Comments on: Why Do Basketball Players Slap Fight Like Schoolchildren?

By: Nick Burns

Nick Burns — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 04:55:00 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgbvdFW5qoQ

By: Nick Burns

Nick Burns — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 04:55:00 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgbvdFW5qoQ

a real fight

By: Swank Lax

Swank Lax — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 03:52:00 +0000

I don’t hate box lacrosse. I do hate the NLL, but that’s mostly for reasons not related to the on the field product. As for fighting…meh. Not impressed. I’d rather grow a sport that doesn’t involve fighting. As for the girls…well, this field player does just fine for himself haha.

By: BCLax16

BCLax16 — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 02:49:00 +0000

Swank Lax just hates Box… Box lax barely gets any fans my friend, ladies go to watch the hard hits and the fights, guys go for the ladies and for the fights. You want lacrosse to stay a growing sport, fights are needed. People like getting their blood pumpen from a good fight.

By: Swank Lax

Swank Lax — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:53:00 +0000

Alright, forgive me for taking it too seriously.

You could make the case that fighting would make sense in basketball for the same reason it makes sense in hockey and lax. What that really shows though is that fighting isn’t necessary in those other sports as basketball exists largely without it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:21:00 +0000

Like I said NUMEROUS times in the post, I don’t like fighting or think it’s needed. But if it’s going to happen, there is a right and wrong way for it to go down. Fighting isn’t legal in a sport like bball because it’s not required at all. I think you can make the same argument for lax and hockey but that’s a topic for another day (and past posts). The point being, if they’re going to fight anyway and get huge fines, why are they just slapping each other?

The NBA players, and basketball players in general, fight over nothing, and then do so in a half-assed manner.

You’re right, it’s not manly to fight in sports, but the lax and hockey stuff is a step above the basketball and soccer nonsense.

Also the post was clearly a little tongue in cheek. You can tell this is true because I said soccer players were good fighters. Dead giveaway.

By: Swank Lax

Swank Lax — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:12:00 +0000

The argument that something is the way it is because it is part of the sport is the intellectual equivalent of arguing that laws that Jim Crow laws shouldn’t be taken off the books just because that’s the way American culture had been for hundreds of years. Just because something currently exists, or previously existed, does not mean that it should continue to exist. Otherwise, change for the better would never occur.

By: Swank Lax

Swank Lax — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:10:00 +0000

The point of the article is to glorify fighting. That, to me, is a poorly-conceived topic to write about here.

By: Pat

Pat — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:36:00 +0000

Thats rediculous. I know at least in hockey it’s about protecting your teammates by sending a message to the other team. Don’t get me wrong I’m all for getting rid of the goons that are designated fighters but when a bigger player takes an unnoticed cheap shot at a smaller skilled player it lowers the quality of play and someone has to lay down the law that you have to play fair.
It’s similar to the difference between English and Spanish soccer. In English culture while cheap shots are still taken they don’t think they can get away with it but Spanish and the majority of other European countries believe that it’s fair if the ref doesn’t see creating the whole diving culture.
Also you missed the point of the article he is in now way advocating fighting just acknowledging that it happens and when it does you shouldn’t slap…

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:25:00 +0000

I’ve been a soccer player my whole life. First of all, most of the players aren’t big guys like you see in the NBA or NFL. They are fit, but not really all tough. They often don’t get in fights because it is much easier to injure the other player while playing. If you hit him or get in a fight, you could be suspended for a while. If you foul him well enough, you may only miss one game, but send to other guy out for a whole season.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:23:00 +0000

Lacrosse and Hockey will always have fighting in it. Its part of the sport and will always be as much as people disagree sometimes. For example, If your box lacrosse coach grabs you and says your fighting X, you go fight X otherwise you have the potential of not playing the rest of the game and other future games. Thats just how the sport works. Same goes in hockey. Heck, if somebody offered me money to be the instigator in a sport, i would do it.

By: Swank Lax

Swank Lax — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:23:00 +0000

C’mon Connor, you’re better than this. The NBA cracked down on fighting/punching after Kermit Washington almost killed Rudy Tomjanovich (#6 in this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBNNAvyspGs). Or maybe you think it’s manly to do this (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgbvdFW5qoQ)?

There’s is nothing manly about fighting in sports. I’m not impressed by some goon who gets paid to beat on other players any more so than I am impressed by someone who beats someone up and robs them. You know what’s real manly? Watching a guy take a cheap shot at you or a teammate, letting the refs call it and taking advantage of it by scoring on a power play/man up/free throws.