This must be one of those " I am going to say something absurd, to get a lot of replies" posts....? If the Celtics are so dirty, how is it that every other team we have played in this years playoffs, only our guys have been getting thrown around, and somewhat hurt. You said KG threw the elbow in that scrum...but you didn't say that PP was pushed into that bench first, just flat out pushed, in front of the ref....annnndddd, no call, no review..! Is that legal or clean play...? Look at all the hands on KG during that altercation, and that wasn't basketball, that was a player protecting a player while he was down, at the feet of the other team.
You might not watch a lot of bball, and probably haven't played much either, but what orlando is doing, are professionaly dirty plays, you see, what you do is the original foul, is average, you might get the ball, but the follow thru is the pro hack part, see the ref called it already, the play is done, now the hacker follows thru with a throw down, arm bar, continuation. Or in getting position, you run down the court and slam into the guy...who is "already" in position....
The list is endless. The Celtics really don't do this because they don't have young or muscle players, they really can't survive the constant impact as well.
I think the rep may come from Bird era teams, when the league was different, and we played East Coast ball, with the likes of Detroit, and the rest of the East, who were very physical, but all East coast teams were, and the West really wasn't.
That elbow damage from Dwight is too obvious, and constant. Now his injured list is up there with his assists. Watch how he runs down the court and rails into players, drops his shoulder to drive in the post, and throws his padded elbows all the time. That isn't basketball, and in the Bird era, he'd get a reponse that he couldn't handle.....!
Topic: Can we stop all the dirty player threads? (Read 6170 times)