re: To all the real basketball guys on this board

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People like to act like we were going in punching people and flagrant fouling with West/Tyson. Just wait til someone cheap shots AD. I'm pretty sure that the "toughness" you are looking for will show up. I don't know if you could name one team in the NBA that wins games by beating the crap out of people other than "maybe" Memphis.

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I don't mean guys that will fight. But you need dirty guys that throw the other team off their game and that cheat or really stretch the rules. OKC's teams the past couple of years were full of those guys. Perkins, Adams, Sefalosha, Fisher, Collison and even Ibaka. Those guys all scrap and are super physical (and yes dirty). Maybe Asik has a bit of a that in him and I like what I see from Rivers (that's why he is getting better). We need a couple of more to come through like that. A great candidate would be Miller. If he could embrace a tough guy role, he could write his own ticket here.