dice wrote:ImSlower wrote:Accidental? Are we watching the same play? He closed his hand and swung back into his head.
the hand was always closed. he swung his arm back out of frustration and happened to catch the side of the head with the fist
As you see it. No worries. The both had arms interlocked, LeBron is the smartest guy out there. He knew where his opponent was. Swinging that hard with a closed fist while still body to body with an opponent is extremely reckless. If he wanted Stewart's arm off his he could have swiped hard downward, not at his head.
Once I'm home and on a larger screen and we have a longer full replay I will acquiesce if it looks more incidental. For now I gotta say it sure as hell looked like an attempt at hard contact, and at best maybe he thought Stewart's face was higher and further back, and he meant only to knock the arm off. I tend to skepticism but I do agree he's too smart to have wanted to make direct contact with a fist.
He did, though.
Stewart was fine losing his cool the first bit - he got hit hard as hell and his whole brow split open, but he had plenty of time to cool off once four guys had pulled him back. His repeated attempt to fight through a lot of bodies was unacceptable too.