Mutombo's elbow was upgraded to a flagrant foul

Dikembe finally pays for his sharp elbows.

 

Wow. I've never seen this happen before -- fouls being changed after the fact. First Shaq's foul was ruled non-flagrant, and now Mutombo's is ruled flagrant. I wonder it it's really a good idea to start messing with fouls and such after the fact like this.

 

Thats good they change it now. If it had happend in the game, we would've gotten 1 FT and the ball (Yao shot 2 FT's after that foul and made both). So we would've made the FT, got the ball, and turned it over. We got 1 more point out of that then we should have.

 

A flagrant foul is 2 FTs and the ball, IIRC.

 

we need a more aggressive "enforcer" to protect our players when these things happen!!! he should have gone down the next time he had the ball!!!

 

Upgrade or not, I do not want to see Yao turning into another Karl-Malone.

He has sel-respect and dignity to walk with head up.

Does nobody think Dike is quite rude telling Yao " Get Up!" and making smart comments after the game?

 

I would like to see any flagrant foul which results in injury and lost game time availability cost the fouler a like amount of gametime, i.e. when Yao gets of the IR then Mutumbo gets back into the game.

 

Good to see this! Some justice.

However, I do find it rather odd that over the last month or so Yao has been getting killed down low and very little fouls are called and at the other end of the floor some real cheap fouls have been called on out. It was NOT like this early in the year. Yao seemed to get the benefit of the doubt early in the season. Now later in the year it is like Yao is getting the "rookie" treatment. Very odd how that came about. You would think it would have been the opposite with him getting very little calls and more calls his way later in the year.

 

I was not able to watch the game, and haven't seen the foul.

Is there a video clip of it somewhere that someone could post (or a link to a clip) ?

Thanks

-- droxford

 

Dike may have been classless, but he donates a lot of money and time to his home country of Zaire, so don't even talke about dignity when it comes to Mutumbo. The guy has given a lot more in his life than a lot of us critics.

 

I respect that he does it and all, but he is (a) rich, and (b) only works seven months out of the year. Put a lot of people in his situation and, I hope, they would do the same.

 

Hell, we still would have lost...

We're just not "feelin' it"...This is why we miss the playoffs again...

 

How did Yao react to these fouls? Last time, when his jaw bumped Fox's head, he lied on the floor for 1 minute. It is not a good sign. He should get up quickly and be strong.

The fact is if you show weakness when somebody hit you, they are going to hit you again and again and destroy you. But if you just get up quickly and make the foul shots, then they know the tactics do not work and they will stop using it.

 

Yao Ming said that he could not hear anything after Fox bumped his jaw. How can you expect him to get up quickly?

 

If you lay on the ground and pretend you're really hurt, you can work the refs to give you a couple more calls during the game.

 

Let's say if you got hit in the nutz would you get up quickly and be strong?

There are many weak points in the body. I don't care how damn strong you are if you got hit the wrong way at a certain angle you will go down in pain.

 

They (NBA) must have visited Clutchcity.net yesterday. A little influence there from the frontpage?...

 

You are right.
People who think otherwise apparently have never been hit!
Getting up strong is easy if you get hit in the stomach, the trunk or even the face.
Getting hit in the jaw, the throat, the nutz would put you out of commision for minutes even if they does not cause any internal injury. When they teach children and women to defend themselves against attackers, those are the areas they suggest to hit.

 

So are you saying Yao is going to get kicked in the nuts in the next game as the third step in the "defend yourself from Yao attacks" program?