Booker Suspended 1 Game.

[addictionary]

If this team is relying on Booker in the postseason then it's going to be a short one.

If you don't need him, why pay him? Why consider as teammate?

This is a team game and every player affects others good or bad. If you think this boosts up chemistry and is needed for good chemistry, trying picking up fights all the time and we shall see if the chemistry stays.

 

[fishonjazz]

If this team is relying on Booker in the postseason then it's going to be a short one.

They will rely on him in the postseason. He is the first big off the bench and probably our 7th best player so we will definitely need his production...... Unless favors and Gobert can play 48 minutes per game.

 

[Farmer.Tan]

Totally worth it.

 

[gregbroncs]

Players can be a bitch to you. It doesn't mean that you should bitchslap them and leave your team alone. Being tough minded is important. Trying to be tough and act like a boxer on court means weakness in nerves and weakness in nerves will not help in postseason.

Allowing someone to punk you and walk over and push you is being a bitch. I would have preferred if Booker had pushed Hibbert then went after him without the slap. At that point Hibbert would have been seen as 100% at fault and all punishments would likely have gone his way. The bitch slap while deserved actually took the blame off of Hibbert. That said if I'm hot like Booker was, and some little bitch gets in my face he's getting punched, so I really can't blame Booker for the reaction.

 

[addictionary]

Allowing someone to punk you and walk over and push you is being a bitch. I would have preferred if Booker had pushed Hibbert then went after him without the slap. At that point Hibbert would have been seen as 100% at fault and all punishments would likely have gone his way. The bitch slap while deserved actually took the blame off of Hibbert. That said if I'm hot like Booker was, and some little bitch gets in my face he's getting punched, so I really can't blame Booker for the reaction.

Nothing wrong with toughing up a lil' bit. Let's just not make a habit out of it. I fear that Booker has the base to become a basketball court boxer. It will be fun to watch. Most people like to watch fights they are not in. But it won't help.

 

[Jamezz]

Hibbert should get a game too. He's who instigated it, you don't walk into a man's space like that and bump in the chest. That's asking for trouble right there.

 

[Engorged On Unborn Gore]

Booker didn't get into any serious altercations during the regular season last year did he? All I remember was the near-fight with Griffin in the pre-season.

Does anyone here seriously expect Booker to lose it in the playoffs? I think he is much more measured than he is being given credit for.

Who knows. Perhaps he wanted to convince the league that he and the Jazz are not to be messed with, but the unintended consequence is that some fans assume he is a "reckless" angry dude.

 

[Engorged On Unborn Gore]

Booker didn't get into any serious altercations during the regular season last year did he? All I remember was the near-fight with Griffin in the pre-season.

Does anyone here seriously expect Booker to lose it in the playoffs? I think he is much more measured than he is being given credit for.

Who knows. Perhaps he wanted to convince the league that he and the Jazz are not to be messed with, but the unintended consequence is that some fans assume he is a "reckless" angry dude.

 

[Jamezz]

Booker didn't get into any serious altercations during the regular season last year did he? All I remember was the near-fight with Griffin in the pre-season.

Does anyone here seriously expect Booker to lose it in the playoffs? I think he is much more measured than he is being given credit for.

Who knows. Perhaps he wanted to convince the league that he and the Jazz are not to be messed with, but the unintended consequence is that some fans assume he is a "reckless" angry dude.

I like both your posts, equally.

 

[LjJazzman]

I'm shocked he only got one game, shocked. Like a lot of people I thought it would be 3+ for sure. I love Booker more and more each game.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

I'm shocked he only got one game, shocked. Like a lot of people I thought it would be 3+ for sure. I love Booker more and more each game.

I was shocked too. I really like the NBA under Adam Silver. I think they took Hibbert's bitchness into account. They don't want that fake tough guy stuff either I guess. He did walk all the way over to the court to chest Booker... as a man if another dude did that to me he is getting the closed fist on the jaw. Different circumstances I get it, but he showed some control by keeping the hand open... it was appropriate force to get the guy out of his face.

 

[NAOS]

I was shocked too. I really like the NBA under Adam Silver. I think they took Hibbert's bitchness into account. They don't want that fake tough guy stuff either I guess. He did walk all the way over to the court to chest Booker... as a man if another dude did that to me he is getting the closed fist on the jaw. Different circumstances I get it, but he showed some control by keeping the hand open... it was appropriate force to get the guy out of his face.

this. entirely.