Defensive Match-up Request..

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by Scrapper1

C'mon. You must know the kind of player I'm talking about. The guy who comes in with no basketball skills and is just looking to bang bodies. I'm not talking about an "enforcer", just a kid who doesn't really know what he's doing, except that he's supposed to body-up the other team's big guy.

1) I really don't know. Maybe say something to him about playing basketball, not football? I really don't know.

2) In my mind, the best way to deal with this kid is just call the fouls as soon as you see them and don't let him escalate it.

1) Are you really advocating warning a player not to do something before they haven't done anything at all?

2) Don't you call fouls on every player on both teams every time that player might commit a foul all through the whole game? How is dealing with this particular player so different than dealing with all players?

This whole "game-interrupter" thingy is just confusing to me. I'm just trying to get a good explanation on just exactly what it is.