During Team USA’s 96-68 semifinal romp over Lithuania in the FIBA Basketball World Cup, things became testy in the post between DeMarcus Cousins and Jonas Valanciunas.
After absorbing a couple of elbows to his head, Boogie Cousins cocked his fist and the scared the living daylights out of Valanciunas, but cooler heads prevailed. (There was also some shoving at the end of the match.)
This is almost a headline. The story here is literally that nothing happened.
Always trips me out when the guy who throws the cheap shot is surprised when someone retaliates smh, this is almost as bad as when Psycho T got punked by Ron Ron…only thing better was Luc Longley punking Chris Webber, and Rashed Wallace, but then again Mason punking Oakley was a classic moment.
That flinch, although understandable, is not a good look.
I’d flinch all the way to Lithuania if Cousins even glared at me… I feel no shame in saying I would book s**t to a guy whose nick name is “Boogie”
Wish that clip was a few seconds longer. I wanted to see what that skinny little white dude (#8) thought he was gonna do
What Oakley got plunked wow, Mason was a beast though I can be lo it
Why the racial comment?
oooh. Tough guy. Brings race in. Calls a 6’10 NBA C small. Typical looser.
What was racial about that , dude was white wasnt he ?
I could watch that all day.
Jonas, I know you feel like big fish over there, but watch out for the giant fish that’ll swallow you up whole and make you live for a week in his belly before he barfs you up… aka D-Cuz.
It’s called describing someone with the easiest palette available.
he also did this once
http://38.media.tumblr.com/634315ef435f64ef5e630002c33117d6/tumblr_myhdeqI8fN1qcmnsoo1_r1_250.gif
Jonas is former kick box star in Lithuania
You know who would’ve reacted different?
Kobe m*therf*cking Bryant.
He wouldn’t even flinch!
Jonas the 6’10” NBA C is number 14 dude..
He was referring to the skinny little #8 and what he would do against Boogie
Smoove..
That move is going to go terribly wrong for KB one day when some crazed opposing team fan comes running up to him whirling up a hay-maker and Bean looks at him like “what could you possibly do to me?”… and then he wakes up a minute later, dazed, seeing stars, with blood gushing out of his nose lol.
maybe the least cool thing ever done on a basketball court
Kick boxing is awesome until you get slammed to the ground and laid on while some fat fist make themselves feel at home in your mouth.
I’m a big kickboxing fan, but I doubt Jonas has good footwork(if it is true that he was a “kickboxing star”), he is always so slow in the post.
I feel like that has a formal term in ballet dancing.
Cousins be like. “U lucky we aint in an elevator. Ill ray rice ur a**.”
The general take-away is that Jonas always keeps his elbows pretty high during play…and perhaps at other times like reading his iPad while sitting on the toilet.
Okay, just to be clear. I was referring to the Lithuania player in the green uniform with blonde hair and blue eyes wearing # 8 who looked like he was going to take on DC – the large dark-skinned angry-looking man in the white uniform wearing # 12 – right before the video ended.
Jesus Christ
I don’t know what you’re talking about. That was graceful as f*ck.
lol at people thinking you wouldn’t flinch when a 6’11 DeMarcus Cousins tries to charge at you with a sucker punch.
Impressive restraint by someone often painted as unruly and out-of-control.
Nice flinch, Jonas. Very good tournament, big guy. Great game against NZL. Keep the aggressive play going in Toronto.
(Rudy Gay getting into it with Lavrinovic post-game though; no class)
Anybody notice that Jonas’ “flinch” turns into a natural square up? Like he has fought before? Boogie, doing what Boogie does, is acting like a tough guy. He’s not restraining from anything, he’s just acting like he’s going to do something. If your back is to a guy that’s going to hit you, you brace for the punch and square up. You don’t turn around as fast as you can and get punched in the face.
It’s this political correctness BS, people are so sensitive & make a big deal about ANYTHING
Right.
It’s nice and all to be tough, but you gotta watch yo head!!
He was referring to Mindaugas Kuzminskas, but your points still a good one.
shut up rachel!
why is she doing that with these vegetables . That’s straight wrong man !
Maybe you should’ve just said the skinny guy with a little Lithuanian in him!
too soon
it does not turn into a square up. Stop it. He just faces Cousins. Here’s the extended clip. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YH24qjcLBI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YH24qjcLBI
Who wouldnt snap getting a elbow to the throat
such a respectable woman doing that to a poor carrot…
Man…
he looks more like a punching bag to me.
Kobe doesn’t fear pain, because he doesn’t know it.
he was gonna run like hell
“LOL!!!”
-Chris Childs
The “Lithuanian player” would’ve saved some time.
I feel like you know that formal term, among many others.
weekend = ruined
is that right?
The real story is DeMarcus is finally growing up and becoming a mature young man. I hope it helps his career and personal life!
look at Jonas Valanciunas his act and his face haha L.O.L
your confusing kickboxing with mma.
no, mma is still pretty awesome on the ground.
lol
GREAT job by big cuz to restrain himself.
I agree honestly Jonas was being an idiot. Boogie was doing the same thing i would do. I would get in that guys face.
You must’ve forgotten when Kobe took a two-piece flush to both sides of his chin from Chris Childs & ate it like a hot sandwich. Only thing that moved was his jaw.
LOL if you are going to elbow someone, be like a man and face him afterwards.
Oh man that was awesome! Kobe took it like a 5 time champ and came right back at him.
It’s so easy to sucker punch someone, so it was funny as hell to see people think Chris Childs is some bad ass or something. Definitely made Kobe look gangster.