I take everything I take everything I've said about Dwight Howard back. I Tivo'd games 4 & 5 and after watching them:I see that my comments about Howard's elbows, the refs not calling techs and the Matt Barnes plays were unwarranted. I now undestand that:
1. The back of KG's head accidently swung into Dwight's elbow.
2. That Rondo, on his break away layup last night, swuing his entire body back up into Howard after Howard blocked his shot on the break away. I also realize that Rondo swung his head and shoulder up into the arms and elbows of Hoawrd on the exact same play.
3. Addendum to #3, I also now realise that everything that happens after you block someone's sho is ok. You are permitted to land completly on top of the opposing player while swinging your arms down on him as well.
4. That Baby swung his head into Dwight's elbows last night. Watch the play again...Howard did the same thing he did to KG twice in game 4. He knows where the player is and he swings his elbows in that direction while looking the other way. It is blatantly obvious. On the Play on baby, his left elbows game down much faster and harder than his right elbow and it was intentional.
5. I also now realise that Matt Barnes deserved no technical for driving KG out of bounds but that Perk does for something much less. In fact Perk deserves an ejection for helping Pierce up but Howard and Barnes deserve no techs for their hits on Pierce and KG respectively.
6. I now know that the refs are defiantley calling all the obvious calls that are so easy to call. I now understand and see what they see; that the Celtics players are recklessly swinging their heads into Howard's elbows throughout the course of this series and that is completely unacceptable.
I'll tell you two things.
1. Not having the sack and aggression to win game four at home, when you are one game away from the finals is enormously pathetic and completly unnacceptable. This is what you get when you let that happen.
2. If I'm in this series and one of the Celtics bigs? Howard is getting the following.
A) A broken nose and a gash opened up on his face from one of "my elbows".
B) I'm taking him out at the knees when he's up for one of his dunks but it will look like I stumbled on my own feet and careened to the floor when it's done
C) I'm taking a full and incredibly hard swing at his head while he's trying to dunk it. I will make no play at the ball but it will look like I am. The idea will be to hit him as hard as I possibly can directly in the nose and face. the intention will be to drawe blood or break his nose, a combination of both being preferable.
I-am-done with this guy. If the Refs aren't going to do it, I will. And you can do it if you knwo how to and get away with it. I've done it plenty of times when it was necessary.
Topic: I apologise for all my prior comments about Dwight Howard and the Refs (Read 5111 times)