For all his upright play/behavior following the trade to Cleveland, JR threw it all away with that punch.
Love was already gone with an injury and Perkins had retaliated on Crowder.
Have any of you ever seen an NBA player swing his arm back toward another player as violently as JR without it being intentional? Cherry on top was the closed fist.
As to not going for the head shot, when an opponent is
riding your back with his arm on your back/head, you have a pretty good idea where the head will be found.
We saw a tip on the old JR earlier in the series with the jersey tuck mock at the refs.
When you have a time bomb, odds are it will eventually go off. And it this case, the explosion comes at a meaningless moment in the game against a team only minutes from elimination.
Childish behavior in a mans' game.
Why be so anxious to make excuses for a player willingly jeopardizing the teams'
playoff chances?