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Originally posted by johnyd
I did a junior high game triple header, where on school dominated all 3 contests. The last was the worst beating of all. The home team is up by 28-2 in 2nd quarter and still pressing.
The away coach starts chewing on him about still being in the full court press. He mouth's something back. I cannot hear exactly what they are saying. I am still officiating but I do not hear any profanity.
I have stopped AAU contests already and warned or tossed coaches but I was unsure if I should get involved. I let it go and it ended after several heated exchanges. May have only lasted a minute.
Do you give a warning? Tell them to coach their kids? Or just stay out of it until you have a technical offense?
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Why are they still pressing? Most Junior High leagues have a no-press rule after a certain margin (15 in our local Middle School league).
But we had a similar situation near the end of our season this fall. Our league also has a man-to-man* defense rule.
During an out of bounds play, we had the girl who's player was taking the ball out underneath stand under the basket (we do that until the inbounder comes in) and all of a sudden the other team's coach is yelling at our coach he can't play a zone defense. The two coaches went back and forth some before our coach finally said "You know what, go coach your team and let refs enforce the rules." Their coach wasn't too happy and said something to refs, but thats all that happened.
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* no offense intended to our female membership here
