Comments on: Nation Discussion: Turiaf deserved flagrant 2?

By: bigL

bigL — Tue, 13 May 2008 01:11:08 +0000

That is basically why they created a flagrant 1 and 2. Flagrant 1 for these types of dangerous fouls, and flagrant 2’s for raja bell clotheline type of fouls. It’s like refs are too eager to eject people, just look at when that Songaila guy on the wiz accidentally slapped lebron. This seemed like a textbook flagrant 1. Price was even giving ronie a five so they knew they were cool (but then of course the refs separated them). I find it hard to believe they will suspend him, but you never know cuz of that songaila suspension. They better not.

By: Jonny

Jonny — Mon, 12 May 2008 18:50:18 +0000

the weirdest thing watching it live was that play had already stopped because of that foul on sasha. . but then price kept going. . to a certain extent it was his own fault, but i can see how it would look like a flagrant foul . . .not an ejection though

raja bell was an ejection

By: Michael_23

Michael_23 — Mon, 12 May 2008 18:12:27 +0000

That was a good 1980’s playoff foul call. I loved the 80’s foul calls. Remember when one of the Celtics players pushed Kurt Rambis and Kurt was playing beat up and bloody. They should unleash the animal within these players.

I’m not talking about not having a brawl or anything, but let these players go at it like Jordan, Bird, and Magic did.

By: i love l.a.

i love l.a. — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:11:06 +0000

terrible call. this was just a solid playoff foul. no points in the paint, no easy ones. he clearly went for the ball. maybe flagrant, but definitely not an ejection. better not be a suspension… lakers in 6

By: DCLAKER

DCLAKER — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:02:21 +0000

HELL NO!He should’ve never been thrown out the game which really sealed the deal.

…and Price needs to learn some basketball history or better yet ask A.I.(Iverson)why he never complains when he gets tossed to the floor EVERY YEAR,same goes for Wade.Learn to take a hard hit and GET A HEART,Isaiah(Thomas)is another guy who used to get abused by R.Parrish,Kareem and Laimbeer in practice,now that’s tough.

By: Rizzo

Rizzo — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:45:40 +0000

it looked to me that he went for he ball and it was a good hard foul, i can even swallow the flagrant foul but the ejection part of it was BS…..Ronny is not a dirty player and its playoof time so the foul severity is always going to increase. He wasnt trying to hurt price or whatever his name is. question should Price have gotten a T for his reaction and jumping up towards Ronny? Once he saw Ronny with his acceptance of the foul and not a stare down he backed off but still his reaction could have got his lip busted as well…..lol

By: daboss1848

daboss1848 — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:22:04 +0000

No Flagrant - not 1 and 2. This was called b/c of his fall not b/c of the foul.

LOL when Price jumped and pretended to go do something only to see Turiaf not care less about him.

By: einyo

einyo — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:47:06 +0000

anyone notice farmar just stands there while all the other lakers run to ronny’s side, go watch eit again

By: KOBEISKING

KOBEISKING — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:35:25 +0000

The refs were on crack on this play. I agree a Flagrant 1, but no way in f’ucking hell is this a flagrant 2. Oh and meanwhile, those utah fans are some of the biggest b1tches ever. It was so f’ucking annoying when they continuously kept chanting “LAKERS SUCK” when they know the refs were on their side and we were injured. LOL if kobe didnt get hurt on his back, instead of 1-9 he would have went like 5-9 or 6-9 in the 4th

By: lalball81

lalball81 — Mon, 12 May 2008 05:31:14 +0000

Ronny Price could have gotten seriously hurt in the fall, and the refs want to keep that out of the game. The foul may not have warranted an ejection, but the officials are looking out for the players which is a good thing. It was definetly a hard foul, mostly because Ronny hit him with his body in the air, then followed down with his arm, essentially looking like he “pushed” Price to the floor.

Anyway, it doesn’t matter what we think, it was called a flagrant two and that’s that. I think it’s safe to say that the referees have much more knowledge about this sort of thing, have a better vantage point, and make correct calls most of the time.