After ping pong diplomacy, here comes basketball brawl diplomacy

[derspiess]

  C'mon Speesh, even a Thuggins team doesn't get 15 free throws to 57.

With Chinese refs, he might.

[Berkut]

I always find it funny when people say something like "How could 1 team get 57 FTs to the other teams 145!".

Well...one team could foul a lot more than the other team, that's how. Why is that so hard to understand?

I mean, there are lots of OTHER stats in a basketball game that can be very different. You see games where one team doubles up the other teams rebounds, or steals, or turnovers, or points, or blocked shots. Does anyone say "There is no way Team A could possibly get 24 rebounds when team B only got 8!"?

[Admiral Yi]

I always find it funny when people say something like "there is now way refs could call a bent game!"

[HisMajestyBOB]

I saw the video, and it looked like 2 Chinese players randomly picked a fight and the Chinese bench instantly cleared. I'm not sure this wasn't planned.

I doubt it was planned.  The game was tied at 64 each when the fight broke out.  I think the chinamen were just pissed off at Georgetown's style of play (Big East teams tend to be very physical).  Didn't catch the number of fouls for each side, but apparently the Fightin' Chinamen shot 57 free throws compared to just 15 by Georgetown, which means Georgetown had a ton of fouls called on them (probably 28+). 

I guess if you get physically manhandled throughout the game and you're playing for your country (in your own mind at least), you snap at some point.

Anywho, I always get a kick out of how the Olympics & other international "goodwill" games end up stoking international hatred more than actual good will.

I wouldn't be too surprised if racism was a factor as well.
I wonder if there are even any black guys playing in the Chinese basketball league? I know there's some in the Korean league.

[The Larch]

I saw the video, and it looked like 2 Chinese players randomly picked a fight and the Chinese bench instantly cleared. I'm not sure this wasn't planned.

I doubt it was planned.  The game was tied at 64 each when the fight broke out.  I think the chinamen were just pissed off at Georgetown's style of play (Big East teams tend to be very physical).  Didn't catch the number of fouls for each side, but apparently the Fightin' Chinamen shot 57 free throws compared to just 15 by Georgetown, which means Georgetown had a ton of fouls called on them (probably 28+). 

I guess if you get physically manhandled throughout the game and you're playing for your country (in your own mind at least), you snap at some point.

Anywho, I always get a kick out of how the Olympics & other international "goodwill" games end up stoking international hatred more than actual good will.

I wouldn't be too surprised if racism was a factor as well.
I wonder if there are even any black guys playing in the Chinese basketball league? I know there's some in the Korean league.

There are a few black players there, plenty of top teams have two or even three Americans nowadays. The Chinese league is slowly becoming an interesting destination for 2nd and 3rd rate players that don't make the cut for the big European leagues, as well as washed up NBA players. Stephon Marbury plays there nowadays.

[jimmy olsen]

I saw the video, and it looked like 2 Chinese players randomly picked a fight and the Chinese bench instantly cleared. I'm not sure this wasn't planned.

I also thought it looked planned.

[MadBurgerMaker]

21 looks like he might be getting a good shot in in that photo. 

[CountDeMoney]

I saw the video, and it looked like 2 Chinese players randomly picked a fight and the Chinese bench instantly cleared. I'm not sure this wasn't planned.

I doubt it was planned. 

This has apparently been the third bench-clearing fight involving that particular Chinese team during exhibition games in recent weeks.

[Ed Anger]

Bobby Knight wouldn't have tolerated this.

[CountDeMoney]

Chinese and American players end a goodwill basketball game with a massive fight. CdM splooges.

Goddamned right I did.  Brawling with the yerrow peril?  With a Jesuit team, no less?  That was a double spooge.

Only thing would've made it any better would've been if Patrick Ewing was there, climbing a skyscraper and swatting down MiG-21 ripoffs.

[The Larch]

Apparently that particular Chinese team is linked to the Army, so who knows what's going on behind closed doors... 

[Neil]

That guy in upper-right corner looks ready to kick some serious ass.

looks like he's successfully tearing that guys face.. by grabbing the skin on the back of his head.

Dim Mak

[Eddie Teach]

  C'mon Speesh, even a Thuggins team doesn't get 15 free throws to 57.

Biased refs in China? No way!

[LaCroix]

a bunch of black dudes against some chinamen, and the east coast d.c. hoods didn't destroy them? in the game, in the fight.. either way

[derspiess]

a bunch of black dudes against some chinamen, and the east coast d.c. hoods didn't destroy them? in the game, in the fight.. either way

I was skeptical about the recent "decline of the West" talk, but you're making me think about it some more