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Edgy DC Aug 19 2011 07:04 AM

Georgetown taking on the Bayi Rockets (or the People's Liberation Army) during a good will trip in China, and a hockey game breaks out: One account at Deadspin: http://deadspin.com/5832159/georgetown- ... inese-team Video is haphazard, but some of it is brutal. Team gets showered with trash as they leave the court. [youtube]bk4922fJgQc[/youtube]

John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 19 2011 07:15 AM Re: Good Will

Revolting stuff, but, uh, great dat for Deadspin.

metirish Aug 19 2011 07:30 AM Re: Good Will

"Hey, I know what to do"

seawolf17 Aug 19 2011 08:01 AM Re: Good Will

How did that guy in the polo shirt (in the first picture) get on the court so quickly? Crazy. On the flip side, let the record show that Stony Brook basketball, on tour in Europe right now, is making our country proud.

metirish Aug 19 2011 08:07 AM Re: Good Will Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Aug 19 2011 08:09 AM

All it's missing is Jeff Van Gundy hanging off someones legs.

Edgy DC Aug 19 2011 08:08 AM Re: Good Will

With those athletic Hoya-stomping legs, I'm guessing he was a player on the bench who didn't dress for the game, or maybe a trainer. My take is that the refs were throwing all the calls to the home team, Thompson called his team together and said to let it go, but what he didn't account for was the Chinese team emboldened by the refs' biases into playing increasingly physical defense, knowing that there would be no whistle.

Edgy DC Aug 19 2011 12:03 PM Re: Good Will

I'm asking Adam Rubin to ask Terry Collins a little about the climate in Chinese international sports.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 19 2011 12:22 PM Re: Good Will

I interviewed a baseball player who played in China professionally. He said the league there was corrupt to the core and completely run by the gamblers.

metirish Aug 19 2011 02:12 PM Re: Good Will

From the NYT But even as members of both teams met Friday morning at a Beijing hotel to make peace, the country’s propaganda maestros were trying to ensure that the brouhaha did not find its way into the national psyche. Censors quickly deleted videos and chat room comments, although by evening, the restrictions appeared to be easing. In a country prone to nationalistic sentiment, most microblog remarks were surprisingly critical of the home team, a once-reliable champion that has in recent years fallen off its pedestal after losing some of its best players to retirement. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/20/world ... ll.html?hp As JCL said Despite the sport’s soaring popularity, the reputation of the Chinese basketball league has taken a beating in recent years. Game fixing and bribery scandals have fueled widespread cynicism, and on-court fisticuffs have been a perennial problem. Last year, a friendly warm-up match between the Brazilian and Chinese teams turned into a kicking-and-punching fracas just one minute into the game. Sports officials suspended the team, fined the coach and issued an apology.

dgwphotography Aug 19 2011 02:13 PM Re: Good Will

If he dies, he dies...

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Aug 21 2011 09:08 PM Re: Good Will

Edgy DC wrote: With those athletic Hoya-stomping legs, I'm guessing he was a player on the bench who didn't dress for the game, or maybe a trainer. My take is that the refs were throwing all the calls to the home team, Thompson called his team together and said to let it go, but what he didn't account for was the Chinese team emboldened by the refs' biases into playing increasingly physical defense, knowing that there would be no whistle. So... these were Big East refs, I take it?