You know that isn't "logic." It's just your opinion. You can't "logically" tell us what Griffin was thinking. Here's me doing that ... Look at those 4 screen shots and the vid. "Logic" tells me when someone is pointing vigorously at someone else, and is looking straight at them and goes right for them, then elbows them, and had to go out of bounds to do it ... "Logic" tells me that was intentional, and not a basketball play to take a "wide route." He's not even looking at the play, but rather his target, MDA. That's no excuse for going out of bounds to hit a coach. It's all a matter of intent, and you already said it's possible thought he could get away with it. I'm not saying he'll get suspended, just more here to provide the screen shots and quotes. That's reaching to think Griffin's mind set was to force a tech by going out of bounds to hit MDA. btw: You keep saying "graze" or "brush" when MDA used the word "hit" and "elbow" multiple times. Why do you keep softening MDA's words. Are you trying to argue your contrarian take, maybe a tad too much. I'm not arguing Griffin should be suspended, but you arguing Grif was "perhaps" trying to get a tech called and accidentally ran into MDA is weird.
I think everything that happened after the game is a great sign for the Rockets. If you aren't willing to back up your 66 years old coach, who was either hit/pushed/touched/punked/whatever by opposing player, you can go fishing straight away. You have no grit and character to even try to compete for a championship and it's not about this current Rockets team, which is great
So he gets a technical. Doesn't mean Griffin has the right to touch him, let alone "hit" him. And D'Antoni is not a dramatic guy. If he says he hit him, he more than touched him.
If he actually elbowed him like Chris Paul said D'Antoni told him, he should be Sprewelled. It's a different day and age and punishments for this kind of thing are likely to be way more severe than in the past. Or they definitely should be. Always so great to see you posting, Codman. You're such a gift to this community. And I'm fighting along with you. Late-stage, severe, chronic Lyme disease and the treatment of it has laid me low since I was diagnosed five years ago after being infected as a child almost 40 years prior. Not trying to compare situations but I feel your pain and I, like everyone here I'm sure, am rooting for you always.
Do not give importance to all this kind of stupidity. We need more fire and heart inside the court, not outside. We lost again with an absolutely mediocre team. That is what really matters.
No way he gets suspended. I have to say though, the relationship between the refs and players must be pretty much completely tarnished at this point. The calls and missed calls are so bad every night. The stuff they allow and don't allow changes so drastically on a nightly basis, it HAS to drive the players completely insane. Players are starting to take things into their own hands, and that is bad.
PJ Tucker. Bush league ****. Give them my new address guys. I can take Blake and definitely Rivers, no problem. SIL
No way? I can't remember did Jokic get suspended for hitting Brooks? Whatever that was, will be his punishment. SIL
It’s reaching to think Griffin was purposely trying to hit MDA with some sort of malicious intent right I front of the ref. You are a reasonable person, so I don’t know how you could possibly think that’s likely. Griffin can be annoying with some of his antics. That’s in line with him trying a maneuver that we know Kidd has done in the past, and sort of failing at executing it. All indications point to that: I don’t have a good angle to know for sure if he really elbowed him, or if it was lesser contact trying to bait the refs into calling a tech on MDA. If the latter, I’d still fully expect for MDA to complain about it, cause Griffin apparently altered his path to make that contact happen. Given that, we can only speculate as to what really happened there. I gave my rationale for what I think happened.
You’re better than this. It’s not being a homer to think that it was intentional. It was intentional.
