If you are going to go by the dictionary definition of thug, then I'll agree that JT isn't a thug. However I was calling him a thug in a basketball sense, being that he loses his temper and hurts people; something he's done multiple times in his career resulting in fines, suspensions and ejections. I'd be really surprised to see ANY Mavs fan on this board offer an unqualified condemnation of any of the dirty and violent things the Mavericks players have done over the past seven years, because if it's happened, I didn't see it.
As far as proving that you'd defend him, we'll have to wait until one of the Mavs does something worse than a flagrant 2, a cheap shot or putting a bounty on opposing players because you guys haven't seen fit to hold them up to any standard of decency so far. It'll happen soon enough.