Saturday, March 29, 2008

CWebb

Chris Webber



As Bill Simmons said, CWebb career will be remember for what it could be. Webber won't be remember as one of the all time greats, he had all the tools to be but he isn't. Webber was a special talent with a great pair of soft hands, excellente passing skills and good basketball IQ, that's it.

What did affect this guy, what keep this guy from becoming one of the great one.

You could say that Webber was everything but a clutch player, actually you could see him running away from the ball in the clutch on those Kings-Lakers series. He looked scared at some points of those series, not quite what you want from your team leader.

Webber was so athletic in his early days and he always had those amazing passing skills. Later he developed a smooth elbow jumper but he never was a true back to the basket type of player, he didn't had much of a post up game, and that take away a lot from what he could do in the basketball court once he got old and injured

But the main reason of how we remember CWebb is because he never wanted it enough. He never took his game or his attitude to the next step where he said "I'm going to win this game no matter what" . You look to the eyes of MJ, Kobe, Iverson, Duncan in any playoff game and you can see the determination, the hunger. You didn't see that in CWebb.


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