San Antonio Spurs " Dirty " Playbook Against Phoenix Suns

   I'm going to go off track here and talk a bit about something is one of my favorite hobbies, and that is basketball. The NBA playoffs in particular and the Phoenix Suns specifically and the crap that they have had to put up with from those " dirty "  players of the San Antonio Spurs, a team which I use to have respect for.

  That was until the playoff series with Phoenix began.

   First we have Suns All-star Amare Stoudemire saying, after last Thursdays practice, that the Spurs are a "dirty team" and he said that Bruce Bowen tried to hurt him, claiming that Bowen, "He kicked me purposely in the back of my Achilles'. I almost came down wrong and he almost caused an injury.He's known for doing that. I just hope the NBA and the commissioner take a look at that because it's definitely a dirty play."

  Thus far, since then, he has seemed to be right on the money about the Spurs and their form of play.

  Stoudemire also had a bit more to say about the style of play from the Spurs during the regular season.

"I think the Spurs are a dirty team. I mean, (Manu) Ginobili during the regular season kneed me in the crotch on purpose. I just hope the league takes a look at it and cleans the game up a little bit." 

  Here is a video, which I think definitely shows Amare getting kicked by Bowen.

    Then there was game three, in which Bowen kneed Steve Nash in the groin area. That drew a foul from the referee which was upgraded to a "flagrant foul 1." Bowen told Nash that it was an unintentional move. Sure it was.

  Then there is last nights game four. This was a tough game all the way around, but dirty tactics should have no place in this game or any other game.

   The Spurs had a 97-92 with 2:23 to play when Phoenix picked up the pace and took the lead 53 seconds left and nailed it in with 32 seconds to go that made it 100-97.

Robert Horry took the low road with 18 seconds left in the game,when he hit Nash with a forearm and knocked him into the scorer's table. This was a move that was totally uncalled for by this piece of shit.

    Horry was ejected from the game and given a flagrant foul. The Spurs had started the 4th quarter with an 80-72 lead over Phoenix but I guess a few of the Spur's players can't handle a team on the comeback path as Phoenix did last night, so they resorted to taking cheap shots.

 Robert Horry ( whorie? )  should be suspended for the remainder of this series and fined massively by the NBA. That other Spurs punk, Bruce Bowen, will get his in due time.

     It is pretty sad that such great players as Tim Duncan, Michael Finley, Manu Ginobili and the rest of the Spurs have to play with team-mates such as these gutter crawlers.

 

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