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Originally posted by Chess Ref
I appreciate everyones feedback on dealing with the coaches. So thank you for your time and suggestions. It gave me hope that someday I too may have this mysterious set of skills. LOL
Now,I need everybody to remember back to the day when they did the lower levels. I do all lower level games, frosh/jv. . The type of games where I get to work on advantage/Disadvantage ALL game long. The game where the point guards best move is putting her off-hand in front of the ball while she is dribbling to protect it. It is not always pretty but I make the effort and do want to do a good job.
Example.
1. Girl may have dragged her foot a wee bit. I judge no advantage.
2. Coach is now pleading "thats travelling". She is correct.
3. Then the defender may have gotten a little carried away with a handcheck.Player plays through. I judge no advantge gained. Other coach is now crying "Thats a foul," Coach is correct.
Now i have 2 coaches upset about the lack of calls. The game continues on . Do I have a pregame classroom session and explain some of the advantage/disadvantage theory or what. I want to let them play but I don't know what to say to these coaches about not calling everything that occurs cause I really do ned to get this game done by midnight or the Varsity refs are gonna be really p#$$#ed of at me. LOL
So any and all feedback is welcomed and appreciated.
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At the Frosh and JV level, I think you need to tighten up on some of the violations you would normally let go at the 5th and 6th grade level. These players are in high school, and should be reffed accordingly. In my opinion, the advantage/disadvantage philosophy deals more with contact between the offense and defense rather than with black and white rules violations.
Then you talk about the hand check. Obviously, we did not see the play. You say the player played through the contact therefore there was no advantage gained by the defense. Maybe, maybe not.
The handcheck slows the offensive player so the defender does not get "beat" on a play. Did the offensive player break off his/her drive because of the hand check? Many guards drive the lane to create offensive opportunities for their teammates, not necessarily to shoot an open lay up. Maybe the offensive player saw and opening but by the time he/she "plays through" that opening had closed. These are all things to consider. Maybe that innocent little hand check you let go was not quite so innocent and actually gave the defense a big advantage.
Sometimes the contact really did not affect anything, but it probably does more often than not.