Comments on: Flagrant Fouls and Ejections http://www.laballtalk.com/2008/05/12/flagrant-fouls-and-ejections/ NBA Basketball News Sat, 02 Jul 2011 07:01:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Daniel Sagal http://www.laballtalk.com/2008/05/12/flagrant-fouls-and-ejections/comment-page-1/#comment-678 Daniel Sagal Tue, 13 May 2008 21:53:49 +0000 http://www.laballtalk.com/?p=106#comment-678 I appreciate the comment and can understand where you are coming from. However, what I referred to by Ronnie Price being out of control is that his upper torso was already behind his legs when he was going up. If you watch the video, he looks like he got scared of the block and tried to lean back to throw up a prayer reconsidering the dunk. Hesitation is what makes plays look worse than they are, and that is precisely what happened. This call was made simply based on "body to floor" contact rather than "player to player" contact. Thats my issue with the play and thats the reason Ronny Turiaf was not suspended for Game 5. By the way, going along with the fact that even you, a Utah Jazz fan, believe the call should've been a Flagrant 1 and not a Flagrant 2, results in the fact that Ronny should not have been ejected and the Lakers would've had the service of Turiaf rather than Mbenga to finish off the game. Turiaf is clearly our best rebounder behind Lamar Odom. I appreciate the comment and can understand where you are coming from. However, what I referred to by Ronnie Price being out of control is that his upper torso was already behind his legs when he was going up. If you watch the video, he looks like he got scared of the block and tried to lean back to throw up a prayer reconsidering the dunk. Hesitation is what makes plays look worse than they are, and that is precisely what happened. This call was made simply based on “body to floor” contact rather than “player to player” contact. Thats my issue with the play and thats the reason Ronny Turiaf was not suspended for Game 5.

By the way, going along with the fact that even you, a Utah Jazz fan, believe the call should’ve been a Flagrant 1 and not a Flagrant 2, results in the fact that Ronny should not have been ejected and the Lakers would’ve had the service of Turiaf rather than Mbenga to finish off the game. Turiaf is clearly our best rebounder behind Lamar Odom.

]]> By: RKD http://www.laballtalk.com/2008/05/12/flagrant-fouls-and-ejections/comment-page-1/#comment-676 RKD Tue, 13 May 2008 19:13:36 +0000 http://www.laballtalk.com/?p=106#comment-676 Ok. I am a Jazz fan and can agree to some point. I do not believe it should have been a flagrant 2, it should have been a flagrant 1. I don't think Turiaf did anything intentionally to hurt Price he was making a play on the ball and it was a hard foul, but when you say that Price was out of control your are now just being stupid. He was going for continuation and was in control the whole time until Turiaf hit him. It was a hard foul that should have been a Flagrant 1 but don't try and blame it on Ronnie Price being out of control. Watch the video again without your yellow and purple glasses on. Ok. I am a Jazz fan and can agree to some point. I do not believe it should have been a flagrant 2, it should have been a flagrant 1. I don’t think Turiaf did anything intentionally to hurt Price he was making a play on the ball and it was a hard foul, but when you say that Price was out of control your are now just being stupid. He was going for continuation and was in control the whole time until Turiaf hit him. It was a hard foul that should have been a Flagrant 1 but don’t try and blame it on Ronnie Price being out of control. Watch the video again without your yellow and purple glasses on.

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