I looked at replays shot from 3 different angles, it looks like Zaza challenge the shots on the first step, then took one more small step close on KL. I'd call it intentional if it's any other players in the league, but having watched how ridiculously unbalanced Zaza is in so many occasions, I seriously doubt he has the ability to intentionally get under KL to injury him. You guys give him too much credit for his athletic ability.
Not to mention he had his back turned. If he was facing him the entire time, I'd definitely think it was intentional.
Lol. San Antonio's main attraction is a gutter. Building some restaurants on it that serve really crappy food doesnt change the fact that it's still a gutter.
we lost a series to the lakers with aaron brooks and yao ming, and just recently lost a series to the spurs. if you honestly felt the same way on those 2 series losses, who am i to argue?
were were not gonna win anything this year, you act like there was some kind of prize when the Warriors were waiting. That year with Brooks hurt more because if they beat the Lakers we had a good chance of winning it all. you fail to realize the same thing was going to happen except against the Warriors probably two or three times in the series. We did not have a center on the roster outside capela. except we were going to get our asses handed to us by Javello McGee this Rockets team could not compete with a spurs team without Tony Parker and Kawai Leonard. The fact is we weren't going anywhere
we are talking about "a loss is a loss" vis-a-vis "losing with effort and competing ". you are fine with any kind of loss. speaking for myself, i am not fine with losing without competing and effort. i am just a casual fan. fwiw, i voted in "keeping harden" in the other thread because still believe in his TALENT, but at the same time is disgusted with the compete and effort in game six. that concept is not mutually exclusive.
^he is talking about how I turned off of 30 point Blowout to go do something productive. to be honest it's hard enough watching basketball after the rockets get eliminated. last year I did not watch until game seven with four minutes left in the finals. such a bad season. this year was not bad, as long as the games are good I might watch the last 5 minutes because thats all that matters. any updates on Kawai Leonard?
Man... What the ****? Kawhi keeps spraining that ankle again and again. The Game 1 was nice though. It proves the Spurs can hang with the Warriors.
Pachulia's move wasn't Bowen's move though. If you watch old videos, Bowen takes an obvious lunge step forward while still facing the shooter. Even at full speed, it's clear Bowen is lunging forward underneath shooters with full view of the shooter and the ground underneath him. It's not that subtle with Bowen. Bowen never (from the videos I just watched) does it by turning around first and stepping back or to the side. Pachulia didn't do that. He ran at Leonard, saw he got off the shot, turned around and then made a minor step to gather as he turned around to box out. It just didn't really look all that blatant or egregious to me to where you know for sure he planned that move. All I'm saying is that it is possible it was unintentional. To me, it's not clear beyond doubt that he planned that move to cause injury. And if he were trying to cause injury, he certainly didn't do using Bowen's way. The whole point of the Bowen move is that you foot is facing the shooter so he can land on it. That doesn't work if you have already turned around with your back to the shooter and your foot facing away from the shooter.
