Posted by franco12:
I don't get this- so many here pine for the knicks of the 90s and mardy gives a hard masonesque foul to prevent a break away slam and a brawl ensues- the denver player should have just taken his free throws.
the team is bad- but I applaud mardy for wanting to do something to intimadate the opposing team. I wish marbury would show that kind of bravado.
First off, it was a bad foul, way worse than the one shown on Wade in some thread or another (in the one on Wade it looked to me like they were actually playing the ball and it was just that he was up so high that he fell so far. This one by Mardy was an around the neck takedown.) But that having been said, if Mardy had done the same foul in say the second quarter, when it might have had some meaning, I'd have been more supportive of it. But with a minute or so to go in a blow out, it just reeks of sore losing.
And then that having been said, I was okay with the way that Mardy and JR were handling the situation (essentially a staredown) until Special Nate came in to inflame and escalate. Each team's players should have restrained their fellow teammates, but Nate became an affront on top of the existing scene, and that was a big problem. The fracas between JR and Nate created the unsettled fracas that allowed Melo to sneak in and out.
That's not to excuse Melo, he was by far the worst offender. But the bad foul, and the additional irritation that Nate caused, were the instigating factors to the whole affair.
