Childress out for 2 games

The NBL is stranger than fiction. You could not make this stuff up

He's injured. Does the suspension apply from now or from when he's taken off the injury list

What's to stop Sydney bringing him back from injury 2 games before he is ready?

So what happens to Cedric Jackson now?

"All three of you m----f---ers should be f---ing fired" -Jackson at official Raoul Kirsten, per Liam Santamaria's Twitter

This is a stupid punishment. Just ban him from sitting on the bench during games. As a fan I'll be very disappointed if he has to sit out 2 games after he's healthy.

And yet Joey Wright can't even get a tech even though he hurls abuse and fist pumps at refs on a frequent basis.

Absolute joke.

I wonder what he would have gotten for the same behaviour back when he was in the NBA ?

I watched Childress live and his behavior was way beyond just mouthing off and appeared to be extremely aggressive to the point that he looked like he was going to strike the refs.

Got what he deserved in my opinion.

"Now we have a bunch of far less technically competent refs who fear communicating"

There was an article earlier this season about how the refs have been given licence to talk to players during the games. e.g., warning them rather than immediately calling a foul. There have been a lot of statements on this forum about the refs' comments to players during games. e.g., a post about the ADL-SYD game referred to a ref making a comment to Gibson during the game, mentioning it not being 'playstation'.

That suggests they don't 'fear communicating'.

One difference between what Cedric did and what Childress did is that Cedric reacted to an extremely obvious and costly error, while Childress again tried to blame the refs for things not going his way. For all the good he does, he's also a whiney bitch.

Chalmers, was it proven that officials had the timeout counts correct?

I heard the timeout situation was Childress's complaint

I didn't mention the timeouts

How primary school punishment is this part: "Childress has also been directed by the Tribunal to provide written apologies to the referees involved within the next seven days."

Im sorry, but that is the stupidest thing I have ever seen in sport, if he is truly sorry he will say it, why force someone to apologise like a little kid?

#SoftRefs?

Haha Chalmers, that's the problem with this forum... everyone's on the defensive. It's quite a laugh.

It was a simple question mate, because I wasn't sure about both the outcome of timeout gate and Childress's reasoning behind hassling refs. I know minimal facts about this.

If it turned out that officials miscounted or wrongly attributed timeouts, then it could be argued that because Childress was right and the refs were wrong, Chill should've been handed a lighter penalty or no penalty at all

Which would be the same reason no action was taken on Jackson (thank god for that btw)

Anon, you're missing the point.

Consistency

Yeah, the bit I missed was that Jackson told all three refs to their faces that they should be fired*

Ah, nope, said it up there^

Harrington was saved by Childress.

If Childress didn't rush at the refs and start verbally abusing them and adopting a very aggressive manner, the refs would have seen Harrington boot anything he could find as he went off. Bottles, a chair and someone's rubbish.

Pretty poor form from NBA players to walk off blaming Adelaide players perhaps for not violating on enough free throws in order to give them some more turns at getting it in.

Harrington didn't kick a chair, he walked right past me and can confirm he punted a gatorade bottle towards the NW stand

For me, this starts on the court.

Start policing immature and anti-social behaviour on the court and that then sets the standard.

More players should get technicals for the way they argue, confront and jump up and down at the refs.

The NBL have let that slide over recent seasons and they need to start policing it on the court so that a precedent is set.

Unfortunately, precedent and consistency aren't going too well together at the NBL at the moment.

Make your free throws kids

MACDUB, agree with that. Also with '286 about an apology in a press conference, by letter is silly. No need for it to be embarrassing for Childress, it's a chance for him to maintain his public standing.

What was the penalty for Cedric in saying that?

MACDUB is spot on. Both in the solution and the lack of its consistent application.

A major part of professionalism is behaving professionally. An NBL player has to behave acceptably on court and, if he needs to, should vent his spleen privately over a beer with mates after the game. Just like everyone else who has something upset them at work.

So this thread isn't about Childress being petulant again, its about the refs that caused him to do what he did? It seems its never his fault for anything!

Childress has been round long enough to know how to act towards refs, regardless of how good or bad they are.

Feels to me like they've handed out what sounds like a harsh penalty but, given Childress is injured and the penalty starts immediately, it's in essence a suspended sentence. There's no way he'd have been given the same penalty if he was healthy.

The written letter thing is cringeworthy.

One can only assume Cedric wasn't cited - and I certainly wouldn't be taking Liam Santamaria's word as gospel as to what Ced said.

Bring in the video ref. Been calling for that for years.

Regardless of refs performance , you don't chase them off the court then stand outside their locker abusing them to a level that security needs to be brought in to take you away.

What was Goulding's punishment for assaulting a ref during the game?

Oh that's right, 2 free throws and possession.

In my opinion the difference between the Childress and Cedric incidents is that Cedric was suited up and playing not sitting on the bench then chasing them down the tunnels.