First of all, this is a video from a late game last night between the Portland Trailblazers and Los Angeles Lakers. It`s a video of the altercation as a result of a unfortunate foul by Lakers forward Trevor Ariza on Rudy Fernandez on the Blazers. Aside from the actual intent of the foul (it`s clear that Ariza went for the block but instead caught Rudy`s head...it`s just that the fall made it look a lot worst) pay close attention to the aftermath of the foul. Now sometimes an altercation between players is deemed as inappropriate. But at the same time, if I was the coach I`d like my players to protect and stand up for one another, through anything whether it`s off the court or incidents like this. Some can argue that these altercations do nothing but escalate the event and are sometimes just excuses for players to blow off some steam. But this is not just "any" altercation, just players standing up for the teamates of their respective team. The only things exchanged are just words, not punches. To me it showed me that the Blazers are a more mature team than they look (youngest team in the NBA and the fact that they didn't escalate the event buy throwing punches), they also showed me that the are a close nitted team, because why else would you race down the whole court just to tell the perpatrator how many "F" words you can say in about a minute. Whoever gets fined for this altercation, it was well worth it in my opinion.
Well back on topic, how does this have anything to do with the Raptors? Simple, ever since Charles Oakley left Toronto (with the exception of maybe Antonio Davis) all the Raptor players since are lack of a better term, pussies.
Exhibit A: TJ Ford injury at Atlanta on Dec 11th, 2007.
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