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Matthew Dellavedova

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I went back and watched the highlights so far of all the games.

Delly is involved in some of the biggest moments whether it's putting a body on rose while LeBron blocks, or making a great lob (that one to Tristan last night was ON POINT), making the proper passes, and hitting some key shots.
 
I'd bet money that Delly will get that money back in one of his Australian off-shore accounts.
 
Delly ought to appeal on the fact that Gibson had been playing him dirty and he was afraid for the Dellevedova family jewels.

No additional punishment for Gibson?
 
The amount of stupidity on twitter on the Taj/Delly altercation is insufferable. Yes, Delly probably deserved that Tech. But, absolutely a kick deserves a flagrant 2. If Taj wants to avoid a flagrant 2, he pulls his leg in any other direction, instead he kicks towards Delly. You can't tell me there wasn't intent, and even if there wasn't intent, the end result speaks for itself.
 
So, the league lets Dunleavy's suspendable offense slide so he misses no time against the Cavs; gives the Bulls the benefit of a two day JR suspension (2 1/2 days total) for an incident not involving the Bulls, let's a Bulls player push a Cavs player without incident and allows a Bulls player to kick at a Cavs player without any suspension, is that it? Where's the Cleveland media coverage of this like the Chicago media reports all these stories about how the refs, etc. are favoring the Cavs (which is rather humerous)?
 
Refs will need to tighten up the physical play in the next game, and that benefits the Cavaliers. Chicago is built to be a bruising Thibs style team. Refs swallowing the whistles didn't help Kyrie or LeBron one bit. I can care less if they don't fine or suspend the Bulls as long as refs take some control in this series.
 
Randolphkeys said:
Refs will need to tighten up the physical play in the next game, and that benefits the Cavaliers. Chicago is built to be a bruising Thibs style team. Refs swallowing the whistles didn't help Kyrie or LeBron one bit. I can care less if they don't fine or suspend the Bulls as long as refs take some control in this series.
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That's a really good point, and particularly true if we get a lead. The Boston series was dirty pretty early on, but it got way out of hand in Game 4 because Boston had nothing to lose at that point. If we get a lead in Chicago, you can pretty much bet it'll start sliding into goon play if the Bulls get desperate.
 
Randolphkeys said:
Refs will need to tighten up the physical play in the next game, and that benefits the Cavaliers. Chicago is built to be a bruising Thibs style team. Refs swallowing the whistles didn't help Kyrie or LeBron one bit. I can care less if they don't fine or suspend the Bulls as long as refs take some control in this series.
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Lets hope. Refs didn't call any fouls on either team for the games in Chicago. Especially Game 3. It was outrageous.
 
Randolphkeys said:
Refs will need to tighten up the physical play in the next game, and that benefits the Cavaliers. Chicago is built to be a bruising Thibs style team. Refs swallowing the whistles didn't help Kyrie or LeBron one bit. I can care less if they don't fine or suspend the Bulls as long as refs take some control in this series.
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Are you sure?
 
What a joke all this national whining about Delly is. On the prior possession, Gibson about pushes Delly into the front row, then on the flagrant play Gibson nails Delly with a moving pick, then puts a forearm in his head (which imo was a dirty play from a guy who was frustrated and trying to create pain). For all the people saying that Gibson reacted to Delly, well wasn't Delly reacting to Gibson? Of course, if the officials had called ONE of these things a foul it might have never led to the flagrant. The fact that Gibson kept getting away with it led to the 'altercation.'
 
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I had spent the late 1980s hating Rick Mahorn. I have spent the next 25 years wishing the Cavaliers had a guy like him. Look up the youtube of Mahorn "pulling the chair" on Luc Longley. He used to do that stuff all the time. I have a love-hate relationship with Mahorn.
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Have to disagree with you on this one, Keys. In 1989, the Cavs were 43-12 and went to Detroit and Mahorn purposely injured Price. Price was having a tremendous year as the engine for that team, and he was never the same after that concussion. A team on pace to win 64 games was basically a .500 team the rest of the way, then a first round casualty to the infamous Shot. The Pistons knew their window was closing and were very concerned about that Cavs team. I remember Isiah Thomas (who was a punk) being interviewed before that game and saying that they had to do something about the Cavs. Well, they did.

I can appreciate a guy who gets under someone's skin with hard work, or someone like Perk who puts a hard screen on a clown like Crowder who the refs won't rein in, but I have zero respect for dirty play punks like Mahorn and Laimbeer. If it were up to me Mahorn would've been suspended the rest of the year for that cheap shot on Price. The Cavs that year went from a title contender to a first-round knockout. It's really pathetic that those dirtbags are lauded as the Bad Boys. I hated the Jordan Bulls but respect what they did... they were the class of the 90s (alhough Jordan got too many calls), but I have no respect for those Pistons teams because of Mahorn, Laimbeer, and to a lesser extent Thomas. Players like Mahorn don't belong in the NBA.
 
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I agree with what you've said @Taiter , but putting your hands to the neck of another player doesn't fit the definition of a hard screen. That's something his wife probably did to him earlier today.
 
Delly got a technical on the leg lock, announced today. Damn shame, this league reacts to public reactions too much
 
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