possesion he was the only guy who touched the ball before dribbling through the defense and taking a shot. I thought it was rediculous, similarly, to a lesser extent, to Iguodala in the Rookie game..
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (hoopskidd5 @ Feb 20 2006, 01:04 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I think everyone but LeBron played unselfishly and tried to get other people oppurtunities to score. T-Mac scored alot too, but his teamattes were foccusing on him because they wanted him to get the MVP in front of his home crowd, LeBron just flat-out kept shooting. Two possesions in a row I watched where he got the ball dribbling up the court and throughout the entire possesion he was the only guy who touched the ball before dribbling through the defense and taking a shot. I thought it was rediculous, similarly, to a lesser extent, to Iguodala in the Rookie game..</div>Aw c'mon man. You can't compare Iguodala's 30 pt performance to LeBron's. Iguodala was all dunks and a great percentage from the arc. He was automatic and after the game his teammates kept saying they wanted him to have the ball. There's also a difference in competitiveness between the Rookie Challenge and the All-Star game. Iguodala wasn't selfish at all in his MVP performance. LeBron, on the other hand, was.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (TheAnswer3 @ Feb 20 2006, 01:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Aw c'mon man. You can't compare Iguodala's 30 pt performance to LeBron's. Iguodala was all dunks and a great percentage from the arc. He was automatic and after the game his teammates kept saying they wanted him to have the ball. There's also a difference in competitiveness between the Rookie Challenge and the All-Star game. Iguodala wasn't selfish at all in his MVP performance. LeBron, on the other hand, was.</div>I said it was to a lesser extent, Iggy had nice dunks and entertained the crowd, but at the end of the day he still took 19 shots..He shot a good percentage and put on a show, but 19 shots is 19 shots no matter how you look at it, and that might be pushing it a little bit in such a game. Dont get me wrong, I think he played great and deserved the MVP, but 19 shots is a hefty amount in an all-star type of game..
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (hoopskidd5 @ Feb 20 2006, 01:28 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I said it was to a lesser extent, Iggy had nice dunks and entertained the crowd, but at the end of the day he still took 19 shots..He shot a good percentage and put on a show, but 19 shots is 19 shots no matter how you look at it, and that might be pushing it a little bit in such a game. Dont get me wrong, I think he played great and deserved the MVP, but 19 shots is a hefty amount in an all-star type of game..</div>I know, but keep in mind 9 of them were dunks.
are you guys kidding me. East needed to win and lebron carryed the load... how about kobe goin 4-11 he took lots of shots. Tmac did also. Lebron was just maken them. If noone on the team is scoring why not take over. Plus he has a few good dunks in there.
I wasn't happy with all of the shooting done by James, he shot the second most in the game. The thing is, he almost shot as much as he scored (he shot 21 times and had 29 points). What scared me is that he is played the way that drives me crazy, he kept jacking up threes. It drives me crazy when he doesn't set up a play and he just stands there at the top of the three point line, dribbles through his legs and fires a three point shot. I hate when he does that. With his talent, he has can get to the hoop and get a good high percentage shot and maybe a foul. Atleast set up a play and run it. He does this a lot in real games, I had hope he would change this but he hasn't and tonight was really bad. He shot 4-10 from three point range. The only other person that shot 10 shots from three was T-Mac (and the west wanted him to shoot a lot). LeBron has an all star team with him and he tried to take the game into his own hands instead of getting the rest of the team involved. He played selfish, he may have gotten the win, but he didn't do it with his team, he tried to do it with himself. Wade was 9-11 from the field, LeBron had a nice lob pass to him, why not get the Wade the ball more? He shot way better than LeBron did. LeBron should have played as a playmaker, not a selfish shooter.I know I was critical of him in a allstar game. And I know it is just a game for fun. But the way that LeBron acted concerned me, he has done things like this in real games and now he comes into the allstar game and plays like this. He had a good game if was playing for the Cavaliers, where his shooting is needed. But he had a whole team of stars and he did not do a good job of getting them involved. This game was not a good one by James, it wasn't bad as normal games go, but he could have been a whole lot better, he should have been a whole lot better.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BuLLzDoMaIn @ Feb 20 2006, 01:36 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>are you guys kidding me. East needed to win and lebron carryed the load... how about kobe goin 4-11 he took lots of shots. Tmac did also. Lebron was just maken them. If noone on the team is scoring why not take over. Plus he has a few good dunks in there.</div>TMac did it because his teamattes wanted him to get MVP in front of his home crowd after a rough season thus far..LeBron was just selfish, if it were Carter I would who did it I would be saying the same thing, I was proud to see him not shoot too much and play unselfish basketball like the others did..LeBron was a different story, however, you could tell from the get-go that he wanted to win the MVP to add to his "legacy".
i mean if they keep givin him the ball and hes the only one really scoring what is the problem. Im sure if kobe did it NO one would say anything
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BuLLzDoMaIn @ Feb 20 2006, 09:27 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>i mean if they keep givin him the ball and hes the only one really scoring what is the problem. Im sure if kobe did it NO one would say anything</div>Were talking about an all-star game here buddy, Im sure there are others on the team who can score..If Kobe did it, I would have the same issue, but the fact is he didnt and played a solid all-around game like most of the players did. T-Mac scored alot, but his teamattes wanted him to get the MVP in front of his home crowd after a rough start to the season..
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BuLLzDoMaIn @ Feb 22 2006, 01:11 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>alrite but if not for lebron east would of got killed.</div>Its an all-star game, the teams arent relying on one player to carry them. Someone else would have stepped up and the scoring would have come from different sources..Besides, I think the insertion of the Pistons back in the game had more to do with the East's comeback than LeBron, because there were plenty of players on that team who could have assisted in scoring, you have to remember you are talkin about the best players in the world, the teams arent relying on one player to score for them and bring them back..
i just dont know why people are maken a big deal that lebron got mvp........Also i think the nba should do what the MLB does. Winner of allstar game gets Home court in finals
Yeah when the pistons 4 players came out there they started to play solid defense. Billups was owning Parker again. It was the way Lebron was taking shots that bothered. A lot of them were jacking up 3 pointers. I would say Billups made the biggest impact on the east even though he didn't score a lot.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BuLLzDoMaIn @ Feb 22 2006, 01:42 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>i just dont know why people are maken a big deal that lebron got mvp........Also i think the nba should do what the MLB does. Winner of allstar game gets Home court in finals</div>That would only be cool because players would play harder in the allstar game. But it wouldn't be right. That would give the better conference home court advantage, not the better team. So, I wouldn't want to go for that...
I agree, I dont think thats a good idea, because look at Detroit, San Antonio and Dallas fighting for the top seed and home court advantage. I think its much more exciting to see them play hard everynight trying to get the top record than have a bunch of players most of whom arent playing for those top teams play it out in 48 minutes of exhibition basketball. I dont think the playoff futures of those teams should be put into the hands of their all-star teams because the majority of the players are obviously on other team and some of them not even in contention for the playoffs, nevermind the championship..I think the top seed overall in the regular season deserves to get home court advantage throughout because of the work they put in during the season to get to that point.
