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Originally posted by Jurassic Referee
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Originally posted by jbduke
Laettner never "stomped" anyone, and he didn't "get away with" anything. Check the tape. He "stepped on" Aminu Timberlake's chest in the UK game in 1992. How hard? So hard that Timberlake popped right up, with a smile on his face, and started clapping. Clapping for what? FOR THE TECHNICAL FOUL THAT HAD JUST BEEN ASSESSED.
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Jb, you really do see the world only through Dook-covered glasses, don't you?
I saw the game. I saw the replays. They all showed Laettner deliberately stepping on a player's chest. He shoulda been tossed- period. He surerashell did get off lucky on that one. And.....did Mr. Sportsmanship coaching him ever do anything about it- at that time or post game? Nope. The W was all that mattered to good ol' Coach K.
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JR,
To answer a previous question, yeah, just finished my shrine to Coach K. $34,800 addition onto my house. I budgeted $40,000, which will pay for two years worth of K's designer incense. Very cool. I'd like to fly you down to worship with me sometime.
As for the Laettner incident, the tape of that game is part of the K liturgy, so I, too, have seen it, undoubtedly many more times than you. You'd have tossed him. Fine. But that does not address tomegun's point. He claimed two things with which I disagree:
1) Laettner "stomped" on Timberlake.
You yourself said "stepped on." It was a "tap." Call it a light tap, a medium tap, a hard tap, it makes no difference. That act probably imparted three pounds of force on Timberlake's. That's less force than a solid shove, and I'd love to know that you'd rule a shove a flagrant act. Hell, Tinnant's retaliation to Paulus yesterday was more vicious than Laettner's act, and I don't recall you calling for him to be ejected. The uniqueness of Laettner's act was what caused the uproar, not the viciousness of it. It was an arrogant, terribly unsporting act, but so are all sorts of things that don't draw nearly the attention that Laettner did.
2) tom claimed that Laettner "got away with it." A technical foul was called. How much more punishment do you want for an unsporting technical? How many other times in your life have you called for the ejection of a player for a non-fighting, unsporting act?
(It just occurred to me that if Timberlake had gotten up swinging, both likely would have been ejected. Timberlake's reaction tells me all I need to know about the violence inherent in Laettner's offense).
As for viewing everything through Duke-blue lenses, I don't see how you're in any position to critique here. You can't stand K, or Duke, so you're hardly more objective than I am on this.
By the way, is your shrine to old farts finished yet?