Jerry Stackhouse

Something got into Jerry Stackhouse during Sunday’s game against the Spurs.

I don’t know what it was, but Stack seemed to flip out in the fourth quarter of their loss. The first incident occurred against Manu Ginobili.

Battling for a rebound, he and Manu got tangled up. But instead of fighting legitimately for the ball, Stackhouse decided he’d had just about enough of Ginobili’s rough house style and threw him to the ground face first.

And that wasn’t all. His entire body weight came down on him too, which should have easily given Manu a major concussion - or worse. In fact, I was shocked there wasn’t an all-out brawl after the fact.

Yet, Stackhouse wasn’t quite done with his tantrums. Later in the fourth quarter, he picked up two technicals arguing a call and got booted from the game for good.

All in all, not one of his bad days. Therefore, today’s Tough Love is a pretty easy call. Grow up Stack. You’re better than that, man.