Ron Artest has a ...

[Tomas_11]

lame excuse for his poor shooting during the lakers series. Do you yall still want him back?

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_d ... nba,165379

[DreamShook34]

Thats Ron being Ron.. hes been saying crazy things all season.. and yes i want him back..

[HTown_TMac]

Not really that poor of an excuse.

[tisbee]

Read much of interview yesterday.
It's distinctly possible,the problem I have is he shot fairly well in Game 3,the game AFTER the elbow. 10 of 23,only 2-8 threes,but 3-4 FTs and 8-15 2pt shots. The next 4 games he was 13-35 on two-point shots and Luther-Head-in-Playoffs bad from 3pt and FT line.

In other parts of interview he says he wants to continue w/Rockets and felt the team was better than LA and should have won.

If his contract demands get modified to reasonable,I expect Rockets will re-sign him.

[moofs]

It's a legit reason. An elbow can knock out a muscle, and that's a weakly muscled area that's important to shooting. I used to have that area go out all the time, and a lot of times I was doing good to raise my arm, much less shoot.

[TMACFORMVP]

It's not that I don't believe it since well his shooting did dramatically drop off after that game, but I think it's more a coincidence or scapegoat for his crap play. Artest his whole career has been an inefficient chucker that can win you a game or lose you a game. And for that Laker series, he unfortunately was in that mode that was detrimental to our team offensively. He should blame his shot selection first and not getting his butt in the post (especially when Yao went down) before putting a blame on a bruise he received in Game 2.

[rocketworld]

big dick...o wait lol jk

[rocketsballin]

so thats a poor excuse? wat about tmac and yao not being able to say healthy? go **** urself until you feel an elbow to the throat from kobe, then after the next day tell me how the afterburns feel

[tmac4real]

so thats a poor excuse? wat about tmac and yao not being able to say healthy? go **** urself until you feel an elbow to the throat from kobe, then after the next day tell me how the afterburns feel

lmao wtf

[rocketsballin]

not being a professional athelete, i hope you are well conditioned to take an elbow to the throat from kobe bryant, who is 6 foot 6, weighs two hundred and twenty pounds. he's been in the nba for 12 seasons, and he does a **** of work for his team, so to take an elbow from him is much easier said then done. and you shouldnt be surprised if you are wounded and it takes a year to heal.

[rocketsballin]

this thread is stupid. good example of THINK BEFORE YOU POST!!! or think before you do anything unless you want to eat a box of bullets.

[rocketsballin]

or maybe he's just pissed. ya ron struggled at the end of the series, kobe's elbow, no yao ming helps a lot. look at the stats from the games w/ yao and w/o yao. then w. 6'6 possibly 238 pounds??? CHUCK HAYES!!! starting center. only in texas.

ron did a DAAM GOOD JOB INT HE PLAYOFFS

next season there should be changes, and if not then we all have to be under the pretense that TMAC/YAO/RON 3SOME WILL EXIST!!!! starting next season, ending NEVER!!!!

[Tomas_11]

yeah maybe that elbow did affect him very much and might not be such a poor excuse, but did he really have to shoot all those jumpshots, forcing alot of them. It doesn't excuse his poor shot selection. i thought he did well in the portland series, and i thought he did very good in the first two games of the lakers series.

[moofs]

It's not that I don't believe it since well his shooting did dramatically drop off after that game, but I think it's more a coincidence or scapegoat for his crap play. Artest his whole career has been an inefficient chucker that can win you a game or lose you a game. And for that Laker series, he unfortunately was in that mode that was detrimental to our team offensively. He should blame his shot selection first and not getting his butt in the post (especially when Yao went down) before putting a blame on a bruise he received in Game 2.

Fair enough, that. Though I shudder when he posts up down low, seems like it tends to result in a block/turnover.

[TracyMcGrady01]

[T-Wack]

That's the wrong shoulder. He was elbowed on his right side.

[Munchlaxatives]

Artest likes to mess with the media. I don't think he's as crazy as the media monkeys who honestly believe he's capable of fighting every single time he steps on the floor.