Reason 4. Used as an effective strategy to interfere with rivals in the game
Perhaps this is the most salient and visible reason we can detect from the former listed invisible profound reasons.
When a player is standing behind the free-throw line in a basketball game, ready to shoot the ball, especially when it
is in the clutch moment, you can always find a player from the opponent team comes forward to the free-thrower,
whispers in his ears some trash words, such as “you are such a damn bad shooter” or “you can’t make the
motherfucking shoot” or “you will shoot an airball”. Under such pressure, the inexperienced player usually loses
composure and immediately talks back to the intruder as a counterattack, then misses the crucial free-throw shoots.
In this case, the dirty talks take effects—they successfully distract the free-thrower and cause him to make a terrible
mistake which may even determines the win or loss of the entire game. On another occasion, if a player is so hot at
shooting and can’t be stopped by the normal defense tactics, sometimes the coach of the opponent team will use
“dirty talks” strategy to interfere with him. In this situation, a role player will be arranged to defend the target player.
Not only will he foul hard at the player, with a technique foul, even at the price of a flagrant foul, but also he will talk
dirty to the player, in order to enrage him to a further degree. This strategy is especially effective to young immature
players who are impulsive and easy to be disturbed. If the strategy is successfully enforced, the “dirty talk” target
will lose his mind, be infuriated, and step into the snare which is set for him by his opponent. If the player is greatly
exasperated, he is very likely to be trapped in continuing exchanging dirty talks with his rival, can’t focus his mind
on the game and disqualified in his following performance. If the exasperation develops to an uncontrollable degree,
the player may even stop playing the game and fight with the guy who keeps nagging at his ears in trash words with
a forceful punch or kick. These forbidden impulsive behaviors will immediately cause his expelling from the court
and cause great damage to his own team, in the meanwhile satisfies his rival team.