Yeah it's great that he can score too. Go back a couple of posts and see the word I italicized. Read that and you'll get it.
LOL, no you didn't. If you want to refute my argument, show WHY Arenas isn't a team player, supported with evidence. Your argument is analgous to "Yao isn't a team player because look at the Rockets' record without him!" It'd work for any star player on any playoff team.
http://sportstwo.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1697634&postcount=51 http://sportstwo.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1697639&postcount=55 I posted it twice! Now stop fucking around with me, it's not cute
How did they play "so much better" as a team? What's the proof of that. People have been laughing in this thread at the notion of taking someone's word for that kind of thing. Same is true for him somehow disrupting the team. When exactly did he disrupt the team, and how can anyone objectively tell that he did? And neither of those support your final assertion that he's not a team player (which is the only bit of it that addresses my argument). An argument along those lines would look something like: "He never passes, shoots every opportunity he gets, only cares about his stats, his teammates aren't successful, his teams lose, etc."
That's subjective, not objective. It's also the "take my word as truth" thing that people were laughing at. I'm not playing around here, I'm really looking for a coherent argument on your part.
Arenas tried to comeback early and obviously wasn't the same player playing less than 100%. It's unfair to compare this year's team to the team that Arenas has played with. The Wizards had more depth this year with Blatche, Nick Young, Roger Mason, and Haywood having a career year. Arenas led the Wizards to the 2nd round and then 2 wins against the Cavs, but without them they got swept and only got 2 wins against Cavs again. Arenas hasn't had the chance to play with the same talent they had this year, so to say they were better without Arenas is unfair since he hasn't had a chance to play with that talent yet.
I'm voting for the Bobcats because of their F.O. You just can't trivialize the effect of a good GM and coach over the season, and in the playoffs. The Bulls on the other hand make Isiah Thomas look like Popovich.
