“This makes me sick, makes me wanna puke” Skip Bayless on Dillon Brooks’ suspension from Game 3 after flagrant-2 foul on Gary Payton II
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Dillon Brooks and his recent suspension was mentioned throughout Friday’s episode of “Skip & Shannon: Undisputed”. Throughout the episode, Skip Bayless voiced his disgust at the league’s call to suspend Brooks for his play in Game two. After Draymond Green was ejected from Game one of this series, several expected Game 2 to be a kin to aggressive rather than just ‘physical’ as the usual playoffs. However no one may have pictured however quickly the physicality and aggression hit.
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Was Dillon Brooks suspension justified?
Early in the first quarter, Dillon Brooks came up behind Payton as he was driving for a lay-up and knocked him in the head which sent GPII all the way down to the bottom. GPII was escorted out of the game for medical examinations and x-rays, which later indicated that he suffered a broken left elbow. The flagrant foul from Brooks was meant to send a transparent message to the Warriors, however Brook’s inexperience ended up sending the wrong message. There’s no reason to force such a play on someone’s back, putting their head and whole body all the way down to the ground in such a manner. The foul was a message, to the Warriors that intended to warn them that Memphis was there and might play an aggressive game likewise.
As a results of the play, Dillon Brooks was ejected with 9:08 left within the first quarter. The day following the game, when the NBA’s review of the play, Dillon Brooks received a one-game suspension. Together with his early ejection, and currently full game suspension, he’ll effectively miss 2 games of this series.
According to the NBA, the foul committed by Dillon Brooks was “unnecessary and excessive,” as mentioned in their report of the suspension. The league deeming the play unnecessary is arguably what pushed the pin toward suspension. The league needs to show its players that wiggling with aggression is healthy competition, until the point that you’re not risking players’ futures over forced, unnecessary plays.
Though, Skip Bayless once more appears to nod in the polar opposite direction. While talking about the play and defending his own statements, he explained Dillon Brooks’ actions because the most suitable option in this position.
Bayless expressed, “This makes me sick, it makes me want to puke. Does the punishment fit the crime?”
‘This is a travesty. This is a sadly, laughable travesty, that really makes me not even want to watch NBA playoff games anymore … Because my NBA, the national basketball association that I have loved since the middle of the 1970s, has turned into the national softball association‘, he continued.
Committing a foul and forcing Payton to the road could are an honest call at the time. however there’s a distinction between committing an easy foul and swatting at someone’s head whereas throwing them onto the bottom, not even halfway through the primary amount.
Yes, each bucket matters in contest basketball, however the gamble of taking someone’s future away to save mere 2 points in the game is absolutely unacceptable. Skip Bayless, having never compete a lick of basketball in his life, is, of course, the voice of reason once it involves “correct basketball.”
Ironically, earlier in the week, Kendrick Perkins and Vince Carter joined during a spoken communication within which they each in agreement with the league’s call in suspending Dillon Brooks.
Vince Carter, is familiar with the tough, old-school type of aggressive ball that everybody glorifies. If a player like VC is starting up and accepting with the league, the NBA’s call could have probably been the proper one.
In any case, not diving into who says what, NBA fans all over understand Skip Bayless, his ‘knowledge’ of the game and how much opinions deserve ‘attention’. Once his opinion is within the headlines, there is no backing off from it, thus Bayless appears to be heading the column of opinion that opposes the suspension, even though it is nothing short of ‘a sadly laughable travesty’.
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