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Liz Cambage suspended for one game

If you say you don't need the organisation , people will talk of how much they don't need you.
Your name will come up on hoolahoops.
Keep your tounge out of your cheek.
Be careful of enthusiasm .
Stay in line stay in step . People will want to get rid of someone who is not in step with them. Revenge will set in.

Isaac

Liz is clearly used as the subject of the sentence and phrase.

Drop "else" and it changes to the (presumably) intended meaning. Correct English written expression.

Sorry. Auto co-wreck.

Isaac

Liz is clearly used a small the subject of the sentence and phrase.

Drop “else” and it changes to the (presumably) intended meaning. Correct English written expression.

"Else" could be referencing users of the forum other than the writer.

Anon 040:

“ she’s outspoken and opinionated like everyone else on this forum.”

Is Liz on this forum??? “like everyone else” implies that she is.

I don’t think that phrase means what you think it means.

I'd be surprised if she posted here. She’s paid for her ability to play ball and get bums on seats, not for her thought processes or what she says.

No she's not just outspoken. She's always pointing the finger at everyone else and never at herself. To claim Canberra was somehow the bad guy in the kneeing incident is the perfect example.

She's been over-the-top petulant on the court, to the point of beibg avusive, which has led to techs and ejections this season. She took no ownership of the kneeing incident - if she had have shown just a little bit of contrition people might give her some credit.

Being opinionated is one thing, but occasionally you also have to be humble and take responsibility for your actions.

“It’s sad, because there’s a lot of players in the world that are talented, and this tall, and this passionate.

“The 204cm, 98kg centre, who struck foul trouble throughout the season, said local referees must “broaden their horizons”.

“We’ve had referees come to us and say they don’t know how to ref me,” Cambage said.

“There’s no one else (in this league) that’s as big, and mobile, and passionate as me.

“It’s sad, because there’s a lot of players in the world that are talented, and this tall, and this passionate.

“I think it’s on the referees to maybe broaden their horizons on being able to ref players.””

What an arrogant stupid idiot she is, she gets fouls called because she’s a dirty player, she actually gets away with so much, and her tech fouls are because she can’t keep her big foul mouth shut, seriously , she’s big, she’s not mobile and her passion is anger management problem, the sooner she departs the WNBL the better.

She's an embarrassment. The sooner she's gone from basketball the better.

She seriously is a douch

Digging up this thread again due to Liz's new comments about the incident.

Cambage Hits Out at 'Weak' Critics

Unfortunately it's behind a pay wall atm, but in addition to being critical of the referees in the WNBL over their inability to ref players her size (my interpretation: players exactly her size), she also had a crack at Canberra for being upset that their player got intentionally taken out.

I thought it was pretty weak

I was actually embarrassed by how Canberra carried on after it

N-now th-that that don't kill her
Can only make her stronger

Boomers are just creating more problems for themselves by defending Liz's actions.

As someone who goes to most Boomers games, I cannot say I am a big fan of Liz. The way she carries on and the abuses of Ref’s and her own team mates is not a great example for anyone. Watching her the last 2 weeks I cannot believe she has not been Tech’ed, the only thing keeping her on the court is Jenna O’hea’s level head.
I don’t think we will see her back in the states as she could not handle the physical nature that big’s over there would give her considering she loses her head against a 17 year old (Magbegor) and 20 year old (Scherf)

Not unusual for refs to see "nothing" where Liz is concerned, unless they want a spray from her foul mouth, you Ned more than spec savers I think too lol

Maybe that is Boti Nagy. 3 blog articles since the incident and the only thing he has written about Cambage is that she wins his POTW award.

Definitely you that needs to go to Specsavers.
Right knee into left leg.

Think you need to
Go to spec savers mate , Bass certainly didn't take a dive if anything she staggered to the ground after getting the Neanderthals knee almost up her rearend

Liz is a dirty player absolutely no question about it and she whines like a stuck pig if she doesn't get her way
Boomers should be ashamed of themselves for not checking her

Clearly Bass didn't take a dive if Cambage and the Boomers have admitted guilt by accepting the penalty.

Sounds like a typical grub Duke fan. You probably think that guy should have been suspended for getting his head in the way of Christian Laettner's foot

Boomers press release didn't offer any apology or show any remorse? How does Cambage improve her behaviour if Boomers don't lead by example!

I never take the moral high ground Podge. I prefer to drop to their level and "retaliate first" is my mantra

I really question the claim by LJ, notwithstanding that I presume it was effectively a 'legal' argument designed to get Liz 'off', that opponents 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.

"So? So it's not just Liz playing this way, which a lot of people here seem to think."

Show us where other players have done something this season worse than what Cambage did with the knee to the back. Thought so.

So?

Is there a link to Lauren Jackson's comments?

There's playing dirty where you're pushing the rules a bit (holding jerseys, etc) and then there's playing dirty where it looks like you're trying to physically hurt someone. The video made it look like the latter. I think if others were doing the same on court, we'd see videos of it, surely?

One game ban is one thing, people overall opinion of her will last alot longer. I couldnt believe what a dog act this was. To instinctively think to do such a thing really reveals another layer of her character.

If the punishment was to sit in a room with Andrew Bogut for a couple of hours she'd probably be more remorseful.

Any time I'm coaching against Melbourne I'm starting my 12th on the bench scrub with the instruction to do exactly the same and take the bitch out of the game in the 1st rebounding contest. Worth it for a week

No other player plays dirty on her , she's just got a super bad attitude and if LJ can't see that then the Boomers are fools

Talk about kid glove treatment , she needs more than a one game ban , she should be made to attend anger management sessions for the rest of the season at her own expense before every game
I hope when she read offended they don't pay the back of her hand and say "there there"

It reads as if the WNBL are stressing to Liz "It wasn't us who suspended you, it was _them_!"

The "acknowledges the decision" wording is baffling indeed.

I received my RAA Magazine last night in the mail and was going through it.

The 36ers and RAA have now teamed up. Buy a home game ticket and receive 10% off with your RAA.

Not a bad way to try to get some new fans in the building.

I thought I'd share on here and try to spread the word a little.

If someone wants to add anything to this, go right ahead.