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I don't have TNT or ESPN... I don't even have cable
Spurs, Mavs, Hornets, Grizzlies? That is pretty frightening. Assuming the Mavs (you were right) and Hornets get their acts together first.
I'm talking about the Point Guard, Jacovin Brown. He got double forearmed by the guy who was guarding him, and sandwiched by another man. I know the time ran out for the offensive rebounder.
What KG did was nothing compared to what was basically a vicious body slam by Bynum. Beasley was lucky he didn't break his arm and end his season right there.
Players take falls like that all the time. And hitting someone in the groin is no light matter. It's a matter of whether there was malicious intent. I'm sure you should realize that it hurts a lot to be hit in the groin. I do agree Bynum deserves to be suspended, but I don't agree it should have been 2 games. I'm just annoyed at the refs inconsistencies. Wasn't it earlier this season when Dampier pushed Parker in mid air, sending him flying into the cameras? He got no fine from that. Garnett didn't even get a fine either. What about when Andre Miller literally ran from one side of the court to the other and took down Griffin? How does that warrant only one game, when you knew FOR SURE that it was malicious intent?
I'm not arguing that the NBA isn't crooked, but a ball slap, which does hurt (for a few minutes), is not nearly as bad as launching yourself as a projectile and crushing your shoulder into someone's chest. If you look at the way Beasley landed on his arm, it could have been broken or at least hurt badly, but luckily it didn't happen to land that way. You also have to factor in how dangerous the move is. A ball slap won't do any lasting damage (unless it's a REALLY strong hit, which it wasn't) but that launch could have either hit Beasley in the head an concussed him or hit him to the floor in a way that causes him to injure his arm or back. Even from a pure pain standpoint, I think the chest hit would hurt more. As a former soccer player, I've had the ball kicked pretty hard into all parts of me, including my groin, head, and chest. But of all of those, the chest hit hurt the most, and caused much more lasting pain. The head and groin injuries were things I got over in about 5 minutes, but when I had the ball kicked into my chest in the beginning of the game, I had this really annoying sore there the whole time. Groin hits are over-dramatized; they don't hurt for as long and aren't as dangerous overall, as unpleasant as they are.
Kobe + Odom + Defense
Don't know which Dampier hit you're talking about so I can't comment on that one. And I also think intent was more of an issue in Bynum's foul. KG's was weird, he started to try to contest and then just kind of raised his hand into Frye. It didn't really look premeditated, like he had a plan to do something like that. Bynum on the other hand clearly ran several feet towards Beasley and launched himself, and it seemed planned the whole way. KG should not have been suspended. Sure, give him a flagrant 1, but no suspension necessary. I don't care whether Bynum should have been suspended one or two games, bu the point is he should have been suspended and KG shouldn't have.
People do NOT take falls like that every night. That was not the same as, say, a Wade play where he gets hit and knocked on his side to the ground and slides into the camera-men. Beasley got knocked horizontally and fell straight down like a dead weight. I've seen Garnett get injured pretty badly on a couple of falls like that. Plus his arm landed kinda weirdly, though I think that was more by chance than anything else. Usually when a bigger guy meets a smaller guy in the air, it's not an aimed ram into the smaller guy's chest like that.
I agree that big guys get picked on, but it's strange that in one breath you claim KG and Dampier are getting favorable calls and in the next breath you claim "big men" don't get calls.
I guarantee you once a week, there's a player who takes a really ugly or bad fall, but they are not fined or even suspended. It's even worse when a smaller guy does it to a bigger player.
They might take a bad or ugly fall, but it's not due to a malicious attack like it was in this case. That's the difference.
Well I certainly think that the ratings factor into it but I don't think KG's foul merited a suspension regardless of who the next opponent was. Like you said, he had done it once before; did he get suspended then? Also don't try to make it sound like he does it all the time; 2 incidents in a 15 year career isn't exactly a trend.
Now watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUmWoI1UDIA
That was pretty nasty. Not as dangerous nor as malicious as Bynum's foul, but Howard should have probably gotten a flagrant foul for that.
No, there is always a bad fall due to a bad foul being done. It's not some blue moon occurrence.
sooooo called Florida st. over Notre Dame