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Originally posted by Hawks Coach
I am not sure why you mention coaches and the league as the problem in the original posting. The coach is telling the player to get back.
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I agree that coaches aren't always to blame, but often they are, as I'm sure you would agree.
I did games last summer in a rec league with this rule. This was supposed to be girls' frshmen, but most of the teams were actually 7th and 8th graders playing up to gain experience, which is fine. But there was this one team of true freshmen, which is fine, at least two of which had played varsity in the winter on a team in the top eight in the state! We're talking mis-match here.
I seemed to have them every weekend, and I got very tired of telling them game after game, "NO backcourt, NO backcourt." Finally, I whistled (they were double teaming the inbounder under their own basket -- ahead by about 35 or so). I walked over to the coach and said, I want to be real clear here this is your last warning. The next back court defense of any kind will be a technical." He said, "Oh well you know these girls just have an aggerssive instinct and they just do it automatically..." so I said, "So what you're telling me is that you have no control over your team?" and walked away. And it worked! No more backcourt defense.
The coach really was the problem all the way along, and needed to know that I knew where to apply the screws. I guess that falls into the snappy comebacks department, which I don't usually endorse, but it did the job. Incidentally, I did their last game in that league which turned out to be their only loss (by two points), The coach actually came up after that game and shook my hand. There's just no accounting....