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Originally Posted by bbcoach7
Girls will dive, or barrel roll through an opponents legs when the ball is on the other side of those legs rolling out of bounds. When two are chasing a ball out of bounds, girls will use their momentum to continue to push their opponent into the stands, or into a close wall on an endline, when they could have just made a slight body adjustment in angle, or force and protected their opponent a little bit. Girls will "hip check" airborne shooters. Girls will take the legs out of the shooter on layup attempts. Girls will use the most foul disgusting language at opponents very quietly so referee's don't hear. Girls will throw the basketball directly at an opponents face. Girls will raise their elbows like a football O lineman while screening. I could go on, but there's no reason to.
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I agree and one of the main reasons I stay away. Because when these girls fall and get hurt, it is not about what the coaches allow, it is that I did not call a foul that sometimes is not a foul. I have only seen girls get blazing mad when they are fouled during the course of a regular play. Boys have to build up to that problem and usually they get upset over the course of a situation.
And I do agree that boy's learn how to compete very early. Girls often come to the table late or did not compete as really young. Or at the very least we teach them not to be tough, so when they are confronted with contact or pain, they overreact. Of course this is not apply to all of them. The girls that compete hard and do not get mad tend to be the best players. They somewhere realize they do not have to get that girl back because she fouled her. But the girls that get run into and want to fight tend to be the problem makers. And too often there are way too many of those players.
Peace