Spurs vs. Suns

(Remember that quick strikes gimmick? It will be BACK. I promise. New segment. In the mid 90s MTV switched from delivering the oblique "videos for undetermined amount of time" programming to stricter half hour segments. I need more segments. = Quick Strikes)

Here's my take on the Robert Horry bullshit: It was fucking bullshit on the part of Mr. Robert Horry.

Wild take, I know.

That motherfucker should be suspended for the rest of the series. He will only get one game. Mr. Barkley on the postgame show was imploring the powers that be to not suspend Diaw and Soutdemire for "leaving the bench". I put that in quotes because combined those players put one foot on the court. Still, they crossed the line that the league designates as bench area. Though it isn't fair, expect the league to suspend both of these players for Game 5.

The NBA has shown in the past that it will reward a cagey dirty play by punishing the team that the dirty play is committed against. I am of course talking about the Pace Show - Pistons brawl at the Palace. Ben Wallace instigated a fight in that instance with a cheap shot against Ron Artest. The Pistons were getting blown out at home at the time. Ron Artest commited a legit foul against Wallace that Big Ben took a giant exception to. Ron then lies down on the scorer's table because he's a bit of a weirdo (understatement), and then a fan throws beer on him.

Ron and subsequently the Pace Show have a totally legitmate reaction to having beer thrown on them: They want to BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF WHOEVER DID IT. And then they do. And the league suspends Artest for the season and disbands Detroit's only legitimate competition in the East. Not just for the season mind you, because Indiana was broken up after that year. They were wildly talented and it all went up in smoke that day in the "Palace".

As if Detroit would have a Palace. Seriously.

Thinking about it. These Spurs fans missed a big opportunity here. They could have started hurling beer at the Suns. The Suns would have reacted like humans and tried to beat those assholes up, and they would have been suspended for the rest of the playoffs. Honestly if the fans were as dirty/cagey as the team they support they would have done this.

The Spurs are a piece of shit team. It starts with Bowen. Horry has now sunk to his level. Duncan is the biggest whiner in hoops.

I'm a bad writer because I was not consistent with my tenses within sentences. (Attempted grammar joke) Like ever.

PS The worst part about the Horry on Nash violence is that it distracts people from the fact that the refs stole the game from the Spurs with a sequence of dubious calls during the second half to keep Phoenix within 7-11 points.

Word.