1. Forum
  3. Sports
  5. Basketball
  7. Meanwhile, Keif goes down
×
Message from Dave..... Moderator Approval

Don't panic if your post doesn't appear immediately.

× Rock Chalk Talk: Basketball

Anything pertaining to basketball: college, pro, HS, recruiting, TV coverage

Meanwhile, Keif goes down

  • Bayhawk
  • Bayhawk's Avatar Topic Author
  • Offline
  • Platinum Member
  • Platinum Member
More
3 years 2 weeks ago #27598 by Bayhawk
www.huffpost.com/entry/nikola-jokic-chea...4882e4b06de3eb7a60a7




RC
The end is nothing; the road is all.
-- Jules Michelet

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

Share this page:

 

  • HawkErrant
  • HawkErrant's Avatar
  • Offline
  • Moderator
  • Moderator
  • b82, g84 Lift the chorus...
More
3 years 2 weeks ago #27601 by HawkErrant
Thug.
:angry:
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

  • HawkErrant
  • HawkErrant's Avatar
  • Offline
  • Moderator
  • Moderator
  • b82, g84 Lift the chorus...
More
3 years 2 weeks ago #27602 by HawkErrant
Thug.
:angry:
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

More
3 years 2 weeks ago #27603 by NotOstertag
Looks like Keif got a little cheap shot in first to instigate it, but got a huge and even shadier cheap shot in return. Hope he's ok.
"When I was a freshman, I remember Coach Naismith telling us how important it was to play good defense." - Mitch Lightfoot

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

  • HawkErrant
  • HawkErrant's Avatar
  • Offline
  • Moderator
  • Moderator
  • b82, g84 Lift the chorus...
More
3 years 2 weeks ago #27606 by HawkErrant

NotOstertag wrote: Looks like Keif got a little cheap shot in first to instigate it, but got a huge and even shadier cheap shot in return. Hope he's ok.


"Late in the fourth quarter, Jokic appeared to foul another Heat player without a call. As he dribbled upcourt and passed the ball, Morris bumped him in the chest.

The Nuggets center retaliated as Morris’s back was to him, putting all of his 6-foot-11, 284-pound frame into a forearm thrust that knocked Morris to the floor. Jokic was ejected and so was Morris, who was assessed a flagrant foul 2."

A chest bump may be a foul, even an intentional one, but hardly a "cheap shot".
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

More
3 years 2 weeks ago #27617 by NotOstertag
Looking at the video tape, it was a cheap shot. Keif blindsided him in the open court, not going for the ball at all. It wasn't brutal, but it had no place to happen, and if the refs would have seen it, it would have been a flagrant foul. Cheap shot pure and simple in my book.

That doesn't mean I'm defending Jokic, but I'm also not as upset at him as others might be.

Interesting DEFENSE of Jokic can bee seen in this clip from Inside the NBA where Shaq, Barkley and Kenny Smith all agree that if you're Keif and you pull what he pulled, you'd better expect retaliation and turning your back is your own fault. Basically they feel that a guy like Jokic should be expected to retaliate for that kind of thing, and if Keif didn't keep his eyes open expecting a response, it's his fault. Here's the clip:



Again, I'm not defending Jokic here, but Markeif lit the fuse on this one.
"When I was a freshman, I remember Coach Naismith telling us how important it was to play good defense." - Mitch Lightfoot

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

  • HawkErrant
  • HawkErrant's Avatar
  • Offline
  • Moderator
  • Moderator
  • b82, g84 Lift the chorus...
More
3 years 2 weeks ago #27621 by HawkErrant
If I read the story correctly, Kief was given a flagrant 2.

Also according to the one article at least, Kief did the bump after The MVP had abused a Kief teammate and was NOT called for it.

Hockey is not the only sport with “enforcers”.

And FTR, I am not a Morrii fan. IMO they are more trouble than they are worth, always have been. And I do not endorse what Kief did. But if the refs had tagged The MVP instead of letting his first infraction slide, the subsequent two more dire infractions probably don’t happen.

I say probably because we *are* talking about the Morrii here.

But bottom line is there were 3 parties — well, 5 since there were 3 refs — that blew it as far as this incident is concerned.
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

  1. Forum
  3. Sports
  5. Basketball
  7. Meanwhile, Keif goes down
Powered by Kunena Forum