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Originally posted by TimTaylor
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Originally posted by fonzzy07
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Originally posted by RookieDude
Fonzzy...you might want to adjust your philosophy on "not all contact is a foul", for a 7th grade game. This may be a good philosophy for a upper level, skilled team, that is strong enough to play through some contact. But, for a bunch of unskilled 7th graders that are out there running around and into each other...maybe heed the coaches' advice...calling a foul on a kid that displaces another player, could be seen as a disadvantage, couldn't it? 
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Fair enough, however it was things like 6 kids in a big circle going up for rebounds, or they would be tied up for a jumpball and their was some swinging going on. Stuff like that. We called the basic stuff, the blocks, charges, the shot fouls ect. In fact both teams were in the double bonus in both halfs, we had something like 52 fouls. It was just a messed up game
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52 fouls and they were asking for more? Sheesh, there was a very obvious problem here and it wasn't the officiating! Only thing you can do in a game like this is get in, get it done & get out......
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I agree in theory, Tim, but I do think that it's possible that if they'd called it tighter early on, there wouldn't have been as many. Especially since both coaches were asking for that. If both coaches say it to me together and politely, I'm grateful, because it gives me a chance to crack down and really participate in teaching the kids something. For the next 5 minutes of play after the coaches say this, call everything. Everything. and then see how the kids adjust. It might be that the second half would look a lot like real basketball.
I'm talking 7th grade here, though. I wouldn't necessaryily do this at the varsity level, especially not boys.