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Foul Mouthed American Coach Provokes a Massive Brawl Between China and Brazil

by derekwong28
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A friendly match between Brazil and China ended up in a brawl. The Chinese team has an extra ingredient, a foul-mouthed American coach, Jim Donawald, Jr. (former Hornets and Cavs assistant). Just watch him in the video throwing F-bombs left, right and center.

Silliman's Take on the China-Brazil Basketball Brawl (Chuck Norris Was Needed) | Bleacher Report

  • Profile picture of the author TLTheLiberator
    Will this spark a trade war???
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  • Profile picture of the author KimW
    Did you intentionally misname the thread?
    While the coach should have been tossed out of the game within the first 30 seconds,just for his language and behavior ( hitting the table),he did not start the fight. The player did that intentionally knocked down the other player.
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeAmbrosio
      Originally Posted by KimW View Post

      Did you intentionally misname the thread?
      While the coach should have been tossed out of the game within the first 30 seconds,just for his language and behavior ( hitting the table),he did not start the fight. The player did that intentionally knocked down the other player.

      What Kim said...

      Considering the video was edited, who knows how much time passed between the coaches tirade and the start of the incident. It wasn't "caused" by the coach.
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      • Profile picture of the author TimPhelan
        Looks like the American coach was pissed because his player was hurt. I think he was defending his players. It's hard to tell what provoked that fight which was pretty intense for a basketball fight. I saw one guy try to knee a guy in the face like they do in MMA matches.
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  • Profile picture of the author TLTheLiberator
    Since the match was in China, I can understand the Brazilians not wanting to get jumped by the Chinese players and the crowd.

    But...

    ... it looks like they got punked.

    It looks like they stood around and allowed a teammate to get jumped by a bunch of Chinese players.


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  • Profile picture of the author TLTheLiberator
    Looks like #8 of the Chinese team kicked off the festivities.

    Perhaps it was in retaliation for the guy who got hurt and it may have been
    on the Brazilian player who hurt him.

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    • Profile picture of the author TimPhelan
      Here's an article about the incident. Apparently the coach was ejected for his outburst early in the game and he said the players were following his lead after his ejection, so Derek seems to be right is using the word provokes. The article also says however that "The brawl Tuesday was the latest instance of on-court fighting by China, whose players have been fined tens of thousands of dollars by the world and Asian federations for scrapping with opponents."

      China suspends US-born coach, others over brawl
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      • Profile picture of the author MikeAmbrosio
        Originally Posted by TimPhelan View Post

        Here's an article about the incident. Apparently the coach was ejected for his outburst early in the game and he said the players were following his lead after his ejection, so Derek seems to be right is using the word provokes. The article also says however that "The brawl Tuesday was the latest instance of on-court fighting by China, whose players have been fined tens of thousands of dollars by the world and Asian federations for scrapping with opponents."

        China suspends US-born coach, others over brawl
        It's always better to have the full story
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  • Profile picture of the author TLTheLiberator
    Thanks for the article.

    I had no way of knowing the Chinese were behaving in such a rude manner on other occasions.

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  • Profile picture of the author derekwong28
    The melee happened about 30 seconds after the coach was thrown out. All the commentaries I have seen agreed that the coach played a key role in this and sustained the heaviest fine. The Chinese had previously complained that the Brazilians played dirty in their two previous games.

    A similar fight happened in 2005 between China and Puerto Rico.


    If anything, that was more dangerous as the crowd as involved. They went as far as throwing glass beer bottles at the players.

    Their previous head coach Jonas Kazlauskas told the team that "if a fight breaks out and the Chinese appear to lose, other international teams will believe that the Chinese basketball team is weak and will use foul play as a tool in future matches.”
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  • Profile picture of the author TLTheLiberator
    So what I'm getting is that the Chinese team is deliberately sending a message to the rest of the world - that they will not be pushed around and bullied on the court.

    My Lakers had to do just about the same thing to the NBA as we were perceived as soft after the Boston Celtics roughed us up in the NBA finals 3 seasons ago.

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  • Profile picture of the author derekwong28
    The same Chinese has now won the Asian Games gold

    http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/photo/2...t_11617542.htm

    It seems that aggression and violence is the future of sport! There will now be a great demand for Kung Ku coaches. Perhaps we should allow weapons into the arena!
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  • Profile picture of the author Alan Petersen
    So now America can be blamed for stating basketball brawls Internationally. Call in the UN Peacekeepers.
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  • Profile picture of the author sparckyz
    Never really cared for basketball since it's not one of my countries national sports, but after seeing this i think i could get into it loooooooool
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  • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
    Originally Posted by derekwong28 View Post

    A friendly match between Brazil and China ended up in a brawl. The Chinese team has an extra ingredient, a foul-mouthed American coach, Jim Donawald, Jr. (former Hornets and Cavs assistant). Just watch him in the video throwing F-bombs left, right and center.
    The Chinese must have had a reason for bringing him in as the coach. They could have chosen from among hundreds of other coaches, but they chose this guy. Perhaps you're seeing why.

    By the way, he's a Chinese coach right now, not an American coach. Of American nationality apparently, but the Chinese coach just the same. Let China be responsible for his behavior then, they chose him.
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