Bull is usually objective, but I've noticed it's only vs the Jazz where he shows his homerism. Bull said Stockton was the dirtiest player in the game.
No but sure seems like you're happy about that statement. This guy sure sounds like someone we know. Someone who thinks he is pretty great and is happy when his team loses.
yao is clearly frustrated in his post game interview. "anytime someone is on the floor, even if he wants to sit down and take a break, it's a foul on me" "at least I don't have to worry about floppers on Friday, shaq doesn't play that way"
He was right about that, but other times he wil complain about flopping, ut when our team does it he won't be as harsh. Other times he will say only we are getting bad calls when both teams are getting bad calls. He just whines too much at times. I prefer a guy like vince scully. I think bill and calvin when together were a top 5 crew.
utah has been flopping since humanity begins. what's the point of the constant complaining? i'm sure other teams feel the same way. but the better teams just go about their business and kill. if this flopping stuff is dominating the players' thoughts, we'll never beat utah.
I don't think so anymore. Yao gets taken out of games way too often, way too easily, and can be a liability on the defensive end like he was tonight. Yao is not dominant consistently enough for him to be the best player on a championship team.
Yao does what the refs tell him to do and they still call fouls! what can he do. He pushes they call charge He stands straight up they call foul He tries to set a screen they call foul he gets hammered down low they call foul.
I watched the game on mute at a bar. Can anybody briefly fill me on what he said? Was it just the "Okur, sniper" comment? What did he say after Yao fouled out?
Air Bullard: "They need to get flopping out of the game" and "that's not basketball" have become something you hear in almost every game he does.
Bullard is probably the biggest hater of flops in the entire NBA. He says it every night and damn, he is true.
bull is just expressing his hate for flops. he is mostly objective. he'll give props to how dwill was working us over, but he DOES work for a HOUSTON broadcast, his commentating is geared towards rockets fans. ESPN during their highlights ran the voice clip of bullard referring to a sniper in the building shooting okur when he flopped during the rox jazz highlights. i'm glad they put that in there and showed how okur flopped on yao. keep it up bull.
And is he wrong? No, he's not. It's filtered down to the NCAA's too. There is nothing wrong with taking a charge "with style" but there is a whole other world of being barely touched and flying across the floor like you were shot out of a cannon that is a disgrace to the game.
ugh the jazz announcers were terrible, they would show a replay and argue that it was great defense and not a foul, when clearly yaos arms were being grabbed. on that jump ball, okur GRABBED yaos arm and pulled him towards him and they were like o look at yao push off when it was so obvious that yao was hooked from underneath...glad yao said something after the game, but i wish it was more towards the refs and not the players, get mad at the refs, have david stern fine you, refuse to pay it until the flopping ends...you are yao they can't lose you, you make them too much money, but they sure are acting like they don't want you around...
for as bad as the refs were last night, we got a TON of favorable calls in the 4th quarter... whether the refs were just making up for previous calls or whatever, there was a point in the 4th where they blew fouls against the jazz on both ends of the court in consecutive sequences. the inconsistency in the calls was what was killing us... besides their calling of yao, of course.
