"to ariza"

Its officially a verb

to attack a defenseless person, often from behind, in a malicious and unnecessary fashion
"That little punk just arizaed that poor kid off the monkey bars."

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Nice

very, very nice

There is probably no more terrible instance of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man — with human flesh.
Paul Muad'Dib - Dune (Frank Herbert)

My Translation: My Dad is a dude just like me, and my sons are dudes like me also. I love that.
Season Tix: Section 315, with my sons

by johnv59 on Mar 12, 2009 8:19 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

How long...

till someone arizas Bernard Madoff in jail?

My stubbling is perfect...

by In Walks Rudy on Mar 12, 2009 8:23 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

This is pretty lame.

He didn’t “attack” Rudy. It was a hard foul and a dangerous play. Not dirty or entirely intentional.

by Nick Van Excellent on Mar 12, 2009 9:39 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Come on, it's all in fun

It’s pretty funny and it’s only Urban Dictionary. Heck, I have like five or six terms on there and they are all made up. They let my post “snowshoeing” and “Pickle Farter.”

by Dragline on Mar 13, 2009 7:38 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

There is nothing funny about messing with the Urban Dictionary.

Ariza’s life will probably never be the same. His name will be shamed for generations. How would you feel if Noah Webster put your name next to the word “pasquinade”?

by Nick Van Excellent on Mar 13, 2009 8:41 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I've been called way worse

by Dragline on Mar 13, 2009 8:56 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I saw "Dog the Bounty Hunter" for the first time the other day.

He seems like he would be a Lakers fan. What sort of basketball fans do you guys have in Hawaii?

by Nick Van Excellent on Mar 13, 2009 9:05 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

This year they are Celtics fans

They’re are a lot of front runners here and fans of California teams because lots of folks here go to California schools. I was in a bar watching the Mavs/Heat and there were way too many Heat fans there. I don’t get how a team as far from Hawaii as possible could have fan here unless the fans are front runners.

by Dragline on Mar 13, 2009 9:14 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

That's great.

by Nick Van Excellent on Mar 13, 2009 9:25 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

NVE ???

You spent too much time on the team formerly
from Minneapolis. It’s clouded your vision !

It's GO time !

by walkoff41 on Mar 14, 2009 3:08 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

FTW

rudy fernandez blazers goblazers portland trailblazers trevor ariza trevor ariza arizasucks kobe sucks lakers sucks rose garden,

Karma

by Sabonis4Ever on Mar 12, 2009 9:48 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

when i finally watched more replays it looked dirtier than i at first thought

ariza really was going for rudy’s head. trying to make points with his coach. and yes, phil probably was not displeased.

in boston they apparently still replay with great pride kevin mchale clotheslining kurt rambis on a breakaway layup; at the time many sports-pundits said this turned the series around and maybe it did. during the 1980s though l.a. won 5 nba titles to boston’s 3.

(philadelphia w/moses malone — traded over from houston, julius erving old by then — won in 1984. the 76ers of that era seemed to underachieve.)

ignacio

by ignacio on Mar 12, 2009 10:20 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs

+1

he was going for the head, and held his arm afterwards. Brownie points for Coach Phil. “Coach, I can play dirty like Boston”.

There is probably no more terrible instance of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man — with human flesh.
Paul Muad'Dib - Dune (Frank Herbert)

My Translation: My Dad is a dude just like me, and my sons are dudes like me also. I love that.
Season Tix: Section 315, with my sons

by johnv59 on Mar 12, 2009 11:49 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

This is laughable.

He was obviously making a play at the ball. Look at his hand. An inch high and that is a clean block.

by Nick Van Excellent on Mar 13, 2009 12:20 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Still a foul,

Cause Rudy’s hand is in between Ariza’s and the Ball.

by usdblazerfan on Mar 13, 2009 1:10 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

The hand counts as part of the ball.

The hand is considered " part of the ball" when it is in contact with the ball and contact with a players hand when it is in contact with the ball is not a foul.-NBA.com

by Nick Van Excellent on Mar 13, 2009 1:43 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Next time you play

Someone may block the hand part of the ball so hard you have to take it to the hospital and have the knuckle part of the ball fixed by a doctor. But if that’s too much work you can just buy a new ball at the store and use the hand that comes in the packaging.

BTW, NBA.com is a pretty pathetic source—reason being, they only run crap that supports them.

How come we never see “Stern fails at managing the league and upsets 10,000 fans into turning off their TVs and ignoring the league for another year”. Based on polls it would appear Stern is appreciated less than a smelly fart in a long elevator ride.

by lurtsman on Mar 13, 2009 9:34 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

That is the rule.

This wasn’t from an article about Ariza and Rudy. It’s from an article about the rules most misunderstood by fans. Here is another link if you don’t like that one.

The mere fact that contact occurs does not mean a foul has been committed. Players are allowed to contact other players when reaching for a loose ball, or when performing normal offensive and defensive movements. The hand is considered " part of the ball" when it is in contact with the ball and contact with a players hand when it is in contact with the ball is not a foul."

So, as far as the NBA is concerned, the hand is part of the ball when the ball is in the other player’s hand. If the ball is not in the shooter’s hand, a foul could be called. Most of the questions concerning this rule occur when the offensive player is driving the basket and attempting a slam dunk. On a jump shot, once the ball leaves the shooter’s hand, the hand is no longer part of the ball and a foul could be called.-WikiAnswers.com

If Ariza was an inch higher he would have blocked the shot cleanly. Blazer fans are being big babies about the whole thing. It was handled exactly like it should have been. Flagrant two with no suspension was the right call.

by Nick Van Excellent on Mar 13, 2009 7:27 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

He didn't really look at the ball, and continued the swipe hitting Rudy's head and arm

Not a dirty play, but still an unnecessary foul with “excessive contact”.

by Norsktroll on Mar 13, 2009 6:47 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

No he wasn't

That photo is taken after he hit Rudy’s hand and it turned the ball, he was going for Rudy’s head and hand and by luck he touched the ball. You can even see in the photo that he’s looking at Rudy’s head because that is was he was aiming for.

by Dragline on Mar 13, 2009 7:40 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Don't be ridiculous.

He wasn’t aiming for Rudy’s head. He was trying to punch through Rudy’s face and just by chance he hit his head. Ariza’s original intent was to smash his nose and hopefully gouge an eye out or something.

Seriously though, I don’t think it was a dirty play. It was reckless no doubt, but I have seen Trevor Ariza make blocks similar to that successfully many times. The end result was terrible, but it wasn’t dirty and I don’t blame him for trying. Kobe had been yelling at his team for the past twenty minutes about giving up easy baskets. Ariza was highly motivated and a big block could have potentially rallied a come back of sorts. He just got a little carried away. His only real crime was the way he acted after the foul.

by Nick Van Excellent on Mar 13, 2009 8:33 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Drag is right that the picture is later in the sequence.

Anyway I just think reckless = dirty when you are that reckless. It’s like undercutting and then saying you were just going for taking the charge. You could even clearly try to pull your arms in and place your feet. You are going to hurt the person and there is nearly no chance it would ever be called an offensive foul. It is dirty because you are being so reckless with someone else’s safety.

I’m not saying Ariza had a chance to think that all through in a split second or that he did want to hurt Rudy. It’s perfectly possible he just doesn’t know how to play basketball very well or can’t control his body. Or he could’ve just been looking down on the Spaniard: “He can’t jump that high!”

".. is gumby an alien?"

by staylost on Mar 13, 2009 11:30 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Left Wrist

having watched the replay a few times, it looks to me Rudy got layed out when ariza grabbed his left wrist for an instant after this play, otherwise he may have landed hard but in control.

the above pic is a foul because Rudy gets hit in the head with the ariza’s forearm, the hand on the ball isn’t relevant.

by DucRider on Mar 13, 2009 7:46 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

It's obviously a foul.

I’m just saying Ariza was going for the ball.

by Nick Van Excellent on Mar 13, 2009 8:34 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

i thought

you were saying it was’t because the hand is part of the ball (i agree on that, just pointing out the contact that made it a foul)
I think if ariza had not got the wrist too, none of this would be an issue, would have been just been a hard foul and no issue….
i’m at work so can’t cut that frame out of the video and post it…

by DucRider on Mar 13, 2009 8:59 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah.

I’m just saying that it’s not like Ariza’s only intent was to knock Rudy to the ground. He was making a play at the ball even though he didn’t do it in the safest way.

Apparently he had Gasol call Rudy and pass along an apology the next day.

by Nick Van Excellent on Mar 13, 2009 9:09 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs