Have we forgotten how to celebrate?

You guys need to help me out with something. Am I overreacting, or is anyone else bugged by the latest preferred method of celebration that kids have borrowed from the pros.

It goes something like this: The player hits a game-winning shot and runs as fast as he can AWAY from teammates looking to celebrate with him. I covered the MHAL title games the other night and Roosevelt’s Connor Hart ran away from everyone after hitting the game-winning layup at the buzzer. He finally stopped by doing a baseball slide near the Highland bench, probably not the classiest thing I’ve ever seen, but excusable in that I think he ended up there accidentally rather than intentionally.

Anyway, it just bugs me that players, in such huge moments of celebration, act like they’d rather continue with the spotlight on them than share the moment with teammates. It bothers me when pros do it, and it bothers me when high school kids do it.

I’ve never seen a girl or a woman pull this one. It’s almost definitely a guy thing. Whatever happened to piling on each other on the court or the field as a true celebration of team? Just once I’d like to see teammates fail to chase the hero, making him look even more foolish than he does when he acts like he’s trying to get away from the cops.

Is there something cool about this that I’m missing? Would it bug any players out there if their teammate hit a buzzer-beater and started running away from the celebration? I wonder, because to me, it’s a total turnoff.