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Anonymous

Years ago

Badly behaved parents.

Eltham parents are disgraceful. A game this weekend one of the parents called a young Sudanese girl a monkey, laughing with another lady. At the end of the game the Eltham parents and coach defended the teams actions with no regrets. The Eltham player who's mother made the comment was deeply offended for her mothers actions and apologised to the girl. Its disgraceful that the kids had to witness this.

I brought a young Indian girl who has just moved to Australia to this match. Moving to a new country she really wanted to play basketball to make friends. I had warned her about Eltham and she witness them at their worst.

The young Sudanese girl looked defeated, thank god for the apology from the player and her team getting behind her.

The biggest problem with the Eltham culture is the adults and the parents. They want to win at all cost. So many coaches in Eltham don't have the skill sets to teach their kids how to play technical basketball. The push emotional tactics rather than basketball techniques. Hacking, clotheslines, moving hip checks, knocking players on their ass, the culture has not changed in decades.

Eltham parents constantly believe they are the victims with a horrendous culture.

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Hanging Round

Years ago

Don't mean to be rude, but with the large number of interstate 'posts' coming on Hoops now, can we have a 'filter' or separate 'heading topic'?

We have enough trouble in SA with this sort of thing (bad parents), plus (don't mention) refs, but lately there seems to be a lot of whinging from interstate which I just don't care about, or get affected by.

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Jack Toft

Years ago

BSA have a Code of Conduct for spectators. I haven't seen it happen, but I know the refs can issue a Tech foul on that side's coach if it is too bad.

There are some funny parents though. One "gentlemen" who when any of our players was shooting FT's would scream out "ARRRR--CHOOOOOOOO" to try to put them off. We had some FT's and so anticipating the antic removed a tissue in preparation for him and held it up. He did it on the first FT, but people cracked up and there were even a few others joining in holding up tissues. He suddenly lost his urge to "sneeze"

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