Don't you think he deserves it. He is still lucky to be in that situation. Have you heard what other teams opinion is. 34 finally had his own dose of medicine. He got banned, pleaded to KAMPI saying he has change, but, have you seen how awfull his actions and behavior inside the court. We also have a copy of the game and he started to make a ggod fist in front of no.14, and that might have spark the fight. Sunics would have been better without him. They are a good team that has just been destroyed by one dirty player that has been banned. Vidad has also been too emotional. He could have delivered agood game rather than an emotional and physical game. Anyway , I bet you, Smart wouldn't mind a rematch. Lets face it, its not that easy to beat this team knowing they have got pros, but lets also be reminded, they are just like us, normal people who wanted to be with the community.

Veteran Player - How immature are you for making comments about others like that. "Fed pigs pekpek and big mouth small man" etc etc. You call yourself a veteran player? yet you make immature comments which are full of nonsense. Its better that some think with their heads and not with their fists. So what, if some Sunics players did not want to fight - They have my respect even more. Yes I agree, most players from both teams play dirty. It happens in the NBA too. Especially in the finals, its bound to get heated. What I dont have respect for is those who think they can pick a fight just so they can prove they're a "big man" or coz they have their pride and ego to protect. At the end of the day there are 2 sides to every story and one will have more bias to the one side than another despite how "neutral" we say we are, we would have formed an opinion regardless. So as a man who's passionate about basketball like many of you, I was abit disappointed at how the finals turned out. I wanted Sunics to win as over the years they have gone better and better. But... Watching the game on Sunday, Epsom did have the edge and they led the game throughout.

The root cause of this fracas is not the players being brawlers regardless if one may have had a reputation of fighting in previous years, but to be honest the ones to blame is the organisation - KAMPI. They are to blame. But NOT all committee members of course but just a handful of committee members who view this basketball league like a "chicken"fight. The talent of these basketball players are exploited and they are used as a means of entertainment and take advantage of gambling their money on who to win the game. So of course, they take control and ensure they game goes in the favour of who they betted to win. Lets face it... Betting of games has been evidently present throughout the years of KAMPI and it has been the committe members who allow it to happen. OK, I'm sure someone will mention... how about betting in pro football - yeah but football players get paid and the betting there is controlled by betting companies and not done by the FA or FIFA officials. The point I'm trying to make is that if the KAMPI was organised better and no betting or corruption existed - which includes not hiring filipino referees too, then it would have been a fairer game and the fight could have been avoided. What makes me even more angry is the fact that KAMPI let this happen in front of our guests - The Ausssie Team. They were in the corner laughing at us Filipino's and taking pictures and vidoes which to me was disgraceful and shameful on the part of the Filipino community. There were aldo kids there, some old enough to think this is normal to fight in basketball and what example is that making to our future generation of filipino's... And to kill it - One committee member went to the aussie team laughing and his exact words were... "Dont worry, this is normal. It happens every year, especially in the finals, we expect it to happen". What a disgrace and this comes from a KAMPI official (mr timekeeper - 3 point shot announcer). What a disgrace... 

Excuse me if I've vented my disappointment with this organisation and I know theres a lot more to say but for a league that is meant to bring the community together all it does is separates eachother even more - and i dont think it is ultimately any one single person to blame but us Filipino's when we are up against other filipino's, our mentality is that we always have to be better than the other filipino person or people. We have too much pride and ego and for a community who are a minority in this country why do we have to fight eachother? You call that community building? So I urge KAMPI officials to fix up in a serious way... They have to clearly review the way their committe is organised...Over the years, they have monopolised the london filipino basketball league and they have become very complacent coz they know most teams will still enter regardless thats why they know they can get away with so many things. Some of the things u need to change >>> Dont show any favourtism to players or teams, have respect for all participants regardless if they were ex PBA pro or a british born street-baller. Stick to your rules and dont change them as it suits you or your schedule or in favour of a team..plus so many other things... oh and dont use Filipino referees. The bottom line is there needs to be changes coz KAMPI may go downhill if they go on the way they are. Dont get me wrong there are about 4 or 5 well respected committe members (inluding the chairman) out of about 50 and they are doing all they can to make this league work well but as i mentioned above, there are a handful of members who dont really contrbute much apart from making the organisation look bad, gossip, backstab the other members, suck up to players and teams and place bets on games. They get free entrance, get free food, kampi jackets, get to sit around the whole Sunday watching the games when really only some of them do all the hard work... Thats all...

What happened on Sunday was shocking.

There is no place in any sport (apart from WWE, tables, ladders & chairs) for this kind of behaviour. I watched the whole game and you could feel the tension getting worst but it's no excuse.

Bad reffing & weak calls don't help. But the way it started is also totally wrong. Players coming of the bench fists blazing is out of order. It nearly caused a riot and luckily there were no major injuries. I hope the players involved are ashamed as there were many children present and I'm glad my kids were no there to witness it.

I hope lessons have been learnt this season by KAMPI as if they don't improve they will get less & less teams (There were 28 teams in 2004).

Players involved should be banned for 6-12 months.

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Here's my analysis of the video (as you can see, I clearly have too much time in my hands!!!)

They gave the option to continue the game with 4on4 and the rest of the bench of both teams out of the building. That was a valid decision by the referee and I think that referee featured in the video knew what he was talking about. All credit to him...

I also noticed that the other referee quoted #34 Solano from Epsom was the first to throw the punch as he ran off the bench... So does that mean he is banned too? Not sure why everyone is pointing the finger at #34 DeGuzman from Sunics and #34 from Epsom got off lighthly... So from the video the person who was "officially seen" by the referee was #34 from Epsom...So if the game had gone ahead, the ball would have been in Sunics possession and possibly with 2 free throws too. With only 1 minute left and 4vs4 and 11 points down?... I guess we would never know...

What do others think? I welcome your thoughts...