Did my first scrimmage of the season. Felt pretty good physically. Worked with a couple really good guys. I called an elbow violation, a 3-second violation, at least one illegal screen, and oh yeah, we had a bench-clearing dust-up.
Kid has had a tough second half, team wasn't doing well. He gets stripped going to the basket and he's mad. The ball is loose on the floor and he just jumps on an opponent, not going for the ball. My partner at Lead has the foul and then they start wrestling for the ball, of course. I get in there trying to calm it down and it's MF this and FU that (from the players, not me
). And literally every player from both benches came out to the scrum.
After restoring order, we got the coaches together and said that since it's essentially a practice, we weren't going to toss anybody, but in a real game, EVERYBODY would be gone. That got their attention REAL fast. We told them anything even close to this again, and the scrimmage is over.
The rest went very smoothly, thankfully. It was good to get back out there!