6' white guy who is the shortest and least athletic guy on the court every time he gets out there, but he manages to positively help his team every time he plays? And was undrafted? Love it. If he was on UConn, we'd all adore him.
Sorry but I hate that kind of behavior even more than Shane Battier flopping. It's right up there with undercutting guys when they go up for a dunk, it's dirty and dangerous. I would be embarrassed if we had a player who played that way. I really could care less what his skin color is or that he's Australian.
http://forums.realgm.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1389232 Did you watch the Bulls series or the other games in this series? It sure looked to me like Dellavadova was doing the same sort of thing again and Horford lost his cool.
That was comically bad, Scott had a disaster of a game.
Good post. People are reaching with this because they want to hate the guy. With the Gibson play, he scissor locked his foot - hardly an attempt to injure, but clearly should have been a foul. With Corver, he dove for the ball and tried to put his body in between Corver and the ball, to protect the ball. Worked. Was going for ball and no intent to injure or a foul. With this last one, he was falling backwards. If he went after the guy's knee falling blindly backwards, then he's the Michelangelo of cheap shots.
2001 was a regression to mean by LH after he shot 2000% vs UConnSome pretty illustrious names on this list, and one I wish I never saw again.
"One time is happenstance, two times is circumstance, three times is enemy action"
You're the second guy to bring up his race, do you really think people think the guy is a dirty player because he's white? Chris Paul and Dwyane Wade are dirty players because they made dirty plays on the court, not because they are black.I haven't even seen the others everyone speaks of and don't need to. I saw this one last night and there was zero intent on the kids part.
Funny Chris Paul can kick people in the nuts but this little hustling white guy is a villian to people?
Most people never heard of him before 2 weeks ago, you are hearing about him now because two players have been ejected on plays involving him and another player is out for the playoffs because of him.
What??? Who said he can't play in this league.yeah that's the only reason superjohn, he obviously can't play in this league.
Race matters in the NBA. It's the (ironically) white elephant in the room. The owners are almost all rich and white. The coaches are mostly white. NBA office staff are mostly white. And the players are mostly black. White men are typically less athletic and more "scrappy" (sorry @scrappy2.0 ). They don't fall into the flashy, monster dunk category that dominates the NBA. They tend to either be big centers (Gasols, Mosgov, Antric, and the like), or scrappy guards and shooters (Delavedova, JJ Reddick, JJ Barea, Kirk Hinrich).
Wow, so white players play hard and black players don't. Pretty clear where you are coming from.
Yeah, um no. What I said was that many white guys who make it into the league are very hard workers and above the norm for "scrappiness," and they may have to be because they don't have the athleticism to be there otherwise. On the other side of the spectrum is a guy like Vince Carter, who could take a lot of plays off, not be a scrapper, and still be a huge NBA talent.
Your post was a bunch of nonsense and you brought race into it, sorry but you can't run from that. White guys are scrappy and play hard, black guys are too cool for hard work. Your post was a bunch of stereotypes and was borderline offensive.
