Stoudamire calling out dirty play of the Spurs

[Gibbz]

Re: Stoudamire calling out dirty play of the Spurs

There's understood by-rules in basketball as in any sport. Players understand what crosses the line and what doesn't. If you commend dirty play, which is a form of cheating, then your team hasn't truly won anything. If you commend everything within the rules, written and unwritten, that's great. But you need to be more clear, especially on a forum/thread.

Are you hinting that the Spurs truly haven't won any titles because Bowen was "cheating?"

[Gibbz]

Re: Stoudamire calling out dirty play of the Spurs

Okay.

So, you support Spurs players intentionally trying to hurt other players to try to win?

I don't think it's as much of a case as Bowen trying to end careers as it is simply Bowen trying to effect the shooter, but to each his own.

[daflyboys]

Re: Stoudamire calling out dirty play of the Spurs

Are you hinting that the Spurs truly haven't won any titles because Bowen was "cheating?"

I love the Spurs. I love the throwback style of play. I was a 70's Reed et al. Knicks fan and a Dr. J. ABA Nets and NBA 6'ers 80's fan. I've watched hundreds of regular season games and came away from a loss or win upset or elated because of my team's particular play on a given night. And I understand that these were eras of basketball in which much less was scrutinized as it was throughout all sports. And I'm sure that within the thousands of things that go on throughout the course of a game in any era, tactics were missed. But I don't recall this level of discredit toward the game as there has been in the last 15+ years with the antics the Bowens of the world has pulled. And to answer your question, I'm not going to say the titles of the Spurs weren't earned, but, honestly, the likes of Bowen altering possessions and even the presence of a player for the rest of the game can't leave you coming away from a win feeling well. If a player on my favored team goes out of bounds of the rules and decorum of the game and isn't reprimanded in-game, then, yes, it's cheating. If he's given the door because he deserves to be given the door and my team wins, I have a clear conscience about the win.

[xythander]

Re: Stoudamire calling out dirty play of the Spurs

Looks like the league is investigating Bowen's knee to the groin. http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/playof...ory?id=2869495

[Gibbz]

Re: Stoudamire calling out dirty play of the Spurs

If the referee thought it was intentional, then it should have been an automatic ejection, if he didn't think it was, where the hell did the foul come from? It's either all or nothing in that situation.

[snepp]

Re: Stoudamire calling out dirty play of the Spurs

Where are the Spurs fans saying that it was Nash's nuts that committed the foul on Bowen's knee?

[SteelersFreak]

Re: Stoudamire calling out dirty play of the Spurs

Where are the Spurs fans saying that it was Nash's nuts that committed the foul on Bowen's knee?

They used a tractor beam to pull his knee in.

[Sarah]

Re: Stoudamire calling out dirty play of the Spurs

Where are the Spurs fans saying that it was Nash's nuts that committed the foul on Bowen's knee?

Okay, it was Nash nuts that fouled Bowen. I can testify that I saw the whole thing at different angles. It was Nash nuts that fouled Bowen by hitting Bowen's knee. The guy could broke his knee on that contact.

[snepp]

Re: Stoudamire calling out dirty play of the Spurs

Okay, it was Nash nuts that fouled Bowen. I can testify that I saw the whole thing at different angles.

Couldn't get enough of Stevie's boys, had to check 'em out in multiple angles too?