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Here's a few of the comments made to the article posted in today's media source on the video:

I love the fact that people are judging play off of this video. Yes, some of the plays look bad and some are out of frustration. These types of fouls occur in basketball when you have a kid that is the size of #34 against guards like that of Highlands. The guards look like they might weigh about 150 pounds soaking wet. That is pretty close to half the size of #34. Nothing against either of team, but it is pretty easy to look at fouls in slow motion and think they look a lot worse then they actually do. Watch college ball and you will see the same thing. Replay is nice, but it also takes things way out of proportion. As for the person who uploaded the video, why would you put it on youtube if you didn't want it to be watched by all? Foul #2 the kid that came down with the rebound should have been called for traveling as well as stepping out of bounds prior to the foul being called. I thought fouls #3 and #5 looked the worst initially, but both times the ball is what he is going after, he may not have got the ball, but you are told to not allow the player to get the shot off if you are going to foul them. I have had it happen on a number of occasions. As for the coaches, I sure would hope my coach had my back in a situation similar to this. It doesn't matter if he knows things were out of hand a little bit or if he did foul out of the game, when there is a video out there singling out two of his players, he should stick up for them!! This is a team that just finished up football at a small 1A school, participants are limited especially when you have a couple would be starters who are out for a big portion of the year due to injuries sustained at the dome.

After watching that video, I'm curious about the rest of the game. It's pretty clear that there's a lot of frustration, and some of these are frustration fouls. I'm betting that it was a poorly controlled game, with a lot of pushing and shoving throughout.Second thing, particularly with the first two fouls, it looks to me like the Highland players are milking it - acting to increase the odds of a foul call. I hate that too, I think that's just as dirty.Third, #34 is big. Easily twice the size of most of the kids he fouled. Anytime there's contact with him, it's going to look bad. The smaller kid is going to bounce off and/or fall down, and he's not going to move. Add to that he doesn't look like he's much of a basketball player - out of position, lots of reaching, and not at all quick. Honestly, if I was coaching against him I'd tell my guards to go right at him, he's going to overcommit to the play and foul, we're going to get shots, and he's going to be on the bench.Both of the fouls shown by #42 were dumb, and look like frustration fouls. I think something else had probably just happened that also didn't get called, and these were retaliation plays. The first one - on the rebound - he probably felt Highland's player had just pushed him out of the way....and he had. Of course, he'd been moved by #34. The second he probably felt he'd been fouled on the steal.The kicker to both of #42's fouls though - neither should have been called. Calls should have gone against Highland before either foul, ending the play. Highland's player stepped out of bounds before the rebound foul, and another sets a moving screen before the push.I agree the officials for the game need to be looked at, but for completely different reasons.

Read more here: High school basketball video shows power of social media - Mid-Columbia News | Tri-City Herald : Mid-Columbia news

There have been so far a total of 14 comments made on the story.

It still gets me that the person that posted the video is now saying he made a mistake & that he had not planned for the video to get this much publicity.

I tried finding the article from ESPN but cannot find anything.