[FITZ]

Artest was keeping his cool, hard as it is for him, even though the Piston players and fans kept trying to provoke him. Someone throws a beer at me, I'm defending myself, period. The refs lost control. Where was security?

Yes --- security should have been spread out and escorting the drunken fans out --- the beer thrower should have been taken out quickly by security instead they let Artest deal with it. The security doesn't seem to have earned their paychecks.

[mn-bush-man]

Artest was too hot headed to give security a chance to deal with it. He decided to take matters into his owns hands.