First, I am kinda shocked that a fight breaks out in a WNBA game. It is not that I do not think that women could or would fight, but at the same time, I feel that women are less physical than men are and would find some other devious way to get back at each other than fighting. I have never watched a complete WNBA game because it bores me, but really, the only basketball I watch anymore is the NCAA Tournament and maybe some NBA playoffs. Who wants to watch 9 people stand around while one person throws up a crazy shot that he gets called amazing for it if it goes in and has a good night if he goes 8-24 and scores 25 points?The worst thing about the fight that happened in the game between the LA Sparks and Detroit Shock is the comments of players after the game.
DeLisha Milton-Jones shoved and punched Mahorn after the incident with Leslie, and was ejected, along with Mahorn, Parker and Pierson. Nolan and Shannon Bobbitt received technicals.
“That was unfortunate, but things like that happen in basketball sometimes,” Milton-Jones said. “The league is going to have to decide what kind of action to take.”
No Delisha, things like that do not happen in basketball games sometimes. Fighting is not part of the basketball game. Naismith never planned on having people fight when they were trying to shoot a ball through a peach basket. Nowhere in the rules is fighting allowed and if players are ejected for fighting then the rules must say that fighting is not something that is supposed to happen in basketball games. It does not happen sometimes. It happens when people lose self-control and become prideful. Fighting happens when somebody decides to impose his or her will on another person.
I understand people get mad and people foul hard, but is fighting really the answer. Whatever happened to if you foul me hard I will be sure to score on you next time down the court? Fighting becomes the answer when players have more confidence in their ability to physically harm somebody than they do in their basketball skills. If you want to prove your fighting skills, join a boxing league or ultimate fighter and leave basketball to people who want to prove their skills in running, dribbling, shooting and passing.
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