Nuggets/Knicks Brawl

[Venom65437]

I should have touched on this earlier, but I've been slacking... and busy. I also haven't talked as much NBA as I would have liked, but with the NFL winding down, it should pick up soon.

Anyway, how Isiah Thomas doesn't get punished for this is beyond me. He started it all by telling Carmelo he didn't think it would be a good idea to go to the basket again.

Well, WAH! WAH! If Isiah doesn't want teams to blow him out and then show boat, he should get his team to play a little defense. And maybe build a team where everyone doesn't play the same position. He made this bed and now he has to lay in it.

That said, what Carmelo did was just ridiculous, throwing a punch like that. After the Pistons/Pacers brawl, everyone knows there will be a zero tolerance policy, and I think Commissioner Stern did the right thing in a heavy suspension. Carmelo is the team leader, and a very important piece of the Nuggets, he can't go off the handle like that.

He's the only player I'm going to single out, others got suspended too, but they aren't near the name that Carmelo is, and for the most part, they aren't big suspensions.

Again, how Isiah escapes punishment is beyond me, it's so obvious he started that. You can even tell by the look on the woman's face next to him, she heard what he said...

[philster]

Well, I think both coaches were at blame for this one. Yeah, Isiah Thomas was clearly frustrated but he was being goaded too. When the coaches actually get heated up you know the players are going to be affected by it. But either way I think the NBA looked at the case and decided that Isiah Thomas had sufficient reason to be frustrated since the other team was running up the score on him. So they let it go. If he had actually thrown a punch, that would've been different.

This brawl wasn't really surprising at all to me to tell the truth. But I wasn't surprised by the punishments either, but in this case I actually don't think it was as bad as the one where the players in Detroit started brawling it out with the fans.

[cleglaw]

That was a flagrant hard foul which was inappropriate. It is certainly understandable that Anthony would get upset. On the other hand resorting to throwing punches is wrong. The suspensions are deserved.