There's quite a bit of conversation around the community about the fight. Everybody has one, so here's my take. Community can't nwin the game. Their players realize this, but it is frustrating. Their whole season has been frustrating - there has been more talk about firing the coach than improving as a program. The accumulating frustration is obvious in the players (who, by the way, play as hard as anybody and were playing a pretty good game on Friday) and in the manner the Community coach handles himself. There was a very minor bump and a couple words exchanged on a buzzer shot at the half that the coach went crazy on screaming at the officials. There was a conference with both coaches at the half nabout calming their players down. In the third quarter the Community coach fusses at officials when he is told to take a player out for a cool down(the Cascade coach quitely replaced his player without being told). The officials were ball watchers who never saw any of the cheap shots being thrown. The community player involved in the fight throws a Cascade player down with an elbow 30 seconds before the fight. The three blind mice in stripes of course don't see that. Poor refs and a Community program that is an environment of frustration caused the fight. For the record here are some stats: Number of adults running on the floor in fight- Community 5 Cascade 0. Number of players hit by adults of opposing team- Community players 0 Cascade players 3.Both teams will have suspensions, but for Community who cares, Cascasde is making a run at the top of the district. Bottom line - Community needs to clean up their program (and maybe their school administration). Teach your kids to play basketball, hire a coach that will teach and respect the game and not try to blame individual kids for failures. Play hard Vikings and maybe someday the adults at your school will try as hard as you are.
