My toughts about Love's injury, would really like to hear how you guys look at it.
Kelly Olynyk pulled an arm bar on love with the intention to cause him pain and to provoke him. The result of it was Love's dislocated shoulder. Olynyk was frustrated coz he was on the losing end of boxing out battle, saw the opportunitiy to "get even" and, because he lost his temper, started pulling Love's arm in an opposite direction. He had both hands locked on his forearm and obviously knew that it will hurt love if he starts pulling in opposite direction so he did it coz he lost his temper, for one brief moment. He obviously could feel that Love's hand is in unnatural position and you can see that evil grim on his face while he was doing it. He knew that it will hurt love, lost his temper for a moment and he hurt him intentionally. One can argue that he had no intention to dislocate his shoulder but that is another matter, it is a philosophical question. J. R. Smith can say the same than, he can say that he didnt want to knock Crowder out, that he just wanted to slap him a bit, cause minor pain in order to provoke him.
Shame on Olynyk when he said that those kind of tangle ups happen all the time. Love had Olynyk's hand grappled a moment before the incident occured and those kind of tangle ups do happen all the time in NBA, indeed. What Kelly did was an arm bar tough. Bush league play. Same happened when Tyson bit Hollyfield's ear. He was frustrated, couldn't do anything fairly, he lost his temper when Hollyfield's ear was in front of his teeth and reacted. It just looks more savage like but it's the same. If given a choice, I would rather have someone punch me in the face instead of poping my shoulder out of its socket.
In the end, I do belive that Olynyk had no intention to dislocate Love's shoulder and injure him on a long term. These things have always happened and will continue to happen when guys compete and it is this important. It is natural to get frustrated and lose temper. You have to admit what really happened, tough. The league just has to review the plays and react swiftly and justly, like it has done so far. It sends the message to players that they are being watched and that there s no way that they could get away with stuff like that. Both punishments were short so that this game could have as little as possible effect on the remaining cavs games. It will help to forget this ugly game.
When making the Tyson comparison, I didn't want to imply that Kelly and Tyson have similar personalities just wanted to point out that they were both frustrated and tried to "get even" with their opponent in unfair way when they saw the opportunity.
they are still getting outrebounded, but the defensive rotations are as good as they can get against a team like Atlanta and people know their job on offense. It helps when you have the best offensive center in the league in Lopez too.
