i was referring to a 2nd half play as well, regarding slim's face slam. the 2nd half is when slim really got going with the cheap stuff.
now, if you want to talk about what was impressive with the bengals, it was their defense and that short dude raining big 3 pointers. the griz looked fine until 'the incident', then looked slow-footed, and played crap defense. i never said they shouldn't have won, and i haven't commented on the refs one way or other. all of that was overwhelmed by the cheap, low brow game the bengals (especially millien) played. 'twasn't basketball. it was just ugly and no fun. i always clap for a good play by whatever team makes one, but it was mighty hard to appreciate the good plays the bengals did make, such was the distraction of slim.
and somebody, somewhere needs to look more closely at the clobbering criswell took just prior to the grounding of the klingon. i know criswell plays rough, but he doesn't play cheap, at least as far as i can tell. and i'm not saying this because he's a griz, i've seen way too much cheap play by the griz lately (fb) to consider any team in the bsc worse than the hauck-led gridders (at this point in time).
good luck to the bengals for the rest of the season, but i'm not going to waste my time walking the three blocks it takes to go watch their games anymore this season. millien and his ilk don't play hoops, and they sure wouldn't survive long if other teams were able to respond with a justifiable level of retaliation, without suspensions, or oliver saving slim's butt.
i'll surely continue to cheer for the spud footballers, and probably the hoopsters when they get a different coach. but for now, i'll stick to the former and hope the latter doesn't even make the bsc tourney.
ok enough of this subject...