It ain' the parents teaching them to do this. It is ESPN highlighting this on kind of shit on Sportscenter instead of plays that actually help teams win. There LITERALLY was a night where Sportscenter's top play of the day...THE best play of the entire day filled with college basketball, college football, NBA and NHL...was a college basketball game where with the scored tied with 1:20 remaining, a player tipped away a pass and started a 3 on 1 break. The player that the ball was tipped to dribbled down the entire way, with the player who made the great defensive play trailing close behind. Rather than dish it off to him to reward him for his play and an easy layup, or giving it to the otehr guy who was wide open on the 3 on 1 break, decided to go for a monstrous dunk. Which he made, and then proceeded to stand over the defender who he barreled over in the process. There was just one problem. The defender was smart, and knew the guy with the ball was not. So he knew he didn't have to try to cover either of the two wide open players. So he got back and stood his ground and ALLOWED himself to get barreled over. And drew the charging foul. And for god measure, the guy who just made a nullified dunk was also charged with a taunting technical. He HAD 4 fouls before the play. So now, he was out of the game, having drawn two on the play. After 2 made free throws by the other team, and about 30 seconds of clock runoff on their ensuing possession since technical fouls give the other team the ball as well AND they made a 3 pointer. So what should have been a 2 point lead with about 1:10 remaining turned into a 5 point deficit with 35 seconds to go, and their point guard watching on the bench. Needless to say, they lost. And this was the BEST pay ESPN saw all day. And make no mistake about it...they were not calling the great defensive play the top play. In fact, they seemed to forget to tell the viewers that the dunk was called off for an offensive foul and he got a technical. They tried to make it look like he just won the game with a great showboat dunk and taunt. It was only when they got clled out on their dishonestly that in later Sportscenters, they explained what happened after, though it was STILL the Play of the Day.
@@FunnyDude119 I agree with that. But now every pedestrian play has one 6 year old kid flexing like an asshole. When parents and coaches don’t immediately sub those kids out, and worse, go yeah son! That’s what is causing this to be an epidemic.
I umpired Little League for a few years and I can honestly say the problem is almost always the parents. Most the kids were nice and respectful, even those with asshats as parents.
If it gets to this point it's because the referees didn't hold the game before. At the first bad gesture you have to stop the game and say that it was the last and that the next ones will be systematic expulsions.
Mostly cringy ego bullshit for the cameras and little boys wanting to feel tough but you gotta love seeing Scottie Barnes just having a good time out there man😂😂
It's crazy for LeBron to be arguing with a kids' bball referee who probably has limited training and is working for $50 per game. It looks like it's harder to be a kids' referee than an NBA one. At least, NBA referees have power to make calls and not have people come out of the stands to question their them and their competency.
@@Ezekiel-2517that’s why you are masquerading as one right? You want to be us so bad😂. It’s ok. We’ll live in your head rent free your entire life. GL.
They learned these behaviors from watching NBA players and that is what’s wrong with the game today. Parents have to teach these kids that they’re not in the NBA and teaching them good sportsmanship will not only help them become a better player on the court, but a better person off the court as well. Some of these things you see in this video is disgusting and many are embarrassing. Trash talking is part of the game but that doesn’t mean it’s personal. I use to play with a guy who’s mouth never shut up. He was talking shit to everyone, but the moment he fouled you hard or knocked you down, he’d pick you up, pat you on the butt then kept talking. Now, kids take it too personal.
as someone who played in 00s this bs wasnt even an option... but then again im from Europe and really the first time there was any trash talk was in a tournament where russian kids thought it would be funny to shake hands and trash talk in the locker(jokes on them we knew the typical shit talk in russian and straight up told coach and he told their coach and we had the last laugh of that) but other than that... there were some ''fights'' but not disrespecting like this.. it was just heated moments and kids being kids
In a year, nobody will care about who won a kid's AAU game. But everyone will remember the kid and/or parent who showed no class. You can't really blame the kids when clearly their parents have never taught them respect. Lebron is very much included.
As a long time ref, a lot of this behavior is because of the refs letting the players, coaches, and fans get away with it instead of enforcing a stricter line from the get go. A warning after the first one, then a T after the next one will send the message that those kind of actions will not be tolerated on the court. Not having set rules for fan behavior by tournament officials contributes as well.
Luckily I am a basketball referee in Australia, not America, where the culture is a bit more, well, tamed. I thank God for this every day lmao. I've never given a tech in my whole 5 years of reffing (might not be a long time but in America you need to give a tech every game or so I swear).
I have reffed 40+ years in Canada and averaged less than one T a year. There are times where a T can't be avoided, but generally good game management can prevent one. Having a quick trigger on Ts reflects poorly on a ref, imo@@ThomasGregory-ok2sc
Basketball has gone to the dumps honestly. Theres always been trash talk but today more than half the game is spent talking. I went to the park the other day to watch guys play ball and I swear thats all they did. Yell and push each other endlessly lol
I remember all of my coaches in every sport always shut down any showboating immediately. Let the scoreboard do the talking. I have always agreed and respected the pros that just go about their business. I haven't watched basketball in years because of exactly what this video showed. Horrible that showing up your opponent by taunting is more respected and celebrated than the talent at the sport
It’s the parents and coaches. I was a coach and would not tolerate any disrespect by anyone. I called out a teammate during a game we were blowing out a team. He was trying to pad his stats and I told him to stop it. I had a couple of players from the other team thank me after the game. I said, We’ve all been on the winning and losing side of blowouts and running up or showing up the other team doesn’t do a thing except show you’re an ass. Basketball wise Magic was my guy, have fun but never disrespectful. Football it was Walter Payton and Barry Sanders.
This is why sports today from 5/6 years old look and their friends and family and “so called “ coaches let them do this and got no respect for the sport and they want to make their kids that next top thing and I wouldn’t want that as a teammate, love for the game and being RESPECTFUL win or lose makes u a better person. Stop celebrating 2 points when u down 20 . People need to see it better than barking/taunting for every single play.. 👎✌️
At that 30 second clip, as a varsity basketball coach it made me wince thinking about the meeting I'm going to have to have with the athletic director the next day because of it. Everyone's running lines
This is out of hand . Honestly this is a problem even outside sports , just even more visible in sports . No one , literally no one shows respect nowadays . It doesn’t matter wether you’re dealing with 5 ft 110 lb wet noodle , or someone 10 years old . I am of the opinion most of this wouldn’t be had if these kids got a ass whooping or slipper across the back of the head when and during growing up
I played BBall when I was young too . We lost all the time but we always went out to Macdonalds for dinner, that was the best part. Too much pressure for these kids. Only 10% will get a scholarship for college to play ball and around 1% will make it to the NBA.
yeh well they learned these behaviours from other adults so i guess its a mixture of bad leaders and role models in the sport. Lots of youtubers with the street ball content always getting into fights and playing tough etc so these kids all watch youtube basketball content. but aye I agree reinforcement of the rules and respect for them and also teach the values of sportmanship and how to respect each other on the court.
@@sapien82 These parents and kids don't give a rats ass about the values of sportmanship and how to respect each other. That way of thinking has gone the way of dial up internet,
@@sapien82 There are still some good coaches out there. It's social media, pro sports athletes acting a fool, parents and the spectators that circumvent the coaches best intentions. I'm don't know how old you are but this generations culture is so out of control we'll never understand it.
This is why I just train my kids, pray they keep to what I show them through my actions, and speak on it when I see things over the top.. I need them to carry that same mentality that behavior like this isn’t what we’re looking for when we step into a competition or confrontation. Focus..
My grandson's travel team coach insists on sportsmanship. BUT when the other team get out of hand they will push back. Elbow to the ribs a few times usually does the trick to get the team under control. My grandson the master of running someone into the stands. But this is only when the other team gets out of hand with poor sportsmanship.
I'll never understand how high school basketball came to this. 'Great' players transferring to three schools in four years, playing with stacked clubs, dancing on the court, adults fighting refs, etc.
This is atrocious. If you want to be in the WWE, join wrestling. Also, when you do, enjoy being spanked by the humblest farm kid who will talk to you after the match to go over how you can get better to beat him next time.
I played high school ball and loved going to the local gym to play older people or other kids around the same age to get better. There was a kid who’s father would come with him and him and I were friends somewhat and he was a grade younger then me and he was good. Already had scouts coming to his school. Anyway him and I would play one on one to help warm him up and help me get better playing someone that good. My dad came with me once and so the two fathers talked. They had a good conversation and found out he gets after his son if he acts cocky because he said you’re ganna act cocky when there are hundreds of others who are way better then you. And my dad agreed and said I always humble my son if he gets a big head and my dad did I wasn’t this bad but I would say something stupid or do something stupid and my dad would just look at me and I would be like okay don’t do that. When the parents and coaches glorify this behaviour when 99.9999 percent of these kids are going to end up working in a cubicle or having a dumb job looking back at the glory days of their life and never learned how to act towards people. It reminds me of those guys who are 35 and doing dribbling drills at the local gym acting like they’re ganna get picked up by someone. It’s like dude just move on you might have played some basketball before and maybe even got college payed for because of it but those times are over move on worry about other things in life.
What’s wrong with somebody practicing and minding their business? You a sound like you mad at tha guy for practicing maybe your athletic dreams didn’t pan out the way you wanted them to when you was 10 years old! You don’t what that man has going on jus like we dont know what you have going on either. Remember you offered to comment so you obviously wanted someone to see this!
The purpose is not even the celebration of a great play, it's the emphasis on the complete humiliation of an individual. Let's see these people keep that same energy with this upcoming chaos.
0:36 If I was officiating it: Double T, entire team but the original player, game over. Entire team gets one for the celebration, entire but the originial gets one for joining in.
