robert horry of dirty spurs bodychecks steve nash
the way amare stoudemire has been booed in san antonio this week, youda thunk he called their fans nappy headed hos or something.
he didn’t say that. what stoudemire did say after game two, however, is that the spurs are a dirty team.
as if on cue, robert horry set out to prove him right.
With eighteen seconds left, the Suns were up by three points and Steve Nash was in possession of the ball. San Antonio forward Robert Horry, while attempting to stop the clock, body-checked Nash off the court and into the lower-padding of the scorers table. [source]
robert horry knows how to commit a foul without hurting someone. teams do it nearly every game, and robert horry has been playing in the NBA for 15 years. you foul by “reaching in” or “wrapping up.” bodychecks are for hockey. elbows are for football. but maybe “cheap shot rob” (who committed another hard foul earlier in the game) forgot he was playing basketball, the wussy sport.
after the hit, horry turned and strutted away like it was nothing. watch the video (the video player is at the top right of the page).
as far as other dirty spurs conduct, here is video of bowen’s slew-foot on stoudemire in game two. this guy links to video of several bruce bowen incidents.
say it now with me and amare (his post-game two statement is even more apropos now):
That’s a dirty play. I think the Spurs are a dirty team….I just hope the league takes a look at it and cleans the game up a little bit.
amen. it would be a tragedy if a cheap shot by a has-been like horry, a would-be like bowen, or a wanna-be like ginobili put a legitimate superstar out of the series with an injury.
horry should be suspended for the rest of the series.
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If I was Nash I would have kicked Horry where is nuts used to be. Horry is dirrrttty and he should be suspended!! Him, Parker and Duncan are the 3 biggest cry babies in the NBA. Somebody please cahnge their pampers and give the a pacifier!!!!
That really was stupid of Horry. Rather than putting an obvious bodycheck on Nash he should have resorted to the more subtle gut checks, cat claws, and jabs Barbosa was giving Parker all night that flew under the radar. By all accounts it was a physical game last night from both sides. I wouldn’t put it all on Horry just because his was the final blow.
no, don’t worry, i give bowen and manu credit for their cheap shots, too.
yeah, that’s kind of the point. have you ever played sports? it’s about what you can get away with. players try to get every advantage they can, but they have to have an eye for precision to stay within the lines the game’s referees establish and to stay away from taking cheap shots that could cause serious injury. you see every player in the NBA doing the little things. you see them touching the shooter in the gut after he lets fly a 3-pointer, for example, or you see guys grab each other while they set up to take an inbounds pass. it goes way over the line when a horry tries to injure somebody with a bodycheck or bowen tries to injure stoudemire by putting his foot in amare’s landing area, so he’ll roll his ankle. those things go too far beyond the ’subtle’ ones — they are dirty.
Unable to incite a lively debate about hockey, Travis has decided to blog about a sport that people actually care about: basketball. It’s a step in the right direction.
In any case, I wish all of you a merry time whining like 3 year-olds about a couple flagrant fouls in rather physical playoff games.
When Rick Mahorn and Bill Laimbeer get back in the league, then we can start talking about real dirty teams.
The problem with basketball is that it is too clean (read wussy). If someone had cheaposhotted Wayne Gretzky in the playoffs, it would have been about 3 seconds before Marty McSorely drew blood in a presumably unpleasant manner. Thus it ddn’t happen very often.
What Phoenix needs is an enforcer. A couple of jaw-jacks and Horry would reconsider taking cheap shots at a franchise player. Even baseball players (by all accounts the wussiest players on the planet) will step up to defend their own.
That said, basketball sucks anyway. If a sport considers a body check (and one that Nash could clearly watch develop, i.e. not from behind) to be a cheap shot, it is time to watch something else.
…but if the ref doesn’t see it, it’s clean.
doug, you’re projecting.
actually, i’m blogging about an NHL-caliber hip check. as nash said,
the reason i thought this was blog-worthy at all (notice i didn’t bother blogging about nash getting a knee in his crotch or stoudemire getting slew-footed when those incidents happened) was because someone had already raised the issue of the spurs being a dirty team. then robert horry shows up and gives us Exibit A Numero Uno.
that’s all.
and, mike, the reason the NBA is such a wussy game on the court is because it is practically a traveling war zone off it. remember what happened in las vegas during NBA all-star weekend? the players relish the protection they receive from the referees during the game; it’s practically the only time they don’t fear for their lives (not to mention the only time people in NBA cities can safely allow their daughters out of the house).
spurs = dirt