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Old Thu Aug 01, 2013, 05:36pm
BillyMac BillyMac is offline
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Please Sign My Don't Say "Don't Move" Petition ...

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Originally Posted by JRutledge View Post
Nothing I have heard changes my mind or seems relevant to what a player thinks they can or cannot do.
Keep saying, "Don't move", over, and over again, along with a few partners that also say it, and eventually a player, or even worse, a coach, will start to believe what they hear. Far fetched? Maybe, but it happened to me in a game:

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Originally Posted by BillyMac View Post
I had to T up a coach this past year because he wouldn't stop complaining to my partner, who, as the administering official, let a player "move" on a designated spot throwin. The coach kept saying, "But he can't move". My partner tried, and I tried, to explain the movement limitations on a designated spot throwin, but he wouldn't accept any of that, he just kept saying, "But he can't move". Eventually, I had to tell him to, "Sit down".
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