Comments on: The “Violence Against Blake Griffin” situation

By: progress2011

progress2011 — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 05:19:11 +0000

hoopshort – Ummmm….in case you didn’t know, the era of physical play you refer to was about 20 years ago !

The NBA and the NFL have implemented many new standards to protect players better.

Ex-players of the NFL have a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the NFL for negligence and lack of providing adequate protection to players.

No body is sucking it up, physically anymore because it destroys their life after their career is over. Many of the ex-NBA players can barely walk.

I understand if that is just caused by years of running on the hardwoods. But if it’s caused by a physical assault and the league doesn’t protect the player, I believe players should take offenders ( like Smith ) to court for assault and battery.

That will stop the unskilled, worthless thugs like Smith from taking bounties, if he has to give it all back in a lawsuit.

By: hoopshort

hoopshort — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 04:43:57 +0000

Its nothing new, remember what Jordan had to go through? Pistons, Celtics everyone had it out for him. They would ruff up Pippen cause they new he was soft in the early years and he would disappear in the game. All star players on their teams go through this. Clippers complain on every foul nowadays and Blake’s not the cleaniest player either, he hands out some elbows and shots himself..Suck it up and ball.

By: kingufr

kingufr — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 23:17:23 +0000

I have no problem with a hard foul, but there is a way to do it that does not look like you aer attempting to injure anyone…reach across and wrap him up or something. That looked like a safety trying to separate the ball from a receiver.

By: slipperyjohnson

slipperyjohnson — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 20:52:22 +0000

Blake needs to understand that it comes with the territory he’s created…..if all he’s gonna try to do is dunk on people, stare them down and humiliate them, he should know that grown men aren’t gonna be down with that and are gonna do whatever it takes to make sure they’re not on a poster.

By: researchmaterial

researchmaterial — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 19:07:12 +0000

Full of opinion and no fact. Smith acted without class. This is professional basketball, not a backyard game against your brother. Griffin certainly is not asking to be slammed.

By: ufullpj

ufullpj — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 13:01:18 +0000

Let’s be clear – the Jason Smith foul was ridiculous and uncalled for. That being said, Blake Griffin’s showboating, show-up-the-opponent style on every dunk is uncalled for. If this was baseball – and he was showing up the pitcher after every home run, he’d be drilled consistently and we’d all say “it’s part of the game”. Well, this is as well. If he’s going to go to the rack hard in an effort to score and then show me up, I’m going to hard after the ball to try and stop him. I’m not going to try and hurt him, and I’m not even going to try and foul him – but I am going to play mind games with him (especially with Griffin, as it’s a weakness for him) and both aggressively challenge him and also look to take the charge. It’s not Griffin’s dunking that makes players want to knock him on ass, it’s his B.S., bush league, cowardly showing-up of the opponent reaction to his dunks that is.

By: losangelasbasketball

losangelasbasketball — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 05:52:24 +0000

“eff it…i’m just gonna dunk it and see what happens”
If anybody here had blake’s athleticism and was drafted by a historically irrelevant franchise like the clippers… “eff it…i’m just gonna dunk” is what you probably would be saying too…

By: cheers4ablumpkin

cheers4ablumpkin — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 04:20:03 +0000

On*.

By: kingufr

kingufr — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 02:27:58 +0000

If the league does not get serious about this, they may soon become the NHL…or the late 80′s early 90′s NBA…2 enforcers minimum on every team, “streetball” justice(you hit one of mine, I send one of yours to IR), and scores in the 70′s every night…remember how much fun those Knicks-Pistons games were to watch?

By: atom665

atom665 — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 00:35:25 +0000

BG is a one trick pony. A mediocre player who can jump. Doesn’t help that he couldn’t throw an elementary school off a building and not hit the ground. Harold Miner 2.0.

By: cheers4ablumpkin

cheers4ablumpkin — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 23:40:50 +0000

He’s got a bounty in him.

By: p1nch3dloaf

p1nch3dloaf — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 23:05:41 +0000

Blake should do commercials for bumper cars.

By: sweetnlow44

sweetnlow44 — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:32:33 +0000

The NBA is a joke and needs to quit protecting egomaniacs like Griffin. They made a joke of the dunk contest last year because they rigged it for him to win. Pathetic.

By: dmcannon99

dmcannon99 — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 21:36:32 +0000

Good luck during the Olympics, pal.

And no, that is NOT basketball today. As soon as some punk pulls a blindside on your favorite player and puts him in a wheelchair for life, then we’ll see how happy you are with players pulling this garbage.

Two days for this clown were not enough. Especially with his actions AFTER the punk foul. His apology was garbage as well. If he HAD been sorry, he would not have tried to incite the crowd afterwords. Nice cheering by the fans in NO, by the way. Would they have given a standing O if Griffin had been taken out on a stretcher? Guess we have a better understanding of why the Saints did what they did…

By: dmcannon99

dmcannon99 — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 21:27:41 +0000

Lots of Griffin haters on here…

How many of you would have been able to get back up and finish out the game after being blindsided by the now-suspended Smith? And you might want to take another look at the foul if you think he was only “run into” as one poster stated earlier. The hit is here for all to see and making statements like that makes you look more than a little prejudiced against Griffin.

Does Howard get fouled hard? Yep. Did Shaq get beat up? Yep. Does that make an out-and-out tackle on Griffin OK? Who are you kidding.

You wanna see this crap, there are any number of other sports available for you. It does not belong in BB, no matter who the target is.

By: gcbball3

gcbball3 — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 21:20:52 +0000

just wait, blakes is improving game in and game out. as soon as his jumper gets a little better he will be unguardable. just because it looks like a player is whining it doesnt mean they always are, yea if u get fouled u want the refs to know about it. but most guys ask the refs to watch for this or that next play. some of you haters need to stop posting till u better understnd the game of basketball mentally and physically. and for all of you who have nothing better to do then dog on the writers. get a life come on

By: gcbball3

gcbball3 — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 21:17:28 +0000

that is not basketball fool, this isnt the street or better yet prison ball, as a former college basketball player, just getting caught with an unexpected hard screen the wrong way can do serious damage. night train do everyone a favor and sthu you loser. go watch some football if u wanna see that crap

By: eureca323

eureca323 — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 21:03:33 +0000

Doesn’t rub it in? He will stare right at you and laugh after a dunk. After one of his teammates dunked on Smith last night you can see Blake talking smack right to Smith. Which probably played a part in the foul Smith put on him. Im not saying he deserves a foul like that, but he definitely rubs it in and expect hard fouls in general when you try to get under peoples skin like Blake does. Blake also gets under peoples skin by pushing, elbowing and bumping people all game he definitely gets away with his fair share of fouls on his end.

Also in general expect hard fouls when you go to the rim so aggressively and are such a horrible free throw shooter. People are gonna want to put you on the line and when you are going 100 miles per hour its not always gonna be pleasant.

The Smith foul though was out of line it wasn’t to prevent a bucket or put Blake on the line it was to hurt Blake. If Smith wanted to put him on the line wrap him up don’t tackle someone on the basketball court.

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 20:47:59 +0000

and yet no websites come to him public defense about how it needs to be changed.

By: cakemixa

cakemixa — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 20:36:58 +0000

Blake is the most one-dimensional “star” I’ve ever seen.

By: charlutes

charlutes — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 20:18:59 +0000

Matt Moore writes essays, not blogs. I now just read the first few paragraphs and assume he will ramble on incoherently from there. Someone reel this guy in.

By: cowboysnlakers

cowboysnlakers — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 19:36:47 +0000

If I played against him, his faking would annoy the crap out of me more than the posterizing. No one like a whiny cry baby and that’s exactly what he is.

By: shutupyoufuckingidiots

shutupyoufuckingidiots — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:47:11 +0000

Rubio is a smaller player that other players want to dominate, that’s Rubio being weaksauce. The reason they’re complaining for Blake is because of fouls like the one you saw, not making a play on the ball, a foul out of sheer frustration. That’s not sportsmanlike, that’s cowardice and being a little fucking brat.

By: loyalpanthersfan

loyalpanthersfan — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:45:40 +0000

So u see dwight howard get fouled as hard as blake, maybe as often because he can’t hit free throws N I believe I’ve seen dwight crying a few times getting T’d up

By: shutupyoufuckingidiots

shutupyoufuckingidiots — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:43:10 +0000

What’s your point? they should have traded for dwight because griffin is getting fouled hard all the time? Even if they needed dwight howard your argument for why would be the stupidest fucking argument i’ve ever seen.

By: lakerade

lakerade — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:40:57 +0000

Or shaq, he used to get abused as well in that defenders committed fouls on him that made no attempt to play the ball, they just hacked at his arms or shoved him. The difference? Shaq knew his was a power game and was giving as good as he was getting, so he played through it, not to mention diversified his game so it was just bullrushing for dunks. If it’s too much, Blake, don’t barrel into guys or blow guys up when you’re boxing out, use your physique more judiciously like lebron, who will dip the shoulder to get a step on his drives, but wont just hammer someone simply to exert his strength. In other words, develop your game more.

By: aventador12

aventador12 — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:37:54 +0000

No basketball player needs to be treated and fouled like that. That was clearly intentional by that player and it can mean only of either two things. One, he knew that sooner or later, he’s probably gonna be dunked-on and be an embarrassing highlight that will be forever remembered so he figured to just do that idiotic move on Griffin so at least he can take solace on that and not be the bed-end receiver. Or Two, he just envies what Griffin as a whole was and knows that he’s not even close to his stardom. Plain and simple. That was reckless, immature, and simply unprofessional.

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:13:46 +0000

Dwight Howard

By: perryplayer1

perryplayer1 — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:09:09 +0000

hahahah still love that video!!!

By: loyalpanthersfan

loyalpanthersfan — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:47:20 +0000

I’m not saying hes a saint but does any bball player deserve to get fouled like that?