double teaming

[teamball]

I'm the coach of a 5th and 6th grade girls team. Our league has a "no double team" rule. Defense must play man to man within six feet. I ran an isolation play that put all my team in the two bottom corners and ran the dribbler up the middle to the basket. When the dribbler beat her defender near the top of the key, another defender left her man in the corner to guard the dribbler on the low side with the original defender trailing to guard on the high side.

I called this a double team, they (including the only ref) called it a "switching defense".

Who's right?

FORGOT TO ADD THAT THERE IS NO "HELP" ALLOWED. EXAMPLE: CAN'T SEND HELP TO GUARD POST PLAYERS IN THE KEY.

[Edited by teamball on Mar 13th, 2005 at 04:57 PM]