Rightfully so if DKD got 2 games.

There's a harsh but slightly funny joke on Twitter suggesting that Adelaide were hoping it'd get revised to four games on appeal. Never any love for the glue guys!

Teys playing like he was earlier in the year I'd have taken 4games

I thought he'd get 0 games.

Dkd responded in the same way that any other player in that situation would have reacted,
the melee started when three Adelaide players then took him to the floor in a headlock

Lets flip script, are you telling me creek wouldn't have done the same or worse than dkd???

www.news.com.au/sport/adelaide-36ers-coach-joey-wright-confused-captain-brendan-teys-suspended-for-illawarra-clash/news-story/9f1d05dfd0a1818234380a8061896fda6

This article makes a good point about the consistency of decisions when dishing out suspensions (whether you agree with Tees getting a game or not).

I think 1 game is fair enough for Teys. I was hoping he'd get zero, but when you consider what Clint Steindl got his USF for, Teys probably should have been looking at about a 2 month ban for his thug move ;)

Again. Consistency.

Looking at the two actions in isolation, then penalising DKD harder is certainly justified.

However, with that approach why weren't the bench players penalised more severely???
The tribunal accepts that they were provoked by DKD's action, but doesn't accept that he was provoked?

Will Teys even be in the league next season?

Looking at the two actions in isolation, then penalising DKD harder is certainly justified.

However, with that approach why weren't the bench players penalised more severely???
The tribunal accepts that they were provoked by DKD's action, but doesn't accept that he was provoked?

Provocation is used as a partial justification/defence for an act.

Just because someone commits an USF, doesn't mean you can claim it’s reasonably provocative - otherwise it’s a slippery slope, we can justify melees for any perceived slight or little foul.

Perth always perceive to be slighted on every call ever and we don’t need them being encouraged to be even more physical, they already get away with enough dirty elbows shirt pulling and pushing players off balance. We don’t need to encourage Perth to think DKD kamikaze is acceptable behaviour.

Next season I'd like to see NBL stadiums have better padding along the baselines, sprung ropes down the sidelines, and each team should be able to nominate 2 kamikaze players per game, but of course with contact with knees or below, or above the shoulder, still prohibited
#NBLX

Drmic & Sobey are nominated for Adelaide

I'm hanging out for the NBL to put on the first game played in a cage, Luuuc.

NBLX could be swimming pool sized five point super baskets at each end with no defenders allowed in the back half. Media could tell us what a high octane, high scoring thrills & spills basketball version it is. Supporters could be given a hammer upon entry to hit themselves over the head with, thus making them simple enough to clap their hands together like flipper over it all.

If you didn't see it for a decade of Redhage and co, anyone could show you anything no matter how blatant and your brain wouldn’t let you believe mate. You’re a lost cause.

In all honesty, both the thug stuff and the little sneaky hits or shirt pulling shouldn’t be allowable in the game, it’s a crap way to play the game it’s treating it with disrespect and the NBL shouldn’t be so scared to get rid of it even with post-game punishments. The old gorj days we used to see this too, turns the game into a drag.