Way to Represent in the ASG B-Roy

He didn't try to take over like Kobe, but everything he did looked really nice.

 

I thought Bradon played really well. That alley oop from Tony Parker was sick. Actually, so was the throw down Paul set him up with off glass. And the give/go where he dunked with two hands.

He also had some sweet passes to Amare, & a pefect dime to Shaq for a lay-in. Let's call the all star game what it is . . . the guys who've been several times are all gunners (well, at least the guards/SF's are - big guys like Duncan, Yao, Karl Malone back in the day who aren't freekish athletes never get the rock) It's all about the show. What I like is Brandon showed he can hang atletically with those guys. Is he AS athletic as Kobe, D-Howard, LBJ? No, but he can play with those guys and hold his own. He even made me go "wow" a few times tonight.

He's just doesn't have enough clout yet to fire up 20 shots. Freeking Kobe starts out 4-10 and just keeps gunning and gunning.

BTW - anybody want to hurl with all the "Shaq/Kobe reunion" thing? What a suck fest. Give me a break - if these guys weren't so selfish they would have won 2-3 more rings. And Shaq saying that the whole drama before was for the media and was "intentional" is laughable. I wanted to puke when they held up that MVP trophy together.

 

Just another data point for the conspiracy theories that the league and its outcomes are less athletically and more marketly driven.

 

BRoy postgame interview (courtesy of Casey): http://www.nba.com/media/blazers/021508roy_allstar.mp3

 

See, it's interviews like this that put Brandon in a class of Blazer players that I think no one have ever achieved, including Drexler. Maybe Walton during 77 and early 78, he was pretty personable and modest, but still had an underlying shyness and lack of people skills. Clyde was a diplomatic interview, but you could tell that he had a somewhat standoffish snootiness about himself that didn't connect completely with the audience and the interviewer.

Brandon Roy is the complete package. Coldly efficient and focused on the court, relaxed, honest, and REAL off the court. In all of his interviews, including this one, there's no sense of being politicked or sold anything other than the truth as he sees it.

 

I loved B-Roy's game tonight. Typical game from him, he didn't seem like he did much but the stats said differently. He's just a great representative for the franchise and this city.

 

Hater!

 

Great showing! I think he played so much because Phil respects him so much.

 

I don't know if this has been posted anywhere, but here you go:

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I think part of it also has to do with the fact that the fans voted in three starters that could play center, and that he had to play small forward since there really weren't any on the team. But taking these two into account, Roy was the one picked to do it. I liked that they had him guarding LeBron.

 

TTT

Best of All-Star Weekend

 

I guess I'm in the minority on this, but I was pretty frustrated by Roy's game. Yes, the stats were nice, and he shot very well from the field, but he was just standing around on the perimeter most of the time, watching the action. He barely ran down the court on most possessions, and didn't seem to be trying very hard. What was up with that? It used to be that guys would go all out at the all-star game, and bust a gut trying to show they "belonged" with the elite.

I'm actually disgusted by the entire spectacle of the All-Star Game, to tell the truth. I hate all the razzle-dazzle and joking around, I hate the total lack of defense played, I hated the way everybody cleared out and let LeWrong go in for a dunk at the end. Hated it!!

OK, I'm on a rant, but what the heck . . .

If defense is such a valued part of the game, why isn't it featured at the All-Star Game? Bill Russell won multiple titles by his defense, yet it's apparently so little valued by the league that they tell everyone to "back off" and just let the players score at will. The result is not a basketball game, it's a Harlem globetrotter's spectacle.

Hey, here's a unique idea! Why not put a great defensive player on LeBron James and try to shut him down? That would be a great display of both offense and defense, which is what the game is all about.

Oh, and one more thing, I hate all the dancing and clowning, and costumes, and lasers and fireworks, and crap. It's like a three-ring circus or a freak show. Maybe that's what kids want to see these days, but it just seems crass and shallow and too much like Las Vegas to me.

Here endeth the rant.

 

I always enjoy watching Paul and Roy playing together.

 

Because the All-Star game isn't about winning. Period. End of story. That's the answer to all your questions.

 

Apparently it's not about basketball, either.

 

Roy played 31 minutes in the game. What do you expect him to do? Sprint up and down the court on every possession and get in a guy's chest on defense in a game in which other players are going throught the motions? Did he not dive for enough loose balls, either?

 

YES!! Now that would have been really "representing" for Portland. He could have showed all those other bums how to play the game, and maybe they would have started taking it seriously, too.

 

Weird, but I'd rather he save his energy for playing in games that matter. I thought he did a great job representing Portland in the game. Oh well, can't please everyone...

 

He shows them how to play EVERY single regular season game!