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Old Tue Jan 19, 2010, 11:42am
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Originally Posted by twing1115 View Post
Not sure who your reffing. What about teams that play a match-up zone? Is it girly for them to talk? Should players be silent on screens? Every coach in america has there team talking in practice when they are doing shell defense. Every sucessful trapping team must talk in transition to scramble for match-ups. If your going to practice that way why wouldn't you play that way?
I think Rich meant that screaming at opponents during traps, dead balls and throw-ins ("BALL, BALL, BALL!") is classically a girls ball tactic. I would agree. Of course good defense needs communication in the scenarios you mentioned above. These are two different things.

Edit: Rich clarified this while I was typing my response. Redundant.

Last edited by bbcof83; Tue Jan 19, 2010 at 11:45am. Reason: Slow at posting I guess