all the Suns have to do is beat a shorthanded Spurs team in game 6 and they get their wish. A game 7 with all players present and accounted for and home court.
no harm. no foul.
if spurs blow game 5?
it's the worst choke job in the duncan era.
all the Suns have to do is beat a shorthanded Spurs team in game 6 and they get their wish. A game 7 with all players present and accounted for and home court.
no harm. no foul.
if spurs blow game 5?
it's the worst choke job in the duncan era.
Let's not get carried away here. They broke the rules. It's funny that the Suns fans were lobbying for calls, lobbying for Bowen to be suspended and are now mad that the NBA actually followed procedure. While I disagree with Spurs fans wanting Amare and Diaw to be suspended, I understand, given the behavior of the Suns and their fan base over the last week, why they are giddy about it.
At least it will erase the memory of game 4, the second worst choke job in the Duncan era.![]()
How many games did Bowen get suspended for again?
People really can't read, can they?As for those Spurs fans who are waving NBA rules at Suns fans and gloating, YOU SUCK.! You are whiny little rules-lawyer es, like the kid who cheats because there's a misprint in the Monopoly rule-book.
OUR player was the aggressor here. OUR player played outside the rules. And yet the Suns are being punished for it. Rules or not, that is a travesty of natural justice, and to lord it over the opposition is a bag move.
My post is critical of the Spurs fans who are taking such delight at the Suns' misfortune in light of the stupidity of this rule, and the inability of the NBA to make decisions in context.
So, what would have happened if it was Parker leveled by Thomas? Would our players have left the bench? I say yes. And if they didn't? They would've been criticised for not standing up for Parker.
The NBA should have had the balls to recognise that there was no damage done, no punches thrown, and in such a case they can fine the players.
To gloat about a poorly written rule moronically applied is classless.
I see you are blessed to have forgotten that infamous Lakers series.
Oh get over your noble self. It's one game that they will be short handed. If Spurs win game 5 and they don't sack up and win 6 & 7 with a full roster they still deserve to go fishing.
You may not remember some of the brawls that caused those rules to be installed. A bunch of big basketball players swinging fists is a bad place to be and it starts with players leaving the bench with the intention of joining in. Rudy T almost got killed in one when he got blindsided with a punch and had to have multiple surgeries to rebuild his face.
Exactly, no rhyme or reason for the way punishment is handed out. Davis and Richardson should both be suspended for their actions, especially if Kobe in the regular season was suspended for elbows.(The part about Kobe was hard to type)
Nash
Barbosa
Bell
Marion
Thomas
is still a great 5. The suns will be really fired up and in front of their home fans will be up for It.
these suspensions doesn't mean spurs will certainly win.
dude you could have posted this in the keys to game 5 thread
You mean they would of stood up for parker by setting one foot on the court. Wow! that's a statement!![]()
"I think he said "no" err,...with his foot."-ATHF
You seem to be a quality person![]()
Boy, you are really a classy person. You have the gall to say your players were getting raped when in fact in a few of the games the Suns were the ones getting raped. One other thing, this isn't football which is a contact sport unlike basketball![]()
the suns!.You´ve got the help from the refs on game 4,and we´ve got our help from Mr.Robert Horry,no need of help from the refs though.
Get this part straight, Nash did not flop!
Please tell me that you didn't just suggest that basketball isn't a contact sport. Please delete your post as quickly as possible for your own good.
Replace "Parker" with "Derek Anderson", replace "Thomas" with "Juwan Howard" and replace "yes" with "no".
guys, all i can say is both teams know the rules, the spurs didnt leave the bench, the suns did.
probably why the spurs have 3 rings and the suns dont.
at the end of the day rules are rules, and hey lets not act like were losing a scrub here, Horry is the best playoff performer out there.
Right, the refs helped the Suns in game four, utter bull . Then I guess the refs helped the Spurs in game one and three going by your logic![]()
That was the contention of the Suns' coach, the at ude of the players and the take of virtually every Suns fan on this board. Or weren't you here yet way back then?
he didnt even hit the padding hard, and once he was already on the ground THATS when he decided to throw his arms up and lay down. Robert Horry was not right in what he did but Nash made it look much worse.
I'm not being "noble", I'm being fair. Once again, what I'm mostly objecting to is the Spurs fans who are gloating about it - that just shows no class at all. Shadenfruede (sp?), or taking pleasure in the misfortune of others, is lowly behaviour.
I know why the rules were installed, and I agree with them for that purpose, but in this case there were no punches, it didn't escalate, and the rule should have some provision for that. Context is always important. There is no black and white. In this case, because of the NBA's black and white interpretations, the victim is being punished more than the aggressor, and that makes no sense to me.
Not to the extent that football is. What can't you understand about this? Horry bodyblocking Nash is not good basketball at all. Bowen kneeing Nash in the groin is not good basketball and most of all sweeping or kicking at someones feet after major surgery (or not) is not good basketball.
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