Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 at 10:30 am  |  91 responses

Sir Charles on the ‘Superstar Attitude’

Barkley knows what kind of mentality an NBA superstar needs to have, and explains it in his own inimitable way: “Regarding Dirk Nowitzki and how he gave credit to his defenders during the second round of the playoffs versus Denver: ‘If a guy was sleeping and thought he could stop me, I’d go over to his house in the middle of the night and slap the hell out of him. If he even was dreaming about the fact that he could stop me, I would go to his house, and I’d just walk in his room and slap the hell out of him, and say, ‘Wake up.  Don’t even think you can guard me.’  That’s the mentality you have to have if you’re gonna be a superstar in this league.”’

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  • http://www.lkz.ch Darksaber

    Brongoggles!!!!!! (sorry, couldn’t resist)

  • Garbajosa

    charles has the same amount of rings as Dirk

  • http://yahoo.com Logues

    jukai: i agree with danny, lebron passes up game winners to people like delonte west. and what do you mean shots that eventually came the game winner, cause a shot with 30 seconds left is actually alot different than one with a few seconds left.

  • Teddy-the-Bear

    I agree LeBron shouldn’t give the ball up near the ends of games. But dude, he’s won ball games for Cleveland many, many times. He owned the Washington Wizards by himself. He got to the finals by himself after beating the Pistons by himself. Post-Jordan and Post-Dream, besides Allen Iverson, LeBron James is the one player who has taken his team the furthest in the playoffs pretty much by himself (offensively).

  • Teddy-the-Bear

    I just got sucked in, didn’t I? My bad.

  • Esco

    I do remember LeBron hitting a jumper in Turiaf’s face during the regular season. Yes, at the buzzer. So danny, go play outside.

  • la huey

    Chuck is an entertaining guy, a great personality for TV, and I really liked him as a player. However, I don’t know where some of you guys get this idea that he should be handing out swagger tips when he’s got no rings. Seriously, Dirk’s accomplished pretty much the same accolades as Barkley did in his career and did it in his own way.

  • http://slamonline.com Allenp

    Dirk is not on Barkley’s level as a dominating player, but he’s easily the best Euro ever.
    Barkely wasn’t as great as he thinks he was. He was great, but he rarely played defense, was often out of shape and could be a team cancer.

  • http://antwonomous.blogspot.com Antwonomous

    Dirk was just playing mind games when he said that. He averaged a 34-12-4 in that series. I’d say K-Mart didn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of stopping him.

  • http://www.lkz.ch Darksaber

    Actually Nene defended him well in that series (as well as 34-12-4-2 allow), he did burn Kenyon, Melo and Birdman though. That snowball didn’t stand a chance.

  • http://www.lkz.ch Darksaber

    Allenp, Dirk Nowitzki IS on a par with Chuck, Stats wise. He is just not a brash, outspoken player. Chuck tried to dominate (emphasis on tried, his height/weight didn’t impress the true Nba hardbodies of his time with similar skills) with his mouth and physical play too.

  • Josh D

    Please tell me he actually did this

  • http://djsklfl.com Jukai

    Logues: the statistic, I believe, was under nine seconds. So when Lebron hits a shot with 3 seconds left on the clock, I consider that just as valuable as hitting a shot with 0 seconds left on the clock.
    Darksaber: Chuck was a better rebounder and passer.

  • http://www.slamonline.com wayno

    He’s #2 on the list behind Kobe of guys who I want to have the ball in the last 10 seconds of a game. The man is clutch.

  • http://www.manutd.com Z

    Juks, that’s a lost cause. Bron has ranked amongst or at the top of the best crunch time performers for years. There are facts to back this up. Like Allen said, people will believe what they want to believe. Ever since MJ, being clutch means knocking fadeaway J’s at the buzzer. That’s just the way it is.

  • tavoris

    I agree with Jukai…it’s easy to forget how GREAT Barkley was….the man had a freaking THIRTY-THREE rebound game…a THIRTY-THREE REBOUND game…as a 6’4″ (altho listed at 6’6″) PF. that is CRAZY. Also, get into how his playoff stats are noticeably better than his reg season stats (with a large sample size). Altho he didn’t play D (heck, neither did Magic or Bird), he was a great, great player up until injuries forced him to retire.

  • tavoris

    Chuck is about as much an authority as you will get from commentators. The only other player doing studio work that has earned more respect is Magic. Sometimes, he says things that piss people off. That doesn’t make them any less real, tho.

  • tavoris

    Chuck is about as much an authority as you will get from commentators. The only other player doing studio work that has earned more respect is Magic. Sometimes, he says things that piss people off. That doesn’t make them any less real, tho.

  • wilford brimley

    Z, you’re reaching when you say that clutch is just buzzer-beaters. Just because people focus on the buzzer-beater, does not mean that it was the buzzer-beater alone that caused the victory.

    The concept that is actually significant is making plays towards the end of the game that cause a great impact towards victory. That means big plays from roughly the last 2 minutes of close games. Use that as your definition for clutch. If you choose to define clutch as the buzzer-beaters, you’re looking at a very insignificant quantity in terms of winning games since there are so few, and they are so dependent upon the previous lead-up of plays.

  • http://hibachi20.blogspot.com Blinguo

    Something like this happened in that show Hanging with Mr Cooper and his overnight dream of being in the league. Chuck dunked on him and said “Welcome to the league.” Possibly the only memorable episode of that show.

  • http://www.slamonline.com wayno

    Hanging with Mr. Cooper! I haven’t seen that in forever…I loved that show man…that was a great episode btw.

  • http://hibachi20.blogspot.com Blinguo

    And (although already corrected up there) Gerald Wallace and MJ hang out now, but MJ might be holding back Gerald’s team!

  • http://www.manutd.com Z

    wilford brimley
    i’m not sure you got what i was trying to say.

  • vic21

    Well Europeans are a little bit more… classy. They can play awesome, yet they can be sincere and recognize their opponent’s talent. They don’t have Barkley’s pseudo macho complex.

  • luv2ball

    Someone needs to watch some video; MJ was unguardable. If MJ had these no hand check rules in his prime, he’d average 45. Joe D, and Ron Harper, G. Wilkins, made MJ work harder for his points.

  • http://fdjsklf.com Jukai

    luv2ball: Jordan’s averages would probably increase, but new zone defense rules and greater charges/floppy in the league may negate Jordan’s abilities as much as you’re going on about. No one can properly predict how much a player could score.
    Jordan got some pretty phantom calls in his day

  • luv2ball

    Jukai: I agree you can’t predict how much a player would score.

    But back when he was playing you could hand check like crazy. He would have been to the line more then Dwade. Also, What superstar doesn’t get phantom calls? If you look at LBJ he goes to the line, and I bet DIrk is still mad at the refs from the MAvs/Heat Finals. LBJ,Dwade average 30 now, none of them had near the repertoire of MJ; additionally neither of them have as good a supporting cast.

    MJ had one of the greatest mid-range jumpers ever, plus with the quality of shooters MJ had around him, teams would be hesitant to double him. I think the new rules would have had MJ taking more threes. I don’t have a Mancrush on MJ either, I may have one on scottie tho

  • http://Www.lkz.ch Darksaber

    Pip was/is the shiznit!!! No discussion allowed.

  • http://Www.lkz.ch Darksaber

    Just saw a camp video of MJ shooting J’s with Melo and some kids (no, no Kobe dissing this time). MJ’s jumper is still WETTTT! Dude could still score in today’s league..

  • larrylegend

    co-sign Dark again.
    pip was unbelieveable, and mj gets EVERY call.
    in 1993-94 he led the bulls in about 8 categories, never done before and after, but got robbed for mvp like kidd.

  • mdshuai33

    Here’s something that no one in the world has ever pointed out about Charles’ statement: anyone remember Magic’s post-game comments in the ’91 finals? All the dude talked about was how bad MJ was killing ‘em. So does that mean that Magic was soft and weak, because he recognized the skills of his opponents in front of the camera?

  • mdshuai33

    And Pip was the man; he deserved that MVP. Probably one of the most under-appreciated players, as far as the fans are concerned, and at the same time most respected by his peers, to ever play in the league.

  • rikson

    Actually, I saw MJ drove to other players houses at night…

  • rikson

    How can you ever raise your game, if you dont recognize the greatness of other players?! Its possible to have huge selfesteem and still be aware of the fact, that there are great or even better players out there…

  • rikson

    Sometimes I think Chuck is like 12 years old…

  • LeoneL

    Sir Charles should start his own blog and make a ton of money on Adsense. LOL

  • http://slamonline.com Spaceship Jay

    I read wilford brimley’s post, and forgot what I wanted to type.

  • tavoris

    Chucks point wasn’t that he didn’t recognize the skill of other players (of course he did-he’d never be working in TV if he had the attitude of Steven A Smith). He was speaking about how a player of Dirk’s caliber (MVP discussion EVERY season) shouldn’t be conceding to ANYONE until he cements his legacy with a ring. Magic in 91 (the same year he announced his retirement) was already a multiple-title winning LEGEND who could speak from a “fatherly” perspective. Until Dirk shakes the somewhat-unjustified “underacheiver” tag, he’s best served not saying anything.

  • dude

    Barkley is a clown, a flat out clown. Charles…there were LOTS of people who knew they could stop you buddy.

    Yea..right charles…we should all be more like you. Idiot.

    [quote]Barkley was frequently fined for on-court fights with NBA players, such as Shaquille O’Neal, Bill Laimbeer, and Charles Oakley, among others.[51] He was also equally confrontational off the court. He was arrested for breaking a man’s nose during a fight after a game with the Milwaukee Bucks[52] and also for throwing a man through a plate-glass window after being struck with a glass of ice.[53][/quote]

  • tavoris

    dude? we already know those things…but it’s not true about stopping him as a player. One does NOT average 25, 11, and 6 on a STACKED Phoenix team as a 6’4″ PF unless u r pretty freaking unstoppable. 25, 11, and 6…6’4″ PF…let that marinate. As much as I love AI, Chuck is easilyt in the pound-for-pound discussion as well.

  • ED

    BS. That man is way too sure of himself, maybe he should ask himself if he actually was a superstar? Maybe not confident enough? Because Chuck if I remember right you didn’t get any ring?! Did you?

    Aight so keep on talking that trash Charles cause that’s what you do best. Dirk kills you al lday, one of the most efficient player in this game, and clutch with that. Ya’ll can keep talking but Dirk is a superstar, just not american enough for you suckers.

    :D

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