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If I don't deem contact to be sufficient enough to warrant a foul, I may say something about cleaning things up to avoid it escalating into pushing or fighting-like activity later. It's not necessarily to avoid one or both of them drawing fouls. IMO, it's more important to avoid a fight than to possibly give one or the other coaching-like advice.
As for talking players out of things, as I get into sub-varsity and lower levels, such a thing will happen more and more. All of which gets into the part about helping players develop skills and knowledge of the sport.
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