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Just to chime in, the one thing that I've noticed is that at sub-varsity levels the more the coach whines at the officials, the more the players tend to use the officials as an excuse for failure. If the players know that the officials are gonna get the blame, it is easier for them to make and get away with mistakes by not learning from them. On these teams you see a larger propensity of players trying to "create" fouls to protect themselves from failure (i.e. initiating all the contact on shots) and then when they miss the shot the officials get blamed rather than the player. Coaches who allow this to happen tend to be in bad programs.
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