Oakley flagrant foul on Rodman is it any different than todays game?

[smitty22]

The 2 toughest teams in the playoffs going at it. Is this call any different than todays game?




poll added, can pick 2 choices.
Foul at the 55 second mark.

 

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

That’s attempted murder today

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

X was a goon for real

 

[Buckeye Fever]

Majority of today's players would let him have that basket.

Not all. There are still some today that would put him on his back. I could see one of the morris twins fouling like that. Draymond too

 

[HandyWithTheSteel]

I’ve been telling people that all that tough talk about the ‘80s and ‘90s was fake. Just go to the tape and you can see for yourself.

If that same exact foul happened today, people woul be like “that’s would be a regular foul back in the day.” That’s a playoff game too.

Look at this “fight” between Pippen and Kenny Walker on the Knicks. This is y’all’s tough era?

 

[ISO]

That’s not a flagrant

 

[mastermind]

That's not a flagrant in today's NBA

 

[Greenhornet]

I think you are missing the point about the 2 teams that are playing and situation

this is like Boogie/Draymond

they would be tossed immediately in todays game

nobody at any year is gonna let 2 dudes who fight day and night initiate a fight

 

[En Sabah Nur]

It would be called a flagrant today initially, but downgraded on review.

 

[L&HH]

That’s not a flagrant

And the main reason they called it a flagrant was because of the previous action between Rodman and McDaniel

 

[Professor Emeritus]

That’s attempted murder today

Majority of today's players would let him have that basket.

Not all. There are still some today that would put him on his back. I could see one of the morris twins fouling like that. Draymond too

Did y'all post without even looking at the foul in the OP?

 

[Professor Emeritus]

If these happened in the 1990s they would be pushed constantly as "proof" the game was so much more physical back then.....too bad they happened in the 2010s.

Hell, these were all just last year:

 

[Professor Emeritus]

McRoberts did worse in back-to-back playoff games in 2014 and both were ruled common fouls, not flagrant:

 

[FTBS]

What Dennis did was actually way more flagrant. They wouldn't even review that today.

I think you are missing the point about the 2 teams that are playing and situation

this is like Boogie/Draymond

they would be tossed immediately in todays game

nobody at any year is gonna let 2 dudes who fight day and night initiate a fight

I recall one incident remotely close to a fight for Draymond. Don't recall any for Boogie. Feel free to correct me. nikkas woof with the best of them though . Rodman wasn't a fighter either. He was an irritant that made other nikkas wanna fight.

 

[HandyWithTheSteel]

Lebron got elbowed by Thaddeus Young and was bleeding, no call.