[spike5882]

Does it make me a bad person that I found a clip of the "melee" looking for shades of Malice at the Palace only to be disappointed by some shoving and the whole thing is over in less than ten seconds, other than officials watching a monitor forever?  I mean that dude came out of the stands, so there was a little Detroit goin' on, but from reactions here I thought there must have been closed fists, etc. Nope. Calling for permanent DQs is a little overly dramatic. Basketball is a contact sport. Tempers flare; some players are jerks.

I don't think so. I had watched most of the game, and then determined SC was going to win and got distracted by some stuff in my house.  And then I got a text from a friend saying, "Did you see the brawl between South Carolina and LSU??"  It certainly started very chippy between Reese and Cardoso, and I was kind of waiting for it to happen.  Then I ran to my computer to watch it...and, yeah, I was kind of like this is not a brawl.  And honestly, I don't think it is so dramatic as everybody is making it out to be.  There was some pushing.  That's it.  No punches thrown.  Nothing much besides two pushes ... one that Flaujae did on Watkins, as Watkins ran up jabbin at her.  And then of course Cordoso.  But beyond that, it was not a brobdingnagian deal, and the amount of time the refs spent, and the amount of time everybody is talking about it is too much imho. Then again, I view women the same as men, as human beings, playing at the highest level.  Perhaps I feel this way because my sister played at this level, and since I was 6 I saw her and her teammates going at it.  So, for me, it is was them getting a bit overboard with their emotions.  And Cardoso should have been rejected.  I am not dimishing that.  But I really don't think it was as dramatic as the press and everybody is making it out to be.  But that seems to be how I feel about most things nowadays.

[spike5882]

Does it make me a bad person that I found a clip of the "melee" looking for shades of Malice at the Palace only to be disappointed by some shoving and the whole thing is over in less than ten seconds, other than officials watching a monitor forever?  I mean that dude came out of the stands, so there was a little Detroit goin' on, but from reactions here I thought there must have been closed fists, etc. Nope. Calling for permanent DQs is a little overly dramatic. Basketball is a contact sport. Tempers flare; some players are jerks.

I don't think so. I had watched most of the game, and then determined SC was going to win and got distracted by some stuff in my house.  And then I got a text from a friend saying, "Did you see the brawl between South Carolina and LSU??"  It certainly started very chippy between Reese and Cardoso, and I was kind of waiting for it to happen.  Then I ran to my computer to watch it...and, yeah, I was kind of like this is not a brawl.  And honestly, I don't think it is so dramatic as everybody is making it out to be.  There was some pushing.  That's it.  No punches thrown.  Nothing much besides two pushes ... one that Flaujae did on Watkins, as Watkins ran up jabbin at her.  And then of course Cordoso.  But beyond that, it was not a brobdingnagian deal, and the amount of time the refs spent, and the amount of time everybody is talking about it is too much imho. Then again, I view women the same as men, as human beings, playing at the highest level.  Perhaps I feel this way because my sister played at this level, and since I was 6 I saw her and her teammates going at it.  So, for me, it is was them getting a bit overboard with their emotions.  And Cardoso should have been rejected.  I am not dimishing that.  But I really don't think it was as dramatic as the press and everybody is making it out to be.  But that seems to be how I feel about most things nowadays.