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Title: Cousins ejected for swinging elbow at Westbrook
Post by: CelticsElite on November 21, 2017, 01:04:36 AM
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/21495855/demarcus-cousins-new-orleans-pelicans-ejected-swinging-elbow-russell-westbrook


Class act.
Title: Re: Cousins ejected for swinging elbow at Westbrook
Post by: jdz101 on November 21, 2017, 01:10:19 AM
Dude is an absolute tosser.

Cant believe the hype on this guy.
Title: Re: Cousins ejected for swinging elbow at Westbrook
Post by: GreenEnvy on November 21, 2017, 01:21:13 AM
When guys swing their elbows recklessly, they deserve to get tossed.

When a guy eyes his defender and lines up his connect, he deserves to be suspended.

That was ridiculous.
Title: Re: Cousins ejected for swinging elbow at Westbrook
Post by: chiken Green on November 21, 2017, 01:27:03 AM
This dude..
Man I am embarrassed to admit that I would have given up the brooklyn pick for him..  He will never get it right..
Title: Re: Cousins ejected for swinging elbow at Westbrook
Post by: tarheelsxxiii on November 21, 2017, 01:39:42 AM
I don't think he meant to hit him in the head.  I'm not even sure that he did.  Plenty of floppage from Westbrook there, too. 
Title: Re: Cousins ejected for swinging elbow at Westbrook
Post by: chiken Green on November 21, 2017, 01:57:35 AM
I don't think he meant to hit him in the head.  I'm not even sure that he did.  Plenty of floppage from Westbrook there, too.

I dont know friend.. IF you look at the video you can see him looking right at Westbrook before he swung the Elbow.. 
Title: Re: Cousins ejected for swinging elbow at Westbrook
Post by: tarheelsxxiii on November 21, 2017, 02:06:29 AM
I don't think he meant to hit him in the head.  I'm not even sure that he did.  Plenty of floppage from Westbrook there, too.

I dont know friend.. IF you look at the video you can see him looking right at Westbrook before he swung the Elbow..

It was definitely intentional, but it doesn't look like he intended to hit him in the head.  And Westbrook did sell it. 
Title: Re: Cousins ejected for swinging elbow at Westbrook
Post by: rocknrollforyoursoul on November 21, 2017, 02:27:35 AM
I don't think he meant to hit him in the head.  I'm not even sure that he did.  Plenty of floppage from Westbrook there, too.

I dont know friend.. IF you look at the video you can see him looking right at Westbrook before he swung the Elbow..

It was definitely intentional, but it doesn't look like he intended to hit him in the head.  And Westbrook did sell it.

I think it was intentional, but it also looked to me like it wasn't even his elbow that connected, but instead the lower part of his upper arm, and I think Westbrook sold it some. That said, Cousins should realize he's on a short leash because of his track record, and not pull these types of stunts.
Title: Re: Cousins ejected for swinging elbow at Westbrook
Post by: Roy H. on November 21, 2017, 06:26:40 AM
After the comments, I figured that this was something egregious.

Give him a flagrant, because that’s the rule. In terms of throwing elbows, though, that was no worse than Tatum’s last week. The offensive player is recklessly creating space / trying to shed the defender.
Title: Re: Cousins ejected for swinging elbow at Westbrook
Post by: Fafnir on November 21, 2017, 09:42:10 AM
Reputation Flagrant 2.

But Cousins flipping out that Westbrook flopped made me roll my eyes, he got em and pretty good.
Title: Re: Cousins ejected for swinging elbow at Westbrook
Post by: Androslav on November 21, 2017, 10:27:24 AM
The biggest loser of the NBA. A decade to get to .500, maybe. A joke of a leader, that would be outsmarted/provoked by an average Euroleague big. The most overated guy of the past decade.