Blazers' Gerald Henderson on Warriors' Anderson Varejao: 'He tripped me on purpose'

Good we need some fire, let Henderson get fired up and Lets have Davis and Green go at it. Gotta play with some intensity that we didn't see today.

 

Done bother getting into a fight with Varejeo, he sucks. Get into a fight with Thompson or Green. Say something about their mother then take a bunch right to the face. Gerald Henderson can be the assassin that earns us a championship.

 

We're too nice.

We're like GS before Draymond came into his own.

Need to either address that this summer by going after some guys with that dog mentality, or let guys who have that fire bloom in house. Oddly enough, the guy on our team who I think has that fire a bit is CJ.

 

they need to play much better D then they've shown to compete with the league's elite.... and control the defensive boards.

STOMP

 

Looked to me like Hendo WASNT putting up with it.

 

I don't know, I think harkless has the grit

 

Varajao impeded Hendersons right to move through the lane, as a result they bumped hard into each other: foul Varajao. Varajao CLEARLY looked directly at Henderson's leg and purposely kicked his leg out from under him: Ejection Varajao. Later, while Henderson was on the court during live play, and Varajao was out of the game, Varajao stood up and went over to Henderson and taunted him. Second technical and ejection: Varajao.

But that's not what the refs did. They completely screwed the pooch. Will the league do the right thing and suspend Varajao for the next game? I sincerely doubt it.

 

I know it's easy for me to say, but I wish Henderson would knock that fucker out at his first opportunity. And yes I know it hurts us more than them. And that's what empowers goons like Varejao to try to get the other team's players thrown out of games.

 

Sometimes, NBA players say stupid things. OTOH, sometimes they're too nice - and that was the case here. Hendo should have said: "He's dirty, he's always been dirty. I shouldn't have engaged. Of course, if I didn't do anything they the film crews might not have noticed his dirty play, shrug. We lost - I have to be more focussed on the game. Next game I will be. I'm not going to change a dirty player - he'll never be sorry about being dirty."

 

Because that's not what should have been done. AV is owning his spot when Henderson creates contact. MARGINAL contact no foul should be called. AV intentionally trips GH. Unsporting foul. Tech. And yes GH gets a tech for his response. There's no way GH would have responded differently even if the T on AV was called.

Should both players have been thrown out afterward? Hell no.

 

in closing, there's no reason to eject either player.

Dear NBA:

Stop being so fucking soft...

 

There's no amount of time that could come between the tech that should've been called and Hendo's response.

 

I agree with all of that, except that we don't know what was being said in the verbal back-and-forth between Henderson and Varajao that got them their second T's. Did it qualify as taunting or should the ref have just told them to knock it off and let it go. My gut says "B", but, again, I didn't hear what was being said.

 

Pull an Andre Miller move!!!