How about this. Yes, a player has a right to set a legal pick. Maybe he also has some responsibility for the safety of other players on the floor. Is there a way he could have anticipated the contact and the potential injury, lessened the impact, and still draw the foul? If so, he should have done so. And for not doing so, retaliation is acceptable.
He can lessen the shock to his body while keeping stiff at the point if impact. As someone who has played basketball, football, ice hockey and rugby and given and taken thousands of impacts, I can tell you it's an art that would seem counterintuitive to some of your assumptions because the body is not 1 solid brick and is impacted by angles, leverage and gravity. The one aspect that is most true is the fact that an unprepared athlete is at great risk in any collision. Always tried to use that against bigger guys.
There’s a couple of things happening, the first is that Kaulkbrenner was prepared for it and braced himself while Hawk did not see it coming and the second is the difference in mass between the two of them. Many years ago I was on the beach talking with a buddy of mine and a girl chasing after a frisbee ran into me and hit me squarely in the chest. My buddy starts laughing because I didn’t move at all and she hit me and fell to the ground. I didn’t see it coming so, I wasn’t bracing myself, but she was pretty much half my weight. This is one of those cases where size matters.
No. The only way to lessen the impact would be to move backwards to reduce the force of impact, or to move out of the way.
There were a couple of those in the last few games of last season
He will next year and a few more games this year.
I guess will find out tomorrow if he's suited up....I know privacy is protected on health issues, but I assume a beat reporter will at least ask the question what's his status going forward. Prediction...DH says "day to day"
Will just say we agree on Sanogo's responsibility as I had mentioned previously. Context-- Rarely do you see contact on picks in the backcourt vs in the frontcourt running offensive sets. It was a great pick set up by the ballhandler.
Hong Kong Phooey. Players get knocked over all the time due to charges. Haven't you ever seen Shane Floppier play? He could just as easily let the impact knock him backwards. In fact, watch Kalk actually lean forward in anticipation of contact. He had to move forward in order to not get knocked backwards.
All this and also Sanogo shouldve been persona non grata in locker room after game. That was his call. In fairness to Adama, that stuff happens, everyone makes mistakes, but it can only happen once, you learn in a hurry to call out screens to protect teammates.
Yes. Terrible of him to put his neck in the way of McHale's arm.....
If anyone wants to understand narcissistic behavior that post sums it up it a nutshell. As long as @tzznandrew reads it I'm content.
Maybe Gilbert?
Yeah! He totally neck butted him!
Gilbert would hurt his dislocated shoulder off screens
