Indeed. Rudy Tomjanovich needed facial reconstruction surgery after that.
Posted on 12/13/2023 5:42:47 PM PST by janetjanet998
More validation that the NBA business model is closely akin to pro wrestling.
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memory is fickle
Probably that's coming.
He’s a little bit ferrel.
Maybe take up hockey.
Good. The guy is a loose cannon.
If you think he’s brutal, wait until his brothers Drobert, Drichard, Drudolf, and Dramon make the NBA.
Green was stupid. In watching the film there was not an unusual amount of physical contact in the low post area. Green was reaching back to try to post up and Nurkic had his hands on Green also. There was nothing there that should have cause Green to turn and strike Nurkic.
And to add insult to injury Nurkic flopped and then continued in the game after Green was tossed. Green didn’t hit him, but slapped him with an open hand. Should he be ejected...yes. Is his history enough to warrant a suspension...yes. But this is what the NBA is selling with these gladiator tactics. It has turned into big time wrestling and not basketball.
wy69
“He’s no Kermit Washington.”
Bad part about that one is that Tomjanovich was coming off the bench and was going by Washington to try to stop the fight about 20 feet away when Washington stepped toward him. Tomjanovich made no effort to attack Washington, even having both hands at head level with palms out and open, when Washington struck him. So like Green, it didn’t make any sense for Washington to hit Tomjanovich as there was no effort to a conflict and Tomjanovich by his posture and presentation was not attacking Washington.
wy69
Green is a repeat offender, and repeat, and repeat.
Get the goon outta here
Good!
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Green is 33 years old, his production is down and the Warriors are not a championship caliber team anymore, he’s probably feeling the end of his career and the big money is slipping away and can’t take it, he’s always been a volatile player and even more so now that he’s over the hill, I’m fine with whatever suspension they give him, unless he gets his emotions under control his career could be over
“Green is a repeat offender, and repeat, and repeat.”
It bcame apparent to many, myself included as a 35+ year of levels of officiating, coaching, playing, and admin over leagues, that the pro game was morphing into something that hardly resembled basketball. I played and officiated before three point shot and the restricted area was invented. Illegal dribbles are now almost non-existent and some players, like Iverson, have made a career on being able to have his dribbling hand clear under the ball for multiple steps and it is ignored.
Certain players do not foul out of the game at home and seldom on the road. They get ticky tack fouls called for them and are allowed leeway when talking to an official, fan, or another player.
Fighting on the floor has increased as the NBA, like hockey, (Barley’s olympic elbow) has started providing players with limited skills but can offer violence as enforcers opportunities.
Remember when they took away the hand check? Now it’s an out and out grab and hold on. And I don’t know how many times a defensive player at low post has literally picked up a posting offensive player and carried him 2 to 3 feet away from the basket to mess up his shot selection.
The game is not what it was. When teams started bringing in gladiators to put butts in the seats, it got worse and the accepted acts start to flow down into NCAA and National Federation games which go clear down to K-12. So is Green a singled out player or just one of the tools for the NBA to try to legitimize itself. Should he be suspended indefinitely? Yes. But so should the owners and the rules committees. It’s not sport...it’s business. And they are selling back alley tactics to draw. And with it come the thugs.
So is it ballet or a street fight? And they even increased the official count from 2 to 3 and it still happens more and more. And it will get worse before it gets better.
wy69
Please read my #37.
wy69
I think the players are much more skilled now actually.
As far as violence in the game, it was much more violent 30 to 40 years ago. The Pistons come to mind immediately.
“...it was much more violent 30 to 40 years ago...”
To me, that’s not old. The league started in August of 1949. I was officiating sgtarting in the mid 1960’s while playing high school and later college and amatuer ball. But the game didn’t start to gt truly violent until the mid 1970’s which put it 25 years into league play. And the league was insturmental in stretching the boundries of what constituted a foul to get butts in the seats.
But today’s players are more aggressive than before and it has incresed since the 1980’s. Just looking at the top of the leaderboard in technical fouls, the NBA has already brought in a substantial amount of money. There are currently 15 players with at least 10 technicals this season.
As expected, the players on this list are guys who are constantly seen talking with refs or viewed as “dirty players.” The overall leader in technical fouls right now is Memphis Grizzlies forward Dillon Brooks with 16. Not far behind him is Dallas Mavericks All-Star Luka Doncic at 15. If he receives another, he’ll be forced to be sidelined for one game.
Just from those two alone, the league has made close to $100,000 in fines. Other names near the top of the list include Draymond Green (15), Trae Young (13) and Anthony Edwards (13).
After only adding up the final totals of the top five in technical fouls this season, the total comes out to $214,000. There are currently seven players with 10 technicals, increasing that total to $389,000. There are one hundred and one players in the NBA tht have at least 1 technical foul this season.
Accounting for all players in the league, it’s fair to assume the league has already made close to one million dollars in fines. What makes that number astonishing is that there is still a month to go in the regular season. There is no telling how much higher the final number will go before the start of the playoffs.
As for the quality of the players, they are given so much leeway in ball handling it is rediculous. Traveling and carrying (illegal dribble) are common place now because they can’t dribble or pass as a whole.
Turnovers are up this year teams like Dallas that average right at 12 a game up to Utah that averages around 17.5 a game. With offense the key point in the NBA, especially trying to get inside, having a team average a turnover rate of this much plus adding almost 18 fouls per game it means they are averaging a possible over 35 turnovers with this combination a game. That means they are making some type of mistake in the game every 1.4 minutes they play or roiughly every third possession. And this is the best we have?
wy69
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