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Will Weaver Earns $500 Fine, Suspended! BUT...!

"Look into when and why he changed his on court demeanor"

How about just tell us.

My original point was meant to be along the lines of hope something gets done about the reffing.

My reference to Weaver is that he has come to Australian basketball like a Knight in shining. Spent time with the national team, US basketball and apparently well versed in basketb. Every-one likes him.

His team is 5 and 0, so he's not just lashing out to blame any-one else for his team's bad results. I am genuinely hoping that the NBL hierarchy really looks at the issue.

As I wrote earlier. We are not talking Joey or Gleeson. We are talking about Clark Kent (in all his guises). This guy is squeaky clean. He bitches, I want the powers-to-be to listen to him, at least!

And from the penalty he received (very soft for THAT outburst) I think that they (the NBL refs) may have conceded that there is a prob. I understand that the first reaction is to do what's always been done. Blame the competitor, not the cop.

Let me put it this way. As much i love LK and what he's done, if he is coaching a team and gets calls like we see, you think nothing gets done?

Willy Weaver got his willy in a wonker. Took his bat & ball & went home. Got told no 2nd helping of dessert! One of the worst dummy spits ever. He actually looked like he was outside a nightclub trying to take on the bouncers. All that was missing was removing his shirt to show off his 25 kg frame! Oh dear u were 5 & 0 & u do that??

How embarassment...

Also Scott Butler retiring early was a big loss.

So true, was thinking about the exact same quartet today, some of the greats like:

Eddie Crouch
Billy Mildenhall
Mal "Hollywood" Cooper
Ray Hunt

Had the respect from both players and coaches... even us fans.

What happened?

Knowing Aylen in real life he's exactly the same. Short, sharp and takes no prisoners.

Not very user friendly and despite doing 4? Olympics isn't like the greats of old. Eddie, Bill, Ray, Hollywood and more.
Personality and people management is something both Aylen and Mayberry lack. However they are now the senior refs and unfortunately that makes then untouchable. The NBL has always protected their own.

" It is so much a part of our game now "

Hairs - basketball culture has been this way for as long as I've been paying attention to the game (35 years). Check out the thread on USFs and how deliberately committing fouls is classed as "smart play". Then ask yourself how many other sports' fans complain that way about players not being allowed to deliberately break the rules of the game.

It just goes to show how utterly frustrating Vaughan Mayberry is.

Was Dean Vickerman fined last week for kicking the chair into the crowd and hitting a mans face? I thought the bloke was going to jump the fence when it happened. That would have been a hell of a story "Aggressive Coach knocked out by fan"

Have you seen the refs at WNBL level? New blood from where? A stone?

WW welcome to the NBL. I have been calling this out for many years now, the acting and flopping that goes on and is rewarded. No matter what you say Will, you won't change NBL Headquarters.

If you can't beat them, join them!!!! Start to teach your players to accentuate the contact - a flick of head back, indicates to the Ref a foul needs to be called.

The more whiplash you do, the more fouls you get called.

Nothing will change while clowns like Mayberry and Aylen are regarded by the league as the best refs. Get some new blood in.

I'm with Weaver. Anything that might make the reffing fraternity take a look at what's being called and what's not can only be good in my opinion.

Way I hear it Weaver's pressure gauge reached release point with a non-call on a push that was the latest in a long line of missed/no calls that I gather included just a few of the multiplicity of moving screens that are missed/ignored every game.

Personally I blame poor timing and cutter footwork [= poor coaching and execution] for the moving screen malaise, because when the cutter doesn't rub the defender successfully the screener feels obliged to 'chase' the defender. Whatever.

If Will's reaction helps get an improvement in the reffing [one can always dream!] and in particular moving screens at least reduced [too much to hope for them to be called every time] I'm with him.

Will posted on Twitter about a productive discussion with the NBL in the aftermath.

I wonder if Joey got to have productive discussions with the NBL or did they just go straight to making hella funny memes out of him?

"the call that supposedly infuriated was barely a foul that had no impact on the play"

The way NBL refs are calling it this year it should have been a USF.

36ers might not want to pull the trigger but the new ref manager has not been so friendly to the referee boss for ABA who was sacked a few months ago and replaced by one of his pupils

Surprised the umpires are not striking in defense of someone who has given years of service to them

Good guys come 2nd