You're either a hero or a douche, it all depends on the outcome. He tried to do too much = loss. He did it all for his team tonight = win.
become freaking annoying. he actually bullys his teammates away. and attempt the most difficult jumper shot. or run the clock down to 3 seconds, rush to shoot the damn ball from impossible angle.
Dude, Artest was genuinely pissed. I wasn't trying to make something out of nothing just because I felt like doing so. He let his emotions get the best of him and Deke and Turner had to come after him at the end. He wasn't near the officials but he sure as hell needed to be held back a bit in order to not go overthere. I mean he didn't go running towards them charging, but you can tell he genuinely lost it a bit until Deke came in and told him to chill.
Ron Artest reminds me of the jock in the school and how he have his way with the nerds (which is the Rockets). AND Rick Adelmen is the principle that can never get the jocks to play nice lol
Have you seent he replay over and over, or are you basing this on a one time observation?? If you only saw it one time then i can understand why you'd see it this way, but if you replay over a few times, you can see ron wasn't pissed at all first, he got annoyed when deke kept talking to him and getting in front of him and that's when he sort of made a facial gesture like he was annoyed, as to waive deke off, but immediately he let deke know it was cool. THAT is where he "lost is a bit", in reaction to Deke, not because he was letting his emotions take over. Deke and turner came for him as a precaution, not because they needed to. the biggest thing to look at is he shook hands with everyone right after, no anger in his face, no gestures, no nothing, after that he just wanted to say something and got annoyed because Deke didn't trust him to just say it and walk away.
I will admit I only saw it once. But I feel Artest let his emotions get the best of him. He expresses himself differently and he is just a different character. I'm just worried about our player that is all. If I would of seen the same from Scola or Landry would have made the same post. I'm not rationalizing this because of his rep, because I'm not. Although I know I made my initial post seem like its all his reputation and all, I for one am more worried about our player. I guess I'll have to see the video over and over. But I still stand for now that he was really frustrated and clearly he didn't know how express himself. Hell he tried to play hero at the end almost as if he was blind not knowing where his teammates were. Once again I knew who we were getting when we got Ron and I'm not tripping about the loss last night. **** happens move on with your life.
There's no doub that he's an emotional player, he's always a different character, even when he celebrates, he celebrates like no other. I'll agree with that and that he hogged the ball, but it's the "he lost it" part i don't agree with since that implies he went bezerk like in the past.
Artest got hammered on that last shot, ill advised or not. I took it that he was just looking for an explanation, but because it happened to be Ron Artest trying to find an explanation that the officials all were avoiding him. I did not get the impression that Artest was "going after someone" at all.
Clearly just poor choice of words on my part. I know he didn't went bezerk, but I do feel once again that he let his emotions get the best of him. He didn't walk calmly to the locker room at the end, he made a point to stay after and scream across to the referees.
The Ball stopped moving in the 4th with Ron. Man he has to get his act together and stop playing as an individual. He does not have the talent to take over a game.
Come on now, That is bullcrap. Von Wafer and Aaron Brooks should apologize for being absolutely awful. Rick Adelman should apologize for that horrible play call. Yao should apologize for not demanding position and the ball.
Artest is... <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/cDAq5tyfk9E&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/cDAq5tyfk9E&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> who we thought he was. You take the good with the bad. You take the strong D, the decent outside shooting, the nights when executes his game plan to the T, along with the b****ing and the taking of random shots. Is it worth it this season at his contract price? I think so. The question is what you pay for it next year and beyond... what's the package worth.
Ron was fouled. End of story. I would have sided with him if something were to have happened. That was horrible officiating at the end of the game. Yea, the Rockets didn't really do much to help support Artest so he tried to elevate and do it all toward the end. He kind of had to. He was the only one hitting his shots or even able to get the ball.
And I see a sneaky way about throwing an insult at someone indirectly. Same ****. Classy. Anyways, I won't continue on with this so I'm done after this post with this misunderstanding b/w you and I.
I happen to think Artest coud have played a smarter... seemed to me like every shot he took in the 4th was a 3 ball.. im sorry... but when u are up by 17 points... you dont need to be taking a 3ball even if they are giving you the space... it wasnt the last play ... but all the plays leading up to that last shot... because we never should have been in the position to have to shoot a 3 to win or tie....
i believe ron finished 6 of 12 from 3, which means he was 6 of 9 prior to those finals three attempts. If he's that hot from the arc, i don't see why he shouldn't take the 3point shots if he's got a good look, which he did on them except for the final one. I'd agree with you if he hadn't made so many or been that accurate the whole game, but you can't argue with 6 of 9 and open looks.
