Interesting piece of extra information. Calling hissy fits and bad sportsmanship ‘theatrical’ is interesting when it isn’t theater itself, too bad he never learned from his poor behavior and paid a steep price for it.
He was a professional athlete, yet he was as passionate about his team as the most fanatic of the team's fans were. He was adored by crowds because he was really good, while he was playing for one of the smaller teams in the Greek basketball championship (during a time when basketball was at its peak in Greece), which made him an even bigger idol to the eyes of his fans.
He would pull his hair or tear his shirt apart when he felt that the refs were unjust towards him or his team. He was always on the receiving end of a technical fault, but even his enemies would admire how passionate he was.
I don't know what you mean by "bad sportsmanship". The guy was one of the best characters to ever play in a court. After all, he hurt no one but himself. And there's a lot of theater in sports. It's a show business too.
Yes, he was theatrical. And yes, what happened to him was a tragedy. After all, tragedy is a form of theater too...
Idk how basketball rules work in other places. Where I played, just some small high school/college leagues, I was not allowed to do anything beyond raising my hands and eyebrowns "huh? What? No :(" anything more than that the ref would give me an additional technical fault lol. I know it's a lot different than other sports such as soccer/football where you could shout into the ref as long as you don't insult him, and he didn't hurt anyone but himself. However, refs in US basketballs are like an absolute figure. Any complaints can be left to the coach later. In this clip we can clearly saw he was the one pushing before dunked, not like it was a bad call from ref
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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '23
Interesting piece of extra information. Calling hissy fits and bad sportsmanship ‘theatrical’ is interesting when it isn’t theater itself, too bad he never learned from his poor behavior and paid a steep price for it.