Jason Smith only gets 2 games for this?

2 seems reasonable, but compared to the actions in other 2 game suspensions it seems too short I guess. I don't know that 4 would be warranted, so is 3 much more fair? Idk, but you can see that guy sped up and lowered his shoulder to make that push.
 
Hawkfromnorwalk said:
NBA is a giant league of thugs anyway. There's a reason I haven't watched an NBA game since Chicago beat Utah in 1998.
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Don't exactly know what you mean by thugs. Because if you mean on court play, you couldn't be more wrong. There are no teams like Detroit Bad Boys or Reilly's Knicks. If you mean attitude, the post Jordan group like Iverson, etc have moved on.

Wade, Labron, Durrant, Dirk, Griffin, Love, Aldridge, Williams, Kobe, Paul, either Gasol, Rose - it is ridiculous to call any of these guys thugs. These guys learned from the poor example of the group of wannabe hip hop artist hoopers. These guys now have top flight PR reps and they listen to them.

As far as the hit is concerned. Think the guy got caught in no man's land with Griffin and was really more bracing for the hit than anything. And the throwing the arms up looked more like a surrender than a celebration. If you were watching basketball before 1986, you would have seen Bill Laimbeer do this about 4 times a game.
 
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I like how one of the games is the rematch in LA...this comes down to a 1 gamer and the league saying "we don't want this to turn uglier so you should probably not play that one either"...

The league isn't a bunch of thugs...it may be a league full of guys who don't care about winning nearly as much as getting paid (a few obvious exceptions), but there's no thuggery going on...after the "Jordan Rules" Era, it's been pretty tame.
 
CAARHawk said:
Don't exactly know what you mean by thugs. Because if you mean on court play, you couldn't be more wrong. There are no teams like Detroit Bad Boys or Reilly's Knicks. If you mean attitude, the post Jordan group like Iverson, etc have moved on.

Wade, Labron, Durrant, Dirk, Griffin, Love, Aldridge, Williams, Kobe, Paul, either Gasol, Rose - it is ridiculous to call any of these guys thugs. These guys learned from the poor example of the group of wannabe hip hop artist hoopers. These guys now have top flight PR reps and they listen to them.

As far as the hit is concerned. Think the guy got caught in no man's land with Griffin and was really more bracing for the hit than anything. And the throwing the arms up looked more like a surrender than a celebration. If you were watching basketball before 1986, you would have seen Bill Laimbeer do this about 4 times a game.
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theboat said:
Knicks-Heat in the 90's, more like twice a quarter.
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Ahhh, yes, the grab and hold, grind it out, non-shooting, dude with a big ole a$$ backing people down iso basketball of the 90's. Thank goodness for the bulls, jazz, sonics, any team coached by Don Nelson and a handful of other teams or the 90's would have been brutal to watch.


David Stern was wise to change up some defensive rules to get the game free flowing again.
 
trj said:
Ahhh, yes, the grab and hold, grind it out, non-shooting, dude with a big ole a$$ backing people down iso basketball of the 90's. Thank goodness for the bulls, jazz, sonics, any team coached by Don Nelson and a handful of other teams or the 90's would have been brutal to watch.


David Stern was wise to change up some defensive rules to get the game free flowing again.
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But. But. But. The NBA is awful now compared to the glory days of the '90's. I haven't even watched a game since '98 because it's so bad now.

:rolleyes:
 
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