Why do coaches....

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Originally posted by Snaqwells
I'd say it's more "generalizing" than "stereotyping." It also happens more in AAU than high school, simply because they're less experienced.
There are exceptions, but that's why it's a generalization.

Fair enough. I think that these are the areas of the rules - warning vs. whacking - that even the better coaches will be slower to pick up because they have less impact on what they work on in practice. Coaches will spend more time working on violations like travelling and backcourt and should touch on the rules for reaching across the plane but are less likely to spend a lot of time and to always be clear on the consequences.

It's one thing to read the rules through but to really learn is to practice or teach someone else. Of course I'm conveniently ignoring the fact that some coaches haven't even read the rule book - but even if they had they won't have absorbed most of it with the same level of detail that an official would. Presumably the good ones will have absorbed, to a reasonable level, the rules that are at the core of the fundamentals they are teaching. It's a nice theory, anyway.