As a former aau coach, I saw this behavior all the time! I picked kids who had good parents!! Only had 1 incident in 4 years, unfortunately I had to let a talented and respectful young man go from the team.
Have to say this is mostly American behaviour/problem. In Europe for example it's different. Of course you see toxic parents there too but as soon as young players are talented they get the possibility to play with grown man which humbles them very quickly despite of their talent. So sometimes 16 year olds playing 30+ yrs old and as you know you can't do all that stuff on grown men and most of these kids definetly wouldn't do.
No more class in basketball just a crazed bunch of kids, coaches and parents all throwing tantrums. Mad respect to all the refs giving their time and heart to such a great game.
It existed back then too, it's just we didn't have a 4k video recording the size of our hand to record and put it on the internet for the world to see through the internet, couple that with there being billions more people on the planet which introduces even more kids, and more interactions. Relax, this shit has always existed, it's just you didn't notice it because back then you had to be there to witness it as opposed to seeing 100's of videos of it with the few clicks of a button on RU-vid. It gives the illusion that it's much more frequent than in the old days, but it's really not.
This should embarrass every coach, parent, fan, etc., that encouraged/rewarded this behavior. This includes college and NBA players. No wonder there is a shortage of refs. Why would someone put up with this for $25 per game (or whatever it is)?
The first one there’s nothing wrong with what the coach did!! He’s teaching him a lesson and parenting! There’s no cursing or yelling!! That big needs to calm it down
Thats actually not true at all. If that coach has an issue, he goes to that players coach to explain what happened and then more on. You don't go to the player. Clearly his muscles are over compensating for his lack of morals. He seems like a very angry individual who wants people to bow down to him.
Once my friend was in a aau game and he passed the ball to the ref without looking and the ref turned his back and didn’t see the ball which ended up hitting him in the back (the pass wasn’t hard or anything) instead of giving him a t or ignoring it this grown man picks the ball up and throws it as hard as he can at him and hits him in the leg his dad came onto the court yelling at the ref the ref got ejected and was soon fired
Only in sports that don’t display open violence. It is rarer in violent sports because acting like a jerk has for direct consequence to be physically treated as one. So there is usually more respect for the refs like say in rugby, MMA, etc. In basketball contact is prohibited most of the time so you can’t meet violence with the same degree of violence which in turn corrupts the leveling field of said violence. Soccer is another sport in which people exhibit the worst behavioral patterns and most of the time that comes directly from the fact that violence is not permitted in the game even if someone exerts some on you. Comes now the sentiment of injustice and you get players, parents and fans to cross multiple lines very quick.
I played travel baseball and had noticed it seemed to have calmed down but now I know where it moved to. I used to get this at my baseball games… parents throwing ice and m&ms and cussing at me while trying to catch a flyball and I would give it back to them when I would full slide and rob a base hit… good times.
In my day, this was considered unsportsmanlike behavior, and the kid would have been ejected from the game, and the coach would have kicked you off the team. Not to mention, your parents would have kicked your butt when you got home. Everyone in those gymnasiums should be ashamed of themselves. Thank you, NBA, and thank you, parents, for setting such a fine example.
Thanks for your comment i was wondering if it was a sign of the time or if it was just not my culture. Seing those kids having 0 ability to control there emotions ... and then you see their parents and understand why. If a time machine could bring their grand parents to see that, my guess would be a concerto of big old slap in the face
0:52 #1 literally didn't know he missed the opposing coach, in the beginning his teammates started to shake his hand as if the line was over, so I'm sure he thought the line was over, good kid, great coach, good moment caught on film, for both sides to learn from.
The possibility to T up Lebron and tell him that he isn’t in the NBA anymore, he can’t treat refs like that in the real world would just be too tempting.
If i was the coach or one of the coaching staff, I’d teach the young kids to play calmly without using a hyped up “adrenaline beast mode” cause you could actually know the talent of each individual without using that trick. For Example, Tim Duncan, after he posterized an opponent, he would just calmly bow his head back towards the defensive side
My daughters have been playing U12 in Japan for 5 years now. The level of play here is pretty decent, but the action never gets that heated here. I can understand players losing control sometimes, but some of those parents... 😅
I understand when competition gets heated things can happen but they should teach kids more discipline like no stare downs or unnecessary roughhousing. It’s unbelievable how these kids play dirty.
Good sportsmanship is about competing and humility. The arrogance in today's sports and increasing in youth sports is a direct parallel to the decay of morality in America.
Would’ve had a field day recording the rec game we had last week. Trash talking throughout the whole game at us and the refs as well as two getting ejected at the end. Embarrassing stuff all round!
As a coach multiple players from the opposing team chose not to shake my hand, it’s not my place to hold them accountable but their coach or parent. My players would never do that.
The one-armed kid was a great player. The red head that tapped the other kid on the head would have been KTFO in a lot of places. The last ref is a disgrace. Calls a held ball on an obvious holding foul on defense. Gives the "F you" signal for the two techs, which were way too close together and should always be called by two different refs. Then threatens to throw the fans out. Dude needs to retire.
11:28 "We are not really sure what this kid is crying about." About 20 seconds earlier at 11:05, he was put in a headlock by #34. Courtside Films should watch the clips before writing comments like that.
i believe #34 @2:57 timestamp was banned from basketball for life everywhere in the world.. but subsequently received several offers from WWE scholarship program
Be careful parents. Control your temper. Every year in America we average one referee getting killed because someone does not like the call he made or didn’t make. It’s not worth spending the rest of your life in jail.
Parents bringing their issues to the game and gave the ref a very hard time. Ref, please it don't hurt to stop the game and talk to those kids. The basketball court is not a warfield. Showcase your talents and be a sportsman. All parents are there for their children only. But you, the Ref, all kids are within your scope. So stay focus and do your job.
