IFWT_Barkley

Charles Barkley made some waves with his comments earlier this week after the Cavs/Hawks game. After the beat down the Cavs gave the Hawks, setting a new record for most made three pointers in one game with 25, Barkley said the Hawks gotta take one of the Cavs players out to send a message. His intention wasn’t that he wants any players to get hurt, he just wants the Hawks to show some heart but he chose his words in a terrible fashion. As you know by now, Barkley’s comments set Charles Oakley off, who attacked him on twitter but his comments obviously also reached the Cavs who weren’t thrilled with him.

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Cleveland head coach Tyronn Lue took exception to Barkley and the way he voiced his opinion.

“I don’t think there’s any place in our game to take someone out if they’re playing well. I think you can take it upon yourself to play harder and do things to stop it or stop a team from playing well. But when it gets into trying to hurt guys or trying to take guys out, that’s just not right.”

Lebron also chimed in on the topic and he wasn’t a fan of Barkley’s comments either, although he brushed it off as nothing much.

“That’s Chuck being Chuck,” James said Friday. “At the end of the day, I don’t think that has anything to do with the game of basketball. It’s not for our game. I think for us and for those guys, we want to bring a physicality to the game. But as far as taking someone out, I think that over-exceeds what our league is all about.

“You never want to try to jeopardize anyone being injured. So I don’t think, for us, we’re not going to have that on our mind. We’re going to still play our physical style of play, both offensively and defensively, and I think the referees will do a great job of taking care of the game. That has nothing to do with basketball.”

The Cavs broke a record with 25 three pointers made in the game, which was something that Barkley said was a reason the Hawks should take one of their players out but Lue explained that none of that was done to disrespect the Hawks.

“That’s something that the players felt like it was within their grasp, they wanted to go for it,” Lue said. “I mean, records are made to be broken, I don’t see anything wrong with it. We didn’t do anything malicious. We were up 40 points and we got our starters out with four minutes to go in the third quarter.

“We got LeBron out with 2½ minutes to go in the third quarter. So I don’t think we did anything to rub it in their face or anything like that. We played the guys who don’t get a chance to play a lot, and they felt good on the floor and they wanted to go for the record.”

At the end of the day, Barkley came off sounding like an idiot but he actually had a decent point.

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