Shaq’s Hit List Grows: Stan Van Gundy, Come on Down!

@The Seed: Shaq isn’t trying to stay in the limelight, it just shines on him. I’m sure it was a 2 way street in LA and don’t forget Kobe had his own drama w/out Shaq.

@Esco: “Everyone is laughing at how funny all of this is but isn’t realizing that Shaq hardly addresses the flop.” He did address the flop and as far as “he egrariously flopped against the Magic”, he flopped 1x in the game. lol (egregiously?)
@ Erik: As far as Shaq not talking smack last year when “his numbers were not that good” it’s hard to hear the smack talking when no ones interviews him. lol. Shaq did sound off last year. As far as his numbers last year all you have to do is look at the number of touches he got to figure out his scoring drop and don’t forget the injuries.

..just got busted by the boss…can I have a job SLAM? I do windows…lol

BostonBaller
Come on man. You know Shaq has had crazy talent.

shaq still has a pivot foot? shaq did have talent, but since then dude cant leave fatburger alone….is he playing for a new contract …
because his best chance would have been with labron /cavs , steve kerr must have something up his sleeve at seasons end.
.. i will admit i do have shaq rapping on vinyl i even have jason kidd rapping and cedric ceballas trying to rap over a warren g beat… shaq go back to acting
that role as the robot dude was hot… @boston baller, dude work for,yourself and meet me at venice beach b ball courts saturday 10 am

Absolute gold. Keep pissing Shaq off please, I want more….

i dunno ryne. you can diss people in good nature and it’ll be lighthearted and funny, but this one sounds like those awkward mood killers where nobody knows what to say or do after its been said.

I guess slam can’t released what Stan Van Gundy said. Show both sides man

AllenP: No doubt Shaq had talent around him, I’m just saying that both Kobe & James also had talent around them when they went to the finals and lost. As nice as Nick the Quick or N Anderson was I’d take Fisher over either of them. Gasol is no slouch either.

@donlaker The boss I spoke of was my wife. lol. I’d love to meet you at venice beach on saturday but I can’t waste a perfectly warm 50 degree day here in Boston. It’s in the high 20′s right now. Come up here and we can shovel off a court and play. Boston vs LA style. lol

@ BostonBaller: Wait youre calling the 07 Cavalier team talented? The same one with larry hughes? and damon jones? and ira newble? who all were part of the rotation?

And I’m pretty sure it was Pat Riley who MADE Stan quit on the Heat so he could coach…
Correct me if I’m wrong about this I’m not too sure.
Regardless, Shaq is a dumb@ss.

Shaq’s greatest talent was being able to blatantly elbow the living daylights out of post defenders, without getting called on it.

@ jdubbs29: The Pythagorean theorem can’t be solved?
LOL

Yao or Dwight > Shaq

I co-sign that, Witness.

Also, was there a tone of Shaq talking sh!t about Dwight’s mentor, Patrick Ewing? WOW. Patrick Ewing didn’t have to commit offensive fouls every time he went for a post move. Shaq is an idiot. If Patrick Ewing was playing in his prime, in an era without the Jordan-Bulls, he would have had multiple championships.
Shaq is a punk.

Shaq is dope, Stan Van should of never said anything. Its Shaq for God’s sake. This is what he gets. And for the talking about Dwight.. Thumbs down Shaq. He’s the next you. Your little prodigy. And for you to tear him down. Terrible.

I am honestly getting tired of Shaq. I get he epitomizes what old school NBA is all about and he’s funny now and again, but this ish is getting damn old. I also know I’m in the minority here, but I wouldn’t miss him all that badlywhen he retires. Yeah, take random shots at anyone and everyone, but when someone makes a legitimate criticism about you, you start playing the b*tch role. “All the players hate him!”? Please. Get the f*ck out of here.

BostonBaller (my fellow Bostonian and Celtics fan) was my favorite commenter while he ethered the Shaq haters one by one… That is, until he mentioned my name. I was vouching for the Diesel because Lebron brings his “teams” to the playoffs each year and got to the Finals two years ago with an embarrassing supporting cast and I think it’s pretty fair to say that Chris Paul maximizes his team’s potential (did anybody notice how the Hornets played in the games he missed earlier this year?). Diesel stepped his game up big time when Nash went out, and he’s been doing it all year with a weak (and defensively challenged) Phoenix Suns squad. The fact that they are in contention for the playoffs at all the way that team outside of Shaquille O’Neal has played this year is an accomplishment in itself (kind of like Mike on the Wizards).

And tealish, the Miami Heat were a coach away from winning it in ’05. If anyone can recall, the master of panic was calling plays that focused on Rasual Butler and Eddie Jones during the game 6 that Dwyane Wade sat out against Detroit. Rasual Butler!

In regards to Shaq’s championship potential, if Miami would have traded Marion and Banks back to the Suns for Diesel this year, or if the Lakers traded Bynum and Odom for Diesel this year, or if Cleveland would have given up Wally-World for Diesel as Phoenix apparently asked for (what was Danny Ferry on when he passed that one up?), it would have meant an automatic ring for this year and a great chance at repeating next year for any of those teams.

Jesus, you go outside for a few hours to take a jolly good piss up, and when you come back and see there’s 85 comments, you expect that someone has said something (anything!) that would refute even a sentence of what you said originally. But no.

Joel: Exactly. No one’s knocking what he’s done in the past, that stuff can’t be touched. And yet he constantly refers back to it. But unfortunately, his LA days *can* be overshadowed, at least in part, by the nonsense he can’t stop spewing nowadays.

“Shaq’s arrogance is an insult to people who think.” coming from my least favorite announcer of all time, this really says it all.

@tealish: I agree. The sad irony is as much as Shaq keeps claiming his “Shogun” status in comparison to the young, promising big men around right now, his comments of late have come off as impetuous and childish… and starkly in contrast to Dwight (who said he was hurt instead of lashing back) and Bosh (who took the high road and downplayed the entire thing). And that’s not even considering the things he said about Stan and Ewing. Elder statesman Shaq is, ironically, behaving like the new kid on the block shooting his mouth at his elders, while Bosh/Dwight, barely a few years removed from their TEENS, are taking the high road. Seriously, please stop this, Shaq.

And it’s not like the criticism against Shaq (by Dwight, Bosh, Stan) got even remotely personal. Bosh was essentially complaining about the refs. Dwight wasn’t even attacking Shaq, he was just lamenting the lack of support Shaq gave him. And Stan made a fair observation that even Shaq himself admitted to (flopping). And there’s a LOT of hurtful, personal things you could say about how Shaq handled himself over his career, many of which were brought up by the other commenters here. Bosh/Dwight/SVG never even remotely went near there, so Shaq’s tirade is really unwarranted.