- Carmelo Anthony sucker punched Mardy Collins so loud that you can hear it. Also at the very end of the clip they play the punch from a different angle. Watch Collins’ legs buckle. He goes down like a ton of bricks although in his defense he never saw it coming.
- Anthony is a grown man and he’ll have to take the consequences for his actions. It’s just too bad he sullied his image and detracted from what he has been doing on the court.
- I’m sure there is going to be a lot of negative coverage of this incident over the next week or so, and rightly so. However, watch some Celtics/Pistons, Celtics/Lakers and Celtics/Sixers from the Larry Bird era some time. Bird threw his share of punches. Was Collin’s foul on J.R. Smith any worse than Kevin McHale’s close line of Kurt Rambis? No doubt the Knicks and Nuggets made the NBA look bad last night. Let’s just not pretend that the league was cleaner 20 years ago. Meanwhile I’m bracing myself for the stories about the generation of thugs that is ruining the game.
- David Stern cannot be happy that this happened. But he has to be even more upset that it occurred in his back yard.
- Nate Robinson’s role is not in the least bit surprising for some reason.
Back to the Celtics:
- Brian Scalabrine led the team in assists last night.
- Sebastian Telfair is the lost man in the recent success.
- Ryan Gomes must be dying to get back.
- When Wally Szczerbiak first went down I thought it helped Doc develop a rotation. This time around it’s more disappointing as he was starting to settle into a role off the bench that could really help the C’s.
- Tony Allen struggled from the field last night (2-10) and still managed to contribute, particularly from the free throw line (7-8). When he’s on Allen definitely gives the C’s a different dimension.
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