Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
Yeah, and by then he knew full well who was reaching for the ball.
Moreover, how 'surprised' could you be by a player being next to you when another player - and the officials - have just gone into the crowd.
Trying to act like he was just walking down a sidewalk and got bumped into doesn't wash.
Jokic sprinted from across the court and immediately reached for the ball. There was no buildup and ishbia was preoccupied with helping the fan out. As in… not even looking at Jokic. We’re talking about a few seconds and from the time ishbia spots Jokic, feels the basketball being tugged and flicks it away. There was no time to think about what he was doing. You can watch it in real time and see that he was caught completely off guard and everything happened very fast.
What escalated after that with the shoving, which i don’t think is at all a big deal, is something different. But that shouldn’t bias an opinion of how ishbia acted when he was holding the ball. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
Yeah, and by then he knew full well who was reaching for the ball.
Moreover, how 'surprised' could you be by a player being next to you when another player - and the officials - have just gone into the crowd.
Trying to act like he was just walking down a sidewalk and got bumped into doesn't wash.
If someone collided with two people walking right next to you you’d probably help them out. And have been so preoccupied processing what was happening that you’d react strongly if your friend tried to grab something out of your hands while everyone’s gathering themselves. We are talking about seconds, not Jokic casually walking up and asking for the ball. [Reply]
Mike Malone: "I think it's crazy that Nikola [Jokic] got a technical foul… He's going to get the ball and some fan is holding onto the ball like he wants to be apart of the game."
That’s the right call. Fine him. T him up. Glad they didn’t suspend or eject because that would be over the top.
From here send a clear reminder to players not to make contact with fans. It’s a pretty simple rule to just let the refs handle that. Then place more accountability on owners who get physical with players or who don’t listen to the refs. I think this situation was unique enough that it may have been more of a lack of awareness from either of the two who were focused on other things. [Reply]
Originally Posted by KC_Connection:
Brunson is their best player by far and has been all season. He's the only reason they even made the playoffs tbh
I agree. They need to find someone to pair with him that is better than Randle. Not saying Randle is a bad player but he should be a 3rd option on offense.
Series is over but maybe they can extend it to Game 6 [Reply]
Originally Posted by dirk digler:
Knicks are going to need to find a superstar or slightly less than that type of player because Randle isn’t it.
They’ll have to do it quickly. Probably got another year before that team quits on thibodeau. They may already have. Lazy rebounding from a team that is supposed to have some size. [Reply]
