Beasley added some nice minutes too last night even in crunch time.

If you watch the Heat every game (and I basically do because I am a boring, boring man) you see that Beasley still makes a bunch of dumb mistakes. You understand a little better why Spolestra is bringing him along so slowly. A stupid pass here and a blown D assignment there....look at beasley's plus/minus ratios this year and you will see a lot of minuses.

That being said, Beasley is SO offensively gifted that it is getting tough to keep him off the floor. His defense and awareness seem to improve just a tiny bit each game. He is only 19 or 20 after all. And he has no fear.....he is willing take and make big shots....he sank a bunch of big FTs last night too.

I see him getting more and more minutes down the stretch as the Heat will need a 2nd scorer when teams start doubling Wade early in the shot clock. It helps Beasley that Haslem has noticeably regressed this year. (And the fact that if I took a dump on the basketball court and labeled it "Jermaine O'Neal" that piece of poop would be just as effective as the actual Jermaine Oneal. The guy had ZERO rebounds in the first half against the Bulls....not a team known to be loaded in the frontcourt.)

I don't get to watch them all, only the national televised games. My roommate and I are both Wade fans so it they always get top priority on sports viewing.

Wade has the look of an MVP





The comment by Kobe is exactly why he probably won't win it, but taking a 15 win team to team that can end up with home court in the first round is amazing.

His 3 pt shooting is only 1% behind Lebrons now too.

Wade probably wont win. For whatever reason, the NBA powers have decided that the MVP means the best player on an elite team. I think thats dumb but whatever. At least they are consistent.

The point is that Wade HAS to be in the debate. What more could he possibly do? He has to score, create and anchor the D and his teammates are mostly neophytes. And he has several dramatic moments....the insane comback against the Knicks where he scored 15 points in a 19-0 run and the magic against Chicago. If he is not in the debate, then NO ONE can be in the debate if their team doesnt win 50+ games.

LOL Old man poppy hates shit.


I've never understood people grumpily saying that people need to " act like they've been there be fore" and restrain their emotions. Let people have fun and celebrate, you kill joys.



Also, that might have been the "signature" game in Wade's MVP season. I can't argue with him winning it, at this point.

I think I'm being mis-interpreted. As a fan I love to see guys show emotion and generally never have a problem with it, but if my star player, MVP candidate, best in the world candidate, arguably the best player in the olympics, guy who's won a championship acts like he just won another one against a non-playoff team at home in March, I would be somewhat embarrassed.

one of the greatest things i've ever seen in sports was johnny unitas' reaction when the colts won the nfl championship in the "greatest game ever played". he sees the touchdown, and walks away. absolutely no emotion, and no celebration. then in the locker room a reporter asks him if he was worried that a key pass of his, that went into coverage, would be intercepted. he said, 'when you know what you're doing, you dont throw interceptions.'

I have never been more convinced you were a faggot than I am right now.

thats kinda stupid. Unitas threw lots of interceptions. That comes off kinda pompous to me.


I think celebrations are just individual expressions. Some guys like Barry Sanders are more ho-hum been there done that and thats cool. Thats them. And there is a certain coolness about that which is great.

But not everyone has to be like that. Good celebrations are awesome. Great ones become legendary: the ickie shuffle, the sharpie, the superbowl shuffle, the cabbage patch, the pretend to be a dog and lift your leg on the corner flag (soccer), the pretend the end line is coke and do a fake line (soccer).

alright, soccer players are crazy, but, to be fair, goals are few and far between in soccer.

they are roughly as common as touchdowns, particularly receiving touchdowns.

From the Daily Dime

and wide receivers like soccer players are mostly insane. there you go.

I don't know where else to put this, and I don't really want to make a new thread about it. ALl the NBA fans check this thread anyway, so here's a HILARIOUS Sam Cassel interview.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHZhKKkmW_w...feature=related

I don't know how this guy gets interviews. You'd think the players or PR guys would know what he's about.

That was a nasty behind the back crossover. He's like a young Grant Hill with a J.

50/10/9/4/2 for Wade in a triple OT win over Utah. He did miss a couple buzzer beater chances so he isnt quite perfect yet.

Kirilenko is still looking for his ankles after that behind the back crossover.

wow, just wow

hrmm...didn't really do anything for me

yeah, well, whatever, man.

Interesting how stats are overrated and you don't care about Hollinger or Simmons, etc...until one of them is making an argument for your guy. Then suddenly we get Hollinger links.

That being said, I'd flip a coin to decide who the MVP is between those two now. And the coin may be ever so slightly weighted towards Wade.

Actually I think it's more interesting they are just waking up to it now.

If they were actually watching games and seeing what players were preforming on both sides of the court in crunch time all season long then they wouldn't just now be jumping on the Wade bandwagon in the last two months of the season.

I had a few paragraphs written here but it's stuff we've argued about a hundred times before, so I'll just let it go

The idea that Hollinger and Simmons aren't watching games, including D-Wade games, is clearly absurd. Simmons just said that wade is one of the few stars that he'll always go out and see live.

I don't read much Hollinger so I know very little of his NBA viewing habits, I read Simmons occasionally depending on what the article is about and how bored I am at work. I have seen him say he considers Wade must see. Of course he said that like a week or two ago, not back in November. Back then he was all about LJ, and that's it.

The only difference between Hollinger and Simmons compared to any of us is they get paid to write about it while we don't, don't make them any more correct. And yea if it took them this long to realize how good of a year Wade was having, and they are trying to tell me Lebron plays better defense, I'm gonna question what they are watching.

Lebron got his ankles snapped last night, but all they will talk about is that he blocked Outlaws shot. Not that his teammate had to come help him because he couldn't guard Roy.

Simmons in his October 24th fantasy basketball preview:

2. Dwyane Wade
Loved him in the Olympics, loved him in the preseason, love him for a monster comeback season that will be the athletic equivalent of "Still D.R.E." I'm thinking something like 29.4 ppg, 6.2 rpg and 5.8 apg and a slew of "D-Wade is back and better than ever!" stories starting in late November. You watch.

Of course, he did have him 2nd after Lebron, so he was still obviously all about Lebron.

I never read his fantasy basketball preview...

He also left out second in the league in steals and blocking more shots than 90% of the forwards in the league.

yeah, but you really dont get a true sense of a player unless you watch him every game (like I do with Wade). I can only give you my impressions of Lebron having seen him play 12-16 times this year.

thats why MVP votes are always a bit silly to me. so subjective.

another good example of this is the Erik Spolestra for coach of the year phenomenon. Announcers/commentators see the vast win improvement and say "what a coaching job he should be in the running for COY."

of course, anyone who watches the heat regularly knows that the win improvement is solely due to Wade being healthy. Dont get me wrong Spolestra has been fine. I would give him a B- which is pretty good for a rookie coach who is in his mid-thirties and looks like he is 25 years old. But he makes lots of rookie mistakes (waits too long to call momentum stopping TOs), has the oddest substitution patterns, and the Heat have a penchant for blowing leads. so coach of the year is kinda laughable to me. Ron Jeremy (SVG) is more deserving, imo.

Is this a rookie coach thing...like they feel like they have to make a ton of moves or they aren't doing enough? Cause Del Negro on the Bulls has the strangest sub patterns too. He doesn't wait too long to call TO's, though, if anything, he calls too many, too early.

That made me