Thread: 4th foul
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Old Thu Dec 10, 2009, 01:58pm
bob jenkins bob jenkins is offline
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Originally Posted by Clark Kent View Post
I realize we won't find it anywhere in the manuals but how aware should we be of the player's and their foul situations? Do you take notice when a kid picks up his/her 4th not wanting to give them a cheap 5th? Or do you go about your modus operandi as if that is part of the game and a foul is a foul regardless of how many the kid has?

I assume I will get both answers here so for those who do take note how do you go about it? If the team has a scoreboard that indicates the player's fouls I have been able to take note there, however when there isn't a scoreboard with such features how do you wise sagacious veterans go about knowing?
On the list of top-10 things to worry about, this is number 20.

I do try to be aware so we get the player replaced if / when s/he commits the fifth foul.

And, like someone else mentioned, if I can't tell which foul came first, and one player has 4, and that player is the star player on a team losing by a lot late in the game, I might try to not rub salt in the wound by giving the foul to the other player.
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