Betnijah Laney did not intentionally trip Dolson. She is not that type of player. That comment is both insulting and untrue. I don't have a replay to watch, but I did see the play that injured Lloyd and did not think that was intentional either.
Oh stop being an apologist. You know that all of these players are in 125% control of every muscle in their body and that they are fresh as daisies throughout the game and that they are omniscient of everything around them and they all have tiny feet that should never interfere with another player's foot unless they are intentional evildoers.
Action always gets testy in the gnome ball games. I'm just thankful that you guys don't butt heads more often because I would hate to think what would happen if there's an impalement on one of those pointy hats. A small blessing, I guess.
Hard to believe gnomes can even high five each other unless the high is a state of mind.
Watch the replay and the slow Mo- it is obvious - IMO! It was an unnatural move- she looked where she was going and then clipped her after totally controlling the rebound. Steph wasn't even that close to her.
IB- the Tenn player was much more obviously an intentional attempt in an effort to also slow down a fast break. These two incidents I speak of - there was no way it was just normal unfortunate unavoidable contact from competition. This is really no different than when frustrated players react with elbows and shoves- and it is usually safer as the players rarely get ejected as it is tougher to pick up live. If u watched them in slo mo- I think u might see it differently. FYI-I'm sure of it.
DobbsR- u watched that over and that's what u came up with- they showed it once in slow Mo- The Tenn player didn't even step down to trip her as she was behind and to the side- she planted her foot sideways into her ankle. IMO- this wasn't even close to Jewell cutting in front of her and unavoidable. U aren't wrong too often from what I see on these threads! This does't make u a bad person!?
Are you discussing the Loyd fast break? I rewatched it several times for both the ankle and the knee. IMO, completely unintentional.
Yes- it was very obvious-
Yes- we'll agree to disagree- she kicks her foot out into her ankle joint in a totally unnatural athletic move IMO.
Sorry, GI, but all I can say is what you are seeing is delusional and somewhat paranoid. I'm sorry but defensive players are allowed to run up the court and try to hinder the ball handler and try for a steal, that is their job. They also cannot anticipate every move that the ball handler will make. And they are often big women running up the court at high speed and cannot stop on a dime. In this case as you can plainly see in the replay it is Loyd who makes a slight adjustment in her path to avoid a defender and moves over toward Jones who cannot change her course fast enough to completely avoid Loyd, and their feet meet. If Jones' foot came down a split second earlier, it would have been her and not Loyd with the twisted up ankle.
