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Should Draymond Green be suspended for Game 4?

  • YES

    Votes: 62 95.4%

  • NO

    Votes: 3 4.6%
  • Total voters
    65
Sinobas said:
If I'm the Thunder, Draymond would get close-lined on his first drive to the hoop, or repeatedly hit in the groin on accident.
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It's a delicate balancing act. The Thunder have two tasks: (1) Win the game; and (2) Punish Green. I will be rooting for both to happen, with severe prejudice.
 
BBert said:
It's a delicate balancing act. The Thunder have two tasks: (1) Win the game; and (2) Punish Green. I will be rooting for both to happen, with severe prejudice.
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You know the refs are going to be on alert to try to rein in any extracurricular activities in Game 4. Wait until Game 5 to retaliate.
 
WillG said:
Well, the NBA is doing everything they possibly can to get longtime fans to give up and stop watching.

This preferential treatment, along with preferential reffing, rigged outcomes - well lets just say the camels back is surely weakened.
Personally, it's not going to take much more of this bullshit for me to say Goodbye to this WWE-Ball Horseshit.
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OTOH, I'm probably going to skip band practice to watch the game tonight - which I otherwise wouldn't have. I wanna see what OKC's response is...but I admit it's more about the spectacle (WWE) than it is about basketball.
 
Reporter: "Why didn't you suspend Draymond Green for flagrantly kicking an opponent in the balls?"

Adam Silver: "For the ratings. Ka-Ching!" "Plus, Draymond LOVES peanut butter."
 
blue9 said:
OTOH, I'm probably going to skip band practice to watch the game tonight - which I otherwise wouldn't have. I wanna see what OKC's response is...but I admit it's more about the spectacle (WWE) than it is about basketball.
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Which is probably why they didn't suspend Green.
 
Strenuus said:
Which is probably why they didn't suspend Green.
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I think they didn't suspend him because they didn't want a suspension to be a factor in who potentially won the NBA championship. And I think most NBA players agreed with the decision.

Personally I think OKC will win tonight regardless, but I kind of am coming around to agreeing with the decision. Green is a flopping POS, but his actions need to be penalized on the court......by the refs....not the NBA front office.
 
Pinwheel1 said:
I think they didn't suspend him because they didn't want a suspension to be a factor in who potentially won the NBA championship. And I think most NBA players agreed with the decision.
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They didn't want a player's conduct on the court or the rules to be a factor in who wins the championship?

You're probably right...but that's wrong...so wrong...so very wrong....
 
I have never wanted to see player retaliation as much as I want to see it tonight against Green.
 
"There are multiple plays where I did it later in the game when I got fouled and my right leg went up," Green said Monday. "I always do it. Russell said I did it on purpose, but he's part of the superstar group that started all this acting in the NBA."

Green even pointed to a play at the end of the second quarter, when Green fouled Westbrook on a long 3-pointer.

"Russell Westbrook kicked me at the end of the half," Green said. "He just didn't happen to catch me where I caught Steven Adams."

"I've never been fined for one flop since I've been playing in the NBA," Westbrook said. "I don't know about no flopping or nothing. I don't know how to flop. But it seems like he was the one that was flailing, kicking his legs out and stuff yesterday. It wasn't me."
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Really Westbrook? You don't know about no flopping or nothing?




God I hate both teams.
 
BBert said:
Reporter: "Why didn't you suspend Draymond Green for flagrantly kicking an opponent in the balls?"

Adam Silver: "For the ratings. Ka-Ching!" "Plus, Draymond LOVES peanut butter."
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Now that you mention it, Draymond does use a LOT of peanut butter in that commercial where he's making the sandwich.
 
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noknobs said:
Really Westbrook? You don't know about no flopping or nothing?

God I hate both teams.
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No joke. I was 100% against OKC...until the Blazers played Golden State and I got a taste of Draymond Green and GS league favoritism. After that I was 50/50 on either team. Now with "The Kick" and "The Punishment", I'm 100% anti-GS. It doesn't help that it brings back so many bad Lakers memories. Fuck the NBA.
 
Pinwheel1 said:
I think they didn't suspend him because they didn't want a suspension to be a factor in who potentially won the NBA championship. And I think most NBA players agreed with the decision.

Personally I think OKC will win tonight regardless, but I kind of am coming around to agreeing with the decision. Green is a flopping POS, but his actions need to be penalized on the court......by the refs....not the NBA front office.
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Over 70% of responders in the ESPN poll disagreed with the decision not to suspend, and the vast majority of those that did agree came from California (big surprise). I'm not so sure that players want to be able to be kicked in the groin with impunity just because it's the playoffs...but hey, whatever.
 
If I were commish I would put a stop to all of the limb-flailing that players do these days - anything that isn't a natural movement would be a foul. Kick your leg out? That's a foul. Unnatural follow-through? That's a foul. Jumping INTO the defender rather than shooting a jump shot like any normal person would? Oooh you better believe that's a foul.

 
Pinwheel1 said:
I think they didn't suspend him because they didn't want a suspension to be a factor in who potentially won the NBA championship. And I think most NBA players agreed with the decision.

Personally I think OKC will win tonight regardless, but I kind of am coming around to agreeing with the decision. Green is a flopping POS, but his actions need to be penalized on the court......by the refs....not the NBA front office.
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Nope. Still should be suspended. Now people will say it's okay to kick people in the junk, since the refs aren't going to enforce it because that too would affect the championship blah blah blah.

There's no excuse. All that crap is just that, crap.
 
blue9 said:
If I were commish I would put a stop to all of the limb-flailing that players do these days - anything that isn't a natural movement would be a foul. Kick your leg out? That's a foul. Unnatural follow-through? That's a foul. Jumping INTO the defender rather than shooting a jump shot like any normal person would? Oooh you better believe that's a foul.

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It's almost like...they should pass a rule against flopping....
 
Adams should psychologically fuck with green to start the game...whisper to him just before tip off "I hope you are wearing a cup" then wait...let green sweat it out....then when he least expects it, wham right in the nuts
 
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BlazerCaravan said:
OKC should kick Draymond Green in the balls FIRST PLAY. Start five end of the bench goons, and have one of them kick Draymond in the nuts. If I'm the owner, I dare the NBA to suspend my player.
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I think they should let him start and play up to the time he kicked Steven Adams and then he's out... If they'd called the Flagrant 2, like the league decided the next day, he would have been tossed.
 
andalusian said:
I still think the most dangerous place in the world for the NBA is Seattle. That's why they allowed OKC to steal the team from there.

It's a shame that Green gets away with this, but I still can not bring myself to route for an organization that stole a team from an entire city.
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That's how I feel. I really don't think Toronto has a chance but love their fan base and would love to see that happen. But, I think it'll be Cleveland so I decided that I would be OK with LeBron getting one more for the fans because they deserve it after what he put them through.
 
I'll say again: The OKC fans should throw rocky mountain oysters onto the court when Green is announced. Make a spectacle. Fuck the NBA.
 
Sinobas said:
Over 70% of responders in the ESPN poll disagreed with the decision not to suspend, and the vast majority of those that did agree came from California (big surprise). I'm not so sure that players want to be able to be kicked in the groin with impunity just because it's the playoffs...but hey, whatever.
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I said most NBA players (and ex-players) not fans. It was kind of obvious that fans felt differently.

To me the bigger issue was the flop. There are several players who continually kick their legs out, either to exaggerate they are fouled or to draw the foul. (Miller used to do it, and Crawford does it now) The fact that Green ended up kicking Adams in the balls while intentionally kicking out his legs.......could not be verified by the NBA front office as being intentional.......to the groin.

The flop on the other hand can't be debated. He admitted it. It was intentional all the way...there is absolutely no doubt about that.
 
Pinwheel1 said:
I said most NBA players (and ex-players) not fans. It was kind of obvious that fans felt differently.

To me the bigger issue was the flop. There are several players who continually kick their legs out, either to exaggerate they are fouled or to draw the foul. (Miller used to do it, and Crawford does it now) The fact that Green ended up kicking Adams in the balls while intentionally kicking out his legs.......could not be verified by the NBA front office as being intentional.......to the groin.

The flop on the other hand can't be debated. He admitted it. It was intentional all the way...there is absolutely no doubt about that.
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Are they willfully blind? (He asked rhetorically.)

Green went up, came down, had both feet planted, and THEN he kicked a field goal between Adams' legs. Intentional, pure and simple.
 
BBert said:
They didn't want a player's conduct on the court or the rules to be a factor in who wins the championship?

You're probably right...but that's wrong...so wrong...so very wrong....
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So very wrong - it's not a credible championship if one team doesn't have to play by the rules. I understanding the league not wanting big stars out but it ruins the overall game. How am I, as a Blazer fan (or any other small market team) going to continue to pull for my team if there's a separate, more restrictive, set of rules for my team? I'm a Blazer fan first and NBA fan second but I always watch all the teams in the play offs. If I don't feel like my team has a fair shot I won't watch at all!
 
Setting aside which body part got kicked, it was an intentional and flagrant foul, and warranted a suspension. Doesn't matter if he'd kicked him in the shin or the chin, kneed him in the knee or the noggin, or elbowed him in the back or the buttocks, it was a flagrant foul administered with the intent and purpose of injuring the player. But since it was Draymond Green doing the kicking, it's all good. Seriously, what blackmail does this goon have on the NBA?
 
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