Kurucs and Raieste are disqualified for breaking up the brawl between Kyser and Howard | Basconia
Basketball Bilbao – Baskonia
The Bilbao Basket player attacked the Barça scorer after a spike that ended unsportsmanlike for both
Under the same basket in which the monumental brawl between Shengelia and Todorovic was mounted, Markus Howard and Michale Kyser have gotten into a fight from which Baskonia has come out badly due to the referees’ appreciation. Third minute of the last quarter. The Barça scorer tries an extension and receives the stopper from the Bilbao Basket player. The action should have ended in a foul, since the pivot steps on the Baskonia player to the point of taking off his shoe.
But the game went on as Howard and Kyser butted heads. The azulgrana fell to the ground and put his foot, without shoe, in the English of the tattooed man. An action between fortuitous and tense that unleashed an attempt at tangana. The one from Bilbao says something that angers the American guard, who gets up like a spring and faces. Kyser is taken from him in the middle of the worst form. Push with blow to the face. assault.
The thing ends there due to the quick intervention of Kurucs and Raiese, who jump onto the track to separate and protect Howard. Even Peñarroya comes out like a resort when he sees that Giedraitis was on fire. The referees analyze the action and determine that Kyser deserved the same punishment as Howard, unsportsmanlike for both. With the bad luck that the Baskonia player has been expelled for being his personal fifth.
But the most striking thing was the disqualification of Kurucs and Raieste, who did not play throughout the match. The regulations establish that players cannot invade the track for whatever reason. So they applied it to the letter, without taking into consideration that the intervention of the Barça youth squad, totally contrary to that of Ilimane Diop seven years ago, prevented a moment of extreme tension between the Baskonia and Bilbao players from happening again Basket.