Al Horford - sneaky dirty?

[PierceFan4ever]

The Celtics are full of dirty players.

Crowder, Smart, Horford and Kelly. Then IT with his flopping and carrying.

Very unlikeable team.

Bulls fan getting so mad is hilarious

Not really mad.

I'm sure plenty agree with me.

It's actually seeing Celtic fans get so hurt when people discuss their team. They're not angels.

Yeah every player on our team is dirty. It's only annoying when it's always the negatives being mentioned about the Celtics all season mainly due to jealousy. You're a Bulls fan, I know why you're so angered, maybe if Rondo played the team would have swept the Warriors

[TheGOATRises007]

Bulls fan getting so mad is hilarious

Not really mad.

I'm sure plenty agree with me.

It's actually seeing Celtic fans get so hurt when people discuss their team. They're not angels.

Yeah every player on our team is dirty. It's only annoying when it's always the negatives being mentioned about the Celtics all season mainly due to jealousy. You're a Bulls fan, I know why you're so angered, maybe if Rondo played the team would have swept the Warriors

You're clearly incapable of conversing.

I never said the entire team was dirty. And maybe the Bulls would have beat the Celtics if Rondo didn't get injured, but he got injured. So it doesn't matter. Our team isn't that good.

Neither is Boston though. They'll get exposed at 1 point in the playoffs.

No one is jealous of Boston. If I'm jealous of anyone, it'd be the Warriors. The NBA's best team.

Why would anyone be jealous of Boston?

Negative comments = jealousy. Great logic by the NBA's dumbest fanbase.

[zimpy27]

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So this comes after Markeiff Morris' injury in game 1 in which he landed on Horford's foot after making a jumpshot over him. Morris didn't return but hopefully he'll be back for game 2. Reason I'm posting this now is because I remember almost exactly 2 years ago when Wiz played the Hawks in the second round, Horford pulled the exact same **** against Beal in game 1 and Beal sprained his ankle.

See here


This happens a lot more than people think, especially this time of the season. Jalen Rose admitted a while back that he purposefully did the exact same thing against Kobe during the 2000 Finals in hoping to injure him (Kobe missed the next game). And Larry Bird even said couple years ago that Bill laimbeer was the master of this and would often try it on McHale and Parish.

After the Beal incident, I made a post about on here 2 years ago how I thought it was a dirty move and that anyone who's played basketball knows when a guy is purposefully trying to take their landing space to have them land awkwardly. No one was really buying it though. But then Horford drops the people's elbow on Dellavedova one round later:

Watch on YouTube

And a Raps fan mentioned in the game thread how Horford is the guy that basically ended TJ Ford's career with this bush league play:

Watch on YouTube

Thoughts? Only bring this up because Horford has never been looked as a dirty player. But I feel like this has happened too many times to keep calling it a coincidence...or am I reading too much into it?

I always consider him to be one of the dirtiest players in the league. Ever since I saw him do that to TJ Ford and I've noted many more since. There are plenty of other moments in the history of games that I've seen him pull dirty moves since then and probably aren't documented. Many were glossed over. I actually really dislike Al Horford and there aren't many players I'd say that about.

[zimpy27]

You don't come down under a shooter.

Was it intentional though? No reason to assume so with Horfords history. A few other incidents and then maybe it can be inferred.

This is the sneaky part, most believe Hoford doesn't have a history of intentionally injuring players but I can assure you there's documentation of several and non-documented events of far more that I've noted since the TJ Ford injury.

[PierceFan4ever]

Not really mad.

I'm sure plenty agree with me.

It's actually seeing Celtic fans get so hurt when people discuss their team. They're not angels.

Yeah every player on our team is dirty. It's only annoying when it's always the negatives being mentioned about the Celtics all season mainly due to jealousy. You're a Bulls fan, I know why you're so angered, maybe if Rondo played the team would have swept the Warriors

You're clearly incapable of conversing.

I never said the entire team was dirty. And maybe the Bulls would have beat the Celtics if Rondo didn't get injured, but he got injured. So it doesn't matter. Our team isn't that good.

Neither is Boston though. They'll get exposed at 1 point in the playoffs.

No one is jealous of Boston. If I'm jealous of anyone, it'd be the Warriors. The NBA's best team.

Why would anyone be jealous of Boston?

Negative comments = jealousy. Great logic by the NBA's dumbest fanbase.

"I never said the entire team"...oh you only said like 6 players I mean that's a few dirty players in the team

Get exposed at one point, I mean that's all you can right?

You seem pretty jealous and salt your team got bounced by ummm..the Celtics? I never seen you around posting negative things about the Celtics prior to the Bulls series so hmmm. "Great logic by the dumbest fanbase"

Yeah have fun watching the Bulls looking up to the Celtics for years while Jimmy Butler rots and plays with Isaiah Caanan.

[TheGOATRises007]

Yeah every player on our team is dirty. It's only annoying when it's always the negatives being mentioned about the Celtics all season mainly due to jealousy. You're a Bulls fan, I know why you're so angered, maybe if Rondo played the team would have swept the Warriors

You're clearly incapable of conversing.

I never said the entire team was dirty. And maybe the Bulls would have beat the Celtics if Rondo didn't get injured, but he got injured. So it doesn't matter. Our team isn't that good.

Neither is Boston though. They'll get exposed at 1 point in the playoffs.

No one is jealous of Boston. If I'm jealous of anyone, it'd be the Warriors. The NBA's best team.

Why would anyone be jealous of Boston?

Negative comments = jealousy. Great logic by the NBA's dumbest fanbase.

"I never said the entire team"...oh you only said like 6 players I mean that's a few dirty players in the team

Get exposed at one point, I mean that's all you can right?

You seem pretty jealous and salt your team got bounced by ummm..the Celtics? I never seen you around posting negative things about the Celtics prior to the Bulls series so hmmm. "Great logic by the dumbest fanbase"

Yeah have fun watching the Bulls looking up to the Celtics for years while Jimmy Butler rots and plays with Isaiah Caanan.

That's still not the entire team.

I just told you I'm not salty at all. I expected a loss after Rondo was out.

Objective negativity. Again, plenty have agreed re: Celtics being overrated and them having dirty players. Not just me.

I don't know why you keep talking about the Celtics as if they're this great team

You're looking up to Lebron too. So have fun believing you can "contend"

And I don't really dislike the Celtics. Just the fans on here have been annoying all season. And no I didn't post anything, because there was no reason to.

[PierceFan4ever]

You're clearly incapable of conversing.

I never said the entire team was dirty. And maybe the Bulls would have beat the Celtics if Rondo didn't get injured, but he got injured. So it doesn't matter. Our team isn't that good.

Neither is Boston though. They'll get exposed at 1 point in the playoffs.

No one is jealous of Boston. If I'm jealous of anyone, it'd be the Warriors. The NBA's best team.

Why would anyone be jealous of Boston?

Negative comments = jealousy. Great logic by the NBA's dumbest fanbase.

"I never said the entire team"...oh you only said like 6 players I mean that's a few dirty players in the team

Get exposed at one point, I mean that's all you can right?

You seem pretty jealous and salt your team got bounced by ummm..the Celtics? I never seen you around posting negative things about the Celtics prior to the Bulls series so hmmm. "Great logic by the dumbest fanbase"

Yeah have fun watching the Bulls looking up to the Celtics for years while Jimmy Butler rots and plays with Isaiah Caanan.

That's still not the entire team.

I just told you I'm not salty at all. I expected a loss after Rondo was out.

Objective negativity. Again, plenty have agreed re: Celtics being overrated and them having dirty players. Not just me.

I don't know why you keep talking about the Celtics as if they're this great team

You're looking up to Lebron too. So have fun believing you can "contend"

And I don't really dislike the Celtics. Just the fans on here have been annoying all season. And no I didn't post anything, because there was no reason to.

Bruh calling 6 players dirty on a team is a little outlandish? Most people think there's about 5 players that are dirty in the NBA and you're here name dropping 6 lol.

Plenty of them being overrated? Who? Bulls and Raptors fans? What's overrated, them contending for a championship or them realistically making the eastern conference finals in which most Celtics fans expect at best? Nothing overrated about being the #1 seed and potentially losing in the conference finals unless you are a 70 win team.

Celtics fans being annoying here lol. Most Celtics fans don't even post here because there seems to be a agenda with the Celtics. Yeah I think you're salty as a Bulls fan talking smack about the Celtics as much as you don't want to admit.

Hey, the Celtics may deal with 2-3 more years but atleast we got something going, the team is nowhere near its peak. Free agency, draft picks, players getting more experience, lots of possible potential. Team has been trending upwards the last 3+ years. As for the Bulls...yikes.

[hickfromfrenchlick]

The Celtics are full of dirty players.

Crowder, Smart, Horford and Kelly. Then IT with his flopping and carrying.

Very unlikeable team.

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[chrisab123]

So people are really citing Delly as evidence of Horford being dirty? Are we just going to forget that the point guard in question has a history of going after other players knees in the playoffs?? Horford might have done a few dirty plays here and there but the Morris one isn't one at all. Look at the tape. Also for the person on Twitter bitching that he didn't give Keef space...well what the ****...that's the point.

[chrisab123]

Read on Twitter

So this comes after Markeiff Morris' injury in game 1 in which he landed on Horford's foot after making a jumpshot over him. Morris didn't return but hopefully he'll be back for game 2. Reason I'm posting this now is because I remember almost exactly 2 years ago when Wiz played the Hawks in the second round, Horford pulled the exact same **** against Beal in game 1 and Beal sprained his ankle.

See here


This happens a lot more than people think, especially this time of the season. Jalen Rose admitted a while back that he purposefully did the exact same thing against Kobe during the 2000 Finals in hoping to injure him (Kobe missed the next game). And Larry Bird even said couple years ago that Bill laimbeer was the master of this and would often try it on McHale and Parish.

After the Beal incident, I made a post about on here 2 years ago how I thought it was a dirty move and that anyone who's played basketball knows when a guy is purposefully trying to take their landing space to have them land awkwardly. No one was really buying it though. But then Horford drops the people's elbow on Dellavedova one round later:

Watch on YouTube

And a Raps fan mentioned in the game thread how Horford is the guy that basically ended TJ Ford's career with this bush league play:

Watch on YouTube

Thoughts? Only bring this up because Horford has never been looked as a dirty player. But I feel like this has happened too many times to keep calling it a coincidence...or am I reading too much into it?

I always consider him to be one of the dirtiest players in the league. Ever since I saw him do that to TJ Ford and I've noted many more since. There are plenty of other moments in the history of games that I've seen him pull dirty moves since then and probably aren't documented. Many were glossed over. I actually really dislike Al Horford and there aren't many players I'd say that about.

Again...you're really going to cite the Morris thing where Horford didn't give him room to shoot and **** Delly? Delly deserved a lot worse in the playoffs. He spent the entire run trying to take out players knees. As for Morris He's not supposed to give him room. The bias against the Celtics here is ridiculous. If shoe was on the other foot people would be calling Horford a pussy for not playing and people would be calling Keef gritty...

[casketball]

Yeah delly was taking out people's knees left and right that year. Dun care.


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[benb331]

As a Bullets fan who hates the Celtics - no, just no. Such a small sample size over a long career. On the court, sht happens sometimes. It's unfortunate for "my" team right now, but I don't see a pattern or ill intent. Just a few data points that don't look good when they're condensed side-by-side. It's cherry picking such a small % of plays that it's laughable. I'll change my tune if he throws in a couple eye pokes, bag tags, and wedgies in a single series.

[OldCeltics]

Washington Bullets lose, and a thread pops up by a Wizards fan claiming a Celtic is dirty player. HA HA HA

[OldCeltics]

As a Bullets fan who hates the Celtics - no, just no. Such a small sample size over a long career. On the court, sht happens sometimes. It's unfortunate for "my" team right now, but I don't see a pattern or ill intent. Just a few data points that don't look good when they're condensed side-by-side. It's cherry picking such a small % of plays that it's laughable. I'll change my tune if he throws in a couple eye pokes, bag tags, and wedgies in a single series.

Al is the nicest person in the NBA, he authentically a good person, and would never hurt any one on purpose. OP is salty Bullets fan trying to attack the Celtics, in a clever way like he doesn't know what he is doing.

[benb331]

As a Bullets fan who hates the Celtics - no, just no. Such a small sample size over a long career. On the court, sht happens sometimes. It's unfortunate for "my" team right now, but I don't see a pattern or ill intent. Just a few data points that don't look good when they're condensed side-by-side. It's cherry picking such a small % of plays that it's laughable. I'll change my tune if he throws in a couple eye pokes, bag tags, and wedgies in a single series.

Al is the nicest person in the NBA, he authentically a good person, and would never hurt any one on purpose. OP is salty Bullets fan trying to attack the Celtics, in a clever way like he doesn't know what he is doing.

I dunno - C fans seem awfully defensive every time something critical or even inquisitive is posted. I think OP saw a play he thought was out of line, wonders if "unbiased" fans who don't have a dog in the fight today think the same? He has a legit question and presented evidence supporting his side. No need to attack OP over it. He didn't come on to the GB spewing " HORFORD IS THE DIRTIEST SOB TO EVER EXIST HE SHOULD GET INJURED blah blah blah" - just "Hey guys, here's what I saw. Thoughts?" Couldn't have possibly tossed the idea out there in a more questioning way.

If you're seeing salt in the top post, it's time to step away from the hahbah for a bit.

[dlts20]

As a Bullets fan who hates the Celtics - no, just no. Such a small sample size over a long career. On the court, sht happens sometimes. It's unfortunate for "my" team right now, but I don't see a pattern or ill intent. Just a few data points that don't look good when they're condensed side-by-side. It's cherry picking such a small % of plays that it's laughable. I'll change my tune if he throws in a couple eye pokes, bag tags, and wedgies in a single series.

Al is the nicest person in the NBA, he authentically a good person, and would never hurt any one on purpose. OP is salty Bullets fan trying to attack the Celtics, in a clever way like he doesn't know what he is doing.

Why do you keep saying that? Because he's soft spoken? He's no nicer than a ton of players in the league. Even if he were, that doesn't mean that you don't make dirty plays. Juwan Howard and Bruce Bowen are super class acts who also had alot of dirty plays

[spacemonkey]

I wonder how C's fans defending Horford would react if he was on the Wizards and took out Crowder this way.

Oh, wait, they'd accept it gracefully, *slaps forehead*

[CoreyGallagher]

Thread has become squabbling so I'm going to lock it.