Game Thread 2017 WCF series - Spurs vs Warriors

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Golden State playing only as hard as needed to win by 6.
 
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The idea that Pachulia intentionally set out to injure Leonard is silly, in my opinion. He's not even looking at where he placed his foot--he's watching the shot as Leonard comes down. The idea that he could, with surgical precision, place his foot perfectly so that Leonard's left foot would land on it and roll--without even looking to try to line it up--is fantastical. Even if a player tried to do that and was putting all his focus into it, it would be hard to position his foot perfectly.

Also, if it's that easy to re-injure a player, why would Pachulia only carry it out mid-third quarter?

Also interesting: no one on the Spurs bench reacts with any type of anger. You'd think a move clearly designed to re-injure their best player would elicit some reactions.

It was just bad luck on a basketball play that happens thousands of times.

 
Who said Zaza was trying to intentionally hurt Leonard. Did I miss someone's post?
 
Minstrel said:
The idea that Pachulia intentionally set out to injure Leonard is silly, in my opinion. He's not even looking at where he placed his foot--he's watching the shot as Leonard comes down. The idea that he could, with surgical precision, place his foot perfectly so that Leonard's left foot would land on it and roll--without even looking to try to line it up--is fantastical. Even if a player tried to do that and was putting all his focus into it, it would be hard to position his foot perfectly.

Also, if it's that easy to re-injure a player, why would Pachulia only carry it out mid-third quarter?

Also interesting: no one on the Spurs bench reacts with any type of anger. You'd think a move clearly designed to re-injure their best player would elicit some reactions.

It was just bad luck on a basketball play that happens thousands of times.

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I don't think he was intentionally trying to hurt Leonard on that play, but I do believe he intentionally was trying to crowd him and move into his landing space. Now how you want to interpret If that means he intentionally hurt him, I don't know, but I definitely think he meant to take his landing space away.
 
TBpup said:
Who said Zaza was trying to intentionally hurt Leonard. Did I miss someone's post?
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Yeah, a couple of posts explicitly said that, a couple of other posts strongly implied it.
 
trailblazer18 said:
I don't think he was intentionally trying to hurt Leonard on that play, but I do believe he intentionally was trying to crowd him and move into his landing space. Now how you want to interpret If that means he intentionally hurt him, I don't know, but I definitely think he meant to take his landing space away.
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I think he was trying to crowd him. "Intentionally take away his landing space," I don't know. To me, it just looked like he lunged out on a contest. I agree with the foul call because his foot did end up under the shooter and it doesn't matter whether you meant to create contact or not when it comes to fouls, but it looked unintentional to me--that is to say, it didn't look like Pachulia did anything unusual. It was just bad luck where his foot ended up (IMO).
 
Minstrel said:
The idea that Pachulia intentionally set out to injure Leonard is silly, in my opinion. He's not even looking at where he placed his foot--he's watching the shot as Leonard comes down. The idea that he could, with surgical precision, place his foot perfectly so that Leonard's left foot would land on it and roll--without even looking to try to line it up--is fantastical. Even if a player tried to do that and was putting all his focus into it, it would be hard to position his foot perfectly.

Also, if it's that easy to re-injure a player, why would Pachulia only carry it out mid-third quarter?

Also interesting: no one on the Spurs bench reacts with any type of anger. You'd think a move clearly designed to re-injure their best player would elicit some reactions.

It was just bad luck on a basketball play that happens thousands of times.

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Respectfully, I'm not sure you're right. Zaza did indeed not look down. But, if you're a dirty player (and I'm not saying Zaza is one of those), you just keep stepping under a player and 1 out of 10 you'll get lucky and injure a guy... and since, it only happens 1 out of 10, you don't look dirty.
 
Minstrel said:
The idea that Pachulia intentionally set out to injure Leonard is silly, in my opinion. He's not even looking at where he placed his foot--he's watching the shot as Leonard comes down. The idea that he could, with surgical precision, place his foot perfectly so that Leonard's left foot would land on it and roll--without even looking to try to line it up--is fantastical. Even if a player tried to do that and was putting all his focus into it, it would be hard to position his foot perfectly.

Also, if it's that easy to re-injure a player, why would Pachulia only carry it out mid-third quarter?

Also interesting: no one on the Spurs bench reacts with any type of anger. You'd think a move clearly designed to re-injure their best player would elicit some reactions.

It was just bad luck on a basketball play that happens thousands of times.

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Blind. He did a bunny hop to make SURE his bigass feet ended up in the general vicinity. Doesn't have to work every time. Dirty as hell.
 
trailblazer18 said:
I don't think he was intentionally trying to hurt Leonard on that play, but I do believe he intentionally was trying to crowd him and move into his landing space. Now how you want to interpret If that means he intentionally hurt him, I don't know, but I definitely think he meant to take his landing space away.
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IF I intentionally swerve at a car on the freeway 50 times and only one driver crashes and dies because I didn't actually just ram all their cars I'm still guilty of something.
 
bodyman5000 and 1 said:
Blind. He did a bunny hop to make SURE his bigass feet ended up in the general vicinity. Doesn't have to work every time. Dirty as hell.
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Yeah, the Spurs bench is blind too. Sad. Must be why they lost.
 
TBpup said:
Who said Zaza was trying to intentionally hurt Leonard. Did I miss someone's post?
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I did, and I still believe it. If you are going to do that move, you can't look back and make sure you get your foot exactly where you want it. You keep looking up and then towards the basket and even though the shot is already up, you slide your foot further back there (his foot had already stopped), just hoping to make some contact. Then you run down the floor acting like you can't understand why you got a foul called on you.
 
It was a total dirty play but who fucking cares? If it means winning a championship I would have no problem with any Blazer doing something similar.
 
He did that shit all the time.
 
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