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From: lor@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.sport.hoops
Subject: Re: Dirty players and throwing stones.
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Date: Sun, 26-May-85 01:08:03 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 26 01:08:03 1985
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> I am really tired of the accusations that the Celtics
> are the dirtiest team in the NBA.  Allow me to list a
> few of my top choices for players who qualify:
> 
> 	Malone, Erving
> 	Grunfeld
> 	Shelton
> 	Olajawon
> 	Molkeski (sp?)
> 	Ivarone (sp?)
> 	Rambis, Cooper
> 
> This is only the beginning of a list that would include
> half the players in the NBA.

	If you know basketball, you should have known the
difference between doing the dirty work (Rambis, Cooper, 
Malone, and Olajawon) and playing dirty (Ainge, McHale).  
However, whether a player is dirty, which is purely subjective,
doesn't worth being argued.

> The point is that basketball is not the prissy, sissy game
> that many of you fans (Lakers) would like to see.  

	We ain't no Laker fans who like to see the prissy, sissy
game. The Lakers ain't playing that kind of game neither! The Lakers are
not afraid of playing physical opponents, but they simply can't play a 
team that is violent but tolerated by the officials. This is not the
Kings vs the Bruins, or the Raiders vs the Patriots.
If you don't believe the Celtics are just a dirty team, look
at the 76ers. They play an equally physical game, but nobody has ever 
billed them as a dirty team. The Celtics simply

-- use all kind of football and hockey skills on the basketball court.
   Remember the tackle by linebacker Mean Dan Ainge on Tree Rollins?
-- irritate the opponents to provoke fights. 
-- make awful fouls on an opponent just to set the tempo 
   of the series.
-- consider this kind of foul "just part of the game",
-- consider an equivalent retaliation from the other team 
   "the worst foul ever seen". 


If you don't believe the Celtics are protected by the league,
just recall the fragrant foul by Sparrow(?) on Bird in game 6 of last
year's series against the Knicks. Sparrow was tossed out immediately.
However, McHale's equally awful tackle on Rambis resulted in NO
ejection. If this isn't double standard, what is?  
How the Celtics can get away with all these infractions is really 
no mystery. 
As I said before, the officials have already been intimidated and
influenced by the "cigar-sucker". 

	However, I am not surprised at what the Boston fans said in
the net. All Celtics associates, let it be radio broadcasters, TV 
analyst, or fans, are awfully biased.  


-- 
					Eddy Lor
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