Isn’t it funny how the “toughest” players on the court are so thin-skinned off of it?That might be the most charmin soft overreaction in sports history.
Isn’t it funny how the “toughest” players on the court are so thin-skinned off of it?That might be the most charmin soft overreaction in sports history.
You're too small!Isn’t it funny how the “toughest” players on the court are so thin-skinned off of it?
Of course they shouldn't. Who's saying otherwise.My wacky opinion is that players should not whip balls at fans.
Brad/front office really nailed it in terms of spending firsts on quality veteran role players.MIL's DRtg for the series was 119.4. Players who were worse than that:
Lopez: 125.3 (NetRtg = -10.7)
Dame: 124.8 (NetRtg = -13.8)
Crowder: 123.3 (NetRtg = -25.7)
PatBev: 121.6 (NetRtg = -1.5)
Gallinari: 120.3 (NetRtg = +1.8)
Beasley was at 119.4 (NetRtg = -15.7).
Bobby Portis was +7.7 Net and Middleton was +0.9.
Bobby Marks said on Lowe's podcast that teams end realizing that playing the "veteran supporting player" roulette is no way to build a team. The team keeps signing three or four veterans and maybe one hits but the other three are net negatives and then they have to sign 3-4 more veterans and it's super hard to keep trying to build a team like this.
Griffin was right in one respect - trying to developer Jackson and Beauchamp and Green would have been the best way to proceed.
This is exactly what a fake Shams account would tweet, yet somehow it’s real?View: https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1786448673590624326
Lol. Man, brutal stuff there, can't believe he didn't jump right into the stands with these over the line interactions
You wrote "A bunch of fans who can afford to sit two rows from the court and decide to heckle the opponents' bench got a ball thrown relatively harmlessly in their direction. Nobody went into the stands. Jeez." this morning.Of course they shouldn't. Who's saying otherwise.
I also wrote "Dude needs a lengthy suspension, no doubt. I'm not defending him. Personally I hate his game and think that the basketball-loving world would be better off with his poor play safely sequestered in China or Sokovia B or maybe some 3-man pro-am league. And it's bad business for players to angrily interact with the paying customers."You wrote "A bunch of fans who can afford to sit two rows from the court and decide to heckle the opponents' bench got a ball thrown relatively harmlessly in their direction. Nobody went into the stands. Jeez." this morning.
The "got a ball thrown relatively harmlessly in their direction." line may have not reflected your actual viewpoint. I saw nothing harmless in what he did, but appreciate that we at times write quick and don't perfectly express what's going on in our noggin.Not sure how one interprets that as "jimbo is ok with Pat throwing balls at fans"..
Fair enough. What I meant was that nobody was injuried or imo likely to be seriously injured. The woman who was hit actually laughed. The severity of the violation matters to me as to suspension length or an outright ban. Climbing into the stands and punching people is a different level.The "got a ball thrown relatively harmlessly in their direction." line may have not reflected your actual viewpoint. I saw nothing harmless in what he did, but appreciate that we at times write quick and don't perfectly express what's going on in our noggin.
Chucking the ball into the stands twice over a Cancun heckle? Pat Bev will have plenty of extra beach time in Cancun in October and November if he’s even in the league next year.View: https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1786448673590624326
Lol. Man, brutal stuff there, can't believe he didn't jump right into the stands with these over the line interactions
Cancun, Cancun on 3 is far, far better than anything I thought of, dammit.To me, the most likely thing was he and the fan had been trashtalking all game, he lost the game, the fan basically had the "last word", and the Bev chucked the ball because he didn't have a rebuttal for "loooooser". Hence the general nonchalance of his teammates to the fan, etc and the laughter of other fans because there was no better thing than "sore loser Bev".
Seems a lot worse for him than any suspension.
Everybody wins, he was terrible. Not quite as bad as Perk (who has turned into the worst kind of hot take artist), but his opinions were lazy and unthoughtful. His own podcast is a much better platform for him.
Charles Barkley?Typically if a fan is thrown out of a game for crossing the line in their verbal abuse they are then banned from the arena for a certain period of time. Why don’t they just ban Patrick Beverley from the arena for a year?
BTW we should consider inviting the guy who came up with “Cancun on three” to join the forum.
There is a world where they are both wrongSuggestions that the fan was probably more at fault have a pretty steep hill to climb, I think.
Even Robin Ficker had to stop heckling. Todays players couldn’t handle him.How about the poor woman who could have had her nose broken because PatBev missed his intended target? Dude needs a long suspension. If the other fan was being vulger or racial that needs to be addressed too, but NBA players have gotten soft as puppy poo when it comes to run of the mill heckling from opposing fans. And as said above, it's rich coming from a notorious shit talker like PatBev. Belt to ass, my ass.
No kidding. Speaking of which, love the ESPN ban on PatBev, as that'll hurt an ego driven bully far more a fine. Be a fine precedent for TNT and Draymond.Isn’t it funny how the “toughest” players on the court are so thin-skinned off of it?
This is savage. I normally don't get much out of one person ripping on another, but this was done in a way that's genuinely not mean-spirited and lights up a dude who absolutely deserves it. Pretty great monologue.
fyi the espn ban was fake news.No kidding. Speaking of which, love the ESPN ban on PatBev, as that'll hurt an ego driven bully far more a fine. Be a fine precedent for TNT and Draymond.
Pat Bev absolutely deserves it.This is savage. I normally don't get much out of one person ripping on another, but this was done in a way that's genuinely not mean-spirited and lights up a dude who absolutely deserves it. Pretty great monologue.