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Originally Posted by ca_rumperee
I've been away all day and unable to respond.
here is my point of view. Right now I'm doing games ranging from 3rd and 4th grade kids, 7th & 8th grade cyo, and high school freshmen and jv boys and girls.
Now, I can tell you that I am not going to call the 4th graders game the same as the JV Boys game, unless you consider that I will call all of the lines and will work to find the level of play at which we can have a flowing basketball game. At each and every level I will call advantage/disadvantage. Period
Now, the scrubs come in, maybe the trailing coach capitulating by bringing his in first. While there is a chance ("so you're saying there's a chance!") that the trailing team can mount a comeback, you basically have 10 kids on the floor from the ends of their respective benches. I'm suggesting making a move from the level that the game has been called to that point, to maybe the level of an 8th grade cyo game.
Maybe I don't get the kid for moving his pivot foot while not being closely defended whilst 30 feet from the basket.
Does all that make sense?
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I have no problem with calling different levels of games differently. Of course we call a 4th grade game much differently that a HS varsity contest.
But I'm still not sure I follow the reason for changing how a game is called, within the same game. How do players know how to adjust? What if a team only has 8 or 9 total players? That means some of them have been in the game before, so they've played under one set of guidlines, but at the end of the game they're playing under a different set of guidelines. What about the players at the end of the bench that have been watching all game, and seen how the game is called, only to now enter the game and play under a different set of guidelines? Is that fair to the players?
What plays do you call early, but ignore late? Do you have a list that you go over with your partners in the pre-game? Are you saying you call a travel on the kid that moves his pivot foot 30 ft. from the basket at the beginning of the game, but you don't call it later?