It's addressed here.

In a nutshell - games are on for this weekend, but there may be extra timeouts and extended breaks allowed.

I think for city south, the first post was correct ...

How about we as parents start to ask Basa to pay us for time keeping or scoring.Or maybe at least free entry, you go to see your child play . Pay to get in and then you end up working and not seeing your child play.Thats a great buy!!!!!

But your child's playing right?

Personally, i don't mind playing on a 38 degree day.

But then again, i am a freak when it comes to heat.

You do get free entry if you score... just return your ticket to the front box and say you scored

FED UP WITH HAND IN POCKE, my god some people are ignorent. BSA is there for junior basketball. There are no shareholders, and no longer a professional basketball organisation pocketing the money. Those stadiums cost $Millions. BSA is there for basketball. The money goes back into basketball. So OK if you were chairperson for the day; BSA can pay parents to score and you can get in for free but your kids will end playing out on the streets and call thier own fouls. DINGBAT!

Duty of care means showing a reasonable standard of care in the safety of others. By publishing policies and adjusting the rules BSA are exercising their duty of care.

If coaches are reasonable then they should be safe.

It is HIGHLY unlikely there will be issues. Infact, I would bet my life savings that no one will die from heat on a basketball court tomorrow night.

HEY ding bat what about sat
and as far as playing in the street when myb kids play football it does not cost me or anybody else to watch them or cost me $180 in reg/fees on top of the weekly cost not all of us are as rich as you

109928, How much do you think an oval costs vs a basketball stadium? How many players in a football team sharing the costs? How many teams can train on an oval? How many football clubs run pokies and a bar and a drinking culture?

Basketball is no comparison to football.

109924, its different for each club ask your club who owns the stadium. If you want to know where the money goes its simple. Go to a club AGM and get a copy of the financials. Beleive it or not if you are a member of a club you own it, the clubs owned BASA. So if the clubs did own BASA and you own the club well.... ????? Is this making any sense????

IS IGNORANCE REALLY BLISS?

BASA should cancel them now!! too hot - what if kids arent hydrated enough - whose responsbility is it! you cant MAKE a kid drink = some just wont do it - the coaches will get blamed - they shouldnt be put in this position - if something happens the liability should be BASA's for not making the decision to cancel - I hope this is not about the revenue that will be lost!!!!

eastern lowland gorilla, you do NOT get a refund if you score for your childs game.

That is only in social games. In district you have to pay.

Also it costs more to watch district juniors than it does to watch seniors.

ELG - you're partially correct. I believe that's the case for senior games, but not for juniors.

Read the policy and I think you will find there are compulsory time outs each quarter where the kids have to take in fluid. Same as the Vic rule. It wont be 38 at 6 to 10 pm - a bit of common sense tells you that but that seems lacking by the clowns posting above.

If you want your entry fee back because you scored - give it away - basketball does not need persons like you.

The U18's are playing tonight as well as Div 1's in other grades - playing in sweat boxes like Morphettvale, Marion and Port Adelaide - some teams have been left with no subs due to School B/B in Geelong. No subs means kids are playing for the whole game - someone at BASA please make a decision NOW

Airconditioned courts at Starplex will be empty tomorrow.

Dear Mr BASA

Can you please make a decision NOW and cancel games tonight and tomorrow that are not in Air-conditioned stadiums. You can re-schedule these games next year in February - perhaps tonights and tomorrows rounds could be played on a Sunday. It is the sensible thing to do. You also will not find yourself on the receipt of Court action if a player becomes seriously ill or worse!

Thank you in anticipation

Concerned Mother/Father/Team Manager and Coach

Anon 110027

You idiot - read the rules in vic and you will see what a good heat policy is - to say we need less of xmas cheer shows how much of a melon head you are. Adhere to that policy and you do not have a problem and the kids are protected

110059 = What the......please explain

Cultural Crap - Would you agree that BSA policy is full of ambiguity and does not protect the kids

110059, correct! That is my point.

Why would clubs want to have basketball all year round? Because they think it develops players.

Its not because of revenue as stated above!

If they werent using the stadiums then someone else would be.

#110137. We currently use approx 23 courts on Friday nights and Saturday mornings. Can you please outline your programme for playing all of these at the Dome. (3 courts with centre court scorebench at end of court)
Perhaps we could play 24 hours a day for a few days each week.

Just got back from the TIN SHED at Morphettvale - It was damn hot - but the refs were well instructed by UIC Bill in enforcing time-outs - well done!

I heard a rumour (and it was only a rumour) that before the Lightning were sold at it looked like they would be playing at Wayville this season, Workcover SA was quite interested.

The rumour had it on warmer days they would attend games, monitor the indoor temps and if it was too hot in accordance with Occ Health and Safety laws, they would have cancelled the game.

To be blaming BSA though is not right, most of the people there have only been in the job for a matter of weeks, or very few months.

There is a current policy in place so they said, lets stick to that for now.

Remember, Rome (or the old BASA) wasn't burnt in a day, it cant be fixed in a day either.

Yes when rome burnt many died so should that be what we have to wait for.Its not hard to work out a heat policy all workplace's and most good sport clubs have ones that are not money arrange but for the saftey of the workers or players .And people who can put them into action not just talk about it

"re: Playing in high temperatures (#110032)

"No subs means kids are playing for the whole game"

ANON, And what about the refs who had to ref 3 and 4 games in a row tonight???

They have no subs either!

And if any refs called a time out due to "Hot Weather" tonight (as close to the half way point of a quarter), this was does because as per the directions from BSA "call an extra time out at the 5 minute mark of each quarter (or 4 minute mark), if a
time out hasn't already been called in that quarter"!

Thus, the timeout wasn't for the referees themselves, but rather beacuse teams hadn't called them yet!

110065

Westminster last nite was fine - not air cond either. Common sense prevailed. All doors etc opened and refs made sure time outs etc taken. Well done to the gang running the show. The hottest part of the buuilding was the foyer - well done to Leonnie Ware who had to sit there

110243 - I dont think you need to explain that it was for the players but I am sure that the refs appreciated the time outs as well - As far as the heat policy goes - the refs should be the ones to enforce the time-outs if coaches aren't doing so

i know i was calling time outs on friday how could a ref not it was to hot and its for refs and players. if a a time out had been called early on in the quarter we were told to still call 1 at 5 min ( 4min) mark so every 1 could cool down its plody hard work doing 3 to 4 games in a row like that.(i would know as im a ref)