inquisitive wrote:rockmanslim wrote:inquisitive wrote:hollins didn't even bother to avoid lin when he was on the floor...he casually walked on his hand and ankle...it was no accident...after a fall like that when players are involved...human instinct will sense or even see something on the ground especially a red colored jersey and try to avoid it by jumping or something...the punk knew lin was down on the ground and basically pretended like he didn't know...he walked on it casually trying to basically avoid some 'intent' so that the league won't come down on him...rockets need to send the tape in.
rewatching the play again (6:22 of the second quarter), it doesn't look intentional to me. hollins wasn't even looking at lin, he was looking at the ball and the basket as he landed after a block attempt. it happened too quickly, with hollins not even looking at lin as hollins stumbled backwards off balance, for it to be intentional.
however, the kick was intentional. he should be suspended for that one.
he was acting like he didnt know lin was on the ground, but he knew...how can you not know after lin falls down with ryan's own teammate being involved and suddenly you don't see lin anywhere, so where could he be...cause if he had looked down and stepped on lin, he woulda been busted...by just walking on lin like he didn't know, he can get away with it, but there is no doubt he knew...clever punk i should say.
looks to me like it happened too fast to be intentional and he was preoccupied watching Parsons' put back dunk, not looking down at his feet/lin. unless he has eyes in the back of his head, he had no idea he'd be stepping on lin's ankles. he actually did manage to step on both of lin's ankles lol. without looking down, he couldn't do that if he tried. had to be inadvertent. blind luck (bad luck for lin)
the kick later on was blatant though, bs that he hasn't been suspended for that yet. maybe after the AS break when stu jackson has had time to review it?
