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Basketball: The Gutierrez-Pasternack incident
By Jeff Faraudo
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012 at 11:54 pm in Basketball, Gameday.
Jorge Gutierrez was not made available in the postgame interview session to discuss what happened with 4:46 left when he tumbled into the Arizona bench and came up looking like he was ready to fight.
It was an unusual moment.
While trying to save a pass, Gutierrez fell into the bench and got tangled with Cats assistant coach Joe Pasternack — the one-time Cal aide. Gutierrez came away furious and had to be restrained by teammates. Referees reviewed the video, but made no call.
“I didn’t see what happened,” teammate Harper Kamp said. “He (Gutierrez) felt Coach P said something and extended his leg and tried to kick him, something like that. I know they’re both passionate guys.”
Arizona coach Sean Miller said he wasn’t sure what happened.
Cal coach Mike Montgomery tried to downplay the incident, but said of Gutierrez, “In his opinion, one of the coaches on the other team did something he shouldn’t.”
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February 3rd, 2012 at 8:05 am
He’s Roxy’s brother-in-law too.
February 3rd, 2012 at 8:09 am
It was a kick. Inexcusable.
February 3rd, 2012 at 8:48 am
Definitely a kick. I’ve never seen anything like that before. Ridiculous.
February 3rd, 2012 at 9:04 am
Really strange, whether he kicked Jorge or not it looked bad. Coaches need to be above that kind of stuff.
February 3rd, 2012 at 9:43 am
The Pac 12 needs to take action. There is way too much BS in this league.
February 3rd, 2012 at 10:20 am
Yeah, you can’t see his leg, but you can see the coach’s body sort of jolt as he extends his right leg toward Jorge… unbelievable! I don’t know if they have enough evidence to do anything though
February 3rd, 2012 at 11:06 am
Check the balls for scuff marks?
February 3rd, 2012 at 11:06 am
This was just one example of horrid, horrid, horrid officiating yesterday. Apparently the commish was sitting court side. It’s time for him to take action.
anyone know the best way to contact the pac 12 about this (Their website didn’t provide contact info)? I want to voice my frustration about the continued officiating mess. It’s absolutely bush league.
February 3rd, 2012 at 11:39 am
Jorge will get his revenge on Pasternack…someplace, sometime. I guarantee it. Jorge does not forget or forgive a punk. I’d love to be there when it happens. Viva Jorge!
And Go Bears! The Pac12 title is still there for the taking, only 1/2 game back (we have the tiebreaker over uduh). Crush the devils.
February 3rd, 2012 at 1:14 pm
Gee, didn’t see this happen. Sounds similar to what I read about Lavender hitting Jorge in the nuts and drawing a foul on Gut for nothing.
Maybe the Zona bench was strategically targeting his fury the get him out of the game.
February 3rd, 2012 at 1:25 pm
Jorge was lucky he did not get kicked out of the game.
February 3rd, 2012 at 1:40 pm
The Dan Le Batard Show is about to do a bit on Jorge being kicked.
February 3rd, 2012 at 1:45 pm
On the double foul, Jorge fouled Lavendar with his heuvos.
February 3rd, 2012 at 4:14 pm
If Jorge said he got kicked, then he got kicked. Why is this being downplayed? There needs to be repercussions.
February 3rd, 2012 at 7:17 pm
Jorge will get his revenge. I hope we see arisucka in the pac 10 tournament.
February 3rd, 2012 at 7:22 pm
Which one of these douch bags was the bald guy?
Ruben Ramos, Gregory Nixon, Michael Greenstein
I hope they never ref in the Pac 12 again. The bald guy shouldn’t be able to ref anything anywhere.