mr.jameswoods;1970005 said:
And you are forgetting there was no altercation in the Nash foul either. It was a hard foul against Nash, and his teammates walked over to see what was going on. They didn't do anything else. The same applied to the Duncan incident. Duncan left the bench to observe the scene after a hard foul.
To me, it was a petty call. All enforcement of rules are subjective. If the officials genuinely called every foul, then every player on the court would foul out. So what do offiicials do, they make subjective decisions. If Stern is going to go by the book then he needs to apply the rule equally which he failed to do.
not true, like dw stated, he was going at it with bell and then nash come up to him and tried to push him, there was an altercation. on the duncan play, two players fell hard, got back up and ran to the other end because the suns were on a fast break
mr.jameswoods;1970022 said:
Name an NBA coach that doesn't whine when he is losing? Greg Poppovich used to whine about Shaq when the Lakers were beating them. He completely threw a fit when the Mavericks ousted them 2 years ago.
And regarding the persecution complex, I remember Spurs fans feeling they were cheated when the Rockets would beat them. They used to say that Hakeem was never called for fouls but David was unfairly maligned. They used to also whine about Rodman getting bad treatment from the officials. I was in SA during the 90's when the Spurs used to fall short of the WCF despite doing well in the regular season. They had the same pitiful fans. It's funny how Spurs fans forget what it was like back in the day.
please find me a quote o popovich complaining about the refs after a loss to the press? he whines during games to refs during the games, but so does every other coach in the league. He never whines after the fact, just like dw said about mike brown or larry brown, who, not surprisingly, are all from the same coaching branch.
Rowdy;1970157 said:
I don't see anyone complaining about the Spurs playing physical. Amare was stating that he finds the Spurs a dirty team. The adjective dirty in and of itself is obviously subjective. However, I would have to agree that with the many angles of Bowen's antics all over the internet that were posted by fans other than the Suns, you can draw your own conclusions.
Bowen has gotten in numerous altercations with Vince and other players. Feet to the face, knees to the groin, getting players to come down awkwardly is not just a "Suns" problem. If the Spurs can complain about Raja Bell and state hes dirty and then call their own team simply "physical" is absolutely hypocritical. But to each his own.
again, we are talking about the spurs being dirty as a team, not one player. That being said, bowen being dirty is also a matter of opinion, you can find all the videos on youtube that you want, but its because there is a lot of people that feel that way about him. but there are probably more people that feel that he isnt dirty, but they arent gonna go make videos about him NOT being dirty
