Getting posterized: is there any other situation in sports where doing, basically, the right thing, gets you shitted on? I mean, Watanabe just happens to be the guy on help defense. like Kliq says, JAG. He didn’t do anything particularly wrong... in fact, it would’ve taken a truly spectacular effort to make the block.
The closest thing I can think of is a goalie in soccer or hockey getting badly deked. But in that case, there’s at least a small aspect of f’ing up, because goalies do make that save with some frequency. Also don’t think a goalie gets the same opprobrium .
edit: apparently my memory of “reprobrium” being a word is way off