What was all that talking about, anyway? Didn't seem like anything all that exciting happened on the previous play, and then next thing I know, the ref is ejecting Franchise and some guy named Randy Brown. Anyone know what that was all about?
From ESPN http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/recap?gameId=230115010 "It was a little pushing down there, and we were walking back and talking about it,'' Francis said. "The ref thought we were trying to get into it. After we left the game, we were standing in the back talking about it.'' Doesn't really say much but I was wondering the same thing. I thought it was a bad call on the ref, along with the many other bad calls all night...
Stevie had a great game, but he had a serious brain freeze at the end of that game. Stevie (the Rockets leader) and Randy Brown (one of the Suns scrubs) start jawing at each other. The ref handled it appropriately and they gave them a double T. Even with the mild-tempered Cat trying to pull him away, Steve refused to let it die. He fell into Randy Brown's trap and kept going toward him and running his mouth. The ref had little choice but to eject them both. It was a classic case of one team's scrub suckering the other team's best player into an argument and then ejection. Mission accomplished for Phoenix. And it almost cost us the game. Steve's got keep his head on when the game's on the line and realize that his team needs him on the floor, not winning an argument at the end of the game.
It's good that it happened now, then hopefully it will not happen again in the playoffs. I remember how Frank Brickowski tried to do that with Rodman, but Rodman was too clever to let him do it.
"He fell into Randy Brown's trap and kept going toward him and running his mouth." I agree with the essence of your overall statements. But it was Randy Brown who kept going toward Steve. I hated when team (Phoenix) did that, it is not good basketball.
It was damn good basketball. It got our All Star guard out of the game at a crucial time. Steve shouldn't have fallen for it.
I was scared it was gonna turn into a fight. We couldnt afford to lose Steve for the Laker and Maverick games.
To me, it never looked close to being a fight. I swear Franchise had a smile on his face the whole time. I wanna know what they were jawing about, and why the ref felt it escalated to a point where both guys needed to be tossed.
they weren't even going at it. both of them were just talking over the play at neither were mad at all. it was pretty obvious. the ref just made a bad call in the second technicals. as far as keeping his head, why do some of you make it seem like steve does this on a regular occasion? he shouldn't have had any reason at all for the ref to kick him out, crap call or not, but every single great player has done the same or worse in the past. hakeem, shaq, jordan, whoever have surely lost their temper and more than once.
