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NON-SUNS FANS ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND THEIR QUOTES ABOUT THE SPURS.
"Bowen can get dirty when he's fustrated. That swipe-kick at Amare's ankle was about as low as it gets."
"I like Duncan as a person, and have a ton respect for the Spurs basketball ability...but man do they pull some cheap, cowardly ****. That covert leg grabbing and undercutting was something you would expect from the poorly written evil team in a sports movie."
Regardless of who won the game I lost a great deal of respect for an organization I used to consider one of the classiest in pro sports.
"I saw some of the most ridiculous things tonight at the game.
There was...Ginobili grabbing on to Amare's leg, preventing him from rolling to the basket, no call by the refs, Suns turnover.
Bruce Bowen blatantly kicking Amare square in the leg when he went for a dunk. If you have the game tape, you can see Bowen leaning forward, not really jumping, just trying to stomp on Amare's ankle basically. They replayed it on the screen at the arena, in slow-mo, and people were pissed.
Bruce Bowen basically clotheslining Leandro Barbosa away from the ball.
Duncan grabbing on to Amare's leg to prevent him from running, while he was down on the ground, pretending to tie his shoe(what is it with grabbing Amare's leg????)
Bowen elbowing Nash in the back, away from the ball, so hard that Nash fell over.
Elson shoulder-blocking Diaw, basically knocking him out of bounds.
Duncan grabbing on to Bell's arm to prevent him from running down the court on a fast break.
None of this stuff was called, yet it was blatant, and clear as daylight. Stuff like that has no place in basketball, especially the first two, because they were the most obvious, the Ginobili and Bowen plays."
"I remember all of those things and they made me mad.
Manu grabbing Amare's leg made me jump out of my seat in anger. Then when Duncan did it I was really pissed.
Don't forget that Bowen pushed Nash pretty much every play. Why doesn't the handchecking rule apply to him?
I wouldn't start a thread because people will just label you a "complainer" and I don't believe that blaming the refs for losing a game has much merit, but there are way to many quesitonable calls/no calls to keep quiet. Luckily I think the Suns are so much better then the Spurs that it won't matter in the end."
"You know what, Bowen reaches more than any other guy I've seen in the league, and he's a great defender regardless of that, but sometimes, its kind of maddening to see the stuff that the refs let slide."
"But the ones I am pretty sure that you can see on tape, would be Ginobili grabbing Amare, literally hugging his leg, preventing him from getting to the basket. Duncan grabbing Amare, Bowen kicked Amare, and Elson knocking Diaw out of bounds."
"Oh, and it is a gimmick too, its quite silly, because you can't even see how wrong the actions of the Spurs were. Who cares if the Suns won, that is irrelevant to the fact that the Spurs played dirty and took deliberate shots at Amare and other Suns players. If the Spurs get away with this crap in Phoenix, how much worse do you think it will be in San Antonio?
When one of the Suns gets injured from this nonsense, will you still come on here and say "oh well, thats okay, dirty plays happen, but the better team wins in the end." Bullcrap!"
