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Old Sat Jul 10, 2004, 12:53pm
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Here's a game which I wasn't involved in, and didn't even see, but was described to me by the refs who worked it. Two weeks later, I'm still wondering what I would have done.

Team A, up by 40, still pressing in the last 3 minutes of the game. Coach B is complaining loudly, but Coach A isn't budging. Finally with 2 minutes left in the game, Coach B calls a time-out, and tells her girls to inbound the ball and then immediately hand the ball to a team A player. The girls did this for the last two minutes. Coach A had the onions to complain to the refs about Team B's sportsmanlike attitude! He wanted the refs to call this handing-off thing a "travesty" and give them a technical. Sheez. Ref replied, "I can't make you take the press off, and I can't make her keep playing against it." I think this is about as much as the refs can do. What do you all think.
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Old Sat Jul 10, 2004, 01:04pm
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The refs did the right thing in that situation.

Something similar that happened to an official that I know is that Team B would always keep one player under the basket they were trying to score at no matter what. Coach A complained, but the official explained that in the rules that player is allowed to do that, and there's nothing we as officials can do about it.

Although this behaviour is somewhat unsportmanlike, it is way to minor to warrant a technical foul.
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I think that's all you can do, Juulie. I mean, what else could you do? I don't think a T for "travesty" is a good move here. The losing coach was making his point in a legal way, how can you penalize him for it?

In fact, I saw something similar once in the NBA All-Star game. I forget the year, but the West team was winning big. In the last 30 seconds or so, an East player stole the ball and took it in for a fabulous dunk. Magic Johnson happened to be the guy who was inbounding the ball after the dunk (his team was winning, remember) and he just passed it to the next East player coming down the court. So the next East player also took it in for a fabulous dunk. Magic inbounded it to the next East guy. . . for about the last 30 seconds of the game. Obviously different, b/c nobody really cares about who wins that game, but the point is, if you want to give your opponent the ball, how -- by rule -- can the ref stop you?
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Old Sat Jul 10, 2004, 02:23pm
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I think that's all you can do, Juulie. I mean, what else could you do? I don't think a T for "travesty" is a good move here. The losing coach was making his point in a legal way, how can you penalize him for it?

... but the point is, if you want to give your opponent the ball, how -- by rule -- can the ref stop you?
I agree with you, Chuck, and I can't think of anything I'd have done differently from the refs who were there. It's just an interesting situation to think about.

The other factor in the whole thing is that this was a huge tournament with a lot of teams from all over the place and a very high level of play. Anyone in that tourney should have expected the possibility of getting blown out of the water. I think the winning coach was being a little obnoxious by leaving the press on, but I don't think it was really a huge sportsmanship issue. The losing team was an all-star team in an all-star tournament, and should have expected the possibility of not being the best team there.

To me, it would have been different if it had been a local rec league with lots of players who were in it for the exercise, and one classics team playing down. But in those situations, there is often a no-press rule, anyway.

I still think Coach A was a jerk.
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Old Sat Jul 10, 2004, 06:50pm
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The other factor in the whole thing is that this was a huge tournament with a lot of teams from all over the place and a very high level of play. Anyone in that tourney should have expected the possibility of getting blown out of the water. I think the winning coach was being a little obnoxious by leaving the press on, but I don't think it was really a huge sportsmanship issue. The losing team was an all-star team in an all-star tournament, and should have expected the possibility of not being the best team there.

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Juulie, I disagree with you. That kind of behavior by a coach is unforgiveable and inexplicable. The tournament should not invite that coach back until he changes his ways. Blowouts happen and are to be expected. But continuing to press in that situation is definitely unsportsmanlike and the sign of a poor coach. Is that what the tournament wants to foster?
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Juulie, I disagree with you. That kind of behavior by a coach is unforgiveable and inexplicable.
"Unforgiveable"? Come on. It was poor sportsmanship, but he didn't tell his kids to go and kill somebody. It showed little class, or perhaps just showed that the coach got caught up in the action. I've witnessed situations like this, where the losing coach made a comment to the winning coach and a light sort of went on over the winning coach's head. And then he pulled the press off.

Admittedly, that didn't happen here. But I don't think we should blow it out of proportion and say it's unforgiveable. It's poor judgment.
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Juulie, I disagree with you. That kind of behavior by a coach is unforgiveable and inexplicable.
"Unforgiveable"? Come on. It was poor sportsmanship, but he didn't tell his kids to go and kill somebody. It showed little class, or perhaps just showed that the coach got caught up in the action. I've witnessed situations like this, where the losing coach made a comment to the winning coach and a light sort of went on over the winning coach's head. And then he pulled the press off.

Admittedly, that didn't happen here. But I don't think we should blow it out of proportion and say it's unforgiveable. It's poor judgment.
OK, Chuck, I can forgive him. (Does that make you happy?) But it is unsportsmanlike, classless and a tournament doesn't have to tolerate it. Perhaps I am sensitive to the issue having coached so much AAU ball and having been on both the winning and losing side. Coaches that do what he did do not last very long any way.
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OK, Chuck, I can forgive him. (Does that make you happy?) But it is unsportsmanlike, classless and a tournament doesn't have to tolerate it.
Yup, I'm happy. I agree with your second sentence completely. No reason to form a lynch mob, tho. That's all I was getting at.
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Here's a game which I wasn't involved in, and didn't even see, but was described to me by the refs who worked it. Two weeks later, I'm still wondering what I would have done.

Team A, up by 40, still pressing in the last 3 minutes of the game. Coach B is complaining loudly, but Coach A isn't budging. Finally with 2 minutes left in the game, Coach B calls a time-out, and tells her girls to inbound the ball and then immediately hand the ball to a team A player. The girls did this for the last two minutes. Coach A had the onions to complain to the refs about Team B's sportsmanlike attitude! He wanted the refs to call this handing-off thing a "travesty" and give them a technical. Sheez. Ref replied, "I can't make you take the press off, and I can't make her keep playing against it." I think this is about as much as the refs can do. What do you all think.
I think I would have done by the same thing as coach B, but started with 3 minutes left in the game!

Coach B could also ask coach A to sub in all his players that haven't yet scored and "we'll make sure they scor ethis game."
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Old Sun Jul 11, 2004, 02:11pm
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OK, Chuck, I can forgive him. (Does that make you happy?) But it is unsportsmanlike, classless and a tournament doesn't have to tolerate it.
Yup, I'm happy. I agree with your second sentence completely. No reason to form a lynch mob, tho. That's all I was getting at.
Chuck, please no histrionics. I wasn't forming a lynch mob. I was suggesting banning those types of coaches from your tournament. The other coach shouldn't have to "ask" him to stop the press. That's what I was getting at.

When I was living upstate NY I had the pleasure of assisting the Schenectady High Coach (DiNallo) with an AAU team that made it to the nationals. We had a 7 Foot 15 year old (Craig Forth now at Syracuse), James Thomas (now at Texas) and Lionel Chalmers (Xavier of Ohio), among others. There were times we could have blown teams out by 100 points, but we didn't. We emptied our bench and let the other team keep their pride. We didn't continue to press when a team was down by that many points.
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Old Sun Jul 11, 2004, 02:38pm
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Making a lot of friends today, eh Chuck!?!
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Making a lot of friends today, eh Chuck!?!
Jeez, show a softer side of yourself for one day, and it's like blood in the water. Forget I ever mentioned any of it. In fact, you know what? It is unforgiveable. The guy should never be allowed to coach again! In fact, he should never be allowed around children again! And another thing. Officials who disagree with other officials are A-holes!! Yeah, in fact, all officials are A-holes! That's right, officials shouldn't be allowed around children either!!

Everybody happy now? Forget it. I'll leave the "toning down" lectures to Juulie.
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Old Sun Jul 11, 2004, 03:20pm
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Jeez, show a softer side of yourself for one day, and it's like blood in the water. Forget I ever mentioned any of it. In fact, you know what? It is unforgiveable. The guy should never be allowed to coach again! In fact, he should never be allowed around children again! And another thing. Officials who disagree with other officials are A-holes!! Yeah, in fact, all officials are A-holes! That's right, officials shouldn't be allowed around children either!!

Everybody happy now? Forget it. I'll leave the "toning down" lectures to Juulie.
If it makes you feel any better, Chuck, you're short too.
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Old Sun Jul 11, 2004, 04:35pm
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Officials who disagree with other officials are A-holes!! Yeah, in fact, all officials are A-holes! That's right, officials shouldn't be allowed around children either!!
Never said there was anything wrong with disagreeing, just yelling at refs when you do disagree.
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Old Sun Jul 11, 2004, 04:40pm
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Everybody happy now? Forget it. I'll leave the "toning down" lectures to Juulie.
That's a good idea, 'cause you have toned down a damn thing all day!

Actually, I thought you instigated most of it!
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