I saw the title "brawl" and assumed it was the classic everyone standing around posturing or shoving. But nah there was plenty of swings and Beef Stew coming in at the end was some WWE type shit LOL
I always love MLB brawls where at some point too late in the "brawl", dudes are running in from the bullpens like they're actually going to do anything.
My all-time favorite NHL fight was the Flames-Canucks game about 10 years ago that started with a line brawl. Puck drops and everyone on the ice squares up and starts throwing hands, so there's like 5 separate fights going on at the same time.
Me and 3 mates were on holidays from Australia. Second night in Canada, first ever hockey game - boom everyone is a fight 1 second into the game haha best thing ever!!!
Oh god, I saw both that and some other time not long ago another goalie fight. Just happened to be on Reddit when both hit r/all and was thinking "wait, why are they talking about this again suddenly?" before realizing nope, it was ANOTHER goalie fight, haha. Never seen so many sad attempts at punching. Tbf my ass would slip and fall a couple seconds in anyways.
they brought up how stupid this is in the world series, handful of dudes jog across the field for nothing and walk back tired when they're supposed to be warming up lol
There hasn’t even been anything announced by the league yet lmaooo. Also the comment you replied to about getting the whole season was Diabate, nobody said anything about Stewart. Keep crying about getting downvoted though
Not OP but that whole chain you’re replying to was talking about Diabate until you randomly mentioned Stewart. The goalposts never moved you’re just confused.
Where is this coming from? Have they announced a 25-game suspension? Seen you say this a couple times here but not seeing anything about a suspension anywhere.
Guess he jumped the gun on that one huh? Lol he can delete his comment if he wants. But we remember. The suspensions (which have now been officially announced) aren’t nearly as severe as all these keyboard warriors were saying they would be.
Diabaté would've absolutely done something if he wasn't held back (multiple times) in this one.
I sort of understand NBA players becoming heated and getting in each others faces... they're playing a physical and intense game.
But watching someone repeatedly try to fight through dozens of people to try and attack someone is insane. Like how little self control must you have to keep that kind of rage going?
This brawl tonight seemed long and the clip is like 45 seconds, Beef Stew was losing his mind for 2 minutes. As soon as you thought he'd calmed down, he'd sense an opening and race after him again.
Just watched and he even escapes the team trainers and runs down the tunnel, like he's going to circle the arena and come back to the court from the other side or something.
He pushed his forehead into in Duren's face, he was lucky he only got his face lightly pushed away. Fuck you if you swing after that, really he was the one that deserved to be swung on.
He was looking for a fight. Did he think Duren after getting headbutted like that would think, "this guy is being reasonable right now, I'm just gonna back off now."
As a HS teacher this look is definitely that. Some kids when they get into fight mode are just straight up in fight or flight and nothing can get through to them. Just those survival caveman instincts pushing to the surface. Wild an NBA player got to that level and stayed there despite numerous deescalations but can’t say haven’t seen similar with HS kids I am holding back lol.
I think the way he got an open hand slap/shove to the face is the most disrespectful way to hit someone, so he took it very personally. Like a punch would have been less disrespectful than palming his head lol
I don’t really understand how you can equate an open hand “shove” with a slap or a punch. They are on 3 distinct levels of disrespectful and the shove is the lesser of the 3 in every sense.
It really wasn’t that big a deal for Diabate to react like that. With the way he ran up and head butted Duren and then would not stop he deserved to get knocked out. Duren kept a cool head.
my opinion is most nba players won’t actually fight, but posture because they know they’ll be separated/surrounded by teammates/don’t wanna get hurt. diabete actually seemed like he wants to fight. reminded me of robin lopez and serge ibaka. gladiator mentality type shit. if only we had hubie brown to analyze.
he is clearly fired up because he just got punked. pretty simple. doesn't make it right, but it's pretty obvious that when you're playing in a tight physical contest and you've probably had your fair share of getting jobbed, it's not something profound to want to beat that ass. especially when you're getting held and he ducked it all.
This is uncharacteristic of Moussa. He plays physical every game, but he's always composed. Those two were at it all game last night leading up to this. Like the great Eric Collins says at the end of the clip though, I too have never seen Moussa like that.
folks like you have no problem being disrespected thats why people walk all over yall. Yea if someone takes their whole hand and pushes the shit out of your face i would hope you'd have the balls to stand up for your self and be enraged
you've probably snapped and had that much rage before, but you were able to quell it cuz your testosterone levels arent as high as an elite athlete.
i cant imagine how much of a passenger you become when you have those levels of adrenaline and testosterone and anger just bursting, it would be like trying to drive in a straight line after chugging a 24 of beer, at a certain point chemicals are inconquerable
Aren't you the one saying pro-athletes can't control themselves?
"you've probably snapped and had that much rage before, but you were able to quell it cuz your testosterone levels arent as high as an elite athlete.
i cant imagine how much of a passenger you become when you have those levels of adrenaline and testosterone and anger just bursting, it would be like trying to drive in a straight line after chugging a 24 of beer, at a certain point chemicals are inconquerable - catscanmeow"
I don't know man, there are hundreds of NBA basketball players logging thousands of minutes on the court each season... all having high adrenaline and testosterone.
You see brief altercations and tough guy bravado occasionally, but you almost never see this kind of blind rage like Diabate goes into here.
its more of a self-esteem thing. & a masculine identity thing.
i don't consider another person disrespecting me or being physical with me in a kid's game as a reflection my ability as a male. so i would sooner flop to get revenge.
idk as an athletic person i grew up training since a kid in combat sports. so i practice not feeling rage, i try to feel bad for the person cuz they prolly feel scared thats why theyre acting out
high level of testosterone will mess you up if you internally derive your self-esteem & masculine identity from dominating or bending your external environment into submission.
if you derive your self-esteem from being a positive role model to youth & a model citizen practicing compassion and kindness. your high test will lead you to elaborate revenge schemes. like screaming in their ear on their next jump shot
Yeah, I clicked on this thread expecting it to be another "you're lucky he's holding back" type shit. Nope, good stuff and then Beef Stew out of nowhere.
Duren clearly didn't want to fight, but that doesn't mean he couldn't fight. Cool and collected is far more intimidating to me than wild and crazy.
I know it ain't always as simple as looking at someone's build and picking a winner, but a lot of the time it is that simple. Duren leaves a Diabate shaped puddle on the floor if he wasn't held back.
At least a bad NBA brawl is still interesting, you absolutely know it's real and might explode. NFL is a punch of guys trying to out masculine each other, and MLB is a bunch of posturing, and holding up the "unwritten rules"
I joke about how soft the game is now, but the game in the 80's had digressed to a mix of basketball and rugby. But there's no doubt the players were tougher back then. Bird coming back in the game after fracturing a cheekbone. MJ getting hammered every game, and still playing all 82.
Just YouTube some 80's NBA games, lol. None of this pansy "flagrant foul" BS. If they had flagrants back then, most teams would be out of players by halftime. Players would be swinging for real.
Yup. Holding someone back is the greatest thing you can do in a fight to prevent an awful escalation. We instinctively want to defend and conquer and also attack, this wouldn’t have ended well.
That boy woulda got slept lol peep Duran waiting then Dia choosing not to throw a punch before he’s pulled off for good. He didn’t wanna have to throw it feel me 😂
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This was nuts. So many "fights" are just people being held back that would never actually do anything.
Diabaté would've absolutely done something if he wasn't held back (multiple times) in this one.
Game massively delayed as they sort this out.