Come on now. JJ's listed at 6'0".
Serge Ibaka
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Come on now. JJ's listed at 6'0".
Hartsock
Banned
5'8"
5'9" at best. There's no way he's much taller than I am, which is 5'8".
MoreFeasts
Member
I don't like what Griffin gets away with sometimes (like many others) , but to support Ibaka here is stupid and revolting. (you know who you are.) Should be an automatic suspension, and more than one game I would think. It's really strange and weird that there is any question about it. Racalism perhaps?
UGLI baby
Well-Known Member
Serge has my support on this initiative 100%
HH needs to open an investigation.
MoreFeasts
Member
Why? Something is wrong with you people.
UGLI baby
Well-Known Member
What do you mean, "you people" ?
MoreFeasts
Member
What do you think I mean?
What do you think he thinks you mean?
MoreFeasts
Member
I don't know.
How can anyone support Ibaka's actions. It is indefensible. Something is wrong with you people.
How can anyone support Ibaka's actions. It is indefensible. Something is wrong with you people.
MoreFeasts
Member
and that goes for the league brass too.
MoreFeasts
Member
What up doe?
I'm still waiting for any of the crotch violence advocates to justify their statements.
Is this behavior acceptable for everyone, or is their something special about Ibaka that allows him to just go around punching people in the nuts whenever he feels like it?
I'm still waiting for any of the crotch violence advocates to justify their statements.
Is this behavior acceptable for everyone, or is their something special about Ibaka that allows him to just go around punching people in the nuts whenever he feels like it?
From ESPN's Weekend Dime:
"5. Western Conference
The question has nagged at a lot of us all week: How on Earth did Serge Ibaka avoid a one-game suspension for swinging down into Blake Griffin's crotch on national TV?
I can't remember a disciplinary decision from the league office that triggered so much commentary from active players on Twitter -- most notably from LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Blake Griffin himself -- but we now have an answer.
Some checking with the league office this week revealed that Stu Jackson & Co. deemed Ibaka's contact with Griffin's, uh, groin area to be unintentional. The league view, I'm told, is that Ibaka was slapping at an arm that Griffin unexpectedly pulled away, leading to the painful connection and thus distinguishing the play from the "groin altercations" that earned Wade and DeMarcus Cousins suspensions earlier this season.
My view is that Ibaka unequivocally should have been suspended for a game anyway, because when you swing that hard -- no matter what you are aiming at -- you have to be accountable for the final outcome. When a defender tries to make a hard play on the ball and winds up connecting with a driver's head, there are consequences. Same thing here.
Yet you can, when armed with the league's logic in this case, at least understand how it arrived at the notion that what Ibaka did -- as part of multiple attempts to move Griffin's arm -- differs from Cousins' infamous swipe at O.J. Mayo's crotch or Wade's kick at Ramon Sessions' crotch. As hard as it will always be in any sport to try to judge intent, Cousins and Wade can't really suggest they were doing anything but trying to dole out a shot to the groin. Neither quite wound up as wildly as Nicolas Batum on Juan Carlos Navarro at the Olympics, but it's pretty clear where they were aiming.
(An aside: Imagine what sort of player tweets would have been flying around if Twitter was this popular in 2007 when Amar'e Stoudemire bolted off the Phoenix bench in that fateful series against San Antonio.) "
"5. Western Conference
The question has nagged at a lot of us all week: How on Earth did Serge Ibaka avoid a one-game suspension for swinging down into Blake Griffin's crotch on national TV?
I can't remember a disciplinary decision from the league office that triggered so much commentary from active players on Twitter -- most notably from LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Blake Griffin himself -- but we now have an answer.
Some checking with the league office this week revealed that Stu Jackson & Co. deemed Ibaka's contact with Griffin's, uh, groin area to be unintentional. The league view, I'm told, is that Ibaka was slapping at an arm that Griffin unexpectedly pulled away, leading to the painful connection and thus distinguishing the play from the "groin altercations" that earned Wade and DeMarcus Cousins suspensions earlier this season.
My view is that Ibaka unequivocally should have been suspended for a game anyway, because when you swing that hard -- no matter what you are aiming at -- you have to be accountable for the final outcome. When a defender tries to make a hard play on the ball and winds up connecting with a driver's head, there are consequences. Same thing here.
Yet you can, when armed with the league's logic in this case, at least understand how it arrived at the notion that what Ibaka did -- as part of multiple attempts to move Griffin's arm -- differs from Cousins' infamous swipe at O.J. Mayo's crotch or Wade's kick at Ramon Sessions' crotch. As hard as it will always be in any sport to try to judge intent, Cousins and Wade can't really suggest they were doing anything but trying to dole out a shot to the groin. Neither quite wound up as wildly as Nicolas Batum on Juan Carlos Navarro at the Olympics, but it's pretty clear where they were aiming.
(An aside: Imagine what sort of player tweets would have been flying around if Twitter was this popular in 2007 when Amar'e Stoudemire bolted off the Phoenix bench in that fateful series against San Antonio.) "