Originally Posted by bjjs

Not to mention averaging 18-8 this year despite in my opinion not playing very great.

If Chris Bosh wasn't good, you wouldn't be on here passionately arguing that he is crap.

Originally Posted by TORaptor4Ever

Speaking of "flopping down the stretch".... quite the performance from Mr. Bryant. Not sure that I've ever seen someone take a 35 ft jumper with 30 secs left on the clock. lol.

Originally Posted by thought

haha...by evading the point i'm guessing you agree?

i'll give you that one on kobe (not really sure what he was thinking), as well as the turnover (a pretty incredible steal by wade), but he also hit two big threes down the stretch when the lakers were looking down and out. i will say that pau needs the ball more in the fourth because his advantage on Bosh (and most PFs) in the low blocks is huge, but it is what it is.

Originally Posted by bjjs

Flop seems like a stretch since they won the game with him on the floor, but I did notice he was mostly absent from the play by play in the final 6 minutes. I'm guessing he was hiding a bit, opting not to cut to the basket or not to give a passing angle to Wade and LBJ down the stretch in the hopes they'll make a play. He has done that quite a bit this year.

Originally Posted by forme123

I never said he was BAD, i agree hes good, just highly overrated...didnt deserve to be an allstar this year at all, and especially doesnt deserve to be called a superstar.....and besides his stats were inflated with the raps bc the team lacked the overall talent, he was there go to guy, got all the play calls for him, all the chances in the world to upgrade his stats.....take barg for example, look at his ppg this year... most ppl in this forum would argue its inflated b/c of HOW many shot attempts he gets a game, how many times triano draws out plays for him etc.....hes one of the few options on our team, and clearly isnt as good as his ppg would indicate....the same applied with bosh.....

besides bosh's field goal percentage was good b/c of all the close to the net points he got....i thought his mid range shots were highly inconsistent/overated and still are.....its like saying amir is a good shooter b/c of his fg percantage this year, we all know thats far from the truth...

plus Bosh got alot of his points at the foul line ...thats what ppl forget, he had tons of attempts per game. it wasnt b/c of his GREAT shot...considering alot of foul calls in the nba are questionable, it bothers me those type of players that rely heavily on free throws to boost their ppg stats...those type of points arent necessarily based off talent at times, but the luck of the call, or reputation...

yes Bosh made all-star all years with us. its hard to deny the stats from a fan perspective. i bet many american fans voted him into past games b/c of his stats, knew little about his style of play or how unclutch he was (take that miami fan knickkiller who joined this forum recently as an example)...but the point is stats don't ALWAYS show the true colors of the players talent and abilities, Bosh falls into this catagorey of player imo.

Originally Posted by TORaptor4Ever

Citing Bargs as an example only makes your argument weaker... yes, his PPG have gone up but he's still shooting sub 45% (whereas Bosh almost always shot over 50%), not getting to the FT line and not grabbing rebounds (which apparently should be incredibly easy to grab since so many "just fell into Bosh's lap").

Bosh was the undisputed focus of the opposing teams' defense and he STILL often shredded them and created open shots for his teammates (just by being on the floor). His FT shooting and FTAs were signs of his greatness... that's what ALL great players do.. attack the basket to put the other team in foul trouble.. get easy easy points at the line. Would you have been happier if he had taken even MORE jumpers? If his game was more like Bargs'?

As for the "clutch" thing.... not many people seem to remember that he won 4 or 5 games for us last year in the final seconds... why that is I'll never know.

Originally Posted by forme123

im not comparing Bosh to Bargs regarding whos better....im comparing their situations as to how boshs stats were inflated just like bargs....and as i stated before, nba calls are often questionable, so to call his FTA i sign of greatness is flawed, not saying all calls against him were wrong, but FTA is based half on luck of the call imo....and its funny bc when the going got tough, you would notice Bosh would stop driving to the bucket as you like to say he did so often and played so aggressively.

in regards to Bosh SHREDDING teams, ya he did shreds the timberwolves of the league, alot of his game winners were against these lowly teams in games that shouldnt have been close in the first place, but against the good teams he was rarely a factor. ocaasionaly he would get 20-10 against those teams, but they were hard to notice, meaning his points/rebounds werent usually effort based, diverted away from the dirty areas, settled for questionable jumpers, didnt move the ball around,(.lol i guess Bosh and Bargs arent as diff as most think after all...) he would disappear during important stretches of the game... just isnt a very tough player

as for his rebounding, he was a contributor on that end to an extent....wasnt as great of a rebounder as u make him seem however...like bargs, alot of his rebs were defensive, didnt so much earn the tough rebounds too often, i guess u can some of the rebs fell into his lap...but as i stated in the prev messages....overrated....

Originally Posted by carp

yet another pointless argument. If Bosh was so great, why did we suck so bad? Bosh was faux-fur. He was a fake beast. Great third option if he can realize that his D and rebounding is more important than his scoring... won't happen. He's on par mentally with Sunny Weems and Jamario Moon.... lol

Originally Posted by carp

yet another pointless argument. If Bosh was so great, why did we suck so bad? Bosh was faux-fur. He was a fake beast. Great third option if he can realize that his D and rebounding is more important than his scoring... won't happen. He's on par mentally with Sunny Weems and Jamario Moon.... lol

Originally Posted by jeffb

Wow,


Now Bosh is as dumb as Jamario Moon, Weems. Bitterness reigns supreme around here. lol

BTW, you say he should have realized his rebounding and defense should have been as important as his scoring. Yet he was always up there in rpg.


Guess that was the product of playing here right?

Originally Posted by TORaptor4Ever

Lol... I know you're smarter than this so I'll assume that you're simply baiting.

Originally Posted by TORaptor4Ever

I'm starting to question whether you even watched Raptor games over the last 6 years or if the hate for Bosh has just erased all memory of those seasons altogether....

Bosh excelled against EVERY team in the league at one time or another. That includes the Spurs... the Lakers... the Magic (who he often torched)... the Mavs.. etc... the ONLY person who gave Bosh problems was KG (and BOS). That's it. Sorry... but you REALLY need to go back and look at some game logs from last season to get your story straight.

As for the rebounding.... Bosh was one of the better offensive rebounders in the league and I distinctly remember him going up in traffic (on both ends of the floor) to secure rebounds... often over 2 guys too. Once again.... how can so many rebounds "fall in Bosh's lap" yet avoid Bargs like the plague? lol.... makes no sense.