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Originally posted by BktBallRef
The point that I was trying to make, and it's getting lost in these other scenarios, is that this an automatic T in our area. "Call it both ways!" or "The fouls are 10-2!" will always get you one. I was just curious if other areas handled it this way.
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No automatic T for either of these if it's said to me
quietly, but I HATE the foul counters. I found the best
way to defuse this is to be brutally honest:
"Coach, you've been pressing them all game and they play
a 1/2 court zone defense, what do you expect..." or
"Coach, your team is just not athletic enough to compete
and that results in the lopsided foul count..." or
"Come on coach, 3 of those fouls are on your number 12,
he's just got to adjust..."
Whenever I've used this it just stops them in their tracks.
The idea is to know why the fouls are not even & to come up
with something stronger than "Geeze coach, sometimes it
just goes that way."
BTW, I'll T either of these if it's yelled out.