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Old Wed Jun 21, 2000, 03:06pm
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Thank you all for your various responses. It helps a lot, to discuss it.
About the 40 points ahead and still pressing, I had a game like that in spring league where the rule was after 20 point spread, no back court defense of any kind. This one tesm kept pressing and I mean hard -- three and four players in the back court, double traps and so on. The first couple times I spoke to the girls, then called time and talked to the coach. Next play, same thing so I whistled and gave the ball at half court. Next time, I told the coach, "Last warning, next one is a technical". Do you know what he said? "It's just instinct for them, they can't help it!" I said, "Coach, if you can't control your players..."
He called a time out right away and, amazingly, we had no more pressing! It's not that I wanted to level the playing field, but the point was to give the chance for kids to learn, and what is anyone learning when they are getting stomped? Or doing the stomping for that matter?
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