Five Fouls Not Enough?

[Camron Rust]

There is a team I worked twice this season that seems to have an interesting strategy along these lines.

It appears that they're coached to go aggressively at the ball without regard to fouls with the hope that either the officials will get tired of calling the fouls and will only call the "worst" of them and/or the other team will cower from the repeated contact allowing the aggressive team to take over the game. It makes for a really ugly and unenjoyable game.

They rotate a lot of players onto the floor so foul trouble is not particulary a concern for most of the team.

In both of their games, we probably called over 15 fouls per half on this team with NO adjustment whatsoever from the team. They just keep bumping, slapping, and grabbing.

The coach didn't like me one bit because I wouldn't "let them play". I persisted in not allowing them to pummel their opponents into the floor until they gave up.

Note that I'm just as happy to have a half with under 5-6 fouls per team (and I've had several of those too).