Whats Hot - Chris Molitor's buzzer beater to break Southern's heart

Not

From an outsiders point of view ,a spectating Sturt coach taking the time to test the flash of his camera while the southern team was shooting in the game against Southern on Saturday night.....it seemed to upset the UIC who spoke to the offending coach who then put his camera away....would have thought he's know better, but maybe he brought the flash along because he heard another light was hanging precariously from the rafters....tut tut

At the Nationals (and many other tournaments including Norwood), there are photographers engaged to take action shots of players and sell them. Some of them take photos right under the basket with a flash. If you are insinuating that he was deliberately putting Tigers players off then you are just stirring the pot. He was just taking photos. Chill out.

Brian,

They did at 14 Nationals last year at the Starplex.

Talk about a mountain out of a mole hill. Sturt won by over 20. I'm pretty sure "flash-photography-gate" had very little if anything to do with it.

Hot - Good effort on Sporting Pulse
Not - Using 3rd court at Port with scoreboard basically stuffed. No BASA scorers in the Grand Finals. I think/know parents would like to see and enjoy the Final with no added scoring pressure. Referees at Port (2 only). Please dont let them spoil this game ever again.

Not - Our CEO nowhere to be seen for the entire weekend.

STOP scorers usually give their time willingly to help during state champs and junior finals. To my knowledge there was no such request from BSA to ask for such volunteers.

If you don't ask you don't get

Grounds for a (southern)walkout?

Hot

Sturt Under 18 Boys

Beat Southern by 20 on Sat night and everything is sweet. Then disaster, lose to South narrowly after being 20 down early. Then they down for the count against Fville, a buzzer beater 3 keeps them alive to win in 2OT. Then destroy North in the final. The biggest comeback since Lazarus. Well done boys!

Excuses,

Why would a sturt coach be taking photos of a Southern person taking fouls shots. You said they were for their website/newsletter!!

Kym Jury should have sent his assitant coach into the Sturt Huddle at a Time Out and asked why photos were being taken.

WHAT'S NOT: Matt Ryan not at Pasadena.

Just purely cos the North Blonde jokes could have been whipped out!

RE 81705 - the CEO was at the Dome Sunday arvo, but nowhere near the games... watching from the (crumbling) ivory tower?

how bout some of the 18 close games

tigers over fville by 3 a missed triple on the buzzer to go into overtime

north over fville by 1

sturt hitting a 3 to send it to DOUBLE overtime

Norwood not making top four bad luck but it was nice for the north to beat them great win

hot - north 18 boys, stepping up when needed and coming to play for state champs.
not - sturt coaches going down to southerns level and using bad sportmenship to try and get back at them for last year.

Gavin's great steal and followed up with a huge dunk in the Sturt game was Hot.

81845 - What a ridiculous post!

I think its been established that the flash is a figment of some over-sensitive Southern parent's imagination. When Sturt start spying on opposition time outs and running "Indian" plays then they would have gone down to the past 2 Southern coach's level and I doubt that will happen. I think they just get their own back by winning games and titles. And by the way, the North boys stepped up in some big games but didn't in the most important one of all!

#81840

Yep agree Norwood not making top 4 was a surprise. But to be fair, they have a lot of guys either not playing or playing injured right now. Even so, didn't see the North game but credit to them for a great win!

Killa hit six threes. One a buzzer beater well over half way line. Hot hand.

Pffft, Southern people calling out others for poor sportsmanship is a comedy highlight.
Past two Southern coaches have
a) demeaned the opposition by running the "Indians" play.
b) cheated by sending assistant coach to opposition timeout huddle to get their play.

The Southern parents being talked about could have simply asked the coach to stop using the flash. By making a big rant about it just proves their bad sportsmanship is not only confined to their coach! You lost by 20-odd, a couple of flash shots did not cost you the game!!

Hot - Russo hitting a three pointer LEFT handed on Killa's head!