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Liz Cambage kneeing incident cover-up ?

When you have a public fued with an idiot, from a distance people can’t tell which one is the idiot. And with her latest antics she is proving Andrew right

Why is race even being talked about here? It has nothing to do with this incident.

@Hustle - Damn straight Girl!

That is a pretty nasty contact.

Her eyes were following the ball so she could claim she was following the ball and going for the rebound. (but...peripheral vision) Her left foot was fixed and she could say she was moving from the side of the key to the top, but her body wasn't twisting to suggest she was and her left foot didn't rotate. Her right knee came across her left.

Looking at the footage (thank imgur poster) I think on the balance of probabilities there was intent to make contact.

She seems to forget she's half white lol

Anyone who doesn't like Liz is a casual racist, according to a terrible podcast called basket case

Just read luuc’s link to the age article:

http://www.theage.com.au/sport/basketball/wnbl-star-liz-cambage-accepts-one-game-ban-after-clash-with-canberra-capitals-mistie-bass-20171121-gzpk0c

Chubby Checker’s daughter!

DJ Lizzy knees Chubby's baby

Maybe Liz don't like that old time rock n roll

People play 'illegal' against Liz? Perhaps a wider perspective - like watching other action in which she is involved - might be informative.

If Liz [almost] always played within the rules she might have at least a moral right to demand a little more understanding and compassion, but whoever said it, suggesting she is being victimised by opponents using 'underhanded, dirty' tactics is really rich.

If it is happening, which I question, can I suggest that it might be in an effort to counter Liz's illegal tactics, which strangely seldom seem to ever get called.

As evidence I cite the picture of the blatant offensive 'hook' published in SA's 'The Advertiser' a few days ago, from a game in which she was called for just two fouls.

All that said, there is no place in the game for blatantly illegal actions by Liz or anyone else, and in this specific instance there is simply no excuse for Liz's action, which based on the video was clearly an intentional, since it required her to break stride and raise her knee unnaturally to make impact.

To rub salt in the wound she then proceeded to charge to the basket and wipe out another player with a blatant body push that, like the knee, went un-called.

I'd suggest she is a protected species, not a subject of victimisation.

"We don't want that sort of coverage but Liz is getting beaten up in the league in terms of she is the best player and the only way opponents can stop her is to play a little bit of underhanded, dirty basketball. I think she got fed up and that was it." Lauren Jackson

ROFLMAO

She's a brat it's that simple a spoilt entitled brat who's ego gets in the way of what could be a talented player
She won't accept a refs calls she mouths off in a disgusting manner, gestures to
The crowds who are now booing her and swings her elbows with deliberate aim and now this knee incident and she thinks she's the one being victimised

Get a grip LJ her attitude sucks she's an embarrassment to the club
And trying to make out she's the victim is not helping her at all, Boomers should be reading her the riot act, not trying to make light of her behaviour

"She would have gotten away with it in the WNBA. You should see how nasty Griner plays. The WNBL should toughen up."

Strong potato logic.

If you have to play dirty to beat an opponent because your not good enough to beat them with class then really is it anything to aspire too

KingPodge , yes some sport professionals do dumb thing ,but good old Lizzie is becoming an habitual offender

"suddenly so many WNBL 'fans' here when there's a chance to bash a female or two"

Get real. Her recent behaviour continues an all too common trend. What next? the race card?

suddenly so many WNBL 'fans' here when there's a chance to bash a female or two

So what exactly are the "steaming hot takes"?? What does that even mean? Try discussing the issue.

This one (http://i.imgur.com/AR45Gwz.gif) reminded me of the Brian Conklin incidents in the NBL the other year - "Oh, I was just accidentally flailing around" - or (as someone else mentioned) Draymond Green's dirty leg kicks.

When Cambage was meant to be the first person to slam dunk in the WNBL; She will now be known as the first person slam dunked by the WNBL!

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re: Liz Cambage kneeing incident cover-up ?
She punched a player in China.


Yes she did, leopards don't change their spots do they
http://www.womensbasketball247.com/2016/01/wcba-chinese-league-throwing-punches/

Canberra imposed the Ardossi suspension not the WNBL to uphold their values and culture of their club!

"Probably sonewhat lenient penalty but it's better than nothing. You'd like to think she might think twice before doing something like that again."

Oh she will do that again and probably more because "thinking" is not part of her makeup, never has been, she's always played the "poor me" , when in fact she's had it all handed to her.

Wonder how Boomers will handle this media release, when she was thrown out of the first game of the season they totally ignored it like it never happened, they can't exactly ignore this can they lol

Are you f*cking kidding me 'anonymous 658818' ? The WEAK thing to do was to nothing about this ..

Solid trolling /10

Why wouldn't Canberra report it? It was a non-basketball play against one of their players. I commend them for sticking up for Bass.

Probably sonewhat lenient penalty but it's better than nothing. You'd like to think she might think twice before doing something like that again.

Is this the first time in the history of the WNBL that a female player will be suspended?

What's weak is a player sniping an opponent to take them out of the game. Also all games are video'd and have been for years. Bravo Canberra for sticking up for your player.

Liz?

Verdict is in: 2 game suspension, reduced to 1 game with an early guilty plea

*pretend shock*

Link

Whatever's fair, get on with it and all's forgiven ... but if they could see fit to make it two matches then it might not take me so long to get of the carpark on Sunday.

Just as natural as Toby Green's marking action.

#watchusfly

LOL @ the @watchusfly hashtag for a league where no one dunks it.

apparently 2 incidents being investigated.
2nd one? http://i.imgur.com/AR45Gwz.gif

On one hand, it's pretty much impossible to prove someone's intent. On the other hand, it's pretty hard to justify that unusual movement as any type of normal basketball move.

I'm thinking that the WNBL will have no issues with suspending her for one game, since their next game is on the road in Townsville.
They'll hate the thought of more though, with this round being "cluster round", where every team in the league is in action in Melbourne.
So my prediction is 2 games reduced to 1 game with an early guilty plea.

I'm glad Canberra lodged a complaint, BA and the WNBL would have looked silly if that went under the radar.

you are all picking om her because she is a world class athlete and DJ, is a woman and is non-Caucasian, she comes from an economic refugee family and is mentally fragile because of the bullying she received during her time in the severely racially biased Australian education system.

Actually , while all the above may well be true in respect of how most women in those situations have been treated , thats not why I view her in a bad light,

Her behaviour actually throws all those women who have endured and overcome those real disadvantages into a very bad light and diminishes their actual achievements against real adversity.

From my understanding, from more than a few sources, while Liz does lay loud and frequent claim to having endured the same disadvantages, and she truly and honestly imagines herself to be a Icon of triumph over adversity, she is really more a product of a privileged and self-indulgent background and has almost always taken full advantage of that background to the detriment off those around her. The world owes her and she avidly collects with interest

there are lots of people around sport like this, but its still a Bit sad really

But Jostling for position !!! BS, Liz lined her up from 5 metres away and took Misty out, simple, straight forward and non-debatable. But wait for post season and Liz will tweet about how she was allowed to be brutalized in the WNBL by the racialist refs, and how she was deliberately set up to get suspended by the league.

"jostling for position" - it looked pretty intentional to me, but then so did Ingles' crotch hit the other week.

WNBL star Liz Cambage faces ban after clash with Canberra Capitals' Mistie Bass

WNBL powerhouse Liz Cambage faces a potential ban after the Canberra Capitals lodged a complaint against the superstar centre following an unsavoury on-court clash that left Mistie Bass in agony.

Cambage is set to front a WNBL tribunal on Wednesday night and could be slapped with a suspension after her knee hit Bass in the back of the leg when the pair were jostling for position in Melbourne last weekend.

http://www.theage.com.au/sport/basketball/wnbl-star-liz-cambage-faces-ban-after-clash-with-canberra-capitals-mistie-bass-20171121-gzpk0c.html

Boti has always been very biased but this time he has crossed into complete nonsense. If Bass did something against Adelaide then bring it up at the time. Even if she did (which I doubt) nothing excuses this dirty move by Liz. Pitiful attempt at reasoning.

What a hypocrite.

Shes loves mentioning how she was bullied at school. when she was younger

Yet now she is a bully.

I interpret Boti's tweet, as I do with most everything he writes, as being written by an unapologetic homer of the Adelaide Lightning. He's not an actual journalist; he's a fan parading as a one.

Agreed. The full clip shows it to be a pre meditated act.

That fox sports clip shows the entire play and Liz was clearly annoyed by the hard box out.

She then gather's her thoughts and assaults the victim with a deliberate knee.

That is foul. I haven't seen that in Social ball and I've seen some shtt.

There's no place for that on the basketball court. It's that simple.
If there's a cover-up it's not going too well, with The Pick And Roll tagging the WNBL in their tweet this morning, and now Fox Basketball tweeting about it too.

She has to cop a game for that, surely.

After her display of bad attitude when she literally pointed at the BA/WNBL staff seated in the stands and used her foul mouth to abuse them simply because she was called for using her elbows, something she does continually and yet gets away with it , and they chose to ignore THAT , why on earth would you expect the gutless wonders to discipline the brat over being a physical bully on court
She's making an absolute mockery of the term"family club" Boomers are the laughing stock of the league

Looks like Boti is protecting the integrity of BA rather than basketball!

And not only does Boti give Cambage his "player of the week" on his blog, he then has a crack at Bass on Twitter!! Poor, poor form.

Would have been less outcry if they came out and suspended her

Straight out of X-Files this cover-up. Can't see the benefit in wnbl doing it, look at the controversy it's created already. Would have been less outcry if they came out and suspended her, if, and only if, they did try and cover it up, the person responsible is more at fault. Sure the knee was very bad, but worse things have happened, the person responsible should be fired and league act immediately.

Cambage didn't look too apologetic or remorseful after the incident? Makes you wonder...

boomers are certainly quick enough to complain about others and demand the league take action, but do nothing about the behavior of their own players

Needs to be banned. Doesn't have the mentality to play at an elite level. What a thug.