Yeah, but how much integrity can you have if you accept payment for that which is given freely?

Only charity critics have any esteem in my eyes. The people who complain on their time, and their dime, and don't expect 2 weeks vacation a year for doing it.

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They are the archetype for dominance. They are the gatekeepers of the conference. They are the Detroit Pistons.

.....uhhhhhh holday hoooopitty whateee?

Where did i say i was bored watching the Pistons? I said i was bored watching the All-Star game, and pointed out the Pistons aren't exactly suited for that style of play.

When watching an actual NBA game it's fun to watch players that play team winning basketball. The All-Star game is not about that. It's about individual great players and great plays; Alley-oops, crossovers, sick dunks, great passes, etc.

If it was about team we could have the Spurs players play eachother. I'm sure people would love that.

Rip and Chauncey are good players on a great team that play well together, but you can't tell me either one of them is a "star". I'm not saying they shouldn't have been all-stars; i'm just saying they're not exactly going to wow you.

If the crowd response was any indication, most ppl there weren't exactly thrilled watching the game. I like that it was close and competitive in the 4th so maybe i'll just FF to there next time.

edited to add;

I take that back about the Spurs. Ginobli and Parker at the least would be extremely entertaining.

Yes. Whateee hoooopitty uhhhhhh uhhhhhh. Hoooopitty uhhhhhh.

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They are the archetype for dominance. They are the gatekeepers of the conference. They are the Detroit Pistons.

Is this that Nascar talk?

"Not exactly exciting" is not quit the same as boring so I will give you that.

True but whoever you are. If you print it people are going to respond to it.

Truthfully. Over the years I usually have not watched the all-star game in its entirety because there typically have not been any Pistons in it and as you have pointed out is usually not much of a game. Just superstars all trying to be the MVP with the winner being the one able to hog the ball the most in the 4th quarter. The one this year had 3 Pistons in it and was actually a very competitive game. I think it will go down in all-star history as one of the better games.

I didn't go in expecting much and wasn't disappointed. I took two things away from this event:

1. It was fun watching the players having fun and the plugged-in sound event is always enlightening, especially under relaxed circumstances.
2. Allen is amazing and hands-down was the MVP. Come playoff time and things tighten up, Boston will be very, very tough. The Pistons will not be able to have the least bit of inconsistency they have shown over the last couple of years. The key variable this year, for the pistons, will be the knowledge that if they don't make it into the finals, JD will make wholesale changes over the summer.

Only one player could make a difference for the pistons in winning it all. That would be Artest. Looks like JD is going to roll-the-dice with this current group.

Lebron's air ball 3 was pretty funny. Wide open. He was ball hogging big time.

And I'm not sure why anybody passed the ball to Sheed after that 2nd left handed 3.

I didn't mean the Pistons weren't exciting to watch. When i said their games i meant their individual games/skills. They're not really flashy, quick, or super athlethic. They play good fundamental ball, and have good technique. I should've worded that statement differently, i could see how it came out like that. That's not exciting in an all star game.

Would you rather see Rip shoot or a Kobe/Lebron acrobatic dunk in a game that means absolutely nothing?

So you are saying that paid basketball coaches have no integrity.

They accept payment for what they do and yet there are 100s of thousands of people out there telling players every day what they should do and not getting paid for that advice.

In fact I would say that there are people giving free advice in all areas where people charge to give advice.

Therefore you are saying that there is no such thing as a person of integrity who works for pay giving advice of any kind.

Interesting.