Sunday, January 23rd, 2011 at 10:00 am  |  54 responses

Eric Gordon: ‘They’re Letting the Game Get too Physical’

After getting banged up on the court tonight, Gordon spoke with the L.A. Times: “Mild-mannered Eric Gordon, battered and bruised, was upset with the lack of calls afer sustaining two more injuries on Saturday night. ‘They’re letting the game get too phyiscal,’ he said. ‘They’re not calling fouls. The game is getting a little bit too physical. And that’s why things happen how they are.’ Gordon went down hard on his back and wrist in the third quarter of the Clippers’ 113-109 victory over the Warriors on Saturday night at Staples Center after he was fouled on a play. He had a lower-back contusion but was more concerned about his sore wrist… The third-year guard, who finished with 23 points Saturday, suffered a torn tendon in his right ring finger on Wednesday. ‘Man I don’t know what to do at this point,’ said Gordon. ‘Torn ligament, torn tendon. All this other stuff. It’s hard to deal with.’”

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  • Joosh

    BASKETBALL WAS SUPPOSED TO BE NON CONTACT

  • HAMMER

    @jdunnsghost. Just out of curiosity,how exactly did mj and phil get the league 2 b less physical?

  • http://slamonline.com AlbertBarr

    LMAO @ Tarzan

  • http://www.5linx.net/teamsvp Jesse Dunns Ghost

    @ hammer: check out some of phils quotes here: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=hruby/100518_phil_jackson_officiating&sportCat=nba

    Specifically this one about the 90′s Riley Knicks: “The rest of this series has to be hand-to-hand combat. They were shoving our dribblers with two hands. That’s against the rules. That’s football, not basketball. I just had to stand up for my guys. That’s all this was about … I think the league has to take a look at this kind of game. It’s impossible to officiate. You can call a foul on every play.”

    And he had similar things to say about the Bad Boy Pistons I recall from that time as well…soon thereafter the league toughened the rules.

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