I had a similar coach comment last night. We're about 2 minutes into the game and A1 goes up for a jumper. B1 comes across his arm, makes a lot of contact with the arm and then swipes the ball away. I call a shooting foul. As we've all heard before, coach B (notice I've stopped capitalizing the word "coach" because capitalizing indicates a proper, not a common noun, and so few of the coaches I know are proper, but they all are common) yells, "Great block. Keep doing that all night." Of course this just fuels B1's attitude that it was a bad call. While we're lining up, coach B yells it twice more. Finally, I had enough. I turn to B1 and say, "Yeah, keep doing that 4 more times and you'll be out of the game." He got a look on his face like I just asked him to explain Einstein's theory.
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