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He didn't just hit Bruce with his elbow, he RAKED him with it hard and knocked Bruce to the floor. Tim doesn't get technicals for no reason.
Swinging an elbow might result in a more serious injury than clutching shorts or tapping an elbow, but they are all illegal tactics under the rules that players sometimes use to gain an advantage and sometimes get away with.
Setting a moving pick can result in a serious injury, and it is illegal. But, it's part of the game. Some players swing their elbows to create room. It's part of the game. Some players clutch and grab when they play defense. It's part of the game.
Have you never seen Manu Ginobili use his elbows in a questionable way to either create room or to prevent a defender from blocking his shot attempt? It's part of the game.
When a player is attacking the rim late in the fourth quarter of a very close game, and he is put on his butt with a hard foul so he doesn't make the lay-up or slam dunk, is that not hard, physical action within the rules? Basketball is a contact sport. When Dwyane Wade uses Alonzo Mourning to set a pick on his defender and the unsuspecting defender gets a hard blast to his shoulder and separates his shoulder, is that not hard, physical action within the rules? Basketball is a contact sport. When Manu Ginobili waits for an out-of-control Vince Carter and takes a charge that knocks the wind out of him, is that not hard, physical action within the rules? Basketball is a contact sport. When Dwight Howard goes up for a dunk and Marcus Camby challenges him but is unable to block it and the force of Howard sends Camby to the floor, is that not hard, physical contact within the rules? Basketball is a contact sport.
Swinging your elbows and hitting someone across the face is not legal. But, it happens! If the refs don't call it, you suck it up and continue to play ball. Sometimes players get away with bending the rules or using illegal tactics, like clutching, tapping shooters' elbows, swinging elbows, travelling, flopping, goal-tending. The refs miss calls. Suck it up, and play ball. A lot of Spurs fans make comments to that effect when another team complains about calls or Manu's flopping or Bruce Bowen's defense. Suck it up!
Basketball is a contact sport. Players bend the rules. Referees miss calls.
Get over it.
He didn't just hit Bruce with his elbow, he RAKED him with it hard and knocked Bruce to the floor. Tim doesn't get technicals for no reason.
On the slo-mo replay, it looked like a complete flop to me.
Whether it was a flop or not, you can't deny that Dirk raked Bruce with an elbow.
What makes me even more mad is that there was a no-call on that play, but Tim Duncan is called for traveling while he's being shoved out of bounds?
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