Nekias Duncan and Steve Jones Jr. break down how things escalated in the melee between the Pistons and Hor. Check out the full conversation on “The Dunker Spot” and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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I, I would imagine you were able to catch Detroit, Charlotte, which, shedding a singular tear for Charlotte having the nine-game win streak snapped against Detroit.
But, we had some antics in that basketball game.
this starts with, Moussa Diabate.
I mean, those two were just kind of battling it out all game anyway.
They are two of the more physical centers that we have in the league.
But we get a hard foul from Moussa Diabate.
We get Moussa putting p- forehead to forehead of Jalen Duren.
Jalen Duren did not take kindly to that.
He kind of grabs the head/face of Moussa Diabate.
He certainly didn’t like that, and then we are off to the races.
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See, see, here’s the thing, though.
Like, Beef Stew- Beef Stew, you can’t leave the bench, so you’re gonna get hit pretty hard.
And Moussa Diabate, you can’t fall into the fans.
I don’t know what you was doing.
I don’t know what I don’t know what you was on.
You can’t do the headbutt, and then do another surge, and then fall into the fans doing nothing.
Nah, man, come on.
It’s ridiculous.
I think anytime you have any kind of skirmish, I think even to the Moussa thing to kind of kick things off, he just kind of leaned the head in, whatever.
Like, you don’t do that.
Like, naturally, Jalen Duren or any person is not going to take kindly to that.
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But I think, you know, you see enough of these skirmishes across the NBA where you have some- a face-to-face thing, and it’s very much a everybody comes around, let’s pull them apart.
They jawing at each other, and it just kind of is what it is.
The face grab ignited something in Moussa Diabate that I’m not sure even he knew he had.
That brother was mad for, like, 18 consecutive minutes.
To your point about the charge, and then falling into the fans, and then another charge, gets held back, swim move like he’s a defensive end, another charge, before finally being held back by, like, eight people.
And then the second wave, with Miles Bridges not taking kindly to Jalen Duren talking, and then Beef Stew didn’t take kindly to the cheap shot from Mr. Bridges, and Isaiah Stewart just always being ready for something like this is a little bit funny.
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It’s almost bad because Jalen Duren’s decision to actually, like, maybe not do this somehow escalated this.
If they had just grabbed each other’s jerseys, this would’ve been over.
If they had done what Kris Dunn did to Julius Randle, which, by the way, I still don’t know why Kris Dunn did all that.
I mean, pushed Julius Randle and said, “Get out the way,” again, and then grabbed him by his jersey.
I’m like, “If he’d have just done that, we would’ve- Been over.
… this thing would’ve been over.”
Yeah.
Just your run-of-the-mill, uh- Yes … skirmish during a physical basketball game.
But there you have it.
I’m sure we’ll be getting suspension news, if not later today, as we record on this Tuesday morning, then certainly on Wednesday.
So we will see what happens on that front.