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Originally posted by williebfree
Look at the situation that was originally posted and the line of responses to it...
Then think about how it "should be". Junior high/Middle School is a fundamental, sportmanship, and skills-building level (at least it should be) and we have teams that have to be "threatened with" and have enforced "T"s..... Pardon me, but what the hell is wrong with the coaches and the overall philosophy of the league.
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I am not sure why you mention coaches and the league as the problem in the original posting. The coach is telling the player to get back.
Coach B requested and was granted a timeout. I could hear him talking to B1 about staying out of the backcourt.
The tourtnament has the T rule in place to keep things right.
This past weekend, I did a 7th grade rec tournament at a facility that has a 20 point "mercy" rule.
In this specific case, it is a young player here who is at fault. I am not ready to believe that this indicates the overall degeneration of society at large, although many other things I have seen in youth sports have led me to wonder. However, this case tells me that some people are getting it right.
I coach two select teams of very competitive athletes. My top athletes frequently go into turbo mode, where brainwave activity appears to cease and athletic activity goes into overdrive. Not only have they behaved like B in the example, but they also throw the ball away against no pressure and do a number of things that I devote considerable practice time to trying to eliminate. When they get overly aggressive, they are not being bad sports, they just have very little sense of perspective on the court and are trying to play hard. I have to try to manage that based on game situations, and I do my best as do many other coaches. Others behave quite badly, but I think you are barking up the wrong tree here. We aren't always to blame when things go wrong on the court.