We can all agree that basketball has had an element of showboating/excessive celebration/trash talking ever since Allen Iverson and the fab five played the game.  Some players have taken this showboating/trash talking to new levels like Reggie Miller did.  But in my opinion no team has even come as close to the level of celebrating that the Monmouth bench players have.  Although they are relatively new in the whole celebrating part of the game, I think that anyone who has seen them can agree that they will go down in history as one of the greatest.  The level of creativity that these benchwarmers possess is comparable to none.  But what makes them great is that they have the creativity but also the shamelessness to actually perform their awesome celebrations.  Many people would take a look at what they do and say that it is not something to be done in a game or that they should focus on what is happening on the court.  This takes away from many people’s ability to perform at the level that Monmouth’s bench does.  They are willing to look past what society and the basketball community would deem as an “appropriate” way of celebrating a good play made by a fellow teammate.  But these four benchwarmers possess the intensity, creativity, and shamelessness required to get their bench a separate camera for just their bench.  Those stats are unheard of when it comes to a team’s scrubs.  For them to get THEIR OWN CAMERA is something that has never been done before and provides a role model for all benchwarmers to look up to.  The stunts that these players perform are comparable only to the best student sections and baseball players during rain delays.  But what really sets these players apart is the fact that they have such a limited space to work with.  Student sections have the entire arena to perform their stunts.  Baseball has a whole field.  Monmouth’s bench has a small rectangle of only a couple of feet in area.  After dunks these players will create a human basketball hoop and dunk an invisible basketball.  After a deep three, one of the players would “die” while another would perform CPR until the other two could bring in a hand defibrillator to resuscitate him.  They would play a down of football after a deep three with a center a QB and a receiver.  They would act out scenes from the Hunger Games.  And just go absolutely insane after any big play.  These are the things that separate them from the rest and cause them to be elite.  There are no other teams or student sections than can compete with their intensity and creativity with such a confined space.