<div class="quote_poster">kobe23 Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Then obviously you dont play REAL BALL... Elbows ARE part of the game...</div> Really? I can't wait to play in my next pickup game and start throwin bows around! I wonder what kind of reaction I will recieve!
<div class="quote_poster">kobe23 Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Then obviously you dont play REAL BALL... Elbows ARE part of the game...</div> They are as "part" of the game as diving is in football. Sure, it happens, but it's cheap, plain and simple. Say if the positions were reversed, and Kyle Korver had the "natural basketball movements" that Kobe has, and after getting suspended for an elbow, he came back and elbowed Kobe in the head while playing the Lakers. Would you find it dirty?
<div class="quote_poster">kobe23 Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Then obviously you dont play REAL BALL... Elbows ARE part of the game...</div> Yeah for big men down low. NOT for shooters on the perimeter or while driving to the hole. KOBE is dirty no matter which way you look at it.
<div class="quote_poster">jealous? Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Yeah for big men down low. NOT for shooters on the perimeter or while driving to the hole. KOBE is dirty no matter which way you look at it.</div> Why the double standard? It's ok for the big players to throw elbows and play physical, but not the guards in the league?
<div class="quote_poster">jealous? Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Yeah for big men down low. NOT for shooters on the perimeter or while driving to the hole. KOBE is dirty no matter which way you look at it.</div>Why are you holding players here to a double standard? Why is it ok for bigs to throw elbows down low and not guards on the perimeter? The reason they do it remains the same for both bigs and guards, they're just trying to make space to get an opening. With that in mind, I don't see why it's ok for bigs to do so and not guards.
I would say throwing elbows like that is dirty no matter what position you play. I dunno if I would classify this as throwing elbows, but I HATE it when Shaq is posting down low, and he turns around with his elbows up and clocks the defender on the temple. I've seen Jarron Collins take too many of those hits. Those could cause some damage. But then again Collins isn't good for anything else....
<div class="quote_poster">shapecity Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Why the double standard? It's ok for the big players to throw elbows and play physical, but not the guards in the league?</div> i never said it was ok. i replied to the post of "elbows are a part of the game". its not ok to me, but it is DEFINITLY more common for big men down low so in that case has become a less severe offense as if an outside guy doing it. i mean obviously since there is this huge media blowup of Kobe doing it and you never see anything about Shaq or Dieke doin it.
<div class="quote_poster">Moo2K4 Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Why are you holding players here to a double standard? Why is it ok for bigs to throw elbows down low and not guards on the perimeter? The reason they do it remains the same for both bigs and guards, they're just trying to make space to get an opening. With that in mind, I don't see why it's ok for bigs to do so and not guards.</div> yes the 'reason' they do it is to make space BUT why does Kobe need to make space after he just shot the ball the first 2 times? thats more unexceptable than if some gets a rebound and does it thats why Kobe got suspended. but again im not saying its ok, but more 'acceptable' by everyone(the league, refs, and people) because trust me when Shaq throws an elbow viciously i want to take a bat to his elbows so he will stop.. so i dont think its ok for anyone.
