So, How many of you guys think Isiah Thomas will be suspended? Sending a warning foul is nothing new. Back during the old school era teams had players on the roster specifically to perform hard fouls on the other team. They picked up the toughest guys with no offensive talent to come in and do hard fouls.It's pretty common.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BALLAHOLLIC? @ Dec 16 2006, 11:41 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>So, How many of you guys think Isiah Thomas will be suspended? Sending a warning foul is nothing new. Back during the old school era teams had players on the roster specifically to perform hard fouls on the other team. They picked up the toughest guys with no offensive talent to come in and do hard fouls.It's pretty common.</div>Hmmm...I don't know if he will, because it would be hard to prove really, but he prob should be.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BALLAHOLLIC? @ Dec 17 2006, 01:41 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>So, How many of you guys think Isiah Thomas will be suspended? Sending a warning foul is nothing new. Back during the old school era teams had players on the roster specifically to perform hard fouls on the other team. They picked up the toughest guys with no offensive talent to come in and do hard fouls.It's pretty common.</div>I don't think you can suspend a coach when he wasn't involved physically, and there is probably no hard evidence of Isiah telling Melo that - and even if he did they will probably say that Isiahs comments had no correlation with the hard foul that was going to happen.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ReppinTheD @ Dec 17 2006, 12:26 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Good job KC, you jinxed it. </div>psh.. ok anyways about melo backing out. he wasnt backing out because if you look again, his jersey is being pulled back by camby. camby clutched part of it with his fist. just throwing that out there
Did you see my boy Nate beating the sh*t out of Smith? I was over my friends house and then it jsut erupted. Jeffries was about to beat the sh*t out of Melo.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Pinoy Balla @ Dec 16 2006, 11:46 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Jeffries was about to beat the sh*t out of Melo.</div>Ehh...not sure about that. :dribble:
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Pinoy Balla @ Dec 17 2006, 01:46 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Did you see my boy Nate beating the sh*t out of Smith? I was over my friends house and then it jsut erupted. Jeffries was about to beat the sh*t out of Melo.</div>They wrestled on the ground, If you consider that getting beat up then you need to watch more fights. I would put my money on JR Smith over Nate Robinson in a street fight any day.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BALLAHOLLIC? @ Dec 17 2006, 01:35 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>The NBA Finals thread had 50 pages, We got 7-8 posts per minute. It was pretty crazy.</div>Iverson thread is on fire also. :winkglasses:
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (austingriz76 @ Dec 17 2006, 02:10 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'></div>Wow - nice find.And that was a SOLID punch by melo - damn.btw - at the very end of the loop do you see that white string or something that pops out of collins face (skeet skeet skeet?) wth is that?
<---I found it at FBB, and the thing outve Mardys is just a illusion. The guys starting spreading his legs in front of him and the light flashed so it looks like a white line.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (playaofthegame @ Dec 16 2006, 11:36 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>what I don't get is how they praise fighting in hockey and it's like commiting murder in the NBA</div>When a hockey player drops hid gloves and fights a guy, its to pump up and give momentum to his team, and fighting is expected all the time in games because there's enforcer's on the teams, also the fighting comes to a limit when the other guy is too tired/injured to continue and the refs break it up. Also, The Ice is like Las Vegas, Anything that happens on the ice, stays on the ice. Fights in hockey are expected, thats why the players are well protected and ready for physical contact.Basketball is a whole new story. The players are not protected, fights are unexpected and hardly happen,players lose their cool (in hockey the players know when to stop fighting), the league is not familiar with fighting in the game. The brawl that happened tonight was not just some on the court stuff, these guys were pissed off liek sh*t.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Suddenrapz16 @ Dec 17 2006, 01:21 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>When a hockey player drops hid gloves and fights a guy, its to pump up and give momentum to his team, and fighting is expected all the time in games because there's enforcer's on the teams, also the fighting comes to a limit when the other guy is too tired/injured to continue and the refs break it up. Also, The Ice is like Las Vegas, Anything that happens on the ice, stays on the ice. Fights in hockey are expected, thats why the players are well protected and ready for physical contact.Basketball is a whole new story. The players are not protected, fights are unexpected and hardly happen,players lose their cool (in hockey the players know when to stop fighting), the league is not familiar with fighting in the game. The brawl that happened tonight was not just some on the court stuff, these guys were pissed off liek sh*t.</div>good point :happy0144: you hit the money pretty much.
obviously the media's going to react because of a fight in basketball, the media's not going to care aboutit in hockey, fighting is like a part of hockey
Here's my take on it. Everyone that was involved was pretty muh in the wrong. Now of course a couple of players have to take more of the blame including Carmelo Anthony. No matter how much people are going try and defend him on it, what he did was wrong. It's not like they were in the streets, they were in the middle of a basketball game. Your not going to get killed in a basketball game. The risk of some other player killing you or putting you in such grave danger is very slim. How I see it, they brawl was dying down when Melo went and punched Collins. Then it jus went out of hand again. I think Nate, Collin, Melo, Smith, and Jefferies will get to biggest suspensions. Nate was just a wild man out there. Now there are a few unwritten rules in basketball. If you are in a blowout, you usually take out your starters and try not to blow out the other team. Also, you don't go up and foul a guy when he is going up for a layup in a blow out. I think Thomas told Collins to take out anyone who went up in the lane. Thomas doesn't have to greatest background of being a golden boy. He played for the Bad Boys and also Bob Knight in college. Should Camby and Melo been in the game that late? Probably not, but what is the point of telling a guy to rip off someone's head on a free layup? I think The Knicks are the ones who started it, but the Nuggets handled it pretty bad themselves. All this did was hurt the Nuggets. We all know that the Knicks were out of contention before they even took the court in game 1. This is how I see it. I think Collins, Melo, and Nate will all get 10-15 games. Jefferies and Smith should get around 5-10 while I didnt really see Camby, Najera, Frye, Lee, or Miller do much of anything. Maybe a game or two at the most while I think they should get none. I just see Stern waving his "Iron Fist of Justice" with a ton of fire and brimstone. He'll give them a while off to sit and think about it.
Nate Robinson beat Andre Miller's ass and then Carmelo got a good punch off and ran away...on the video it says that everyone that was on the court (10 players) will all be suspended.
