Everyone's favorite Sports Guy, Bill Simmons is giving out awards for the first week of the playoffs. One of them...."The Dirty Pool Award for "Scummiest And Most Indefensible In-Game Move"
Name me one good/fun/useful thing that comes from hack-a-Shaq. You can't. It's not entertaining, it ruins the flow of the game, it's dirty pool, and it sucks to watch. How have they not fixed this loophole? Really, it's OK to bear-hug someone as they're running up the court? Why can't we give officials the leeway to say, "Look, you did that intentionally, even if we can't technically prove it, and we are penalizing you for it"?
I just hate it. I hate it. I really, really hate it. If I were coaching the Suns, I would be fouling Bowen and Duncan every time and turning it into an "Eff-You" free-throw contest so David Stern had to break away from exchanging late-night e-mails with Clay Bennett to act like a commissioner for 10 minutes and fix this unforgivable tainting of a fantastic series that could have been headed for the Pantheon if not for such a garbage turn of events. That's not basketball. I can't stop shaking my head."
I think he illustrated my point perfectly, and pretty much I just want to add an "Amen!" to what was already written.
You'll probably hear people use words like "strategy, savvy or crafty veteran." Don't listen to that garbage. Common sense let's us know that cheating is taking place; regardless of whether or not a rule is set in stone yet.
Which, for anyone who has watched this series, knows that taking advantage of the game in a deceptive non-competitive way has Spurs written all over it.
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