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Originally posted by Hawks Coach
If a bunch of third graders are being chased around the court by a couple behemoths behaving in a decidedly un-basketball-like manner, is it political correctness or common sense? Why would you want this to continue? What end does it serve? Who does it benefit? Can you state a single benefit that any child in one of these games derives from allowing this to continue? You cite rules, but absolutely nowhere do you provide a benefit to following these rules in this case.
More to the point, given a group of 8 year old kids who don't know how to dribble, pass, or shoot, why would you want the POE in my one hour of practice per week to be how to take a charge from a player twice their size?
What you are seeing is priorities, Mark, not PC.
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Just look how you are describing the play of these two girls': "a bunch of third graders are being chased around the court by a couple behemoths behaving in a decidedly un-basketball-like manner"
If these two girls' were your daughters would you like someone to call them a couple of behemoths just because they are the two biggest players on the court.
Once again the only reason, the recreation department issued its directive is because the size of the girls setting the screens. If the players involved were not the biggest players on the court, nothing would have been said. Furthermore, if one follows the recreation department's directive, does that mean, if the two smallest players on the team set the same type of screen, that they too are guilty of unsportsmanlike conduct?
Once more I state that the best way to handle the situation is to apply the guarding and screening rules as written in the rules book.