One of the dirtiest plays I've ever seen

Considering the blatant nature, I tip my hat to both teams for not turning it into an all out fight. Moeller kids were very calm, IMO. The kid who was fouled could had seriously been hurt going into the lower bleacher like that.
 
WhoDeyThink said:
Adult strangers posting vids or pics (good or bad) of kids or teenagers is odd and unfortunately is too commonplace on social media. A lot of adults post for a reaction (positive or negative) at the expense of an adolescent. Increase followers, attention grasping, or simply feeding their own individual agendas.

An emotional parent coming on Yappi or posting on Twitter isn't a surprise these days. What I find most troubling is when adults who are hired and represent a school immediately go to social media for the sole purpose of attacking a teenager or a rival school. What happened to character, forgiveness, and faith at these GCL South institutions? That's the hypocritical side and everything wrong with social media. Adults today have forgotten their roles is to educate during the best and worst of times at these schools. There is something glaringly wrong when an adults first reaction is to turn to social media and totally forgets the 24/7 mission of "Forming our Students into Remarkable Men" or "Men For Others"

Heard an individual call social media a pick and choose loose voice. It sure does apply in the world we live in today!
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Excellent perspective here.
 
14Red said:
Considering the blatant nature, I tip my hat to both teams for not turning it into an all out fight. Moeller kids were very calm, IMO. The kid who was fouled could had seriously been hurt going into the lower bleacher like that.
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The video only showed the visiting team’s bench, but it was clear that a couple of assistant coaches were active an reminding the kids on the bench to stay put. I can only assume that the same was the case with the home team.

Have seen way too many situations (in person and video) like this get way out of hand with players leaving the bench
 
WhoDeyThink said:
What I find most troubling is when adults who are hired and represent a school immediately go to social media for the sole purpose of attacking a teenager or a rival school. What happened to character, forgiveness, and faith at these GCL South institutions? That's the hypocritical side and everything wrong with social media. Adults today have forgotten their roles is to educate during the best and worst of times at these schools. There is something glaringly wrong when an adults first reaction is to turn to social media and totally forgets the 24/7 mission of "Forming our Students into Remarkable Men" or "Men For Others"
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100%!!
Words like 'character', 'forgiveness' and 'faith' have become nothing more than 'buzz words' for a website or a social media platform. Video productions, Podcasts and social media posts all have their place in the marketing machine but there is a limit. Too often, a small minority take it entirely too far and cross the line, all in the attempt to fan the flames and continue to push their negative narrative ultimately feeding their personal ego. While no one is perfect, we all have an easy time identifying the worse offenders.
The question is, at what point is the repeated behavior enough that a change actually occurs??
 
SW Supporter said:
***Just in*** The St X coach and administration has read all the anonymous opinions on Yappi and have kicked #33 off the team and out of school. They wanted to make sure that they appeased the Yappi posters.
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You are an ! If it were your kid or brother and he sustained a serious injury you would want just that. GBM 💪 🏀
 
It’s just garbage “basketball “…no repercussions so it will happen over and over. Like I said it is getting worse because parents are such sports and high school homers they don’t parent. I never needed a coach, ref or administrator to teach me or my kids right from wrong. Everyone makes mistakes but there should be some sort of punishment or reckoning. Lessons taught and lessons learned…will never happen..the horror if a team actually lost a game due to a suspension. I am SO glad my boys are past all this.
 
SW Supporter said:
***Just in*** The St X coach and administration has read all the anonymous opinions on Yappi and have kicked #33 off the team and out of school. They wanted to make sure that they appeased the Yappi posters.
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SW Supporter said:
***Just in*** The St X coach and administration has read all the anonymous opinions on Yappi and have kicked #33 off the team and out of school. They wanted to make sure that they appeased the Yappi posters.
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Fake News! The X people You mentioned already showed Everyone they Don’t have Any Balls!!!
 
SW Supporter said:
Tell me if I an wrong but I dont believe anyone sustained any injuries? So we can talk about what ifs all day long.
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Well I didn't mean to pull the trigger, but the gun went off!!! If and buts on not having an injury. That kids neck bent from hitting the bleachers. That's the first thing I look for afterwards was did the player get up. Luckily, there was no injury, but that could have ended much worse than it did. I grew up in the Detroit Bad Boys era, and i still thought this was bad. I was thinking maybe he was related to Laimbeer.

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14Red said:
Considering the blatant nature, I tip my hat to both teams for not turning it into an all out fight. Moeller kids were very calm, IMO. The kid who was fouled could had seriously been hurt going into the lower bleacher like that.
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I agree the moeller coaches and players handled it very well- even after the fact. There was genuine shock in the gym and obvious concern by all about the condition of the moeller player. Also keep in mind that the gym is set up so anyone cheering for Moeller is upstairs and no where near the gym floor. There will need to be some extra measures in place when they meet up again at Moe in 2 weeks as well- namely a solid ref crew.
 
Nothing in this fight, but as a fan of high school basketball, we do not need this kind of behavior from players…..most good coaches would suspend this kid for the season…….the kid is trouble…..no true athlete does that bs!!!!!!
 
Think the kid from X let out all his frustration in the worst way possible. Good on the Moeller kids for not escalating it. X kid should sit down for a few games and more importantly genuinely apologize to the Moeller player.

But it's really not some earth ending event.
 
@AllSports12

Why not go, Flagrant foul on the shot (ejection). Dead ball Flagrant foul (ejection) on the shove after the play (based on that play that happened, the shove easily could've been the start of an all-out brawl, thus an act of fighting). Seems as though this would have deescalated the situation as much as possible and potentially (hopefully) prevented further incidents from happening later in the game.
 
CasualFan24 said:
@AllSports12

Why not go, Flagrant foul on the shot (ejection). Dead ball Flagrant foul (ejection) on the shove after the play (based on that play that happened, the shove easily could've been the start of an all-out brawl, thus an act of fighting). Seems as though this would have deescalated the situation as much as possible and potentially (hopefully) prevented further incidents from happening later in the game.
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#14's action did nothing to provoke a response of fighting, so his action is nothing more than a technical foul. Had the player he shoved retaliated by throwing a punch or any other act that meets the definition of fighting, then #14's action is considered an act of fighting.....

There was no such response
 
AllSports12 said:
#14's action did nothing to provoke a response of fighting, so his action is nothing more than a technical foul. Had the player he shoved retaliated by throwing a punch or any other act that meets the definition of fighting, then #14's action is considered an act of fighting.....

There was no such response
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So could you say the kid that was shoved by #14 remained under control and was not looking for a fight?
 
AllSports12 said:
#14's action did nothing to provoke a response of fighting, so his action is nothing more than a technical foul. Had the player he shoved retaliated by throwing a punch or any other act that meets the definition of fighting, then #14's action is considered an act of fighting.....

There was no such response
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Wouldn't you deem #14's act (the dead ball shove) to be in retaliation for the shove that should have resulted in a Flagrant foul to start this whole mess? There don't have to be punches thrown to be considered an act of fighting, right? To me, when the shove/push is as aggressive as it was, #14 is prepared for a fight in that spot - the push (or any push for that matter) is not meant as a warm gesture, a push always has the potential to lead to something more, especially during a dead ball situation.....

I just think big picture - no official truly wants to throw someone out of the game for many reasons. But in this situation, you'd have solved a lot of issues and been extremely fair to both teams to have both of those players removed from the game. #14 was obviously playing with some negative emotion there, and it ultimately leads to his ejection later with the additional T - that 2nd escalation never happens if he's already been removed is all....
 
SW Supporter said:
I guess good thing you are not the coach and have no say in the incident. They did almost lose with him out of the lineup yesterday so you are wrong in your observation. It was a bad play, he didnt get tossed from the game so why sit him for 2 games? Make him come and do more conditioning, push him a little harder , make him uncomfortable. He pushed a kid, the kid didnt sustain and injury, play over move on. If this was west high v colerain we would never even hear about it.
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Bad take bro. Just because he wasn't hurt doesn't mean he couldn't have seriously been hurt. As far as your take the kid didn't get tossed....he should have been. If he doesn't have his short mental laps then the Moeller kid doesn't either and he wouldn't be suspended 2 games. Growing up is about learning and this has NOTHING to do with X almost losing because he did sit out a half. Does it really matter if they would have beat West? No not really. St. Xavier is not going to win a state championship in basketball this year. It makes no difference to anyone if they win or lose the next game. Sit him and teach him. Kids make mistakes (and so do adults) but it is more about learning from those mistakes. You telling the dude it is a good thing he is not the coach is kinda strange for an adult to say honestly. That guy had a solid take and it was about taking responsibility for a poor decision, expressing how he understood it was poor, expressing his concern for the kid he could have seriously injured and making a public gesture of good sportsmanship and moving on. Kids are kids.....love mine and others to death but they do dumb things sometimes and Donovan is a good example. I am sure he is a great kid that made a really poor choice. Coach him up about life and decision making and move on. Brushing it under the rug and making excuses for the situation is doing nothing and worrying about a damn game vs West or whoever is not very intelligent in my book. Adults, coaches and parents are to teach responsibility not support poor decisions made by young people.
 
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