Is David West developing a rep as a dirty player? E-mail
Written by mookie   
Tuesday, 10 February 2009 11:14

David West was once merely considered as an underrated, hard-working forward on an up-and-coming team. Is he now starting to ruin that reputation and goodwill from fans with some rough, potentially dirty plays?

I will leave that decision to you.

First we had the incident the incident with Brandon Roy back in November, which was relatively harmless, but still raised some eyebrows.

Now, he's really stirred up a hornets' nest (pun intended, as always), with his karate chop on Mike Miller. West has copped a league-imposed one game suspension for the play.

Dirty, or just a strong foul? You decide.

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written by nolaman, February 10, 2009
Mookie, I'm a Hornet's season ticket holder. Melvin Ely is our hatchet man, not West.

This one was flagrant, but I don't think that the truly dirty players in the NBA get called on too many that are "flagrant" in the sense of "obvious", they are better at it than that.

I think West just meant to just stop Miller from driving past him for an easy shot. West having been forced into playing center when he is undersized as a power forward must have him reaching and grabbing to compensate.
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written by mookie, February 10, 2009
I hear you, Nolaman. Most of the really dirty stuff doesn't even get seen and only comes out in autobiographies a decade later.

In this instance though, the foul on Miller did appear pretty rough-handed and worthy of a suspension, in my opinion. I don't know if his motive was to hurt, or if it merely was an uncoordinated attempt to stop the play, but it didn' t look good.

I hear that Melvin Ely has a collection of massive snakes, so I'm not surprised he would be the resident tough guy!!

-- mookie

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