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Tinsley hurt is wrist and is out - X-rays negative
I think he said Pollard is out as well.
The Pacers will only have six players available to play tonight.
Eddie Gill
Fred Jones
James Jones
Austin Croshere
David Harrison
John Edwards
Pollard and Tinsley will dress to make the league minimum, but are too hurt to play. (Tinsley hurt his wrist in the melee)
Pollard is out due to his back, he's having spasms.
Artest, JO and Jack on suspension.
Foster, Johnson and Miller on IR
Bender, Pollard and Tinsley hurt and unavailable. (though 2 will dress)
So it's just those six.
Damn they are screwed.
This is either going to pull them together or rip 'em apart literally. Tonight's game will NOT be pretty. Orlando will more than likely win by 25 or so.
You forgot to mention Carlisle's parting comment:
"I didn't know someone was going to be filming everything we do!"
"I didn't know someone was going to be filming everything we do!"
Carlisle handled it well though. At least he didn't put all the blame on Wallace or the fans. And his comment about "well we won't have to worry about people complaining about playing time" was funny.
So if you are Orlando, you hope that Battie and Croshere get into a scrap? Double ejection, and no bench for Indiana.
if you're the ref, you let them play...to some extent on the Pacers front. otherwise they game will be called by the second quarter. It will be intersting what kind of reception the Indy fans will give the team tonight and how teams where ever they travel for the rest of the season as well. how loud will the "boos" be at the SBC in january?
Well considering the stupid Pacers fans went to the airport to "show their support" of their thugs, I'm sure they will be treated fine.will be intersting what kind of reception the Indy fans will give the team tonight
The refs have to call the game exactly the same as normal. They can't accomodate the Pacers for misbehaving.if you're the ref, you let them play...to some extent on the Pacers front
If it had been the Spurs who had done that, would you have been at the airport?Well considering the stupid Pacers fans went to the airport to "show their support" of their thugs, I'm sure they will be treated fine.
No.
And the point is probably moreso, the Spurs wouldn't have done it.
Yeah, DRob, mings and Avery would have just busted a cap and been done with it back in the day. That legacy continues.
Well considering the stupid Pacers fans went to the airport to "show their support" of their thugs, I'm sure they will be treated fine.
your putting all the blame on them?
too bad they dont make em like they used too
Well you would never see the Spurs do something so ing stupid, so it's a moot point.If it had been the Spurs who had done that, would you have been at the airport?
Throw the book at Indy. Long suspensions, without pay, loss of draft picks, and pooh taking it up the rear from Stephen A. Smith.
Well, to be fair, the Spurs do have a legacy.
The Spurs-Nets brawl in game 4 of the 1976 ABA Semi-Finals was much worse in terms of actual player fighting than that pussy-fest between Artest and Wallace.
I wasn't there and there's only limited video, but by all accounts that was a flat-out war on the court.San Antonio and the Nets last met in a playoff series in 1976, with Erving's Nets beating Gervin's Spurs in seven games.
As both players recalled, the series included a bench-clearing brawl in Game 4. As the story goes, New York's Rich Jones -- a former Spurs captain who was among several players on both teams who had been traded for one another in previous seasons -- bloodied four different Spurs before order was restored. Fourteen players were fined a total of $2,200 for the fight.
So yes last night was bad, but only in a relative sense because what we will tolerate has changed.
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Fvck that Aggie, they should throw the book at the Pistons.
Closed stadium games for the next 5 home games. That will teach the Piston fans a thing or two, and it will hit the Pistons right in their pocket book.
closing home games would be diffiicult for visting players
they are used to playing in front of people
I do not like that idea
I think ticket sales and food sales be given to the nba for 5 games are in order though
Uh, last night was also different because players weren't going after players, they were going after FANS. Big difference in the league's eyes. I normally don't even care about player/player scraps, and they don't make this kind of headlines.
Yes, it would be weird Ducks for the visiting players. But that is not the purpose of the punishment. The punishment is intended for the Detroit Pistons, and their fans. As the team, they are responsible for stadium security, and keeping the fans in line. The players have to be protected.
What if the fan threw something else besides a cup of beer?
Then one could equally argue that the difference between last night and 1976 was that back then none of the fans were stupid enough to throw something at one the players.
If one had back then, the players would have gone into the stands and made last night look like an elementary school skirmish.
Why the should the Pistons be forced to pay because a lone fan threw some refreshment on Artest and Artest is not sane enough to control himself?
Dumb idea.
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