Comments on: Stack vs. Manu

By: rangerjohn

rangerjohn — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:57:44 +0000

lmao there is not a single person who would HONESTLY say they dont want manu on their team, and if they did HONESTLY say that, they would be an idiot. look at the mans numbers. his numbers per 48 minutes are BETTER THEN KOBE’S and almost even to labrons numbers. he is barely in the top 20 in freethrow atempts so his “flopping” cant be that bad. see the thing is when you WANT TO SEE SOMETHING you tend to look harder for it, and you tend to exagerate things.

as for mnau hitting stackhouse in the face during the block out, stackhouse didnt move his hand to manu’s face AFTER they hit the floor, he had manu by the neck/face before they headed down. by the way go back and watch the video, stackhouse had his arm OVER THE TOP of manus arm so how did manu hit him in the neck/face, and when you go to block out/rebound where are your arms supposed to be? IN THE AIR, as in UP, if stackhouse ran into him fine, if manu ran into him fine but stackhouse grabbed manu by the neck to take him down, thats deserves a suspension, and if not then going after manu after the wistle and while he was down with his back to stackhouse is worthy of a suspension in itself

By: T-Dot Tim

T-Dot Tim — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:43:29 +0000

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

don’t want manu on my team or bowen, but I’d take TD and TP

By: eyeused2b

eyeused2b — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:11:31 +0000

I don’t care about players flopping, b/c unfortunately, it’s a part of the game, but what Manu did was deserving of retaliation. He already had position, so there was no need for him to throw his arm into Stack’s face and then dive backwards. Mark Jackson made it seem like Stack dragged him down. They both were already falling b/c Manu decided that since he felt a warm body next to him, he needed to lay on it. If you’re going to flop, flop when you’re doing something. Manu has taken to flopping just to be flopping. All that shit is bogus. Dirk did it too many times in that game as well. They all look like a bunch of pussies out there doing that nonsense.

By: rangerjohn

rangerjohn — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:40:06 +0000

see manu is more of a class act then stack, ever heard the term “dont stoop to his level”?

stackhouse is a joke, the mavs are a joke. nothing but thugs.

“word says:

i already said this but: F the spurs! They are dirty players (Bowen killed my teams’s dream with that foul on Nash last season). ”

i wonder what foul was that? i assume you mean the one where amare and diaw came off the bench to get in the middle of the fight? if this is the “foul” you speak of, i have 2 things to say 1) horry is the one who commited that foul, bowen was no where near nash, 2)nash flopped harder then manu ever could on that foul (he even said it was not that hard a hit afterwards showing how much of a flop it really was)

all you spurs haters, all i can say is if manu was on YOUR team (same goes for bowen) you would be loving his game. he is a competeator like no other. he has won to many thing in his life without being dirty to be disrespected like you knuckleheads do.

By: G

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:59:19 +0000

oh and by the way whats with the over analyzing of the whole thing? Basketball is a physical game despite what david stern would have you believe. These are grown men, they have egos, tempers, etc. You take two guys who been goin at it all game, stuff gets a lil physical they hit the floor hard these things will happen

By: G

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:56:07 +0000

gotta love Bowen’s role in the whole thing. He looks like a little kid tattling. I get the whole veteran not hurting his team, making sure the ref sees whats going on, but at somepoint you have to put that aside and get up in a guys face. He just smushed your mans face into the ground. Let him hear about it, dont just jump up and down and point

By: LOVELIFE

LOVELIFE — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:38:22 +0000

MANU’s
elbow 2 the throat while boxxxin out?
he deserved what
he got!!

By: alex

alex — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:29:31 +0000

its not really “legitimate defense” because you actually jump towards the player. people wouldn’t be called for that if they just jumped straight up. If a defender jumped straight up, and you jumped into him, i’m pretty sure that would be a charge.

By: djKianoosh

djKianoosh — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:25:00 +0000

i dont know what you guys were watching, but that was an easy call. I think the refs got it right. double foul because manu has his left arm extended and leaning into stack, and stack for pulling that arm down and taking both of them down. Tech for stack for pushing down on manu’s neck, and tech for avery for givin the ol’ stare down at mid-court.

loved van gundy’s cage idea.. just kidding. but even he was like, no tech needed. that was just a hard foul on stack.

as for spurs getting in their head, yeah, probably. but also they had just lost a big lead and dirk. so they were already fragile, that just put them over the edge.

what’s ginobili gonna do? let stack get that rebound? what do you guys want? stack was the dirty player in this one. just cause he couldn’t get the board he flipped out. that’s weak…

By: Prof. TX

Prof. TX — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:22:57 +0000

I hate that the defender is called on that. A number of players, Manu included, have made a career out of jumping into or onto people who were playing legitimate defense.