JJ was about to shoot the game winning bonus ball and Earl was talking and JJ said, "Excuse me."
Then Earl started talking about how this is a team sport and people can talk and everyone has been talking and then JJ pointed out that he had called his team out for talking while Earl was shooting earlier and to watch the tape etc.
JJ was telling Earl not to "cuss us" or to cuss at his team in a real nice tone actually.
They were going back and forth and JJ said well we can go outside in a real casual voice and Earl started talking about how he is tougher than he looks but it never got real heated at that juncture.
It wasn't until the lack of a hand shake that it really escelated to the video footage that we have all seen.
is that Larry Nevel accidentally "intercepted" JJ's hand shake attempt to Earl. It gave Earl a chance to keep walking. I think it's possible that Earl would have shook and avoided the whole situation of JJ saying, "Well I tried." which led to the incident but I'm totally guessing here. I've seen Earl pull a lot of horrible hand shake moments but I'm still a fan.