Fatione booed at home as he comes off the court and heads for the bench last night.

21 mins
2-10 FG
0-5 3FG
2 rebs
4 TO
8 pts

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/sports/basketball/13498797.htm


WALKER STRUGGLES

The Heat's victory Tuesday came despite a 2-of-10 shooting, four-turnover performance by forward Antoine Walker, who was booed rather loudly after his final missed shot, a three-pointer with 4:03 left in the game. And just to make sure Walker got the message, the fans cheered when Udonis Haslem came in to replace Walker.

''He's being measured, I think, too harshly,'' Riley said of Walker. ``I believe in him. He's a streak scorer with this team. He can get on a roll. He had a tough game tonight, but I think he did a lot of good things. He was on the floor when we went ahead.''

Walker didn't react to the boos during the game and wasn't critical of the fans after the game.

''That's life,'' Walker said. ``I can't really control that. I guess I'm just not one of the favorites.

``I just missed some shots; we're 29 games into the season. If people want to judge me on me making a shot, I'm going to be here until Riles decides to move me, so you're going to have to deal with me. But trying to boo me or stuff like that, that doesn't bother me.

``I played in Boston, so I've seen the worst.''

LMFAO!!!! He's a chump.

Because there are no fours!!!

Struggaling.

Walker=Shit.

Heat=our bitches.


Art

Important question: when are The Heat trading for Van Horn?

Walker=Shit.

that's an insult to fecal matter everywhere.

Sorry to all fecal matter. I didnt mean to insult you. Carry on.

This thread just reminded me to take my fiber caplets. Thanks guys!

Because there are no fours!!!


^ the only reason to like him right there.

No Van Horn...eh? Well how about DC? He can still play....right?

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/dailydime?page=dailydime

everyone to read at once the most important part

Why Heat are team to beat
By Tim Legler
ESPN Insider

Coming into the season, I picked the Miami Heat to win the East.

After Detroit's impressive 106-101 win over Miami on Thursday, to raise its record to 24-3, it's clear the conference title will be won or lost in Auburn Hills, Michigan. But I still think it's Miami's conference to lose. With an asterisk.

Let me explain.

We learned three basic things in Thursday's game.

First, Miami has serious issues on the perimeter.

They can't stop the Pistons' star guard tandem of Chauncey Billups and Richard Hamilton, or anyone else, really. Billups in particular just goes wherever he wants to go.

Jason Williams isn't getting any quicker, and Gary Payton isn't getting any younger.

Dwyane Wade has the athletic ability to be a great defensive guard, but he doesn't really focus himself on that end. He just drifts along, somewhat like LeBron James in Cleveland.

That could be a fatal flaw for Miami.

Second, the Pistons are much better prepared to win these sorts of games than the Heat are.

The Pistons know each other so well that it really doesn't matter who has the ball. The Heat, on the other hand, are still figuring each other out.

The game was tied 99-99 with 2:05 remaining, when Udonis Haslem hit a jumper. Billups drove for a layup, and then he drove and kicked to Rasheed Wallace for a 3-pointer. Game over. But Billups could have passed to Hamilton or Tayshaun Prince and expected the same result.

The Heat don't have that sort of chemistry yet. Shaquille O'Neal is still getting into shape, Pat Riley is still getting a handle on things, and overall the team plays as if they're coming out of training camp.

Third, we saw signs that Riley knows how to use Shaq.

In the past two seasons, while Shaq has lost each season to the Pistons in the postseason, he's demonstrated that he can do whatever he wants to against them, and that was true again on Thursday. The Pistons play single coverage on Shaq, and they really can't stop him.

Riley will take advantage of this better than Stan Van Gundy or Phil Jackson did. He is willing to get the ball to Shaq time after time, much as he did in the 1980s with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

Van Gundy's preference was to run plays for other players on many occasions, and in Los Angeles, Kobe Bryant had the ball and Shaq often had to wait to get it, even when he was open.

In Miami, Wade will have the ball a lot, but he is more unselfish than Kobe. Shaq will get the ball when open, as we saw in the first half, when, before he got tired, Shaq dominated the Pistons down low.

Ultimately, these last two points will eventually work in the Heat's favor.

Even with all of Miami's problems -- the poor perimeter defense, the lack of cohesion, and Shaq's inability to finish the game strongly -- and even with the Pistons playing at the absolute top of their game, and in perfect health, the game was tied with two minutes to go, in Detroit.

Assuming Shaq can get his health back to 100 percent, or close, Pat Riley and the Heat will figure out how to get the best of the team in these late, close situations. They'll get the ball to Shaq and to Wade, and they'll learn how to finish out games like Thursday's and go to the NBA Finals.

But if Shaq isn't healthy, there really isn't a team to stop the Pistons in the East. So while the Heat are still my team to beat, the conference title still goes through Detroit.

odd since shaq got no touches in the second half. Wade hogged the plays up.


Legler is a joke of an analyst, i thought so 2 years go and he's done nothing to change that.

Legler's a tard. He assumes, as a constant, JayWill playing flawless, Dwayne Wade shooting 80% from the field, and that after 60 regular season games and at least one round of the playoffs, Shaq will have "his health back to 100 percent, or close," which hasn't happened in years.

They're all jokes.

No one is a bigger joke than 'Zo. What a cock puncher. How long before he gets bored and quits on this team too?

I really believe that this is the best that we will see The Heat play all season (including playoffs). They played a great game and still lost.

http://info.detnews.com/pix/sports/2005/pistons/pistons_20051229_heat/Pistons8.jpg



Damn, someone find me a video!

All those ESPN/ABC analysts are jokes. TNT is where it's at.

All those ESPN/ABC analysts are jokes. TNT is where it's at.

TNT can lick my nads. They fucking worship the Heat, specifically Wade. How many times in that game did they elude to the fact that Miami "probably" would've been in the Finals last year if it weren't for injuries to Wade and Shaq? Also note how they had to display the graphic showing us that a bunch of teams have had the start the Pistons have had, making it seem like no big deal.

I fucking detest TNT.

All those ESPN/ABC analysts are jokes. TNT is where it's at.

TNT can lick my nads..
yea thats TK. his proper TKonian use the word nad in a sentence is genuine.

My god they are a horrid road team.

The whole learning to play togther with Shaq is just a line of BS. They are as lazy as can be. I have never seen a team that has won nothing play a without purpose as often as the Heat have this season.

I mean I got last year the Pistons being lazy and the Spurs not playing as well so far after their championship. I also get that there going to be nights when you lose to inferior teams but this is sad. The Heat are just 7-10 on the road. Tonight they lost to NO. If they were playing in any other division then the South east they wouldn't be in first. Even the Nets are better.

I find it so funny that they could be the 2 or 3 seed and be on the road all playoffs.On second thought Well given their road record be on the road for their only series.

He's a fucking coward.

All he did was decide to write an article supportive of his dumbass preseason prediction.

He came up with his conclusion first - "I have to make it look like I picked the right team" - and then fashioned an analysis that would fit, i.e. "Shaq will be healthy, they'll learn to play defense, Riley is worth 82 wins per year, god forbid the Pistons don't win by 9,000 points against a good team at home, blah blah blah".

If he would have been smart enough to pick the Pistons before the season, he would have written an article about why the Pistons are the team to beat.

I can't stand coward reporters. Man up, admit you made a mistake, and jump on the Detroit bandwagon, you dumb fuck.

No one wants to hear you sitting on a sinking ship, patting yourself on the back, and opining as to why the ship will stop sinking if only the captain was Pat Riley.

begining of the second quarter:

PHX: 47

MIA: 27

To be fair, Wade and Williams are not playing...

Too damn bad for them.

He's a fucking coward.

All he did was decide to write an article supportive of his dumbass preseason prediction.

He came up with his conclusion first - "I have to make it look like I picked the right team" - and then fashioned an analysis that would fit, i.e. "Shaq will be healthy, they'll learn to play defense, Riley is worth 82 wins per year, god forbid the Pistons don't win by 9,000 points against a good team at home, blah blah blah".

If he would have been smart enough to pick the Pistons before the season, he would have written an article about why the Pistons are the team to beat.

I can't stand coward reporters. Man up, admit you made a mistake, and jump on the Detroit bandwagon, you dumb fuck.

No one wants to hear you sitting on a sinking ship, patting yourself on the back, and opining as to why the ship will stop sinking if only the captain was Pat Riley.


sounds like something i'd do. oh well.

Haven't had any good LOL's at the Heat lately, but here's one from the Power Rankings this week:


Don't blame the committee (of one messenger). Facts is facts: Heat are 16-8 under Riles, but 0-6 against the top four and just 8-13 vs. teams with winning records.

Heat had 42 points in the first quarter against the Clips. And are only up 5 after the Clippers scored the first 4 points of the 2nd quarter. Definitely LOL-worthy if they lose.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/sports/13836221.htm


`Total breakdown'

BY MIKE PHILLIPS
mphillips@MiamiHerald.com

DALLAS - Dirk Nowitzki was just saying the other day how the Dallas Mavericks can't change their reputation during the regular season. If people are going to respect the Mavs, Nowitzki said, it would have to be earned in the playoffs.

That might be true for the Mavericks, who are trying to convince the NBA they are no longer a shoot-from-the-hip team, but a tough, stingy group that aspires to be the best defensive team in the league.

But the Heat is gaining another kind of reputation. And Miami did little to erase a growing concern Thursday, falling 112-76 to the Mavericks at American Airlines Center in its worst loss of the season.

''That was painful, absolutely painful,'' Heat coach Pat Riley said. ``I coached an absolutely awful game, terrible game plan. The pick-and-roll schemes, everything.

``I'm not going to take full responsibility for it, but it was a total breakdown, an absolute breakdown.''

The Heat's veterans keep saying they will be ready to change that reputation when the playoffs arrive, but the trend continues for the Heat, which not only had trouble beating an elite team but was blown out.

Riley disputed the theory that the players can turn on the switch for the playoffs.

''I wouldn't say that,'' he said. ``Everybody is making that assumption, and I believe our players have voiced that publicly themselves. There are no guarantees here.

``Anybody in that locker room after tonight, or after other teams have handed us our head, were to think that would be in absolute [denial].''

Riley isn't backing down.

''I'm in complete faith. With me you're either in or out; that's it. It's very simple, and I'm with them,'' Riley said. ``I picked them. I'm with them. I'm going to try to keep coaching them. It's not going to shake me. I've been around this [expletive] game too long. I've got my kicked a lot of times. I've kicked a lot of other people's [butts] and we've got a good team.''

BAD VS. THE BEST
[b]The Heat dropped to 1-9 against division leaders -- 0-5 on the road. Those numbers don't include an 0-2 record against San Antonio, which was tied for first place with Dallas before Thursday's blowout, Miami's worst loss since Phoenix beat the Heat 111-93 on Jan. 6. The Heat is now 13-14 on the road.

But nothing like this had occurred until Thursday.

''Anytime you lose a ball game it's painful, but when you get blown out, when you get embarrassed, especially on [national] TV, it's terrible,'' said Dwyane Wade, who finished with 16 points, 11 below his average. ``You put a hat on and walk out of here, because no one has a reason to walk out of here with their head up.''

The Heat's past two road appearances have left much to be desired. Miami fell to first-place New Jersey 105-92 just six days ago, and never led against the Mavericks, who won their 13th in a row. Dallas has beaten Miami in 10 of the past 12 meetings, including both this season.

Shaquille O'Neal apologized after a lackluster performance against the Nets (11 points, six turnovers) in New Jersey, and bounced back with 21 points Monday against Boston. He was an even bigger force against Dallas -- at least during the first three quarters.

O'Neal, who was averaging 29.2 minutes, played 18 minutes in the first half alone, and had to spend more time on the court due to the absence of backup Alonzo Mourning, who missed the game with the flu.

O'Neal didn't play in the fourth quarter. He made 9 of 12 shots and finished with 23 points and eight rebounds in 27 minutes.

''They were three steps ahead of us and they had more energy,'' O'Neal said. ``We just have to pick it up, especially against the top teams.''

Dallas beat the Heat on the break all night, scoring 33 points off 19 turnovers. Miami scored just four points off turnovers.

Wade, who struggled in the first half (1 of 7, five points) didn't play in the fourth, and finished with 16 points after making 5 of 6 in the third quarter.

A DECISIVE RUN
Jason Terry buried the Heat in the third quarter, hitting a three to start the second half. He just kept coming and so did Dallas as the Mavs raced to a 19-7 run to start the second half that left the Heat trailing 70-45. Terry made three three-pointers and Dallas made 6 of 7 threes to put the Heat away in the third.

Dallas shot 76.5 percent in the third, hitting 13 of 17 shots.

Nowitzki, shooting less in Dallas' new defense-first philosophy, made 11 of 16 to finish with 27 points. He scored 14 of those in the third quarter before taking the rest of the night off.

O'Neal remained undaunted despite the rout.

''This isn't going to shake our confidence,'' he said. ``It's just a little old-fashioned Texas beat-down.''

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/dailydime?page=dailydime-060211-12


I don't hate the Heat. Seriously.

By Marc Stein
ESPN.com

My man Dan Le Batard tells me that regular listeners of his afternoon radio show in Miami consider your humble correspondent to be a Heat Hater.

I have a feeling that the following scouting report, crafted after I spent a night with their heroes, isn't going to help my longstanding (and futile) efforts to convince Heat Lovers that it's nothing personal against the team or the town.

The view from Weekend Dimedom?

Heat Lovers care a lot more about the Heat than the Heat's actual players do.

It's only the truth, Miami. The Heat don't care about Sunday's "showdown" with Detroit or the two games left on the schedule with the Pistons after that or anything else until the playoffs start. Alonzo Mourning aside, they don't care enough to dig in on defense. No matter how many times Pat Riley publicly and privately challenges, harangues or mocks them, it's clear Miami's locker-room inhabitants aren't listening to the warnings. The regular season is over in South Florida. The Heaters are simply waiting for the playoffs and praying for something magical to click in.

Fifty games in, they haven't shown even a flicker of passion to match some of the venom in my e-mailbag, going all the way back to my July reaction to Riles' decision to redo his roster totally.

After taking in Thursday's humiliating Heat surrender in Dallas -- as a hater, lover, whatever -- I don't know how you could see anything else. They arrived with a 1-8 record against the NBA's other five division leaders, which was really 1-10 when you include Miami's games against San Antonio. Running out of chances to give us (and themselves) at least a hint of contender potential, Riley's lads decided instead to no-show.

So ...

They'd have to beat the Pistons three straight times, starting Sunday, to make anyone objective believe that it won't be a struggle just getting past Indiana and New Jersey. You can nit-pick about all the problems I (and many others) anticipated when Riles assembled this crew -- too many guys who need the ball when Shaquille O'Neal and Dwyane Wade should be the playmakers, not enough shooters to space the floor for Shaq and D-Wade, and no hope of dealing with pick-and-rolls when Shaq and Jason Williams are on the floor together -- but there's no sense focusing on the basketball issues. If the effort isn't there? You needn't bother to wonder about Shaq's ankles or toes or how much dominance he has left as his 34th birthday approaches next month.

"We've got to get a sense of urgency in here," Gary Payton said after Dallas inflicted a 36-point hammering -- and after a testy closed-door meeting after the game -- in a tone that sounded like a plea to his teammates.

Of course, as Riley could have told GP, please don't resonate with this crew. Whatever honeymoon followed the inevitable transition from Stan Van Gundy to Riley has long since ended. Or did you miss Riley's jab earlier in the week, when he suggested that maybe "I'll just wait for the playoffs to start" along with the rest of them.

This was Riley in the hours before Thursday's rout: "We're a winning team right now. That's all we are, and that's not good enough. We're a winning team. And for us to get to another level, there's going to have to be a tremendous amount of improvement in the overall commitment to a great effort for 48 minutes. That's what my goal is. I think once you can get that effort, then execution and efficiency and everything else follows."

Trouble is, I don't think we'll see any extended effort before the playoffs. Shaq and Co. know that they can't catch Detroit and that no one in a disappointing East appears capable of beating Miami to the No. 2 seed. So they carry themselves like there's nothing to play for, even though they're so wrong. There are little details like cohesion and momentum that are generally best addressed before the playoffs start.

You know where I stand on Riley's original vision for this group. I've maintained since the day he dealt for Antoine Walker and Williams that he'd have been better off opting for minor adjustments to a team that nearly beat Detroit in the East finals with a half-speed Diesel and Wade. If he hadn't added Walker and James Posey, Riley probably would've scored Wade's pal Michael Finley in free agency. He still could have added Payton and Jason Kapono's shooting to replace Eddie Jones and Damon Jones, who were thriving in Van Gundy's system.

Miami still would have needed some role-player depth in the frontcourt to complement Shaq, Zo and Udonis Haslem, but finding that type of piece seems easier than trying to fit 'Toine in as a third or fourth option. Seattle's Reggie Evans, for example, is suddenly available. Effort men are out there if you know where to look.

Whether or not you still believe that Riley made the changes to doom Van Gundy and set himself up to reclaim the bench -- a charge he has denied for months -- this much I do know about Riles:

He and I have found some common ground at last.

"It's on me," Riley said after the Dallas rout. "It's on us [as a group], but it's on me."

I've done what I can, Heat Lovers, to try to motivate this soulless bunch before Detroit hits South Beach. As Riley says, it's all on him now to reach the players he wanted.

I'd give him better odds if these guys cared as much as the Stein Haters.

Miami is going to be on a mission come Sunday. We better be pre[ared to match their intensity and desire for the win.

Miami is going to be on a mission come Sunday. We better be pre[ared to match their intensity and desire for the win.

agreed. a win would be quite demoralizing to the Heat.

and beating Snaq never gets old....

Miami is going to be on a mission come Sunday. We better be pre[ared to match their intensity and desire for the win.

Now I'm worried, no poopshoot comment.

Breaking news out of Miami: Pistons fear Shaq's sixpack!!


MR. BIG STUFF
The O'Neal we saw Saturday and have seen the past few weeks -- a quicker, leaner one that Gary Payton alleges now has a six-pack stomach -- is enough to erase those differences by himself. O'Neal made his first 14 shots Saturday. This is an overwhelming O'Neal we didn't see during last year's injured playoffs and hadn't seen much this season, either. Detroit doesn't have any answers for this O'Neal, as three-time Defensive Player Of The Year Ben Wallace learned recently when O'Neal dropped 31 on his Afro.
The difference between Detroit and Miami? Well, Detroit hasn't had a starter miss a single game. This while Miami has lost starters to injured ankles, fingers, knees and even an ear. Jason Williams somehow drops weights on his fingers, but Detroit doesn't get a single tweak.
There isn't much in the East that Detroit fears, but we saw him Saturday.
He's a healthy O'Neal, and he's the kind of freak specimen who can drag everyone in his uniform to the top of the NBA -- nearly all by himself.

They just beat Toronto by 7 (oh no!)

Though they did score 72 points in the paint (good lord!), the game before they scored 84 in the paint (I'm not sure I even understand that) against the Sonics (franchise record).

Wasnt Shaq healthy a couple years ago with the Lakers? 4-1 lol

Miami is down by 19 and their fans are booing them. Can it get any better?

[smilie=2thumbsup.g:

i see another fucked up heat comeback. [smilie=arrgh.jpg] ...they've been doing these something crazy lately

OMG.....TNT is showcasing the Heat as "Super Friends", with Snaq and Wade as the two friends and all the stupid nicknames of the other guys.

calling them friends is so contrived. the Heat PR dept might as well have put that piece together. "what chemistry problems?? we're all best friends!!"

btw, Heat only down 5 in the 3rd.

i'm guessing the Super Friends pull this one out.

OMG.....TNT is showcasing the Heat as "Super Friends", with Snaq and Wade as the two friends and all the stupid nicknames of the other guys.

calling them friends is so contrived. the Heat PR dept might as well have put that piece together. "what chemistry problems?? we're all best friends!!"

btw, Heat only down 5 in the 3rd.

i'm guessing the Super Friends pull this one out.
man the heat and dallas are on some funny shit as of late. but dallas proved that they cant pull that comeback of the year shit on the spurs and miami shouldnt be able to do it on us unless wwe put tay or mo evans on wade. [smilie=arrgh.jpg]

game tied 80-80

who watches nba during ncaa's?

who watches nba during ncaa's?
everyone whose teams are good. i watched ncaa tourneys all day when the pistons werent winning with the playoff picture shaping. [smilie=arrgh.jpg]

I said in the 2nd when it was 61-38 that the Heat would come back,take it to OT, and lose.

miami by 5 with 1:22 left. you might be off on the last part of your easy prediction.

Boston blows the game.

Pierce did hit a crazy three to make it interesting at the end.

Flexo is probably driving home......pointing at the sky.

Well, Boston did embarass them in the 1st half...

Flexo is probably driving home......pointing at the sky.

LOL

Mourning's wife: Should I drive?
Mourning: Yeah, I've got some pointin' to do.

I bet he's got a sunroof.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/sfl-heat040506,0,2062401.story?coll=sfla-sports-front


Heat's Jason Williams to miss rest of regular season

By Ira Winderman
Sun-Sentinel.com

April 5, 2006, 2:22 PM EDT

MIAMI -- Heat coach Pat Riley said at Wednesday's practice that point guard Jason Williams will sit out the balance of the regular season due to tendinitis in his right knee.

Riley said the hope is to have Williams back for the April 22 start of the postseason, and then have the injury dealt with surgically in the offseason.

Riley said there were no signs of a knee injury when the team dealt guard Eddie Jones to Memphis in the offseason for Williams and forward James Posey.

Riley said he would use Gary Payton, Derek Anderson, and, at times, Dwyane Wade at point guard to fill the void.

Riley said the team also may add another point guard, although that would require the team to make a roster cut.

damn Riley basically wrote that article. Riley said, riley said, riley said. Damn! [smilie=arrgh.jpg]

From McCoskey @ the News today -


Heat have somehow avoided a fine mess

Rasheed Wallace wants to know why after Riley, O'Neal aired gripes about officials.

MIAMI -- The Pistons were somewhat bemused by the fact that neither Heat coach Pat Riley nor Shaquille O'Neal had, as of Thursday morning, drawn fines for making derogatory comments about Stu Jackson, director of operations for the NBA, and his officiating crew.

Last Sunday, O'Neal and Riley suggested referees were calling games unfairly toward O'Neal. O'Neal went further, saying he believed the refs had an agenda against him.

"They just need to be consistent in how they call the game," O'Neal said. "And it all starts at the top. When you got a guy like Stu Jackson running stuff, it's obvious why the referees are the way they are. … They make these rules up and they do not follow them because I am bigger and stronger. We all know it's a double standard."

O'Neal complained again after the team's victory Tuesday, telling reporters: "They have rules that they write down. I just want them to enforce them consistently. Like I know, I got tackled under the basket. If I had done that, they would have given me a flagrant foul."

Rasheed Wallace, coming off a one-game suspension for reaching the limit on technicals, could only shake his head that those comments went unpunished.

"That goes to show you who's running the league," he said. "Let me say something like that and they would probably try to blackball me out the league again."

Wallace said he wasn't frustrated by it, just curious.

"It just makes them look bad," he said of the league. "They always say, (commissioner) David Stern always says, it's 'our league,' our league together. But it isn't. You know they have their favorites and it just so happens that me and the Pistons ain't one of them."

Here's the kicker: On Wednesday, the league announced that O'Neal was a finalist for the Joe Dumars Trophy, given to the player who "best exemplifies the ideals of sportsmanship on the court."


If he wins it, I'll barf.

Sheed is my favourite player!

From McCoskey @ the News today -




Here's the kicker: On Wednesday, the league announced that O'Neal was a finalist for the Joe Dumars Trophy, given to the player who "best exemplifies the ideals of sportsmanship on the court."


If he wins it, I'll barf.

He's got like 4 flagrants. I don't think that's very Joe D like.

Thats it. Shaq isnt being done right and not he needs the "i'm totally getting fouled Rulebook of decency!".

http://curielsbestfriend.tripod.com/images/Shaq.jpg
"See how he's trying to stop me from slapping him? Thats a Foul!"

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/heat/content/sports/photos/popups/heat/05playoffs/heat_nets_game2/images/097.jpg
Early intermission:"Oh my goodness! That poor pudgy little man over there dropped his twinkie. The horror! I have to hit the trash cans to save it after the Game."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1380000/images/_1383060_shaq_oneal300.jpg
"See, this is foul type #2! Mutumbo purposely got in the way of my elbow to prevent me from knocking him down with my shoulder! On a side note i almost ate his forehead."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1380000/images/_1383060_mutombo300_afp.jpg
"Ok here is Mutumbo attempting my same move with lil' results. This should be a mental foul! What was he thinking?!"

http://images.tsn.ca/images/stories/20051211/shaq_72804.jpg
Here's some random human waste once again trying to stop Shaq from slapping him. Stu Jackson Pay Attention. You guys are hating on Shaq.

http://i.a.cnn.net/si/2005/basketball/nba/specials/playoffs/2005/05/29/heat.pistons.ap/tx.shaquille.oneal.ap.jpg
"I'm glad that silly bastard Elden is out of the league. He always knew when my elbow was coming. He deserves a foul on him everytime he stops me from pushing him. Obvious foul!"

http://membres.lycos.fr/dunkorama/shaquille_oneal/images/oneal13.jpg
As you can see, Shaq has been getting fouled for awhile. Divac is a dirty sumbitch for this fpul! [smilie=angry.gif]

http://membres.lycos.fr/dunkorama/shaquille_oneal/images/shaq17.jpg
"See how he let me pull him to me?! Thats a blatant foul on his part. I think he's a Homo for allowing that!"

http://membres.lycos.fr/dunkorama/shaquille_oneal/images/ShaqH.jpg
"Here we have LJ trying to hack me with his head! I'm glad this lowlife is out of the league!"

http://www.nhk-jn.co.jp/003sports/topics/2005/010/img/shaquille_oneal.jpg
"Everyone one of those hand slaps is a flagrant foul Stu! Errr wait? Whose team is that?? [smilie=anxious.gif] "

http://www.sportsbettingindex.net/images/sports_01/shaquilleONeal03.jpg
Intermission"Hamburger, cheesey potatoes, Cake, Ice Cream, 2 bowls of grease, a bucket of ribs, four carrots for my heart, four gallons of soda, and a deep fried pair of reeboks. Oh man I can't wait to get home!!"
Wade: "Please dont let anyone see the run in my stockings."

http://gurman6.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/oneal0001008_jpg.jpg
"See Stu. Another Homo erotic player rubbing his back on my nuts. Blatant foul!"

http://www.sportsgoons.com/Images/volume2/2_38/miami_heat_center_shaquille_oneal.gif
"Dear Stu I hope this bit of evidence clears things up. Please take these pictures of me as a token of my goodwill."

Sheed is my favourite player!
All tall cat who speaks his mind. I'm sure you can relate to him.

Reposted here for archiving purposes.

http://www.nba.com/news/haslem_060424.html?rss=true


Miami’s Udonis Haslem Suspended

NEW YORK, April 24, 2006 – Udonis Haslem of the Miami Heat has been suspended one game without pay for throwing his mouthpiece at an official, it was announced today by Stu Jackson, NBA Senior Vice President Basketball Operations.

The incident occurred with 4:11 remaining in the fourth period of the Heat’s 111-106 win over the Chicago Bulls on April 22 at American Airlines Arena in Miami. Haslem will miss Game 2 vs. Chicago when the series resumes tonight.

One game? Thats it? Damn, I would love to see how that would be handeled if Sheed threw something at an offical.

Heat lineup becomes sore subject


Wade in pain, while Haslem is in limbo

By Ira Winderman
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Posted April 24 2006


MIAMI · One game into the playoffs, the Heat faces the possibility of being 21/2 players short when it returns to the court tonight at AmericanAirlines Arena.

Guard Dwyane Wade, who asked out of the final seconds of Saturday's 111-106 victory over the Bulls with a cramp in his left calf, walked with a pronounced limp Sunday. He spoke of needing "pain medicine" for Game 2, but also insisted the cramping was the sole source of his discomfort.

Power forward Udonis Haslem spoke with NBA security Sunday morning and was told he would learn within 24 hours of any further sanction beyond his Saturday ejection for throwing his mouthpiece in the direction of referee Joe Crawford.

And coach Pat Riley said a decision would be made today about a potential return of reserve center Alonzo Mourning, who missed the playoff opener as he continued his rehabilitation from a partially torn right calf muscle sustained March 22 against Detroit.

Of the three, the only definite for tonight's second game of the best-of-7 opening-round series appears to be Wade.

Whether it's the complete Wade is another issue.

"It's still there today," he said of the cramp, after the Heat bypassed court work for video and strategy sessions. "I'm trying to get a lot of therapy on it, trying to get it rubbed out. My muscle is still pretty tight right now."
When limited by similar minor ailments, Wade has tended to settle for jump shots, instead of the explosive drives that diversify the Heat offense.

"There'll be some soreness," he said, "but hopefully the pain medicine that I'm going to take takes some away from it. That's my jumping leg."

Although he began to limp in Saturday's fourth quarter after bumping knees with Bulls forward Andres Nocioni, Wade insisted the knee was not an issue.
"I was grabbing the back of my leg," he said. "Even my wife, she thought it was my knee."

While Wade has control over his participation in tonight's game, Haslem's fate rests in the hands of NBA Vice President Stu Jackson.

Haslem, who apologized for his second-quarter actions immediately after Saturday's game, did not address the media Sunday, but did offer a statement earlier in the day that was recorded by NBA security and forwarded to Jackson.

Agent Jason Levien said Haslem called Jackson from the locker room Saturday night and told him he did not intend to throw the mouthpiece at Crawford. Shortly thereafter, Heat owner Micky Arison, who recently took over as chairman of the NBA's Board of Governors, made his own plea to Jackson.

Forward Antoine Walker said the team moved forward Sunday with a game plan that had Haslem starting at power forward.

"We didn't prepare any different as if he wasn't going to be there," he said. "But you never know, in playoff time things get a little sensitive."

Haslem's cause was not aided by ESPN commentator Bill Walton immediately calling for a multi-game suspension and the network repeatedly reviewing the video.

"You couldn't do nothing but watch that," Wade said, "because they showed it all night."

Bulls coach Scott Skiles said it is known throughout the league that Haslem fiddles with the mouthpiece.

"I don't understand why he wears it," Wade said. "I know he got hit in his mouth once early in the season and he's worn it ever since, but it's really never in. I don't think it serves a purpose."

Should Haslem be suspended, the Heat would have an even greater need for Mourning, but Riley said he would not fast track a schedule that otherwise could gain another three days of recovery time should the Heat wait until Thursday's Game 3 in Chicago.

"It will always be sort of game-to-game, I think, with him," Riley said of Mourning, who, like Haslem, declined to meet Sunday with the media.

Ira Winderman can be reached at iwinderman@sun-sentinel.com.


Its not our fault your team is injury prone.

Honestly, I think Simien will be just as good if not better than Haslem, especially against Chicago.

Someone needs to feed Wade birth control pills for them-there menstrual cramps.

Honestly, I think Simien will be just as good if not better than Haslem, especially against Chicago.
he'll totally fill the rebounding do nothing roll better [smilie=angel.gif]

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/scorecard/nbanews.asp?articleID=165146


NBA Playoff Notebook: Shaq, Wade have that look in their eyes

Awww... I didn't know Shaq and Wade felt that way about each other. Superman and Flash... whoda thunk!

LOL@Heat. Fuck those guys.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/playoffs2006/news/story?id=2425940


Hard foul lands Heat's Posey one-game suspensionESPN.com news services



Posey

NEW YORK -- The NBA has suspended James Posey of the Miami Heat from Game 4 of their series with the Chicago Bulls for a hard foul against Kirk Hinrich late in the Bulls' Game 3 win. Posey was whistled for a flagrant foul penalty two for the incident, which occurred with 3:15 remaining in the fourth quarter of the Bulls' 109-90 win over the Heat. Hinrich was driving up the floor when Posey knocked him to the floor. Posey was thrown out of the game.

Game 4 will be played Sunday.

Posey, a seven-year pro, averaged 7.2 points and 4.8 rebounds per game this season.

LOL

2 suspensions in just 3 playoff games for these clowns