I’m not sure what to think here. My gut said that Jason Terry and Brandon Knight should have just moved out of the way. They both got embarrassed when they got posterized (Terry by LeBron & Knight by DeAndre Jordan). Well there is someone that is praising both of them for getting dunked on because they didn’t back down and played the game. I guess the man has a point! Check out what Mark Cuban had to say about the dunks & let us know what you think….
Via Tim MacMahon at ESPN:
Mark Cuban believes the two NBA players who have been on the receiving end of the most ridicule this month deserve credit for not being cowards.
Detroit Pistons guard Brandon Knight and Boston Celtics guard Jason Terry have been mocked relentlessly due to their failed attempts to challenge monstrous slams by DeAndre Jordan andLeBron James, respectively.
Knight and Terry ended up flat on their backs and trending on Twitter, sparking debate about which alley-oop was most humiliating for the hopeless defender.
Cuban, however, cites those highlights as examples of Knight and Terry playing the game the right way.
“I think it’s the gutless who worry about what they look like in posters,” Cuban said Wednesday, before his Dallas Mavericks’ game against the Brooklyn Nets. “I think it’s the real guys, the real players who have no problem playing the game and come what may.
“I give credit to Brandon Knight; I give credit to [Terry]. You do your job and not care about the posters or the tweets. Those are the kind of guys that teams want.”
Cuban offered similar praise for Knight in the aftermath of Jordan’s dunk March 10. But Cuban really made a point to back Terry, who spent eight seasons with the Mavs before leaving for Boston in free agency this summer.
Terry’s refusal to back down from any situation is one of the things that endeared him to Cuban and others in Dallas.
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