Not really the best comparison because for the first 6 years of his career, Shawn Kemp was the cornerstone of a young up-and-coming franchise in Seattle that caused headaches to all the top dogs in the West during the 90's. Point is, he won basketball games. He became that cornerstone of the franchise early on because he WAS a good NBA player for his first few years in the league. He also had a top NBA point guard in Gary Payton running the show. Terrence is not a player of Shawn Kemp's caliber. Yes, he's a good basketball player with freakish athleticism, but it takes more than that to get off the pine in the NBA. Let all the haters, and the TWill lovers recognize that he is NOT A GOOD NBA PLAYER, and might not get there in time to make a difference for the Rockets. He is a good streetballer. Anyone who actually watched the entire Rockets games that he played in and understands organized basketball will realize that. The people on this board who call everyone on here "haters" because they dont like the guy just need to stop watching the youtube highlights and truely learn the NBA game. Terrence's attitude is a totally different topic. I really dont care anymore. Until he actually does something on the NBA hardwood, he can showboat all he wants, but whether he wants to realize it or not, his actions in the locker room, in practice, on twitter, and in the media can very well prevent him from getting another shot at proving himself on the court. The "haters" on this board most likely just want him to be able to work for that opportunity like everyone else on the team instead of acting like a spoiled brat when coach Adelman benches you because you blowoff the playbook, and take off plays on defense. Attitude might not matter for young Superstars like Shawn Kemp or a Blake Griffin to get playing time, but for the average basketball players like Terrence Williams, it just doesnt come to you that easy. Gotta work for it, continue to improve, and be humble bud.
If he even turns out anywhere near Shawn Kemp was, I will be ecstatic. The amount of effort Kemp must have put into his game as a rookie must have been mind bogglingly incredible. This was a kid who had not played a single year of college ball, was drafted at the age of 19, and had nothing but the raw athleticism needed to dominate high school peers had improved his game so much that the Sonics traded their starting PF to promote him to starter, where he then not only flourished one year, but subsequent years after that. Hopefully T-Will can find some resemblance of that fiery determination and heck, I will gladly take the amount of years that Kemp was great for the Sonics before self-destructing.
So i guess that means you agree that Shawn Kemp isnt really the best player to compare to Terrence Williams?
The off-season is so boring someone wrote a whole blog about T-Will's dunk. Lockout Dreams With Terrence Williams
Definitely not. Shawn Kemp worked hard to improve his game and earn his starter spot. T-Will has yet to improve anything and the only reason I wanted to see him start was because we were marching out Budinger to try and stand in front of opposing 3's. A good comparison for T-Will would probably be JR Rider. So much talent. So much promise. Flashes of brilliance coupled by moments of WTF?!? JR Rider went down hard, so hopefully T-Will won't follow.
I agree with the JR Rider comparison. JR might have even accomplished more at this point in his career actually. The iconic through-the-legs dunk at the All Star Dunk Contest was pretty awesome.
Why are we discussing the "shirt-throwing" and that kinda stuff instead of the dunk? It seems like all players have to behave and conform to this "mature controlled citizen code" in order to be accepted as a person and as a player. I find it we have 9 pages of discussions on how "bad and stupid" a person Terrence Williams is and all kinds of personal discussion instead of celebrating the beautiful dunk that was. Come on guys, lets just enjoy the basketball!!! It was an awesome posterization!! And on a Laker, too. I know as 50 year old white men you think these kind of actions and Terrence Williams himself and the person that he is is just too much for you. No wonder Shane Battier is so well-liked around here. Now I get it. Stupid fat old men haters who orders viagra immediately the instant he sees a slow scrub guy takes a charge while intensely-scrutinize negatively and turns it personal the instant he sees an exciting dunk followed by a razzmatazz celebration that boosted the play with 1000 style points, sitting behind a computer hating on black players who make the NBA the great product it is today. Oh well, hard to fault grandpas who likes to think dunks are only useful in showing the unprofessionalism and immaturity of a young passionate player, and charges and putting a hand up in his face are what basketball is all about. Let me go check with David Stern, hold on a sec. Note to Marcus Morris: Next time you sink the game-winning shot, please just remain absolutely emotionless and "mature", and sprint as fast as you can back to your basket, and salute the American flag when you go past centercourt. Don't move a limb or a fist after the NBA.com Top-10 play.
Please stop comparing Williams to J.R. Rider. They have nothing in common right now. Rider could actually play.
i usually don't get entertained by men taking of their clothes.... but hey if that's how you roll its well with in your right bro.
i think his point is if level of showboating=level of play....okay level of showboating>level of play...punk and btw don't think that humbleness and discreteness goes unnoticed. Look at Andre Johnson. There are countless atricles and videos about how great of a player he is yet at the same time how much of a level head he has on his shoulders. People respect that quality so much in AJ that even after he threw haymakers at Finnegan EVERYONE besides Titan fans were rooting for him even more.
i'm sorry but what else could you get out of it other than a man taking off his shirt = entertainment.... So either.... you are gay or T-will has the wrong idea when it comes to entertaining a crowd...
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Three posts in a row. You just couldn't walk away from the computer without needing to add something else, twice? I am 23 years old and primarily a hockey fan. Hockey is a sport where players taunt and beat the living daylights out of each other during a playoff series, and then man-up and shake hands at the end of every single series. Pick-up basketball where people are taking their shirts off strikes me as the antithesis of this. It rubs me the wrong way, which doesn't require me to be 50. I just think if I was in the other guy's position, and my opponent took his shirt off and acted like a monkey, I'd have no problem roughing him up a little to put a little fear in him and make him think twice before doing it again. I think the issue in this thread is that people are trying to avoid glorifying unsportsmanlike conduct.
Because that wasn't even that great of a dunk in the first place. And he looked like a r****d taking his shirt off.
You need to read my post. Here let me help you. If you noticed, you and the other guy are the only 2 focusing on him taking his jersey off. That was only one of the things he did that day to "entertain the crowd". He actually participated in a game that day, as well. My point was he is the only Rocket's player out there and he is being hated on majorly by some Rockets fans. Yeah he is a jerk, but just like everyone else who was out there, he was having fun playing basketball. BTW, it was a pretty good dunk that was almost blocked.
Another thing. With all the stuff thats going on, with the fighting and drug use amongst other players in the league, you should all appreciate the fact that T-Will is only clowning around on the court and not making a fool of the Rockets organization.
Look Rafer Alston, he was a great streetball player, and with the And 1 streetball team, he was a star, but he was in the NBA, and didnt play that good, put any streetballer in the NBA and dont make it to be a star player, because its different playing organized basketball than streetball. Twill is great for streetball, but not so much for the NBA.
Eh, it was a charity game. I think people expect showmanship over competitive play at that type of thing. The stunt does give more ammo to his critics, however.
