This ain't about some bench players This is about players that are PLAYERS but Seem to wilt 1. Peja Stojakovic 2. Dirk Nowitzski - never seens someone so big play so small 3. Kwame Brown - never seens someone so big play so small 4. Pau Gasol 5. unfortunately - Rashard Lewis - He needs to be more aggressive I guess i am not one for jump shooting big men Rocket River
Rockets Haters list: T-Mac Rafer Alston Luther Head Yao Ming T-Mac(just because they can) My big 3: Dirk Devin Harris Pau
Physically soft: Tmac Carter Shaq (he won't play with an injury) Mentally soft: Dirk (if you're 7 ft tall and can't punish SF and SG you are soft)
Soft is more than not playing through injury which is part of it but Seem to just not GET THE JOB DONE! I left T-mac off . .cause I am already seens as a T-Mac basher and I don't think he as soft as the others Rocket River
he's played through 2 big injuries this year: knee and shoulder. what's your definition of soft? dirk is not soft (he plays through injuries), he's just a choker.
Vince Carter Vince Carter Vince Carter Vince Carter Vince Carter He makes Keith Van Horn look like a walking Bret Hart vs Shawn Michaels match.
dirk isn't a choker until the gs series...and he didn't choke in all 6 games...our stars choked in a lot of big games too.
Good question. In my opinion I consider a "soft" player to be somebody that wilts under pressure and is afraid of getting hit or being physical. Basically the combination of backing down if a defender gets up in your grill or disappearing in crunchtime combined with somebody that doesn't like to play physical. So basically, Vince Carter in a nutshell. Injuries can be factored into that too, such as the other night whenever it was essentially do-or-die time for the Nets and their hopes of making the playoffs, good ol' Vinsanity sat out with some mysterious ankle injury that he didn't have the next night. Typical.
Couldn't agree more about Dirk. I would say Tmac is soft now because he generally avoids hard contact at this stage in his career. But about two years ago you probably can't say that. His cousin counterpart, however, is soft physically and mentally
My definition of "soft" has nothing to do with injuries. Sometimes they are unavoidable. I define soft as being in the penalty for the last 7 minutes of Game 7 at home and settling for outside jumpshots the rest of the way.
