09-07-2020, 03:47 PM
Robert M wrote:
Test,
You and I must have seen a different video. Look at 8 and 9 seconds into the ESPN video. He wasn't glancing in the direction of the judge until a moment _after_ he hit the ball. You can tell by his actions immediately afterwards that it wasn't intentional.
The commentators would've reamed him if he'd intentionally aimed in anger at the judge and the judge would've sustained a tremendous injury from getting hit by the ball. The incident was unintentional. Unfortunate but unintentional.
Robert
It looks intentional to me, I don't buy this was an accident. This wasn't hit as a dead ball bouncing around that was whacked out of unaimed frustration. He took the ball out of his pocket and wanted to send a message to the line judge. This guy makes a mighty good living off his ability to control the trajectory of a ball. IMO, he meant for it to be a couple inches to the side of her throat like a shot across the bow.
