Another player complaint about Bowen

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  1. jbbCourtVision

    jbbCourtVision JBB JustBBall Member

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    <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Bruce Bowen will have to decide: Is it more insulting to be called a sissy or a coward?

    Dallas Mavericks small forward Michael Finley heaved the latest verbal assault at the Spurs forward whom opponents seem to love to hate: Coward.

    Add that to SuperSonics All-Star Ray Allen's charge that Bowen plays "sissy basketball" and Bowen might want to consider either a bodyguard or a shrink.

    Of course, it was Finley who was charged with a category-two flagrant foul and ejected from Friday night's 113-100 Spurs victory at the SBC Center, so consider the anger of the source.

    Televised replays of an elbowing exchange between the two with 2:18 remaining in the third quarter clearly showed both players throwing elbows.

    Who first elbowed whom seemed to be a matter of contention and very much in the eye of the beholder, not to mention the color of the beholder's uniform.

    Finley, however, was bluntly insulting Bowen, a defender he said he formerly respected.

    "A coward guy made a coward play," Finley said. "He gave me a cheap shot from behind and I retaliated.

    "I thought I deserved a technical foul. I don't know about the ejection. The refs must have missed the first one because it was away from the play. I was just going back down the court and he came up behind me and leveled an elbow into my ribs.

    "I'm a man first and I went down and let him know it's not going to be like that."

    Naturally, Bowen saw things differently. In fact, Bowen said it was Finley who threw the first elbow.
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    http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/stories...6.39e15f72.html

    Wow another player complaining about Bruce Bowen? I am in shock...NOT.
     
  2. dee still ballin

    dee still ballin JBB JustBBall Member

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    Sad. They always give the calls to the Spurs or the Lakers.
     

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