Re: Thug wanted

["Dan Forant" <dforant1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I saw the game televised. It didn't look flagrant to me, but there was no
call. This was the culmination of bad calls prior that set the stage for an
ugly situation. I give the Celtic fans attending credit for not loosing
their cool. They did let the refs hear it.

DanF


----- Original Message -----
From: "James A. Hill" <jahill@leasingservice.com>
To: "Celtics (E-mail)" <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 1:16 PM
Subject: Re: Thug wanted


> I did not get to see the actual game.  I did get to see the "hit" that
> Stoudamire put on Pierce three or four times in replay though.
>
> I do not think that it was a "head hunting" type of hit.  An overly
> aggressive attempt to block the shot, yes.  A dangerous play by a
> just-out-of-high school man-child, absolutely.
>
> A hard foul?  Even my dogs could see that.  (Not referring to you guys,
> Snoop and Lappy)
>
> But it did not look like a purposeful cheap shot that was intended to hurt
> someone, to me.
>
> The Suns coach stated that he may have gotten in a fight if it was his
> player that was hit.  I'll bet Stoudamire will be sat down and talked
> strongly to about his poor judgment by his coach.
>
> It's the ref's who created the injury with their payback for Battie's
> indiscretion.
>
> I hope Pierce sue's them for endangerment.  I'm waiting for Johnny Cochran
> to pop up any moment.....
>
> <Jim
>
> ***********************************************************************
> Peter opined:
>
> Couldn't help thinking that if another player -
> ESPECIALLY a rookie fresh outta high school -
> clobbered Kidd or Iverson, somebody on the offended
> club would have made him pay for it. Where was the
> Celtic delivering a hard retaliatory foul? With no
> Vitaly or Fortson, there's not an obvious candidate -
> Sundov would probably throw out his back or something
> - but SOMEBODY, E-Will or even Walker, should have
> decked Stoudamire later in the game or given him a
> nice hard elbow in the chops or ribs. I'm not saying
> injure the guy, but you send a message that this is
> OUR house and we protect our own if the refs won't.
> That used to be the way the game was played.