Lee
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I said exactly this in the JR thread..
Are you lost?
I said exactly this in the JR thread..
Are you lost?
I said exactly this in the JR thread. There's a reason that pundits have asserted that Mozgov and JR added "much-needed toughness" to the Cavs. I get not compromising the integrity of the game and playing it "the right way", but the Cavs, in particular LeBron, were victims of bully ball when opposing teams were unable to beat them straight-up.
The Cavs should come out this year with a chip on their shoulder...not only to avenge their shorthanded Finals loss but also Cleveland's place in the sports world for the past 50+ years. Just a little bit of nastiness would be the edge needed to make this team truly unstoppable.
Thanks, cheers!I have nothing to add but [B said:WELL SPOKEN![/B]
I know a lot of people disagree with what I'm about to say, but here goes anyhow. JR was the closest thing this team had to an enforcer last season. I was proud of him when he backhanded Crowder in the Boston series, the guy clearly had it coming and the refs were allowing Boston to openly foul the Cavs with no whistles or repercussions.
Then again against the Warriors, when JR plowed right over some of those picks by Green, I was proud of him because he alone was doing what should have been done by someone like TT or someone bigger than JR. JR alone knew that we were getting the short end of the stick against certain opponents. It's too bad his previous history made the penalties worse than they should have been, and I hope we have someone on the team who will take appropriate action when another team is bullying our players and the refs swallow their whistles.
I'm glad JR is back. That is all.
You can stick up for yourself and teammates without being a jackass and hurting your team by getting a critical penalty. Compare Perk's pick to J.R.'s punch. I'll guarantee that JR's teammates would have preferred him not to have thrown that punch and not get suspended. We were a shot away from going down 3-1 to the Bulls because of J.R.'s immaturity.
Never understood why some people equate obvious cheap shots that get you penalized with being tough. It's just being stupid. Particularly when the cheap shots for which a guy is retaliating often are intended to provoke a reaction to change the course of a game.
Crowder was baiting JR, and he took the bait. It's something Andy was a master at, and it paid off on the scoreboard when he could do it to someone volatile enough to commit an obvious penalty as a result.
You can stick up for yourself and teammates without being a jackass and hurting your team by getting a critical penalty. Compare Perk's pick to J.R.'s punch. I'll guarantee that JR's teammates would have preferred him not to have thrown that punch and not get suspended. We were a shot away from going down 3-1 to the Bulls because of J.R.'s immaturity.
Never understood why some people equate obvious cheap shots that get you penalized with being tough. It's just being stupid. Particularly when the cheap shots for which a guy is retaliating often are intended to provoke a reaction to change the course of a game.
Crowder was baiting JR, and he took the bait. It's something Andy was a master at, and it paid off on the scoreboard when he could do it to someone volatile enough to commit an obvious penalty as a result.
You'd have a great point, if you weren't so completely wrong. Perk didn't just set a pick on him?
He set a pick on, then punched him!
He should have been ejected, and suspended. It was a miracle he didn't.
JR get's a bad deal for that. Yes, it was stupid, but he lost his cool.
I think just about any other player in that situation, given what had already happen, would have done something similar. It just happen to be the notorious troublemaker JR, so it seems much worse.
But Perkins? Gimme a break, he was sent in there to act like a complete goon, nothing more.
I blame the refs more for not grabbing a hold of the situation when it was clear it was starting to escalate. It was a horrific officiated game, and a lot of this shit could have been avoided.
Wow, we really view him as a ticking time bomb.