Isn’t it funny how the “toughest” players on the court are so thin-skinned off of it?
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Brad/front office really nailed it in terms of spending firsts on quality veteran role players.
This is exactly what a fake Shams account would tweet, yet somehow it’s real?
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.
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."
Not sure how one interprets that as "jimbo is ok with Pat throwing balls at fans".
There were calls in this thread for the guy to be thrown out of the league, and I was calling that reaction to what actually occurred an overreaction.
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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.
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.
That said, dude should be punished heavily for what he did, whether somewhat was hurt or not. If I were the discipline guy, I'd have to consider prior cases of course, but 10-20 games seems reasonable. The league doesn't want this. Maybe the next guy thinks twice (and maybe the next guy has better than 52% true shooting and actually hurts someone).
LOVE Cancun on 3. Brilliant.
Not surprised it was that benign. These days, players have fans removed from the arena when they cross the line. Pat Bev's Twitter claim that the situation had been brewing all night and that the players had asked for help (presumably from security) doesn't make any sense. If the players wanted the fans gone, they would have been gone. (And then there's the fact that Giannis was apologizing afterwards -- why do that if the fans had been asshats from opening tip?)
Not surprised it was that benign. These days, players have fans removed from the arena when they cross the line. Pat Bev's Twitter claim that the situation had been brewing all night and that the players had asked for help (presumably from security) doesn't make any sense. If the players wanted the fans gone, they would have been gone. (And then there's the fact that Giannis was apologizing afterwards -- why do that if the fans had been asshats from opening tip?)
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.
If he does not come back, Pat Bev's NBA career ending with a tantrum caused by some benign (but clever) trolling and a suspension he will never serve after a first round exit *feels* right. I imagine he does, but it would be pretty funny.
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.
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.
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 wrong
Even Robin Ficker had to stop heckling. Todays players couldn’t handle him.
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.
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.