Outspoken, on 04 March 2018 - 09:41 PM, said:
I was there and don't have a dog in the fight. Hempfling is a great player....very skilled, and probably a good kid. I DO know that #4 from Crestview is not a dirty player. Here's the facts......bad call on the intentional. Their legs got inadvertently tangled up and Katie was dramatic.....flop all the way!!! However she did take a couple hard fouls earlier and hit the deck hard. The thing that disappointed me the most were the OG fans especially during the postgame awards. I've always bragged to others about the high support and high hoops IQ of Titan fans. When #4 received her runner up medal (after a 15 point District Final Titan Win), OG fans (not all of course but too many) booed her. A 17 year old high school girls player......BOOED her!!! I couldn't believe what I saw and heard. Disappointing and classless in every sense. Adults. Nice behavior. If you booed, I pity you and find you totally lame and pathetic. It's a high school game that your team won. When you left the Fieldhouse, did you find any elderly or handicapped people to trip or boo?? Good Lord
A couple things....in all the years I've seen Kadie play she has never left a game due to injury unless she was really hurt....and she did it twice Saturday...once after the hard foul on a breakway in the first half.....that to me should have been intentional....and also after the intentional foul call. Watch the video...it shows her face while she was sitting on the ground....and tell me she was being dramatic? C'mon...that was a girl holding her leg thinking she may be seriously hurt....there was no "drama" to it. As far as the Crestview girl (you posted her number I didn't)....I watched the 4th quarter replay after having seen it live. I watched her and Kadie the entire quarter....even when the ball wasn't in Kadie's hands.....ok, maybe not dirty...but about as close as you can get....at least a half dozen forearms to the back and head....mostly when the ball was nowhere close to them and nobody was watching. It will be on again, watch for yourself. Say what you want about the fans and their reaction....Kadie is a great kid and nobody wants to see her hurt....if the fans watched the fourth quarter and saw what I did, that's why they booed....not because of the one intentional foul. Sorry, but the girl brought the boos on herself....I don't care if she's 17 or 27...you know what they say....you make your bed, you sleep in it