Pacers Brawl With Fans During piston game

[jenscats5]

yea thats what you think

1) artest gets a foul which wasnt even that bad
2 ) ben wallace pushes him and it was all headed towards a fight, artest just backs off even though he is probobly about to explode with anger, lays down on the table and does no harm to anyone.
3) once again it was just a foul
4) someone throws a beer at him, at this point when he's already pissed off some little punk pretty much slaps him in his face.
5) at this point you can't really control yourself even if all the previus things didnt happen
6) fight breaks out between a guy who splashed artest and jackson with a beer AGAIN, right in their face.

obviously artest would of been fighting, any other human being in the same sitution would do the same thing. Even if it was high school basketball.

If anything at all those fans deserved to be sent back home with broken jaws.

Yeah, whatever....with the way you think, all the little wanna-be hoodlum gangbangers around here shouldn't get jail time or prosecuted for shooting at someone or firing their gun cuz they couldn't possibly control their anger when some punk "slaps them in the face" etc.....

I mean if you're already pissed off at previous circumstances, it's ok to lose control & take it out on someone who just happens to act like an idiot, but in a lesser degree? I mean, that fucker, how dare he throw a beer at me? Artest should've killed him then or shot him or put him in the hospital!

Man, if you hard or a gansta, then you would've gone after Wallace.....

 

[EnderJE]

Artest should've killed him then or shot him or put him in the hospital!

He should of put the guy in the hospital. Where was the security in all this? Who's protecting the players? Sheesh.

 

[big_bad_buff]

so if someone threw a beer at you would you wipe that shit off and tell him thank you?
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if i got paid a couple million a year? damn straight, i'd go up there and shake the mofo's hand

 

[jenscats5]

He should of put the guy in the hospital. Where was the security in all this? Who's protecting the players? Sheesh.

While player protection is important, and I'm not saying what the fan did was right..... the means doesn't justify the end in this case....

A thrown plastic cup filled with a liquid doesn't justify assault & battery....

Now if you really want player protection they should: ban all alcoholic beverages, ban all beverage containers from seats, put in a buffer zone between fans & players (bring back the cage or something similar), have an enormous amount of security who would've swept down like a cloak over that fan & taken him away before Artest even would've gotten that close to the fan, etc.....

As a highly paid professional, Artest needs to grow up & lose the 'tude......he's supposed to be a professional & needs to act like it...

 

[sconoscuito]

this is not high school or middle school, the smallest player in the nba will go against the biggest one, size doesnt matter, they've gone through lot worse than ben wallace and rasheed wallace.

Those players have hearts bigger than anyone else, you know how they say it's not the size of a dog in a fight, it's the size of a fight in a dog. Well it's true, Someone like gary payton will go up against anyone you put infront of him, same goes for artest but in this situation he found enaugh stregth to get out of the fight untill some little punk provoked him, gettin splasshed with a beer in a situation like that is worse than gettin pushed. Cause once again, you're Adrenalin flowing, theres fans probobly yelling all kinds of racial slurs and all of a sudden, splash and you get hit with a beer, obviously you will explode.

 

[sconoscuito]

While player protection is important, and I'm not saying what the fan did was right..... the means doesn't justify the end in this case....

A thrown plastic cup filled with a liquid doesn't justify assault & battery....

Now if you really want player protection they should: ban all alcoholic beverages, ban all beverage containers from seats, put in a buffer zone between fans & players (bring back the cage or something similar), have an enormous amount of security who would've swept down like a cloak over that fan & taken him away before Artest even would've gotten that close to the fan, etc.....

As a highly paid professional, Artest needs to grow up & lose the 'tude......he's supposed to be a professional & needs to act like it...

okay there is nothing proffesional about basketball, sports are sports. People who have the biggest balls and hearts make it. You don't need an interview to make the team

 

[big_bad_buff]

thinking, and self control, this is what separates man from animal lol

this is not high school or middle school, the smallest player in the nba will go against the biggest one, size doesnt matter, they've gone through lot worse than ben wallace and rasheed wallace.

Those players have hearts bigger than anyone else, you know how they say it's not the size of a dog in a fight, it's the size of a fight in a dog. Well it's true, Someone like gary payton will go up against anyone you put infront of him, same goes for artest but in this situation he found enaugh stregth to get out of the fight untill some little punk provoked him, gettin splasshed with a beer in a situation like that is worse than gettin pushed. Cause once again, you're Adrenalin flowing, theres fans probobly yelling all kinds of racial slurs and all of a sudden, splash and you get hit with a beer, obviously you will explode.

 

[sconoscuito]

theres no way you can control yourself at that point.

unless you have no testicles and very very low Adrenalin levels.

 

[slickdadd]

theres no way you can control yourself at that point.

unless you have no testicles and very very low Adrenalin levels.

Well considering this has basically never happened before, there is some way to control yourself. Many other players have before him. Artest is a loose cannon. Plain and simple.

 

[sconoscuito]

Well considering this has basically never happened before, there is some way to control yourself. Many other players have before him. Artest is a loose cannon. Plain and simple.

he is but I dont remember any fans throwing shit at players after the fight was pretty much done