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Originally posted by refjef40
Mn14 you sure hit home with my pet peeve.The next time a coach says your going to get someone hurt out here i'm going to sock him!I would have much more respect for a coach who told the truth and said hey I feel your missing some fouls against my team.
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Please understand that we are coaching kids that we like, and now we see them getting bounced around a court. I am a little more tolerant than most coaches in my group about physical play, but no coach wants to see his players hurt. And yes, we also enter with a bias, so we aren't as likely to see that our players are contributing to the physical play. So yeah, when we say it's getting rough, we are more likely than not seeing the game with some blinders on and only seeing that their players are banging up our players.
That said, I can't understand why this remark gets to you so badly. The impulse to want a foul called when your players are hitting the deck is far less objectionable in my mind than asking for travelling or 3 seconds.
My personal objection to remarks like these is that they aren't very helpful (just as telling your players "don't turn the ball over isn't useful - tell them something that helps prevent the turnover!). If I am upset about something, it will rarely be one missed call, but usually will be the fact that their center is setting illegal picks (e.g., shoving my players on a screen) on every possession, or their point guard shoves off every time she makes a move around her defender. If I have an objection about rough play, it will be specific as to who is doing it and what they are doing. Anything else is stupid, but also pretty harmless.