Should Wade get suspended

[kyphi]

He should get 1 game. That was a cheap shot.

Dexter Pittman's dumba$s punch last year was a cheap shot - The Heat dumped him after that, and I don't know if he is even playing ball anymore.
If the sports dudes on tv aren't talking about it, then I doubt anything will happen. Both were running to get into their positions, neither one was going to defer to the other and contact occurred. The refs either did not see what happened or decided to let play-off basketball go on.

[Solid]

Bench D-bag Wade for his own protection.

Before someone gets really hurt.

[Baester]

Ok, here's the play,

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBVK0CDo8O0[/youtube]

Elbow to the head, jumped up to deliver it.

1) Will Wade get suspended?

2) Should Wade get suspended?

3)If so, how may games?

I say
1) No
2) Yes
3) 3 Games - Wade has a history of several dirty cheap shots.

As much as I love competition and thus hate the Heat, I say no. It was unintentional yet Wade didnt give a crap to it happened, it still shouldnt result in a suspension.

[AirP.]

What a wonderful message the NBA is sending to it's younger fans, as long as you're talented you can do whatever you want. If he NBA cares at all about it's image they'll suspend Wade at least 1 game, if not it's all about money and with that... making sure the Heat don't get slowed down. It's really getting out of hand, I could see a hard foul near the bucket, but not that blatant, there wasn't even a play at mid court.

[kyphi]

I love having Wade on the Heat team. That's called playoff basketball. Reggie Miller couldn't say much because he did stuff like that too when he played.

Playoff basketball huh? I suppose you will be ok with the pacers returning the favor with an elbow to wades head?

from a player shorter than him, and he wasn't even hurt? yeah, I'd be ok with that. It's not like the Pacers play squeaky clean, either, you know. Or the Spurs or Memphis. All 4 teams are physical (by today's standard), and I expect to see it on the court - but no fighting in the crowd

[OtW]

Personal attacks are inappropriate.

[Umbra]

Lance Stephenson is a dirty player. That's a temple to the elbow if I ever seen one.

I lol'd in real life.

[AirP.]

As much as I love competition and thus hate the Heat, I say no. It was unintentional yet Wade didnt give a crap to it happened, it still shouldnt result in a suspension.

If it was unintentional and he was trying to get past him, he would have used his hand to move his head instead of his forearm, he actually thought about it before it happened(getting the forearm ready). He hit a guy who was looking away... PLUS if you look at the behind angle, his whole upperbody was to his left, he had to go out of his way to get that shot in.... the back angle shows you that. Go back to about 31 seconds in that clip and watch his body alignment.

That's outside of a hard foul, the NBA is just begging for someone to seriously hurt Lebron or Wade on the court. Sooner or later you're going to start seeing a lot of elbows to the face in situations where you know they're trying to injure someone.

[Niko23]

$50,000 fine

[nitetrain8603]

What I don't get is this. You know the league isn't going to do anything to Wade. Why not get a goon at the end of the bench for when Wade pulls this. I'm not advocating violence in the NBA, but when it's clear that the rules don't go both ways and someone is attacking you, you need to attack back.

I don't know, if I played in the NBA these days, I probably would've went right up to him and gave him the Chris Childs two piece combo. Notice when Kobe received that, he stopped doing crap like that. That's not to say he stopped flopping(up until recently, he flailed his arms or legs all the time), but he wasn't taking cheap shots. No one has checked Wade, and they need to. He's been dislocating elbows(he hooked Rondo on that play), kicking people in the nuts, breaking noses, and let's not forget checking small players as if he were a hockey player or a safety lining up a WR going over the middle(Collison last year). Granger said something, but someone actually needs to do something. If not in this year's playoffs, then in next year's regular season.

[torotoe]

Yes. 3 games seems fair. Wade has a history of cheap shots, and this one was particularly dangerous.

[OtW]

What I don't get is this. You know the league isn't going to do anything to Wade. Why not get a goon at the end of the bench for when Wade pulls this. I'm not advocating violence in the NBA, but when it's clear that the rules don't go both ways and someone is attacking you, you need to attack back.

I don't know, if I played in the NBA these days, I probably would've went right up to him and gave him the Chris Childs two piece combo. Notice when Kobe received that, he stopped doing crap like that. That's not to say he stopped flopping(up until recently, he flailed his arms or legs all the time), but he wasn't taking cheap shots. No one has checked Wade, and they need to. He's been dislocating elbows(he hooked Rondo on that play), kicking people in the nuts, breaking noses, and let's not forget checking small players as if he were a hockey player or a safety lining up a WR going over the middle(Collison last year). Granger said something, but someone actually needs to do something. If not in this year's playoffs, then in next year's regular season.

Because then you are guaranteed to get a dirty response from Haslem/Andersen and it'll turn into one big **** of dirty plays throughout the game.

Even if Wade is in the wrong by initiating the dirty play, I can guarantee you that if another team hurts Wade, the Heat will hit back. It won't be let go.

Though, you can argue that this type of retaliation would actually play into the Pacer's hands because it would get Miami's back up bigs in trouble.

[AirP.]

What I don't get is this. You know the league isn't going to do anything to Wade. Why not get a goon at the end of the bench for when Wade pulls this. I'm not advocating violence in the NBA, but when it's clear that the rules don't go both ways and someone is attacking you, you need to attack back.

I don't know, if I played in the NBA these days, I probably would've went right up to him and gave him the Chris Childs two piece combo. Notice when Kobe received that, he stopped doing crap like that. That's not to say he stopped flopping(up until recently, he flailed his arms or legs all the time), but he wasn't taking cheap shots. No one has checked Wade, and they need to. He's been dislocating elbows(he hooked Rondo on that play), kicking people in the nuts, breaking noses, and let's not forget checking small players as if he were a hockey player or a safety lining up a WR going over the middle(Collison last year). Granger said something, but someone actually needs to do something. If not in this year's playoffs, then in next year's regular season.

All you gotta do... since the NBA doesn't care.... when D.Wade is guarding you, you extend your elbows and when turning and accidentally go after his eye socket, who knows, maybe if someone ruins one of Wade's or Lebron's eyes they'll start to rethink the allowing of dirty shots away from the ball.

[Nuntius]

After watching the video it wasn't the elbow, it was his forearm. Wade his sprinting down the court to pic up his man, Lance is moving towards Wade during a fast break as if he was going to set a screen. Wade expected lance to remain still but he was still moving and got hit while Wade was airborne.

Lance was his man. I say that he picked him up nicely

[AirP.]

Because then you are guaranteed to get a dirty response from Haslem/Andersen and it'll turn into one big **** of dirty plays throughout the game.

Even if Wade is in the wrong by initiating the dirty play, I can guarantee you that if another team hurts Wade, the Heat will hit back.

Sure, but it's the NBA's fault for allowing it to start, you can't just sit there as a team and take a shot and say... "oh you got me good, can't wait for the next dirty shot". Sooner or later a star is going to get really hurt over a dirty play.

[Nuntius]

I love having Wade on the Heat team. That's called playoff basketball. Reggie Miller couldn't say much because he did stuff like that too when he played.

No. A hard foul to avoid an easy lay-up (making sure that the opposing player isn't risking injury, of course) is playoff basketball.

An elbow to the temple and nut shots are not playoff basketball.

[nitetrain8603]

What I don't get is this. You know the league isn't going to do anything to Wade. Why not get a goon at the end of the bench for when Wade pulls this. I'm not advocating violence in the NBA, but when it's clear that the rules don't go both ways and someone is attacking you, you need to attack back.

I don't know, if I played in the NBA these days, I probably would've went right up to him and gave him the Chris Childs two piece combo. Notice when Kobe received that, he stopped doing crap like that. That's not to say he stopped flopping(up until recently, he flailed his arms or legs all the time), but he wasn't taking cheap shots. No one has checked Wade, and they need to. He's been dislocating elbows(he hooked Rondo on that play), kicking people in the nuts, breaking noses, and let's not forget checking small players as if he were a hockey player or a safety lining up a WR going over the middle(Collison last year). Granger said something, but someone actually needs to do something. If not in this year's playoffs, then in next year's regular season.

Because then you are guaranteed to get a dirty response from Haslem/Andersen and it'll turn into one big **** of dirty plays throughout the game.

Even if Wade is in the wrong by initiating the dirty play, I can guarantee you that if another team hurts Wade, the Heat will hit back. It won't be let go.

Though, you can argue that this type of retaliation would actually play into the Pacer's hands because it would get Miami's back up bigs in trouble.

Exactly. The Heat have two defensive bigs worth a damn and that's Birdman and Udonis(though some could argue against Udonis at this point in time). Either way, if either retaliate, that screws the Heat even more. Me, personally, I'd be the type of guy throwing punches at Wade so he gets the point.

[Mk0]

I am sure Pacers fans were missing the Davis Brothers after that happened. Hell Jeff Foster would have sufficed. Didn't Hansbrough get the memo? He should be sticking up for their little guys, West/Hibbert cannot afford to do it.

[22haytham22]

He should but wont

[MikeM]

The Pacers should have turned that into a big thing on the court. As it is now, Wade will get nothing because no one seemed to notice.