The most alpha Finals postgame presser ever

[russwest0]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBka7fv5PS4#t=35

Kobe :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown:

[played0ut]

People of that caliber are rare.




Bird's the coach of the Pacers. Pacer's Reggie Miller just hit a clutch 3 to lead the bulls.

http://i.minus.com/idMtKUiN471XY.gif

[Meticode]

People with that caliber are rare.




After reggie miller shoots clutch 3 to lead the bulls. Bird's their coach.

http://i.minus.com/idMtKUiN471XY.gif
That mentality is so hard to keep.

Sometimes when great players make those last second shots in game 2s or 3s to win the game and make them. I wish they would celebrate. I wish sometimes they'd walk off the court looking alpha as hell ready for the next game already.

[kennethgriffin]

"it feels so good to be in the 2nd round" - tracy mcgrady


remember when some people thought for slight amount of time back in like 2003 or 2004 that he was better than kobe

[SouBeachTalents]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRtMHBdo8bY

[played0ut]

I ****ing love intense, ferocious competitors like them.


Bird/Magic/Kobe/Russell/West/Jordan

http://chicitysportsfan.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/MJ-Magic.jpg


http://cdn.rsvlts.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Michael-Jordan-09.gif

[J Shuttlesworth]

That mentality is so hard to keep.

Sometimes when great players make those last second shots in game 2s or 3s to win the game and make them. I wish they would celebrate. I wish sometimes they'd walk off the court looking alpha as hell ready for the next game already.
LeBron didn't really celebrate after this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p3xWG3mkXE

[played0ut]

That mentality is so hard to keep.

Sometimes when great players make those last second shots in game 2s or 3s to win the game and make them. I wish they would celebrate. I wish sometimes they'd walk off the court looking alpha as hell ready for the next game already.

I'm convinced that mentality is something innate. Mental fortitude can be learned through trials and tribulations, i.e Lebron (he's really gotten much better).

But the insane focus and ferocious competitive drive? They're competitors amongst competitors (if you're in the NBA, you're competitive). That is probably a mental problem lol. A pathological need to win.


Jerry West has said that Russell, himself, magic, bird and MJ were cut from the same cloth. People who would die to win.



LeBron didn't really celebrate after this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p3xWG3mkXE

Like I said, he's gotten much stronger mentally. The man's been through a lotttt of shit.

[SouBeachTalents]

LeBron didn't really celebrate after this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p3xWG3mkXE

That's arguably the easiest & least climatic buzzer beater in NBA playoff history

[Meticode]

LeBron didn't really celebrate after this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p3xWG3mkXE
Perhaps he's grown as a player because he knows how hard it is to win now. Different story 5 years ago...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3rSXVO6ldc

[J Shuttlesworth]

That's arguably the easiest & least climatic buzzer beater in NBA playoff history
And 99% of the league would be celebrating their asses off after making it

[J Shuttlesworth]

Perhaps he's grown as a player because he knows how hard it is to win now. Different story 5 years ago...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3rSXVO6ldc
For sure, but I don't think celebrating after a game winner makes you not "mentally strong". Jordan did it all the time

[kennethgriffin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRtMHBdo8bY


jokes on lebron.. he's given us sh*ty life having sub humans 10 out of 11 years to laugh at him... thats way more than a week or a month

:roll:

2004 - no playoffs
2005 - no playoffs
2006 - LOL
2007 - SWEEP
2008 - LOL
2009 - CHOKE
2010 - CHOKE/QUIT
2011 - CHOKE/QUIT
2012 - ( lockout )... but ok we'l give him 0.5
2013 - LOL RAY RAY
2014 - CHOKE/QUIT

[played0ut]

Perhaps he's grown as a player because he knows how hard it is to win now. Different story 5 years ago...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3rSXVO6ldc

big game though, no? even MJ went nuts after scoring on ehlo











and this is exactly why these guys never choke and have ice in their veins, even in the clutchest moments:

http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/showthread.php?t=339979

[Meticode]

jokes on lebron.. he's given us sh*ty life having sub humans 10 out of 11 years to laugh at him... thats way more than a week or a month

:roll:

2004 - no playoffs
2005 - no playoffs
2006 - LOL
2007 - SWEEP
2008 - LOL
2009 - CHOKE
2010 - CHOKE/QUIT
2011 - CHOKE/QUIT
2012 - ( lockout )... but ok we'l give him 0.5
2013 - LOL RAY RAY
2014 - CHOKE/QUIT


I'm a Cavs fan and you talk about LeBron more than I do. JFC :lol

[russwest0]

Lol yeah Durant for like the past 3 years has never even cracked a smile on his game winners.

He has that mentality too he just doesn't express it because he likes maintaining the good guy image.

People like LeBron and Dwight you can see them out there being clowns and shit. Pounding their chest after a game winner, dancing on the sidelines while the game is still going and shit. Dancing on the court while dribbling the clock down.

Actually that was all LeBron but Dwight is a clown too.

[J Shuttlesworth]

I'm a Cavs fan and you talk about LeBron more than I do. JFC :lol
Pretty much all the LeBron haters are obsessed with him to the point where it's scary. kenneth/statuatory/godbe/fudge are all rocking LeBron avs, russwest posts like 10 lebron threads a day, every bigboss thread ever has been about 2/5, etc.

Really goes to show just how much LeBron runs this league. These haters make pauk look unloyal

[Meticode]

Pretty much all the LeBron haters are obsessed with him to the point where it's scary. kenneth/statuatory/godbe/fudge are all rocking LeBron avs, russwest posts like 10 lebron threads a day, every bigboss thread ever has been about 2/5, etc.

Really goes to show just how much LeBron runs this league. These haters make pauk look unloyal
Oh well, someone's got to do it I suppose.

[Force]

"it feels so good to be in the 2nd round" - tracy mcgrady


remember when some people thought for slight amount of time back in like 2003 or 2004 that he was better than kobe

Tracey was every bit as good as Kobe for time when he played in Orlando. TMac of Orlando replacing Kobe on that team with Prime Shaq and Phil and all those great role players....he's winning a ring no question about it.

[J Shuttlesworth]

Lol yeah Durant for like the past 3 years has never even cracked a smile on his game winners.

STFU. Dude celebrates on damn near all of these

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLVq4hpz-8s

Some of those bounces though :eek:

[SouBeachTalents]

Lol yeah Durant for like the past 3 years has never even cracked a smile on his game winners.

He has that mentality too he just doesn't express it because he likes maintaining the good guy image.

People like LeBron and Dwight you can see them out there being clowns and shit. Pounding their chest after a game winner, dancing on the sidelines while the game is still going and shit. Dancing on the court while dribbling the clock down.

Actually that was all LeBron but Dwight is a clown too.

Alpha :bowdown: :bowdown:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPIgTuQM2gk

[russwest0]

go back and watch the 2012 playoffs lol. He hit like 3 game winners in those playoffs alone and his expression was always cold as hell.

Or that double OT 8 point comeback in like 50 seconds where Durant, down 2, drilled a 3 for the win. Walked off with his "lets get the **** outta here" face :rockon: :rockon: :rockon:

[GimmeThat]

when you're the first option, and your second option is changed/replaced.

there's always uncertainty


when your role players are upgraded. you're just blessed.

[J Shuttlesworth]

go back and watch the 2012 playoffs lol. He hit like 3 game winners in those playoffs alone and his expression was always cold as hell.

Or that double OT 8 point comeback in like 50 seconds where Durant, down 2, drilled a 3 for the win. Walked off with his "lets get the **** outta here" face :rockon: :rockon: :rockon:
There were a couple where he did that.

But still.. who cares? Jordan celebrated his game winners all the time... Kobe too. Do we consider them to be "mentally weak"?

[Hamtaro CP3KDKG]

LeBron didn't really celebrate after this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p3xWG3mkXE
B/c he traveled

[ImKobe]

Kobe is a COLD mofo
remember when he hit that game-winner in Harden's face in the Drew League?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QStx8GklKQg

no experssion, just raises his hands as the entire gym runs around him to celebrate

Harden with the tight defense, of course.

[russwest0]

Alpha :bowdown: :bowdown:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPIgTuQM2gk

lol damn, kd only scored 32 points on 50% shooting that game?

not one of his better games that series.

[Purch]

Thats a very Popovich like interview :bowdown: