by V.V.V.V.V. on Fri Apr 06, 2012 11:38 pm
Can no one take a step back and look at the larger picture??
Do you think that Drew just magically turns into a baby when playing Houston??
Or perhaps they are allowed to play him rough, and dirty, to the point that he loses it?? To add to my argument, Pau had a bad night too, being really passive, which tends to happen when the opposing team is playing really rough/dirty.
The Dalembert foul looked like it made Drew angry because Dalembert basically rode Drew's back all the way to the rack, and tried to go over up and over Drew's back for the block. I can understand how that might make a brotha mad. Can't you??
And if everyone's hitting, grabbing, and fouling you with no call all game, and you finally get an emphatic dunk over them, it's probably easy to lose it a little and blurt out "take that motha@#%er" or something as you pass their bench.
I'm not saying that he couldn't have handled it better, but to sit back and say that he's 100% to blame for the outbursts, and that it's due to his extreme immaturity, is being unfair to Drew.
Not to defend Dwight either, but the reason he was a tech magnet the last few years is for the same reason that Drew had his outbursts tonight. He's been hit ragged down low, night after night, with little to no calls in his favor. It happens to every DOMINANT big man in the league. Ask Shaq. Ask Wilt.
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