Again, do you just let James Posey keep taking cheap shot at the Bulls players.  Are you happy with that?  Will you be happy when one of these cheap shots results in a lengthy injury? It could of happened to Deng. Than goodness it didn't.  A message need to be sent.  Or else, we're the Bulls, take your shots and don't worry nothing will happen as a result.

What if the league just gives a fine with no suspension?  That could happen.  The NBA is so incosistent with their puishments. I wouldn't be shocked if Posey gets nothing.

What would that do or accomplish you ask?  Well, I'll use this anology. Maybe it makes sense.  A bully steals a kids lunch money on Mon, Tues, and Wed.  He goes to take it on Thursday but the kid punches him in the face when he tries to do it. On Friday, the bully thinks twice about taking the money.  Posey is intentionally trying to hurt our guys without any consequence.  If he had it in the back of his mind that there would be consequences for his actions he wouldn't do it, in my opinion.  He obviously not worried about league consequences because he continues to do it. A different sport, but guys knew never to touch Wayne Gretzky because it would mean they would get their butt kicked for the rest of the game by Marty McSorely and guys like that. Again, hockey is a different animal but guys had that in the back of their mind.  All Posey knows is, I take my cheap shot and nothing happens.  He did have the one game suspension in the playoffs but that obviously hasn't done much to stop him.

Now I made a comment that the guys who hit big Marty in the NBDL should be banned.  Now the fact that I made that statement should mean I should know better. Especially with the big suspension in the Knicks/Nuggs brawls. But what I think should happen, and what actually happens, are two completely different things.  Carmelo suspension was excessive in my opinion. Now does that mean that any punch thrown in the NBA will result in 15 game suspension? I doubt it.  The only reason those penalties were so extreme was because it was in NY. If the brawl was between the Warriors and the Supersonics it wouldn't have been nearly as long.  Hell, Ray Allen and Keyon Dooling had a fight that went into the front row last January.  Allen got only 3 and Dooling got 5.  

One cheap shot, okay. 2 cheap shots, eh not good. 3 cheap shots, something needs to be done.  I said Ben Wallace should of gave Posey a shove, I still think so.  Would a shove result in a 15 game suspension and loss of home court, no. But something that could result in a loss of home court is a broken wrist to Luol Deng. It could of happened, thank God it didn't.  Next time Skiles needs to send out the goon to send a message to Posey. Again, who's the goon on the Bulls I don't know? Sign Kendall Gill to a 10 day like Sue said :)  I'm curious to see what the league will actually do here.

Just remember one thing, WWNVLD? If that happened to Stormin Norm I think there would have been an all out brawl.

It sounds bad but I can't wait until another punch is thrown in the NBA. Just because I want to see what the suspension is.  If it's 10-15 game, like Anthony, then I'll change my opinion.  But until I see that I don't think a message being sent via a hard foul would result in a lenghty suspension.

My question to everyone I guess is, are you okay with Posey continuing to do this?  What if it happens again?  What then?  

i think their next game will be a doozy to watch.

Two. No one has brought up (including wade or hinrich) the rather obvious point as to why hinrich would desire to hurt wade. They were Team USA teammates, and they seemed to become good friends (Hell; if Gilbert "Hibachi" Arenas says hinrich and the bulls are some good guys, then clearly there was something in the water over in Japan) They pasts crossed paths in numerous ways...both grew up big bulls fans; both went to Midwest basketball schools, both were prized by the heat and bulls in the draft....they both are converse guys! It just seems like there is nothing for kirk to gain by taking down the posterchild

You need to meet force with force.  It is easy to sit at the computer and take the moral high ground, transposing delicate sensibilities onto the basketball court.  But Bullies rarely respect that and the Heat are trying to bully us.  Without their starters it makes sense that the Heat were looking down the road and trying to either hurt Deng or just instill fear the Bulls.

Any retaliation be it a shove or a chest bump is sure to result in a suspension.  The Knickerbockers have been on a tear since the fight.  A Young Bulls team lacking size needs to show that when you mess with the Bull you're gonna get the horns.  I wish hard fouls and the need to retaliate were not part of the game, but they are.  
If the league is serious about its image it should give posey at least a five game suspension, not just to punish Posey but to reward the Bulls for not retaliating.  

In game 7 of the 92 East semi finals Michael Jordan got in the face of Xavier McDaniel. The two were practically nose to nose cursing at each other. This was an elimination game!  Was Michael Jordan a fool for putting himself in that situation?  Jordan said that he was standing up to the bully.  The quote was something like that, it's in the Michael Jordan Airtime video.  Pat Riley's Knicks, had taken several cheap shots in that series. Starks clothesline on Pippen, we've all seen the highlites.  So was Jordan wrong? Would he have been suspended? No, but what "if" it escalated into something more?  No one wants retaliation because of the possibility it would escalate.  What if Jordan got kicked out of game 7?  The game might have been a blowout at the time but what "if" he got suspended for game one of the East Finals.  I just want to get people's thoughts on that.

And please stop trying to turn the fact that we want retaliation into "we don't want the Bulls to win" or "we don't care about players getting suspended" give me a break.

What would the Heat do if a Bulls player took three seperate cheap shots at Heat players?  I think Shaq or obviously Posey, would be looking to return the favor.  Now people will say "let's not stoop to their level". Well they won the championship.  In a way did we stoop to a certain level when we got Rodman and he did some dirty plays?  It's like Rodman said in his first book "It's basketball, not boy scouts"

Matt, I got to get you on to talk about this.  I sent you an email. Let me know if you can do something this weekend.  Later guys, gotta get back to work!

Well the one game suspension in the playoffs last year didn't stop Posey. I don't expect this slap on the wrist to make a difference either.

What if Deng is out two or more games because of his wrist? Then Posey should be suspended for the same amount of time.
It's a simple formula that can be applied to all Type 2 flagrant fouls. Maybe you want to put a cap on the suspension if the guy who was fouled ends up being out for the season, but this could be a deterrent to unnecessary fouls once this kind of rule is enforced.