What's wrong with that? Demos knocks Holmes to the ground and then gets tangled up in Holmes's right arm.

Demos should be suspended too for the crude shoulder charge.

hard to tell if it's intentional, if it was, yes.

No!! Make Him play for the 36ers for three weeks.

nothing in it.

Looks more like Holmes was putting his arms up around his head area to protect his face and head, and the tangle resulted. Nothing intentional.

Suspend him? What for? Two players get tangled up and Demos carried it on trying to be a tough man· I think he came of second best·

Nothing in it. Demos fell of his own accord. If anyone needs to be suspended it should Demos for making an arse of himself.

Holmes raises his right arm once on the ground
Looks like he knew exactly what he was doing

He probably raised his arm to protect himself from the out of control Demos. Considering Demos just bowled him over, then chose to run over the top of him, I think Holmes is within his rights to hold his arm over his face.

The only reason Demos isn't considered the leagues dirtiest player is because he isn't from Perth and barely gets on the court.

It looked pretty intentional to me, from the clip, but the key point from all this is: call the first foul.

Would solve so many of the league's game-related issues.

Would also make the refs' jobs easier and result in much better baskeball because the players would be [more] confident in the officials' calls.

It's amazing that no whistle was blown until they chested up for the second time. There'd been three fouls prior to that, all of them close to being USF yet nothing was called. Bizarre.

They received a double foul..

Holmes hit probably a little too hard however the object of the pick is to get the other player free, which Holmes achieved.
Holmes clipped Demos which technically is probably a foul but having seen the whole play was let go.

Ref had a lot of verbal on that incident. Demos refused to listen. He should have probably just T-d up Demos for the carry on as soon as Demos took a step towards Holmes.

In the end, a double foul would have been enough to maintain control, as long as a little memory went that next time Demos does something, just call the foul early because he is an idiot and can't control himself.

Double foul and touble Ts are the biggest cop out. Basically means an instigator gets away with anything and everything, especially in the NBA these days...

alternate angle footage looks more like Jake reaches for the leg deliberately -probably out of frustration- but if it was deliberate then league has to look at it

Bring back the biff. Australian basketball has got so bloody soft these days

Two stupid acts, one the shoulder charge, then the trip. Too quick for a wistle to stop the trip, so a double foul then maybe a tech' for the retalliation...

Demos goes out the exit door and Holmes sits on the bench to cool off for 5 minutes, IMO...

That kind of play is not basketball, but I didn't see the game so don't know how it was played or officiated and the video is only a few seconds long.

Yeah I agree with the situation, I can't believe it took so long to call the foul.
Firstly, that's a foul on Demos for dropping his shoulder and running through Holmes.
Secondly, Jake knew what he was doing, he was probably embarassed someone so little knocked him over!
Thirdly, Demos is a punk, if he played more i'm sure Jacob would have got his revenge! ;)

If you actually watch the replay Demos doesnt even see the screen coming, he has no team mate around to warn him either. He doesn't drop his shoulder his head and eye contact are locked on the ball.

Those that have played against Holmes know that he knew what he was doing when he raised his right arm to clip Demos. Demos was almost past Holmes when he was tripped.

Townsville Crocs Jacob Holmes to face @NBL Tribunal on charge of tripping after incident in 2nd quarter of @TsvCrocs v @wollongonghawks

Glen Saville on Twitter:

Bloody sick of these crutches. Just tripped over at Holmes again.

My holmies be trippin ya'll

NBL social media policy FTW!!!

Referees police screens pretty woefully overall IMHO. Too often players setting the pick get away with pushing their hips out that little bit further because to ensure they make contact with the defender when, if they (and their ball carrier) did it right, there would be no need to move, or players get there that little bit late but no call. Just watch Redhage in action!

In this case, Demos ran through the screen? Fine, call it. But if Holmes deliberately grabbed at the leg, then that's a different situation. In real-time, Holmes would likely have done this whether or not Hogan had called a foul - there wouldn't have been enough time for Holmes to decide "Hey, Demos just got away with that", so he went for his own payback.

Too often I see juniors playing hoops that just don't know how to set a proper screen, or use a screen correctly.

They get away with it because of two reasons:

1. Coaches don't pick up on it.
2. Officials don't call it, so coaches don't need to pick up on it.

Cause and effect...

Now we get to senior level hoops, what's the issue........??

Coaches obviously don't need to worry about it because officials obviously don't give two hoots whether the screen is used properly, or a player is smashed by an illegal screen, or as in this case just smashes through the screener!

I would have thought being delusional is when you decide that someone did something intentionally without having any evidence to support it.