Four pages of hand wringing on a Blazers board over something that had no influence on the outcome of the game, the Spurs said didn't bother them, and that Nic has apologized for...seems pretty typical for this place.
I don't really think it was a huge deal, but it was completely bush league. Think about it this way fans. Phoenix beat us 104-91 on opening night. Are any of you seriously going to sit there and type that you wouldn't have been pissed if one of the Suns players launched a shot in an attempt to get a triple double at the end of that game? or if we were playing the Clippers and Ginger did it? you people would be crying about how horrible it was.
I don't care what players or fans think of this . . . I just hope Nic doesn't take his foot off the accelerator
No, 'us people' wouldn't. At least I wouldn't, because contrary to your generalization. I don't give a fuck, you play until the buzzer/whistle sounds. If they walked off and the Suns launched it, its our fault for stopping play too soon. So no it wasn't "bush league". It's sports and you play to score until the end buzzer sounds, case closed.
They were up 11, and Dragic got a layup with about 20 seconds left. I don't think anyone here said anything. I guarantee I couldn't care less if we lost, and someone threw up a 35 footer to get a triple double. Who gives a shit.
So you're the 1 fan that loves when the Buc's attack the line of scrimmage when the other team is kneeling down instead of running up the score. Got it
Phoenix got the ball with 40 seconds to play. Dragic hit a lay up before the shot clock expired. They also got the ball with 9 seconds to play, and ran the clock out with class. No one can convince me that people wouldn't have been calling him out in this forum had he ran that ball down and shot a 3 up 13
Cool, don't really care about convincing you about it. I couldn't give a shit if someone did that exact same thing to us.
Not at all. Completely classless though, and just another senseless reason for an injury to happen after the game is over for all intents and purposes.
Classless is only in your opinion. Is there a mercy rule in Football or Basketball? And if everyone was prepared to play until the buzzer sounded, there would be no risk of injury. So that is irrelevant. Also last time I checked hucking a 35 footer doesn't equal blasting across the O-Line on a kneel-down, but whatever, my points still stand.
How is it different? So since every team is prepared the other 3 and 14/15 quarters in football, there are no injuries?
You were insinuating that the injury probability is higher because of the D-Line blasting through on a kneel down when the O-line is expecting a concede. Otherwise why did you bring it up when we were talking about basketball?
Yeah, I was crazy thinking fans would make this into a big deal. A few Portland fans are making this into a big deal...and ironically not because Nic did it, but because fans would have a cow because another player (on another team) might potentially do the same thing.
