Ugly basketball foul

[Liberal_in_LA]

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/blog/the_dagger/post/Please-note-that-Chase-Budinger-s-face-is-not-a-?urn=ncaab,136602

Ugly basketball incident

Arizona's Chris Budinger is the victim of a horrendous foul that leaves him and the crowd angry. » Watch it

At 2-5 in the Pac-10, Arizona itself might be a bit of a doormat, but that doesn't make it OK to just go around and wipe your feet on Chase Budinger's face.

That's what Houston's Aubrey Coleman did to Budinger yesterday, and while I can't say for sure that I know the man's intent, you know, he did stomp on a guy's face, showed no signs of offering any kind of apology, and smiled while receiving a congratulatory "Hey, way to step on that guy's face!" high-five on his way off the floor. To me, that's unsportsmanlike.

[nickgutierrez]

1. I think it was probably intentional.

The guy on the ground wasn't moving, and it was perfectly possible to go around him, or at the very least over him in a way that doesn't involve the risk of stepping on his face.

NFL defensive lineman Albert Haynesworth got a pretty steep punishment for basically doing this same thing, except more viciously, with cleats, and the person he stomped happened to be wearing a helmet for the first of the two stomps. This isn't quite that bad, but deserves a similar punishment.

[firedupdem]

2. Not cool...

I don't think it was intentional as he wasn't looking down at the guy but what poor un sportsman like behavior to not offer any apology. Damn, he should have felt a body under his feet! My son plays football and basketball and he knows that he has to help the other guy up if there is a collision or Mommy will not be happy!

on Edit: looked at it again with hubby who says it was intentional. Now I call the guy an asshole!

[Bonobo]

3. Intentional. These are pro athletes with very good sense of space/timing.

What an asshole.

[Warren Stupidity]

10. technically these are amateur athletes

college ball not nba

[Highway61]

4. He should be thrown out of the game

FOREVER. Never play basketball again. Zero respect, zero values...go find another profession...like digging ditches.

[Greyhound]

5. We/they need to make basketball a non-contact sport again. This is just ridiculous. n/t

[pacalo]

6. Coleman was removed from the game for that, which wasn't long enough, imo.

[Are_grits_groceries]

7. Oh man, that was intentional all the way.

I watched it several times. He knows where the other player is. His left foot stops right beside the player, and he shortsteps with his right foot on top of the face. If he knows where to stop his left foot, he knows to make a longer right step just in case to avoid the player. He brought his knee up higher to step on him. In addition, when he goes back to the bench, he looks like he is smirking, and he does get a five from another player.
If I was his coach, he'd be running suicides the next day until he dropped. It was unsportsmanlike, and he could have seriously hurt the other player. In addition, he cost his team with fouls shots, etc. If he gets away with that now, he'll do it again.
I know it is a physical game. You can get your brains beaten out on the low post or just going inside. This was an unexpected move, and the other player had no way to protect himself. You don't expect that to happen.

[Oeditpus Rex]

8. Apropos of nothing, I think it was a bad call

Budinger took a step backward a split second before the "charge;" ergo, he didn't have position.

[burythehatchet]

9. That man will be a wife beater and pet abuser.

[fishwax]

11. doesn't look deliberate to me

It looks like he tries to step over his face (planning to step as close as possible) and stumbles having misjudged that step. Still worthy of the foul, though, for sure.

[Mrs. Ted Nancy]

12. Another ugly foul

It happened in December. Blake Griffin hit in the balls.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxTsDzD_nvs

[fishwax]

13. I remember watching that as it happened

:scared:

[jmowreader]

14. Now we know who's going to be the 2028 GOP candidate for president...

Look familiar?

[Ex Lurker]

15. Two comments

1. I'm not so sure it was intentional. He might have tripped, he wasn't looking down.

2. Even if it was on purpose, we don't know the circumstances. This is a racially charged time. Did the white player say something to provoke him? It was after all Arizona, McCain's home state.