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Originally Posted by PaREF
I really have a hard time justifying the reasoning to my 16's players who have a hard time finding the meanness to kill a spider. All they want to do is make sure that they get their water/sports drink bottles and/or their gear so that they don't lose it. Also, as you said, they now have to walk into Team A's bench area to retrieve said "stuff", so the theory that the protocol limits team interaction while changing sides is rendered moot.
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When I coached, I had a bucket that we kept everyone's drink in. When it was time to change courts, one of the bench players was in charge of grabbing the bucket. That way, no one had to stop at the bench.