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Originally posted by rainmaker
I do think that Zebraman overstates the case by saying that you are talking stupid. You were merely making an observation that there hasn't been the usual rant about girls' basketball.
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That is just Z not confident in what he does. That is just the way he is always going to be.
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Originally posted by rainmaker
When I read a post like Rich's, or about the kinds of girls' ball you do, I just feel sorry for you-all. We are fortunate here in Portland to have some very, very good girls' teams, and we see a lot of very good ball. We also have some very lousy boys' teams. SO the gradient isn't as steep here between boys' ball and girls' ball. Pity for you isn't prompting a rant from me anymore.
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Who said we did not have very good girl's basketball? Juulie, one of the best players in the country and the only girl to win a certain national award for Player of the Year came 15 minutes from where I live. That also does not include the many Final Fours with players from this area. The issue is not whether it there are good teams, the issue is (at least for me) what typically happens in a girl's game as compared to a boy's game. Let us face it, when I call a girls game and the play is sloppy, hardly anyone is complaining about the amount of contact in the game. They might want a foul in some cases, but it is not a very common complaint. When I have worked a girl's game, for some reason every little time a player tries to dribble between two defenders that are just standing there, you would think someone shot the girl with a gun by the reaction of the fans and many coaches. That same play in a boy's game would get a response not favorable to the dribbler. Not matter how you feel about it; it seems to me that slight contact is expected to be called a foul in the girl's games while more contact is expected in a boy's game. I worked in a varsity boy's game with an officials recently that works more girl's games in his career and he called a bunch of fouls one the defenders just making blocks. Many of these fouls no one was knocked down or hit the floor, but he called a few fouls on players where one was about 6'8 and the other player was 6'10 (someone said 7'0, but I did not think so) and every block attempt in one part of the game or in this official's area we had a whistle. When the same thing took place where I was working and my other partner, no foul called (the other official was a State Final official).
Peace