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Originally Posted by Old School
Mr. Rutledge, I'm sorry but I'm not buying your argument. 20 points is not that big of a lead in the NBA with less than 2 minutes to play. I have seen 2 minutes take up to an hour to play in the NBA. Plus, not too many years ago, Denver was getting beat when they had big leads going into the final minutes. In addition, George Karl does not strike me as the type of man that would run up the score.
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First of all I do not care if you buy it or not. I was not asking for your approval to my position. I was only stating my opinion that was pretty much it.
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Originally Posted by Old School
There maybe something to the point that George and Larry Brown are old bud's and not liking what the Knicks did to Larry reputation, however, can't prove any of that.
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I do not even believe I used this as an issue. Only George Karl knows why he kept in two starters at that point of the game. I do know this, when that kind of things happen in a HS or college game we make all kinds of judgments about these types of situations. I know some people made a similar conclusion when the Ohio college team was blown out and allowed 200+ points in a game.
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Originally Posted by Old School
As far as showtime. The NBA is all about showtime, monster dunks, spectacular dunks, etc. Players are getting paid million of dollars and the fans are paying top dollar to see this action. They should come out to compete every night or expect to get whoop pretty good. I still don't think Denver was pouring it on as bad as the Knicks are making it out to be. I think the Laker's was pouring it on when they left Kobie in the game to score 81 points. Now, I can see that type of foul on Kobie that night, damn, too bad Isiah wasn't coaching that team. That's what I call running it up! That's the unwritten code that you speak of.
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This is all nice, but when you do things that may be perceived of "showing up" your opponent, you will get a very negative reaction to these kind of situations. This obviously is what might have sparked the flagrant foul end of this incident.
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What we had here, was not a failure to communicate, but some young men overreacting to the situation (btw, foul was a F1, debatable F2) and a coach who took it personally. Isiah is not a good coach to me, imho. Guaranteed, you will see more stuff like this from him this season.
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See what from him? See him tell his players to play hard? Even you are admitting that you feel it was not a flagrent 2 foul, so what did he do? I disagree that this was not a Flagrant 2 foul, but that is why you and I were watching the game and not on the floor.
Peace