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Originally posted by ChuckElias
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Originally posted by IREFU2
Slamming the ball is an automatic "t" for me
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I know a lot of people feel that way, and maybe I just need to wake up and smell the coffee, but why is slamming the ball an automatic? What's so terrible about it? It's usually directed at oneself, not at the officiating, in my experience. It seems to me to be a lot like the kid who is called for a foul and then goes and slams his hand against the padding on the wall.
I'm just asking. I had one of these this year already. The ball bounced about rim-high and came right down into my hands and neither my partner nor I whistled it.
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Chuck, I don't think it qualifies as a slam if the ball goes rim high and plops down into your hands.
To me, it's a slam if I need to move my head to watch the ball go up up up up up and then back down down down down down. I don't have a bag full of behaviors that are 'automatic' but IMO that one is as close as it gets simply because it is so obvious, regardless of the kid's intent.