TYLER HANSBROUGH BREATHING REALLY, REALLY HARD
If there’s one thing thirtyfiveseconds.com is going to be dedicated to, it’s posting video of injuries and the gory way they happened. Basketball’s underrated for this: a forest of limbs flailing around while trying to dribble and pass the basketball makes for massive injury potential, particularly when players attempt to draw fouls on a charge. Do it right, and you’re the hoops equivalent of a skilled soccer player, grabbing your knee theatrically in triumph as the other player gets the foul called on them; do it wrong, and you’re talking with your ancestors and hyperventilating on the floor just like Tyler Hansbrough is below.
And to show we cater to all kinds: North Carolina fans, that’s a charge! And everyone who hates North Carolina: we repeat Will Leitch’s knock on the man, which is that he looks exactly like Beaker from the Muppets. And to New England Patriot fans: you only like him because he’s white!


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Actually, I thought he was a tad late to position and it was a block. I don’t think it was a “no call” though.
Comment by Tar Heel Fan — December 18, 2007 @ 11:06 am
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I heard Hansbrough was targeted because he was an Imus listener.
Comment by mlmintampa — December 18, 2007 @ 1:16 pm
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They forgot to show the part where Tyler acted really tough and tried to fight the stantion only to be held back by teammates who didn’t want to see their boy get his ass kicked.
Comment by Unsilent Majority — December 18, 2007 @ 1:18 pm
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At least it wasn’t as embarrassing as this exchange: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0upQDkY-pg
That clip makes Cristiano Ronaldo look like Jim Brown.
Comment by SuperJew — December 18, 2007 @ 2:34 pm
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That was totally a block. Tyler’s feet weren’t set.
Comment by Chuck — December 18, 2007 @ 2:41 pm
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Regardless of block or charge, watch Tyler’s head hit the cameraman’s knee (beside the basket in all black). No wonder he was knocked the fuck out.
And this is the exact thing that can happen with Tyler; he plays hard even in garbage time against a garbage opponent.
Comment by goheels — December 18, 2007 @ 3:08 pm
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Power Forwards shouldn’t be trying to draw charges against guards anyway. Man up and swat that sh*t, Hansbrough, or Eric Montross is going to revoke your Carolina big man card.
Comment by SMK — December 19, 2007 @ 11:58 am