This post should be titled...exactly how big a douche is Danny Ainge? A. Super douche B. Ultimate douche C. Uber douche
Would have been sweet if Elie knocked Ainge's head off picked it up passed it to Dream, who would proceed to dunk the crap out of it.
You know, when you write stuff like this and when you're constantly questioning whether or not other posters are "real fans" (or outright stating that they aren't), you kinda come off as a prick. Don't be that guy. Everyone hates that guy.
Early 90s was an era where men played and did not worry about hurting feelings of opponents .. if you say well thats a bad example for the kids, hakeem always showed class and cared for the kids... if you remember he never signed a shoe deal with nike or reebok bc he didnt want kids to have to pay 100 dollars for his shoes.... everyone would make an emphatic play to put the nail in the coffin or the cherry on top .. it wasnt classless it was how things were done then ..
There was nothing wrong with the dunk. He was wide open under the basket. It's not like he made an offensive move to get to the basket. It sure looks like Ainge was aiming at Elie. Being that he was a pretty accurate shooter/passer, he had to have done it on purpose.
Ainge is/was a pyschopath, pretty obvious stuff. Dunk was fine, this was when "men were men", and why this is most people's favorite Rocket's squad.
It was the same series where Barkley pushed Hakeem in the chest when he went up for the dunk. Hakeem had every right to throw that dunk down.
1. Hakeem's dunk was not even close to taunting. It was just a dunk with 6 seconds left. 2. Danny Ainge did not intentionally hit Elie. He is telling the truth. I know it's hard to believe, and at first, I thought he was actually throwing at Hakeem and missed. But if you walk what happens after he hits Elie, it's clear Ainge wasn't trying to hit either one of them. He was trying to throw the ball down court but was to far under the backboard and ended up rifling it at too low of a trajectory. How do I know? Right after the ball hits Elie it bounces back towards Ainge - but if you watch, Ainge wasn't even paying attention to the fact it hit Ellie, instead he goes after the ball but realizes he is standing out of bounds so he let's the ball go out of bounds so he can inbound it again. In other words, he's still playing basketball. If he had intentionally hit Elie, he wouldn't be paying attention to the ball and still trying to recover the possession, he'd be admiring his work and staring at Elie or Hakeem. When a pitcher hits a batter with the pitch, he's not playing the carom - he's staring the batter down. That's not what happened here. Danny Ainge is right and telling the truth - it was unintentional.
I would have loved to see a Rockets player (one that wasn't getting much playing time) BEAT crap out of Danny Ainge right after that stunt!
Not convinced. Only a few seconds left down by 16, Ainge is going to fire it length of court to get another bucket? Don't think so. It was clearly intentional.
Yeah, that dunk looks great but it's really not anything special. Most players wouldn't come over from the weak side and try to help when they had no chance. Hakeem actually made a mistake there. If you can't get their on time, don't go there and give the guy an and 1 - unless you are going to foul him hard to the ground. Hakeem wasn't even in the play - he was so late. A slit second more and KJ would have been looking silly.
