Hoops

Basketball Floor Wipers

Big Marty is correct - ignore Loco.

Except re: Triple H's theme - he and the un-named player have great taste in hype music :p


And now back to floor wiping.

Re Mystro's suggestions -

re: Basketball Floor Wipers

I suggest every team gets a simple/retarded adult and dresses them like a kid and they mop the floor, that way if anyone complains they are just being an asshole ;)


all I can do is pass on Big Larry's and Chucky H's identical question to you , - " Fantastic suggestion ! Here at the NBL we like to think we employ the best qualified talent in the country - so this Mystro - is he prepared to travel ?" :))

I suggest every team gets a simple/retarded adult and dresses them like a kid and they mop the floor, that way if anyone complains they are just being an asshole ;)

"Anonymous
A few hours ago
15:34 22 Feb 11

Reply #309240
re: Basketball Floor Wipers

Jeopardy is aired on Foxtel.

And the Floor Wipers are monitored by an adult at all times."

Firstly - Then that adult was seriously incompetent (IMHO) in that duty during the last game.

In any case, if there is only one adult, then - according to the old advice we received - the organisers are 1 short of providing unarguably adequate supervision , as there are at least two ends to the court that must be made safe. The advice was that overseen and supervised is sitting next to and directing, not watching from the stands.

To suggest that a 10-14 year old is capable of ensuring their own safety , as well as that of 13 other adults ( players + officials ) while making decisions upon what needs mopping and when - and how to do this while the game is running - is just not too bright - there are reasons why the required age for a full adult driving licence in this state was raised from 16 YO several decades ago.

Secondly - I unreservedly apologise for calling skip (?who) an idiot. I was either unthinkingly lumping him in with the interstate sound persons who I also hear doing the same thing, or I was having a flashback to "Rocket Rod's" cringingly embarrassing time as the merry-go-round music man.

Getting off topic a little here.

The Game has been played during the warm ups at the request of one of the players (like a few other songs are too)

Please ignore Loco and never play that "The Game" track again. That's just terrible.

Motorhead + Basketball = 2 Separate Worlds.

Please do me a favour skip, go watch NBA Jam Sessions on Youtube and play all the music from that in game.

Re: the 'waiting' music, I doubt any of the kids are even old enough to know the thinking theme from Jeopardy. I don't think it ever even aired here...

Besides, it only seems to get played when the wiping is taking forever - or a player like Homicide has to step in and give a brief "Now here's how we use a broom" instructional... sometimes on national televeision.

Noticed the floor wiping bit and mentioned it on game night. And great / informative post from 'very old'.



Also - Skip - NEVER stop playing HHH's theme "The Game" - I get to walk down center aisle, beer in hand, like it's a WWE entrance ramp every week.

Very Old - Thanks for the feedback. I will take it on board.

Personally I've got two concerns re this. The first could be an actual financial risk to the league and 36'ers owners. Particularly when at quarter time someone , apparently in a position of responsabilty, decided that the floor wiper at the western end of the court need to be replaced by an older child.- this would on the face of it infer that the job done up to that time was not adequate.

1. Floor wipers are required to be provided by those responsible for the running of the game, in order to keep the floor dry and safe and minimise the risk of injury to the players.

2. The provision of floor wipers avoids the issue of negligence of the game controllers in not providing them at all. However replacing a floor wiper on the apparent basis of inability to do the job, would provide a strong basis for a claim against the SOS or NBL by any player who sustained an injury prior to that replacement ( I know the law is an ass).

The core point is that the floor wipers need to be at a appropriate level of competence for the whole game

In a previous life I was one of a number of people who received a legal opinion in respect to a basketball association being at a troubling level of exposure, due to allowing an official to officiate a game in a league higher than they were graded to do, and in which a player was injured.

Accompanying that opinion was a recommendation that the junior floor wipers be accompanied and overseen at ALL times by an adult, who would ensure that the wipers were both on and off the court at appropriate times, to ensure both that the court was dry for the players and officials, and secondly that the wipers themselves were not in the way of the players.

My second point, is that it really P!$$ me off that the idiot running the music runs that " waiting,,waiting,..waiting" music when the wipers are on, insinuating that they should hurry up and get off the court - if i was a young kid, I would not like to be out there while that was playing. I thik that it encourages the kids to do a quick job, not a good job. Which can turn around and bite the owners on the ass if there is some moisture left on the floor..

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i mentioned this the other week but was even more appalled on friday. i know it was more humid but the kids mopping the floors were barely 6 years old, the t shirts didnt fit them and the amount of time it took them to mop the floor really killed the momentum of the game. its pretty bad. bring back lenards son!