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burninmylight on 24 June 2021
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KLAMarine said:
burninmylight said:

Show me some examples of when Giannis has ever attempted to hurt another player during the course of play in the past. Anything. The closest you can find is when he clocked Mike Dunleavy Jr.

You're so convinced that someone who has no history of dirty play suddenly decided to commit such an act on another player whom he couldn't see, and if he could predict where the player would land, would have figured he'd land anywhere except where Irving actually did.

You're entitled to your opinion, but the refs disagreed with you at the time that it happened, otherwise Giannis would  have gotten a Tech-2 and thrown out of the game. The league officials disagreed with you after the game, otherwise Giannis would be fined and suspended. Eighteen-year veteran, coach of the opposing team, and guy who knows all too well what it's like to be on the bad end of some dirty play, Steve Nash, doesn't agree with you. If the Nets thought it was dirty, best believe they would have campaigned to have Giannis out of there.

"a face can be at any height, a foot has to always return to floor height."

Lol, OK...

Yes, a face can be at any height. So can a foot, which is constantly in motion when you play basketball, which usually involves a great deal of running and jumping. A face has to return to however high it is normally off the ground as well, because that's how physics and human anatomy work. Lol at "floor height"...

"I'm more suspicious of Giannis than Harris. Giannis has to know Kyrie's feet are below Kyrie who's currently in the air: Kyrie's feet are going to come down."

You're right; I will give you that. Giannis had to know, or at least make an educated assumption that Kyrie's feet are below Kyrie. I've never once witnessed Kyrie's feet being above Kyrie while in the air, but I am open to correction if there is proof of it out there.

I don't understand why you're so passionate about this. I don't really care too much and even if I cared 100%, there's nothing I can do to alter reality.

Maybe Giannis did it on purpose or not, we'll never truly know. Only Giannis knows and like you said, officials have made their decisions.

*shoulder shrug*

I'm starting to notice a disturbing trend from people in this thread: every time someone has run all out of anything to say with actual substance, they talk about how "passionate" I am about a subject, despite being on the exact same site, in the exact same forum, spending just as much time, focus and energy on the exact same subject. It's almost like it's a dogwhistle for an ad hominem attack in desperation of anything to use to retort back with or something.

I mean, if I didn't really care much about something, I sure as hell wouldn't keep arguing with a person over and over about it, even after that person said his/her/themself that I seemed not to care about it and tried to drop it. I sure wouldn't keep that thing going long after exhausting any reasonable points I had to make about the matter and start resorting to nonsense like educating people on "floor height" and the spatial relationship between feet and faces. I'd sound like one of those flat earthers, like Kyrie Irving or something.

Yeah, I guess the only way we can ever possibly know someone else's intent is to be psychics to read peoples' minds. Going off of things like prior behavior, examining replays, and consulting reasonable authority figures don't mean squat. Here's an idea: let's surgically put eyes in the backs of everyone's heads so that we can always see where people who are behind us are going to land! We'll never misjudge "floor height" again, and the next time a guy kicks his leg out and rolls his ankle, it will definitely be the fault of the other guy!

*Eye roll*