Somewhere Tim Donaghy Is Smiling
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You tell me in what world these are both flagrant 1 fouls. Like how the fuck is that possible? Tyler Hansbrough’s wasn’t even a flagrant. At best it was a clean block. At worst case it was just a hard playoff foul. Like anytime you get 95% ball that’s not a flagrant. In fact if Dwayne Wade didn’t flop around on the ground like a dead fish for 10 minutes nobody would have even noticed. But then on the flip side you have Udonis Haslem doing a 2 handed karate chop to Hansbrough’s face with zero regard for human life and zero attempt to play the ball. The absolute definition of a flagrant 2 foul. Should have be an automatic ejection and possibly criminal charges. Yet the refs somehow ruled them both flagrant 1′s? What the fuck planet am I on? Only in the NBA could this happen. Somewhere Tim Donaghy must be smiling.
PS – Not to be biased but if Miami wins this game and goes on to win the title there needs to be an asterix next to it because of this play. Flat cheating.
Turns out because he went to UNC, that you’re allowed to do that to him.
The fact that an asterisk looks kinda like an ‘x’ doesn’t mean it has one in it.
Hanesborough shoudlve gotten up and just rocked haslem. I do think hanesborough deserved the flagrant with the follow through slap on wade like he was will smith. But the second should’ve been a flagrant 2 no doubt
ya that was probably a clean block…I bet D Wade made himself bleed to get the call
The heat are getting special treatment. Ever since Wade nearly ruined Rondo’s arm, which I still haven’t forgiven him for, he’s been a straight up douche bag. I figured since he’s a superstar he’s just getting superstar treatment. But Haslem? What the fuck? Guy isn’t even a star and he’s still in the game after that hack job. What the fuck.
Your post is 100% dead on. A+
miami getting favorable treatment because without haslem they have 0 post game and won’t win the series. keeping haslem in the game and not suspending him the one game gives miami the edge. regardless of who wins the east my money is on OKC to take the whole thing down, nobody can hang with them right now but the spurs will give em a fight.
The anti heat biased thing you got going on is getting pretty ridiculous bro, I hate the heat as much as the next guy but theres no way that’s not a flagrant on hansborough, he came down on his neck whether or not he was going for the ball doesn’t matter at that point and the fact that you said at best a clean block should just not allow you to watch the rest of the playoffs
big-baby, are you serious? that was a clean attempt to block the ball by hansborough. yeah he nicked him a bit with his nails, but just because they showed the replay in slow motion doesn’t mean hansborough had the time in his dad to remove his hand from wades forehead. Haslem, on the other hand, fucking hacked hansborough right at the shoulder with 0 attempt to block the ball. dont be a dumbass.
@big baby – i think his point was that Haslem’s foul was on a whole different level than Hansborough’s and that classifying those plays as the same thing is a fucking joke. Haslem’s was WAY worse – much more blatant and he specifically targeted a guy’s head so either Hansborough’s isnt a flagrant 1 or Haslem’s is a flagrant 2 and he is ejected, they both arent flagrant 1s
Big-baby-is-half-retarded, are you half retarded bro? No way that was a flagrant on Psycho Teee.
tim donaghy must have made so much dough betting on games over the years
dear big baby,
you are a fucking fag pussy.
sincerely,
the nba of the 80′s and 90′s
Prez,how is there not a single mention about the Maxim hot 100 today?
Hansborough foul was borderline
… udonis foul should have got him tossed…. why nba refs don’t use replay for these calls i will never know
I never said anything about haslems foul because he was spot on saying that it should have been a flagrant 2 and theres not question about that but hansbroughs is still flagrant, you can’t make contact anywhere to the back of the head that’s just obvious
And Dear 80s and 90s NBA,
Enjoy paying your medical bills
Sincerely,
The NBA that knows about concussions
I don’t know big-baby. 3 flagrant fouls (2 by wade 1 by haslem) and 0 ejections or suspensions by any of them. hansboroughs foul seems hardly anything compared to all 3 of those flagrant fouls.
The NBA has done the same thing for years. When they want the home team to win, they assign a bunch of ham and egger refs like Dick Bavetta (or worse yet, Bennett Salvatore), whose history shows a huge statistical bias towards the home team in every game he officiates. When they want the away team to win, they assign a bunch of solid refs, like Steve Javy, whose calls are much less biased in favor of home teams. The league does this again and again when it wants a particular team to extend a series.
@big baby – do you think NBA players from the 80s and 90s have a lot of health issues due to concussions? do you think basketball as a sport has a lot of concussions? and finally, what does this current NBA that “knows about concussions” do about them? i dont see too many guys wearing helmets on tv right now and it appears the playing surface is still composed of hardwood
wheres the blog bashing lebron??? dudes playing unreal
i think big-baby is thinking of the cocaine years.
I like how the commentators say Lebron is petitioning to the refs for a flagrant foul….no shit, is there a bigger flopper/over actor in the NBA? D-Wade, maybe a close 2nd after that laying on the floor pretending I’m dead until I get a call act. Not saying he didn’t get hit, but it looked a lot worse than I’m sure it was.
Come on now, I hate Hansborough, but that was no flagrant. He had blocked the ball and was following through with his block. Clearly incidental that he hits his head. Sometimes shit happens. You think at that speed he has time to react to pull away from his face.
This racist league is always keeping the white man down. TKO NBA.
Do you guys realize what this league would be like if they still let shit like mchale on rambis go on with the size of the guys they have in the league today? The NBA would look like the marcy projects and the league would fold in less than 2 years
Big Baby you’re an idiot, hansborough hit the ball and happened to hit his head afterwards, thats just a foul. If anyone on the Pacers did what Haslem did they would have been ejected and suspended for the series. This is just getting way too obvious. As much as I put down Mo a couple days ago, Dwyane might truly be at least as big of a pussy as Lebron, which I didn’t think was remotely possible.
Big-baby give it up, you know what would happen if they let shit like mchale on rambis go on with the size of the guys today??? People like hansborough and david west would make pussies like lebron and dwade either toughen up or quit basketball altogether. That would be great.
D-Wade is by far the bigger pussy of the two. A wheelchair for an arm injury. Thats all that needs said.
No way are each of those equal infractions, but for my money nothing compares to Wades tackling a guy from behind. How that wasn’t a flagrant 2 and how he wasn’t suspended for at least a game is criminal. And yea, Pyscho T’s was at best a clean block and at worst a foul. Actually, it was a pretty clean block and he nicked Wades head at the end
LEBRON JAMES… WITH NO REGARD FOR HUMAN LIFE! I forgot about that shit..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tag9UmmFfY8
Big-Baby, I took the liberty in explaining the two flagrants and even technicals!
To be unsportsmanlike is to act in a manner unbecoming to the image of professional basketball. It consists of acts of deceit, disrespect of officials and profanity. The penalty for such action is a technical foul. Repeated acts shall result in expulsion from the game and a minimum fine of $1000.
A flagrant foul-penalty (1) is unnecessary contact committed by a player against an opponent. (This doesn’t fit the description hansborough’s foul)
A flagrant foul-penalty (2) is unnecessary and excessive contact committed by a player against an opponent. It is an unsportsmanlike act and the offender is ejected immediately. (Wade and Haslem)
Just rub some dirt on it and we’ll call it a day.
HOCKEYYYYYYYYYYY
faggot fuckin basketball
hahahaha omg Elpres. this is just an embarrassing post. sour grapes cause you know the Heat are going to demolish the celts
Tyler Hansbrough should get a foul for a horrible transition from the college to pro game.
If the combined age of the above 2 commentators is above 30 I’d be thoroughly shocked.
Haslem will be suspended, and Pittman probably will be too.
Those were even worse than I thought. The National Bullshit Association is a joke. With LA gone, Stern will do ANYTHING to get Miami in. Without Wade and LeBron in the finals, the ratings will be the lowest in a long time. Look for some 2002 Lakers/Kings refereeing jobs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFsqtgjVw_4
it was probably because wade couldve won an oscar with that performance and hansbrough got up like a real man. nba loves dumb theatrics from their star players. pussification of sports indeed.
hansborough clearly smashed wade’s face and it was a flag 1…haslem without question was worse. boston faggots call wade and lebron pussies yet the biggest pussy of them all is paul pierce. mother fucker gets carried off the court then comes back 2min later full speed – guy does this every other year in the playoffs. he’s a bigger bitch. i’d love to know how lebron’s ass tastes EP? he’s straight killin you
Reppinme: when the guy you’re talking about gets stabbed in the head like 641 times and plays 1 month later he gets leeway. When Lebron grabs his head like he just got JFK’d by rose and the replay shows no contact, followed by Lebron winking at CHI bench confirming as much, a man hurting his knee in the finals and returning and being productive kind of seems admirable in comparison, no?
Thank you Southie.
hey pageviews, if i dont have a lebron blog like you read about by yesterday im going to kill myself…that said, go fuck yourself.
@bigbaby,
The size of the guys in the league today? Are you serious? Look at the PF an C positions, which are smaller ( and weaker) than they have ever been. Guys might be faster overall but that’s due to wingmen and guards, inside guys are long gone or weak as shit, for the most part.
@redsoxfan34 hahaha a couple technical fouls
reppinme “i’d love to know how lebron’s ass tastes EP?”
probably like jizz.
@big baby, the size of the guys today huh? I would love to see any team from today play against the late 1980′s Detroit Pistons with Laimbeer, Mahorn, & Rodman or drive the lane with Ewing and Oakley waiting for them.
you are 100% correct about everything said in this post, pres
13minute dead on about that rondo foul. d wades a bigger cock sucker than lebron by a mile