Poor or biased officiating is a leading cause of mini-riots and fights at basketball games.
What a thug that fat “player” with the beard is. His parental units must be proud.
Just damn. The levels of failure are almost too many to count.
What a friggin’ animal, and he’s grinning through the whole thing. Puke should be barred from ever playing again.
Parents Say Teen Injured in High School Hockey Game Won’t Walk Again
Published January 06, 2012
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“Vanderbilt, at 6 feet 3, 280 pounds, and VanHollebeke, at 6-4, 235, both played offensive and defensive line on the Eagles’ Class 1A state-championship football team in the fall. Both are listed as centers on the basketball team.”
I could be wrong, but I blame the coach as well as the kid for allowing him in a game with the skill level.
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Actually, I saw a lot worse than this back when I played at the Hampden Rec Center (inner city Baltimore) back when I was a kid in the Sixties.
We used to have a rule: It’s not a foul unless the offended party is down and bleeding.
And we also had our own methodology for dealing with guys like the fat, bearded boy: punch the living crap out of him. Worked exceptionally well.
Fat boy really needs to be ‘humbled’ if you know what I mean. What gets me is after #4 or 5, he is just standing laughing with one of the refs.
The ref called him on it, and IIRC, ejected him from the game, the parents booed him, the team shunned him, and the coach removed him from the team after the game.
That's what should have happened. Even the kid's own parents chastised him.
Among the players you protect by calling the game correctly are those like #34. He is now characterized as a bad person, as are his parents and his coach. But, if the game had been called correctly, his identify would be anonymous. Nobody would have ever known about him, and the particular foul or fouls he committed would soon be forgotten. His willingness, as a football player, to help out the basketball team would be put into a different perspective. To really help, he’d have to focus on becoming a better basketball player. Avoid the stupid fouls. Concentrate on establishing his position in the paint. Watch his lateral arm movement. I don’t known that offensive linemen are able to play basketball well. No quickness or leaping ability. Plenty of bulk, which would help establish position under the boards for rebounding; but, as you can see in the clip, any basketball player should be able to step around the fellow on a drive to the basket.
Action needs to be taken against 24 White’s coach. No decent coach would put a player in who behaved in this manner. Then, there’s the AD and the principal, where are they? Has winning become so important to them that having one of their players assault the other team is acceptable? 24 White isn’t acting in a vacuum (though that certainly doesn’t absolve him). The adults around him are allowing this behavior, and even rewarding it by giving him floor time.
Were it me, the kid would not only be missing from the basketball court, but the football field, too. He has no clue when it comes to sportsmanship. No responsible adult would allow him in any sort of physical competition.
It’s pretty clear that the only reason #24 is in the game is as a thug. He has no talent, just big and nasty. What needs to happen is for the whole team to be forbidden to play for a year. Tough for the kids who weren’t responsible, but when a coach is teaching that sort of “sportsmanship,” a school needs to pay the price.
34 is CLEARLY a goon..
The push off was clearly undercalled, it was intentional, the first foul was by 34, and basically just shows an untrained player being goonish IMHO.
The rebound was a flagrant, but I don’t believe was anything over the top.
The final foul clearly was not only goonish, but the kid who did it didn’t care, and even seemed proud he’d closelined the kid.
Whoever the coach of this team is they should be ashamed, as a coach for having a player that clearly doesn’t know the game, or sportsmanship, but is just a goon.. that’s not what Basketball is supposed to be about and it reflects that the coach clearly has no idea, or doesn’t care about the game himself, and #2 for putting a player like that on the court in the first place is a second smack against this coach.
I know I wouldn’t put that guy on the court unless I had no other option, he clearly doesn’t respect the game.. now whether he was coached to not respect it, or its just a personal flaw of the individual I don’t know, but any coach that would put some goon like that on the court needs help.
What the hell did they feed that moron? Holy Crap! And the other moron is even bigger!
After watching the Gonzaga U. basketball game last night I wondered how the high school thugs would respond to having a few of the “men” show up on the sidelines to have a “Man-to-man” chat about sportsMENship and other related topics...a little 7ft 280lbs of 6% body fat might be taken seriously!
It’s supposed to be a non-contact sport but all you see is guys driving the basket and knocking everyone over on the way without so much as a dribble. It’s not a shooting, play making game, it’s bump and dunk crap.