Man I would hate to be a Bulls fans

[AleksandarN]

[yt=Jarrett Jack]0su_Huk6p-o[/yt]

 

[Oprostaj]

Yep. I remember watching that and just screaming at the TV. There is not one tough guy on that team that's willing to hit somebody. For all the screaming Noah does he's a wuss. That team is as soft as the other side of the pillow. No pride. Shame.

 

[kennadog]

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ba...t=Am16nwEzmCuKl0eD6ala4Y05nYcB?urn=nba,206950

 

[kingsnation]

What boggles my mind on top of the obvious is that the Raptors even managed to earn free throws even while doing nothing.

 

[JayBird]

If any of the Bulls had gone up and poked the ball away, then everyone would be crying about how unsportsmanlike of a move it was. It's a lose-lose for the Bulls. The real ***hole in this situation is Jack. Call a timeout then tie your shoe, idiot.

 

[kennadog]

If any of the Bulls had gone up and poked the ball away, then everyone would be crying about how unsportsmanlike of a move it was. It's a lose-lose for the Bulls. The real ***hole in this situation is Jack. Call a timeout then tie your shoe, idiot.

I would not call it unsportsman-like. Guys have lost shoes during play and continued to play until time-out or a stop in the action. If you don't wait or call a timeout or pass to teammate (at least), then you deserve to have the ball taken away from you.

 

[pdxKingsFan]

If any of the Bulls had gone up and poked the ball away, then everyone would be crying about how unsportsmanlike of a move it was. It's a lose-lose for the Bulls. The real ***hole in this situation is Jack. Call a timeout then tie your shoe, idiot.

I tend to agree. There's no precedent for it in basketball but the media loves to jump on these things and would have done so either way.

 

[LWP777]

I am predicting that Vinny D gets fired before Christmas. You heard it here first!

 

[JayBird]

I would not call it unsportsman-like. Guys have lost shoes during play and continued to play until time-out or a stop in the action. If you don't wait or call a timeout or pass to teammate (at least), then you deserve to have the ball taken away from you.

Maybe you wouldn't call it unsportsmanlike, but the media would. They'd hop all over it.

 

[Padrino]

Maybe you wouldn't call it unsportsmanlike, but the media would. They'd hop all over it.

if i were a member of the bulls, i wouldn't care one bit what the media thought...

you simply do not let jarret jack's stupidity go unpunished the way the bulls did...

this is the nba...

you don't tie your shoe when the ball is in play, especially if you are the man with the ball...

that is all kinds of ridiculous...

 

[kennadog]

Maybe you wouldn't call it unsportsmanlike, but the media would. They'd hop all over it.

Actually the announcers at the game sounded a bit stunned to me that the Bulls did nothing.

 

[Superman]

Maybe you wouldn't call it unsportsmanlike, but the media would. They'd hop all over it.

Screw the media. It would not have been unsportsmanlike, regardless of what anyone wants to say. Play doesn't stop because you want to tie your shoe, and I'm sure the Raptors coach (whoever that is anymore) was pissed at Jack for what he did. But not as pissed and Vinny del Negro should have been.

 

[GeraldWallace#3]

Man, that play right there just sums up the whole Bulls preformance that nigh. I saw no effort whatsoever from anyone on that team that night.

 

[Gargamel]

Man I would hate to be a Bulls fans


Yeah, they had to sit thru that lousy *** Jordan era before this.

 

[bloom]

This is his excuse for tying his shoe?

Jack now known as The Shoe Guy

Jarrett Jack had a perfectly good reason to start tying one of his shoes in the game against the Chicago Bulls last Saturday night.

The shoe had become untied.

Seriously, the Raptors' point guard said yesterday following practice that he wasn't trying to disrespect the Bulls by putting the ball under his arm and tying a shoe as the final seconds in the third quarter ticked off. And he's shocked by the overwhelming (mostly negative) response.

"I didn't know it was going to be that much of a big deal," Jack said.

"Everybody was like calling me and saying I was crazy. But my shoe came untied. And when I was looking up, I saw that they were kind of confused on defence, and I was like: 'Hey, why don't get my shoe together, while they're trying to get their defence together?' "

The Raptors were heading toward a 110-78 blowout over the Bulls, so there's the suggestion that Jack was rubbing Chicago's nose in it. Even his own coach was unimpressed.

"If it was one of our guys guarding their guy and the guy tied his shoe, I would expect our guy to go over and knock him on his ***," Raptors coach Jay Triano said. "A 30-point game, what would have another foul done? I might have just gone over and shoved him on his ***."

Jack explained that there was enough space between him and the closest Chicago defender that, if the guy had gone at him, he would have had time to turn around and react accordingly, without giving up the ball.

Source: http://www.torontosun.com/sports/basketball/2009/12/08/12076251-sun.html

 

[Gargamel]

^ Coming from the coach of a team that let someone score 81 points.

And the guy is obv full of crap because if Bosh got suspended doing that, he would've chewed him out for not thinking about the team goals.

 

[Superman]

^ Coming from the coach of a team that let someone score 81 points.

And the guy is obv full of crap because if Bosh got suspended doing that, he would've chewed him out for not thinking about the team goals.

In fairness, this isn't the same coach. Don't know that the two scenarios are really related.