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I have been using this phrase loud enough for all on the floor to hear.
"Alright everyone, here we go, lets keep everything legal out here!" Then the ball is given to the inbounder or passed for the free throw attempt. |
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The last 2 minutes of this game went pretty much how the previous 14 went. out of control and tweeting till the end. The Varsity evaluator thought the comments were unprofessional-but he didn't hear me say them . The coach of the out of control team mentioned them to him........
So I will proably NOT say that again..... |
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I try to use positive statements. SmokeEater had a good statement "Alright everyone, here we go, lets keep everything legal out here!" I use "Let's play smart" Both of these phrases tell the players what we want them to do. Not what we don't want them to do.
Many years ago I said "don't be stupid" to a player. He had a quick reply. "Hey, I'm not stupid. I have a high IQ." I had to laugh and then tell him to be smart. |
I was working a boys JV game the other night and things started getting rough in a real tight game. My partner and I were both talking to them...trying to calm things down. While getting ready for a FT my partner said (loud enough for all to hear) "Gentlemen, we have tried to clean things up with our voice...we will now start using our whistle. If you don't want to watch the end of this game, you know what to do."
Worked like a charm... I've never used the word "stupid" but have told players who looked like they were about to lose it "Stay smart...stay in the game." |
I have used the word stupid before when talking to players. It really depends who you are talking to and how you deliver the line with the word. I would agree that not everyone can use this to their advantage. But when things are getting really hairy, I think you can use any word short of cursing to get a point across. Not all kids respond to "positive" talk. Some kids you have to get in their face and they will get the point across. Just know your audience and the situation.
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I thought it was a stupid thing to say. Remember, we are suppose to be professionals, and also remember, silence can not be quoted. On the other hand, 25 fouls on one team, and they still are fouling hard. I'm not going to call that many fouls, on one team without mixing in a few intentional fouls. Your objective, which you attempted to address with your smart azz comment was to get them to stop fouling. I would have used a more direct approach. Quite fouling so much or the next one going to be intentional. If they are fouling b/c they are poor defensive players, that's one thing, but if these fouls are hard and unnecessary. I'm going to send some players to the bench permanently.
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Even funnier, a few years ago I was playing military intramural flag football. I caught a high pass across the middle and some guy leveled me. I came up seeing red and looking for him. A guy on the other team told one of my teammates they should stop me because that was a major I was trying to fight. My teammate said don't worry about it, his teammate was a lieutenant colonel. Yeah, that was one of my prouder moments :o :rolleyes: |
I thought about it while I was there, and if I go again I'll probably take my shirt and whistle just for kicks. That, and I work in Services, so I should be able to wrangle that duty if I wanted it.
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I was at the Deid in '05. You're right, it was really a nice deployment, and for me it was short (I had the last 2 months of the rotation). For my wife (my son was born a month before I came home) it was a bit longer. :)
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