Tough Guys and Softies

Vince Carter: Watch how many fadeaway junk-shots he takes when approaching a crowd of hostile big men.
yeah, and how many of them has he dunked on? Some of this stuff is legit other stuff is total nonesense.

put Dhamp on the list.

Tough guys
The sheer strength of an individual player does not necessarily qualify him as a legitimate banger. Brad Miller, for example, is a muscular, powerful player but at the same time, is far from being deemed a toughie by his peers.

The criteria here include a player’s willingness to initiate contact, even when confronted with bigger, stronger adversaries. Another qualification is a player’s eagerness to attack the hoop even though he knows he’ll be knocked down. On the other hand, under the proper circumstances, a legitimate tough guy has no compunctions about flattening an opponent to prevent an easy shot.

Ok , so wheres LBJ, Melo, and Wade?

Vince Carter and T-mac are both soft. 100%

wheres Austin Daye?

austin daye is not soft. plus he has not played a NBA game yet….

are you crazy?

how are you gonna call someone who has not played in the NBA soft? That’s like saying….oh he attacks the basket 100 times making him hard. based on college, he is a shooter.

i guewss i cant call him soft until he plays, but he was really soft at Gonzaga.

no that soft. he went 15th in the NBA draft…he must have some skills. Also, he averaged like 2.1 blks per game. I think he will shock alot of people

Dude’s nickname is CRASH. He is often injured, but he is fearless when he attacks the rim. He has to be on the All-Tough Guy team.

Also, I used to love watching Brian Cardinal be the toughest softy ever. He would fight for the call and instantly do some kind of insane soft flop once he had the ref attention. Brian Cardinal, the grossest player to watch of all time.

caus Dwight Howard, KG, Shaq, Boozer, and D wade are pretty physical
and hit and run melo isnt tough

I would call Austin Daye finesse, not quite soft. He does avoid contact, but he does block shots and get rebounds at a great rate though (2 things that take toughness).

As for the softest players, I’d go with 2: Yao and Mike Dunleavy.

And for tough guys has to be Ben Wallace.

Parker and Rondo pay the price everynight for attacking the rim, and the next night they do the same. If you watch a game of those two I want you to count how many times you see them knocked to the floor and get up. Paul Peirce is the toughest. Stabbed 11 times and a month and a half later he misses no training camp, no preseason and average 24 plus a night while missing no games all year. A beast. PP as tough as they come no one tougher, no one. He got shanked in August 11 times balling a month later like what?

kidding me the only reason vince carter taking fade away shots is becuase he’s old and to valuable to get injured for his team to win and pretty much all those players that are tough suck except AI and ron

Even in his prime, he would settle way too often for tough fade aways instead of attacking the rim. He just fell in love with his jumper and decided it was easier then going hard all the time. He does have some of the sickest facials ever, but that don’t make him tough.

I think a tough guy he missed out on is Anthony Carter from Denver.

the Zo dunk was nasty. If it was just about creating a highlight reel, then Carter is top 5 player all time. But he ain’t tough. The toughest he ever acted was during the 2000 Olympics, and that was because he had a whole team of stars to watch his back. You don’t see him get physical with anyone in the league. I’m not trying to sound like a hater, he is still an all-star in my book. Just don’t confuse sick dunks with being tough.

is Tyros Thomas tough?

Tough is’nt about flexing your muscles and acting hard. It’s guy’s that play hurt, play through contact, don’t back down to anybody at either end of the court, don’t get pushed around. I could go on for days who I think is tough. Artest, Harpring, Pryzbilla, and don’t sleep on how tough Corey Maggette is either. He don’t back down from anything.

Oh yea… Harping and Pryzbilla for sure. Harping is nasty.

Harpring don’t back down from no one. Forgot about him.

Peja Stojakovic: Don’t touch him, and he won’t touch you.

LOL!!!!!!!!!

are you serious?..vince waits till someone is in position under the basket then dunks on them???..thats the funniest thing i ever heard..have you ever watched vince…he used to dunk on you reguardless where u are. you can be under around near far he was putting it on youre head…he would do dunk contest dunks on peoples head…beasley though he doesnt dunk on people much isnt soft he does shoot the jumper alot but when the player checking you gives you the room thats what you do..when he does drive he goes right into the players body

how t-mac soft he lean but he known for driving to the hoop and dunking on people are u just becoming a basketball fan u talking bout the mcgrady of now not the old mcgrady and he got 9 points for this i agree with everything accept for the mcgrady one

Can we put Spencer Hawes on the softie list?

you cant be a softie just because youre game isnt physical. most pg game isnt physical but that doesnt make them soft as well as alot of sg