****MFK's Official '08-'09 NBA Discussion Thread****
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Time for a playoff resurrection. So Howard got suspended for game 6, and deservingly so, but Rondo gets off with nothing for the shot on Miller.......? That game should have had a completely different ending with that foul being called correctly.
pdbrady;3068589; said:
I've been out because of work restraints, but I should be back for the playoffs now
I agree with Howards, but I also agree with Rondo not getting suspended. I think at the time that he drew his arm back for the swipe, (and he drew it way back, that was going to be a windmill block) it looked like Miller would go straight up with the ball, maybe for a dunk (Rondo probably didn't realize Miller has a 6 in vert.) or a floater, instead of the finger-roll type arm angle that Miller did go with. If Miller would have gone up the way Rondo thought, he would have gotten the ball. When Miller went in a different direction, it was too late for Rondo to pull it back.
Maybe I'm looking at it wrong, but I don't think he was going for the face, I think he just guessed on the angle, and got it wrong.
hamato_yoshii;3070275; said:I've been out because of work restraints, but I should be back for the playoffs now
I agree with Howards, but I also agree with Rondo not getting suspended. I think at the time that he drew his arm back for the swipe, (and he drew it way back, that was going to be a windmill block) it looked like Miller would go straight up with the ball, maybe for a dunk (Rondo probably didn't realize Miller has a 6 in vert.) or a floater, instead of the finger-roll type arm angle that Miller did go with. If Miller would have gone up the way Rondo thought, he would have gotten the ball. When Miller went in a different direction, it was too late for Rondo to pull it back.
Maybe I'm looking at it wrong, but I don't think he was going for the face, I think he just guessed on the angle, and got it wrong.
Well, what makes the point for me was Rondo admitting to trying to make a hard foul, as well as Doc Rivers. His defense was Miller being so much bigger than him. Think of the call they would have made if the players were switched, and it was Miller popping Rondo. Different call, I guarantee. Then he follows it up tonight by cheap shotting Hinrich again by throwing him into the media table from behind.
Onion01;3070301; said:well...miami has been nothing short of...disappointing
And you expected.........?
Yeah, the Hawks are making them look really bad.
