Worst Basketball Cheap Shot Ever Seen..? Wow..

Twitter ^ | Nov 16, 2018 | me

[gaijin]

Division 3 College basketball, Massachusetts, Fitchburg State vs. Nichols College:

Fitchburg State - Kewan Platt, perp
Nichols College - Nate Tenaglia, victim

Defender Kewan Platt trotting up to Nichols College Nate Tenaglia, then attempting a 3-pointer:

Defender does quick head check to the ref, the better to make sure his action goes unseen.

Defender throws a quick, sharp elbow to the face, man collapses to the floor.

My understanding is the defender has been indefinately suspended and barred from campus.

The brief twitter vid of the incident is pretty impressive, I've only seen one hockey cheap shot meaner than this one.

[Jeff Chandler]

Sing him up for the NBA.

Take a knee, give an elbow.

[Mr. K]

Suspended??

He should be removed from the team, the school, AND criminally charged with assault.

[PigRigger]

Dale Hunter ruined Pierre Turgeon's career with this cheap shot.... Pierre was never the same player afterwards.... Ruined the Islander's chance at winning the cup that year....

Dale Hunter Cheapshot

[SES1066]

It was assault plain and simple. Next court he plays on is the criminal court.

Depends upon various jurisdictions but for many this would be a case of "battery".

"Assault and battery is the combination of two violent crimes: assault (the threat of violence) and battery (physical violence). This legal distinction exists only in jurisdictions that distinguish assault as threatened violence rather than actual violence."

[circlecity]

Kareem sucker punching Kent Benson was also quie the cheap shot.

[wildbill]

I have always empathized with Kermit Washington. It was a defensive reaction to what he saw coming at him. Most of the TV footage was slowed down and I think that was ‘cheap shot’ editing to make it look premeditated.

[logi_cal869]

I can’t find it now, but I took a screenshot of the tweet from the college stating that the offending player was suspended indefinitely and banished from the campus.

[Kozy]

It was assault plain and simple. Next court he plays on is the criminal court.

[kenmcg]

It’s common to see black players taking cheap shots at white players.

[Mears]

I saw that Tweet last night too—he was banned from the campus.

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[ml/nj]

Tell me again why we can't use the N-word.

ML/NJ

[Clarancebeaks]

Look at their color, obviously a hate crime should be punished as such.

[sipow]

Typical thug.

[Alberta's Child]

I read a fascinating account of that incident in a great book about fighting in hockey: The Code: The Unwritten Rules of Fighting and Retaliation in the NHL. If you just watch the video clip you don't understand all of the things that led up to McSorley's assault. By all accounts, Brashear was asking for trouble during that game by breaking several of those unwritten rules of "The Code." The last one was when he refused to fight McSorley at that point in the game (that's why Brashear is skating away from him, which pissed off McSorley in a big way).

[dfwgator]

That’s the one!

[dfwgator]

“THIS IS HOCKEY!!!!!”

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

It actually resulted in the rule that gets a player coming off the bench during a brawl, tossed with everyone else.

Rudy T didn’t come off the bench but KW’s explanation of circumstances weighed heavily in the development of that rule.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Enough time and space to attempt a 3-pointer over Kewan?
White privilege.

[WASCWatch]

I’ve met Kermit Washington a couple of times. He’s really a mild-mannered guy. Didn’t ask him about the incident since it had happened many years prior and it would have been impolite to ask.

There was a fight between other players, Kermit was just standing there and Rudy T was running towards the fight, probably in an attempt to help break it up. In doing so, he happened to running right at Kermit Washington.

It was as much Rudy T running into his fist as it was Kermit swinging at him. It was just an unfortunate unintended event.

[JimRed]

Here’s a video of Laimbeer...

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