WATCH: Trevor Lawrence takes offense with screen set on him during pickup basketball game
Adam Spencer | 2 years ago
When you're a national championship winning quarterback like Clemson's Trevor Lawrence is, you expect a certain amount of respect from your campus mates.
So, when you join in a pickup basketball game, that includes not being screened by an opponent 80 feet away from the basket.
That's what happened to Lawrence, though, as you can see in the video below, posted to Twitter by Clemson's Barstool account. Lawrence takes offense to the screen and shoves the guy down:
Sure Trevor was a little rough, but you don't set a screen on T-Law. You just don't. pic.twitter.com/CBMeQvE8VN
— NATIONAL CHAMPIONS (@BarstoolClemson) February 19, 2019
If Lawrence doesn't want to get bumped, he could always not play pickup basketball, but also, that guy should have known who he was playing against.
Even in football practices, quarterbacks aren't getting hit, so Lawrence decided the best way to get his point across was to go after the poor kid.
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KirbySmart 2 years ago
Sunshine got moxie.
... 2 years ago
Doesn't look like pickup with the jerseys and refs.
That specific play isn't a good look for Lawrence, and I'm not going to glorify him for an apparent act of poor sportsmanship, great or small. But I will say that I don't think a tweet with less than half a minute of video is sufficient for me to condemn him either. Sometimes context means more than text.
For all we know the kid might've been talking trash to him the entire time.
That's why I said I'm not going to condemn him without the full context. Regardless, that specific action was poor sportsmanship. A big time college athlete should be prepared for little guys trying to get under his skin, and assault is not the appropriate response.
LegendDD2 2 years ago
It might have just been someone's time of the month.
BlackandGold 2 years ago
This isn't as bad as it looks. I've seen people do more damage in pick up basketball.
MattyJ 2 years ago
If he wants to play full court press he might have someone set a little baby screen on him. Gotta keep your head on a swivel.
^Also, this.
Weagle99 2 years ago
It wasn't a rough screen, but you don't normally see that in a pickup game. Dude setting the screen was either trying to provoke him or one of those try-hards that usually get someone hurt. His reaction was a little overboard, but I probably would have been a little ticked to.
GATORDONTPLAYNOSH*T 2 years ago
You also don't see jerseys and refs in a pickup game.
volzdeep22 2 years ago
Colleges have intramural leagues which are glorified pickup games I don't know why people can't wrap their minds around this. Those aren't jerseys either those are those cheap netted pull overs every high school gym has in the country.
I understand that, the kid set a screen, a normal basketball play and sunshine lost his mind.
He set it on the other side of the court and he was probably mouthing off or something. Trevor's personality is too lethargic for him to get provoked by the screen alone.
Pickup games have no refs, so depending on the people involved, you call/adjudicate your own fouls and norms your own way, sometimes like this. But when you have a ref, you give up that power and agree to go with their calls and their rulings. Trying to seize that power from the refs is poor sportsmanship. The other guy may have been a terrible sport as well, but in a game with refs it is not the players' job to police that, especially not this way.
clickbaitdownsouth 2 years ago
Sds showing how retarded they are. Barely coherent football articles, please dont offer your take on basketball. You can and should set a pick for your team mate when the other team is doing a full court press TL was taking the game too seriously first, hea 100% at fault and his roid rage is showing. Click bait down south strikes again
ekinggill88 2 years ago
The guy should have known who he was playing against? What does that even mean?
1. You don't set a screen on your side of the court while on defense.
2. Lawrence needs thicker skin. It's rec basketball, there are going to be some turds that play stupid instead of ball. Just run through the screen.