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Noticed the following watching the highlights tonight . . .
1. Charlie V opens up a wound on Derrick Rose's face on a routine layup.
2. Flyers and Pens look like Sharks and the Jets.
Thinking on Bynum's very cheap shots. Thinking way back to Blair.
Harrison on the Steelers.
Guy on Temple who broke some poor kid's arm.
I've just got this thing. The rules should be clear. Contact of a certain kind is allowed (and encouraged!) Blind side hits on QBs, checking the puck handler, and so on.
I'm just wondering why sports put up with it. Surely Hockey sells fist fights, so I get that (but don't agree with it).
But why do they allow it in basketball? The rule should be simple - if you make a play on the man, rather than the ball, you're gone, and it's 3 shots plus the ball. Or something like that. And have it be career long. 3 strikes and you find another job.
I enjoy watching two physical guys battle down low for position, fight for rebounds, and so on, but the kind of crap that you see where guys just crash into a guy like Rose with zero intention of playing the ball is not fun to watch and devalues the game, in my opinion.
Have things gotten better or worse in basketball in the last 30 years? I'm thinking back to the 80s Lakers, and of course there was the McHale play on Rambis, but I don't remember there being outright hacks on guys in the air with apparent intent to injure.
Guys like Derrick Rose should be protected from BS plays. I'm not a huge DR fan, by the way - I just hate to see such a skilled player have to worry about lesser talent whacking away with no fear of any real repercussion. And where is the retaliation? If a guy goes after my star like that, how can I not take him out harder next chance (they send one of yours to the hospital, you send one of theirs to the morgue)?
1. Charlie V opens up a wound on Derrick Rose's face on a routine layup.
2. Flyers and Pens look like Sharks and the Jets.
Thinking on Bynum's very cheap shots. Thinking way back to Blair.
Harrison on the Steelers.
Guy on Temple who broke some poor kid's arm.
I've just got this thing. The rules should be clear. Contact of a certain kind is allowed (and encouraged!) Blind side hits on QBs, checking the puck handler, and so on.
I'm just wondering why sports put up with it. Surely Hockey sells fist fights, so I get that (but don't agree with it).
But why do they allow it in basketball? The rule should be simple - if you make a play on the man, rather than the ball, you're gone, and it's 3 shots plus the ball. Or something like that. And have it be career long. 3 strikes and you find another job.
I enjoy watching two physical guys battle down low for position, fight for rebounds, and so on, but the kind of crap that you see where guys just crash into a guy like Rose with zero intention of playing the ball is not fun to watch and devalues the game, in my opinion.
Have things gotten better or worse in basketball in the last 30 years? I'm thinking back to the 80s Lakers, and of course there was the McHale play on Rambis, but I don't remember there being outright hacks on guys in the air with apparent intent to injure.
Guys like Derrick Rose should be protected from BS plays. I'm not a huge DR fan, by the way - I just hate to see such a skilled player have to worry about lesser talent whacking away with no fear of any real repercussion. And where is the retaliation? If a guy goes after my star like that, how can I not take him out harder next chance (they send one of yours to the hospital, you send one of theirs to the morgue)?
