Monroe: Dampier: No Intent To Hurt Parker

[crc21209]

Dampier is an idiot...now after realizing what he said he's just trying to avoid a fine and/or suspension. Too late now...

[crc21209]

You can't teach an old dog new tricks....so are we all supposed to believe that the Mavs are all of a sudden going to be a strong defensive force and stop TP? I think not...

[Spursmania]

Dampier: No intent to hurt Parker
By Mike Monroe

In Dallas, Mavericks center Erick Dampier on Wednesday said he regrets saying he would "put (Tony Parker) on his back" the first time he drives to the basket in Thursday's Game 3 of a first-round playoff series. Dampier said he has no intent to hurt anyone.

"It's just the game of basketball," Dampier said. "It wasn't said intentionally to go out and hurt anyone. Fouls happen in the game of basketball. We want to shut down the game and not give him a lot of easy layups.

"I've been here for the last five years, and had two flagrant fouls. I'm not trying to go out there and intentionally hurt anyone."

Parker scored 38 points in the Spurs' 105-84 victory in Monday's Game 2, after which Dampier made his "put him on his back" comment that got the attention of league officials.

Dampier said he was contacted by league officials about his comments.

Dampier's bigger concern for Game 3 is the added scrutiny his comments likely will get him.

"It will probably be magnified 100,000 times," he said.

Exactly genius!

[Spursmania]

Thank you

[Spursmania]

Dampier is an idiot...now after realizing what he said he's just trying to avoid a fine and/or suspension. Too late now...

Hope he plays tentative now. Either way this affects his psyche because now he's being called out for wanting to be too aggressive. He should have shut his mouth, and just gone out and kicked some ass. So, even if he felt the fire in his belly, it's definitely subsided now with all the criticism and scrutiny.

His play will not be as aggressive as he originally wanted. What a dumbass.

[Avitus1]

It must hurt to be so dumb...

[GSH]

So what WAS he saying? He said he was going to knock Tony to the floor, but what he really meant was that he intends to play him like normal? He intended to knock Tony to the floor, but he didn't expect it to hurt? His psychic abilities told him that Tony would happen to go to the floor the first time he drove the paint?

Horse ! He said what he meant, without thinking. And now he's too big of a pussy to live with the consequences. He wanted the image of badass enforcer by "guaranteeing" that he would put Tony on the floor. Now that same guy wants to claim that he "would never hurt anybody"? Nobody's blowing anything out of proportion - he said what he said, and there's no other way to interpret it. And if he thought he could get by with it, he'd do exactly what he said.

The part that really pisses me off is that these things have a way of working in reverse. They are going to be so cautious about not looking like they are singling him out, that they will choke on their whistles. They need to make an example out of his dumb ass.

[onarollbaby]

[dallaskd]

There's a reason why they haven't won championships over the years. Besides Dirk, i can't think of one player on that team that has a good BB IQ.

Devin Harris was just starting to warm up and those fools traded him.

Kidd?

[raspsa]

Its on record and there's no taking it back.. stupid. Should have just kept quiet and let his playing do the talking..

[Manufan909]

From what timvp said in another thread, he apparently has 7 flagrants, not 2. Any articles make that correction?

[Obstructed_View]

So Devin would be an all star in Dallas as a 4th option compared to being the 1st in New Jersey?

Devin wouldn't be an all-star in Dallas just because the point guard position is so deep in the western conference, but he'd be just as good a player, and he's shown to be tough to guard and clutch. Antoine Wright may end up salvaging the Harris trade to move it out of contention for worst trades all-time.

[Kamnik]

[Danny.Zhu]

There's a reason why they haven't won championships over the years. Besides Dirk, i can't think of one player on that team that has a good BB IQ.

Devin Harris was just starting to warm up and those fools traded him.

I don't think Devin Harris has good BB IQ either. But you can certainly count Jason Kidd in.