His name's Lennon Cooper, used to play social ball at Marion and Pasadena. Now I believe they said he plays at the Noarlunga Leisure Centre. He used to be able to dunk so much better till someone tunnelled him and broke both his arms.

He's a good bloke, though I wouldnt be surprised if any of the rest of his team could do the same and outscore the whole other team.

No he's not training with the sixers, it was a once off... put it this way, he's a camera man for channel 10. I presume that's how he got air time.

He's got a good offencive game, but lacks a thing called defence. He's only about 5 foot 10. He can shoot and dunk and has handles, if only he was a little taller.

Is this the same guy that broke both wrists at the Port Adelaide stadium about five years ago on a wednesday night social night?
If so I agree he had a great shot and could certainly jump through the roof - pity he also had possibly the worst attitude that I have ever encountered on a court (and I wasnt even playing against him just watching) It was amazing how many people were watching just to see how much of a wanker he could be! After his injury (yeah he got fouled going for a dunk but it wasnt anything untoward - he increased the problem by hanging on the ring) his team were actually not that fussed - they could see themselves actually getting to have a shot or 2!

Since his accident with breaking both arms though, I have never seen him have a attitude problem on the court. Must've made him change his game, knocked some sense into him. Great guy off court though, big NBA memorabilia fan, he's got signed jerseys, balls, pictures, the lot. Just doesnt take the game much further than social. One of his old team mates plays for Forestville div 2 men I believe. I cant remember his name at the moment, but he had the name "lobz" I believe on the back of his social singlet. This forestville guy is a big guy, can dunk like crazy and recently (about 2-3 months) ago had a broken wrist.

Might give some people some ideas of who he is.

I saw the game he that he scored and it took the opposition till the last qtr to try triple teaming him to stop him. Basically no one else on his team took a shot and for most of it just fend him the ball on the break and he pulled up and let rip. Rob Castanelli (I'm sure the spelling is wrong) is the Forestville guy that he used to play with.

I used to play div 1 U20 with coopz till half way through his second year, he quit because of dodgy management at NCT. We hated to lose him, but could see where he was coming from. I remember he had heaps of offers to go to alot of other clubs, but him being loyal (even though they screwed him over) didn't want to be seen as a trader.

so he took up social and made a sweet social team that kains everyone and he still gets about 30pts and 7ass per game. sure its only social, but he could still be ABA if he put in the time. he just prefers to play for fun.

for the record i have known him for a long time, and that kid has never had a attitude problem in his life. sounds like there alot of jealous people out there, he desereves to have one day of fun with the sixers, don;t you think?

"I know two of the teammates who were on the team with this guy (Rob Castanelli and Daniel Sawade)."

Ahhh that's his name Rob, he's the one I mentioned in post #15785 that just recently had a broken wrist from gridiron. Rob now plays for Forestville.

And for the record, it's actually coopz that works at channel 10 as a camera man. Another of the players may work at ch10, but I defiantly know that coopz works there also.

Who cares who it was on. It bought publicity to the game. People in SA for 5 or so minutes got to watch some guy many had never heard about train with the sixers.

didn't brian gorgian find jason smith through social basketball? it sounds like this kid can definitely play but didn't want to be a trader, and now wants to play for fun, give him a break.

everyone sounds way too jealous about the subject, just like tommo said: would you have said "no"?

hey there

let me clear a few things up on this subject, as coopz was on my team back in the district days.

fistly, he NEVER had a bad attitude, EVER. in actual fact he was so sportsman-like that in one game, the ref made the wrong call on an out of bounds play, and he gave it up (when the scores were tied, with 10 secs left) it could've lost us the game, but he did what was right, thats what he is like.

anyway, he did break both arms after being tunneled on a dunk about 5 years ago, and hasn't dunked as good since, but for the record, that dunk was his 51st point in that game, and we still had 8 minutes left. i have seen him score over 50pts in close to 15-20 games, the guy can shoot the lights out, and is far from a hog, he seems to score quietly, without you realising it. it may be social, but i know he could tear it up in district still if he wanted to.

so respect to him, if anyone deserves one day of fun in the basketball scene, it's him. thats all it was, just a day of good fun for him, and i'm glad to see he is still playing for the love of the game. good on him , i say. keep up the good game champ.

you can come play for us anyday coopz.

brad.

and sorry, he broke both his arms at morphett vale stadium, not port adelaide, so all your comments on bad attitudes, is actually a different perosn entirely.

typical! players commenting on things which they only know half the story, to make themselves feel better.

if you don't know coopz, don't comment.

peace.

brad

i have been reffing coopz's social team and district bball for a long time now, and have to agree with the majority of people in this thread.

just because he doesn't play ABL, doesn't take anything away from his game. He, and probably a couple of other guys on his team, could quite easily walk onto some of the ABL teams in SA. with no hassles, whatsoever.

i think it's been a great thing for SA Ball, it brought publiity all around the country to little old adelaide for a few minutes. it couldn't have happened to a nicer fella.

Sup ballaz,
I Play for the tarheels with coops. He has a killa 3point shot. I also played in that game that we fed him the ball.Yeah the team we played was lucky to walk let alone bounce the ball at the same time. but Over 70 points is still big. You shouldv'e seen our assists, steals and rebound stats.
Oh well its all a bit of fun dudes you don't like it, get over it.