Tasmania JackJumpers coach blasts NBL as players targeted by sick online trolls JackJumpers demand NBL action to address abuse of players Players and families have been brutally attacked online Scott Roth revealed weeks-long social media trolling of players By ETHAN JAMES FOR AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: 23:02 EST, 9 November 2024 | Updated: 23:02 EST, 9 November 2024 e-mail View comments Tasmania JackJumpers players and their families have been brutally attacked online amid the club's misfiring NBL season, says coach Scott Roth, who wants the league to take more action. The reigning champions got off the bottom of the table with an upset 83-64 victory over the ladder-leading New Zealand Breakers on Saturday night in Hobart. In an emotional post-game press conference, Roth revealed weeks-long social media trolling of players and their loved ones had reached an ugly head in the 24 hours before the game.
'We have a lot of distraught players and family members, wives and spouses and children,' he said. 'We have been attacked brutally through social media to the point where it is ugly. 'We have a player whose wife is pregnant and they (people online) wished for a miscarriage.
' JackJumpers CEO Christine Finnegan said players had informed Basketball Australia's integrity unit about the harassment. '(The unit has) advised that they were giving this their highest priority to look into this matter,' she said in a statement. An emotional Scott Roth sounds off on social media .