Spurs vs Suns, Total BS Options

[Sh0gunkid8721]

Its sad that the most exciting playoff series has to end up this way. For those that don't know, the Suns and Spurs got into a lil scuffle at the end of Game 4 where the Suns were winning and had the game in the bag. Nash takes the inbounds pass and gets hipchecked into the announce table by Robert Horry. Amare Stoudemire and Boris Diaw left the bench area and immediately started to retreat and are now being penalized by the NBA for their action (or nonactions nontheless). So basically to sum it all up, the Suns (who were the victims in this game) gets penalized more for game 5 and it hurts the Suns more because the 2 players that got suspended for them are more valuable to their team. Poor Nash this series gets a busted nose, kneed in the groin and now gets hipchecked into the announce tables.

If i was Mike D'antoni, I would take my worst player and have him foul Tim Duncan hard to instigate a fight. If i was every NBA coach i would send out my worst player to foul the opponents star player. This is a bogus rule that must be changed. Any thoughts?

This post has been edited by Sh0gunkid8721: May 16, 2007 - 2:59 PM

[dustin15brown]

Amare deserved the suspension without question. No it's not "natural" to get up, being as though I played basketball and have been in Nash's position... people on the team held their cool and stayed on the bench...

[SlickRick]

Amare deserved the suspension without question. No it's not "natural" to get up, being as though I played basketball and have been in Nash's position... people on the team held their cool and stayed on the bench...

i see where your coming from Dustin, but the rule is if a player gets off the bench during an "altercation" there was no altercation, the rule is meant to stop a small fight from turning into a big one, there was no fight in the first place, if there was a fight and then they got up thats fine, but there was no altercation in there first place.

[Sh0gunkid8721]

Amare deserved the suspension without question. No it's not "natural" to get up, being as though I played basketball and have been in Nash's position... people on the team held their cool and stayed on the bench...

i see where your coming from Dustin, but the rule is if a player gets off the bench during an "altercation" there was no altercation, the rule is meant to stop a small fight from turning into a big one, there was no fight in the first place, if there was a fight and then they got up thats fine, but there was no altercation in there first place.

There was an altercation but it did not involve Amare. I know what the rule is and if your goin strictly from the rulebook, Amare should be suspended, but this is clearly a decision that involves common sense. Amare has no past history of fighting on or off the field and being a troublemaker. The only person from the Suns that shouldve been suspended was Raja Bell and he didnt get anything. He was clearly the instigator.