I love tough physical defense. What I don’t like is when Patrick Beverly goes low at the knees of another player. This is the line between hard-nosed and being a dirty player.
I used to defend Patrick Beverly. But I can’t anymore.
Again, there’s a line between being dirty and intent to injure—especially when it involves the knees of another player.
If Beverly did this shit on the ice in the NHL he would have already been beaten half to death. Football players wouldn’t tolerate this bullshit either. Neither would baseball players. He’d be hit with a baseball at his next at bat.
If Adam Silver isn’t going to take care of this then some team needs to hire an enforcer with the express intent of helping Patrick Beverly understand what a dirty play is and isn’t.