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wow this thread has taken an.. um .. interesting turn.
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you win http://images1.comstock.com/Imagewar...5/C0031055.jpg |
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I think there has been a move away from the fact that these are "games". And it has filtered down to even the lowest levels. Some people are just trying to put a little perspective back into the game. Celebrate something routine? Nah. Acknowledge a good play? Sure, why not? |
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Apparently Chuck is making a strong push to get the rule changed. |
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I have a really touching story from my working.....I sit on the board of a local rec league....been officiating in the league for 5 years and on the board for the past 2.... Last year one of my board member counterparts who was a coach in our 5th/6th grade rec leagues had a kid on his team named Conan that was developmentally challenged.....He may have even been autistic or had Torret's syndrome....a really nice kid but you could tell he didn't process information as fast as a normal kid. He could run up and down the court and understood enough to play his zone on D but on the offensive end it was like playing 4 on 5....he NEVER got the ball. During the season ending tourney, coach/board member told me about 1/2 way through the 4thQ that he wanted this Conan kid to score just one bucket....Understand that one bucket would make the kid's entire season worth all the effort he put in.... They(Team A) were getting beat by some 15 points so I approached the other coach (Team B) during a timeout and let him know the situation....He said that he would accomodate this on the defensive end of the floor... Team B was inbounding under Team A's basket....We set this kid up on the low post ( I was inbounding and had to instruct him where to stand and to watch the ball etc) and the inbounder used up about 4 seconds before he made a bounce pass to Conan on D. Up goes the shot.....MISSES! This went on for the next 2 1/2 minutes....each trip the kids on Team B making blatant and obvious turnovers after defensive rebounds in an effort to get Team A the opportunity to pass the ball to Conan.... Coach of team B had finally told his kids NOT TO REBOUND....but when Team A got the rebound, they would put it back up and score....so they ate away at the 15 point lead! ....Finally with about a 7 point lead and about :25 left in the game.....Team A knows they are going to get beat and they worked the ball around to Conan at the top of the key for a 3 pointer.....he put up a shot that bounced off the front of the rim right back to him about the FT line........I yelled from lead position....SHOOOT IT CONAN!...:eek: ....Up goes the shot and SWISH! :D The ENTIRE gym went NUTS....All the players on both teams started jumping up and down cheering, parents from both teams were standing cheering....Board Members on the sideline were standing cheering, the other teams waiting to play the next game were up clapping....It was truly a momement I will ALWAYS remember from my reffing.... I went to the winning team afterwards and interrupted the coaches post game speech and told those 10 young men how proud of them I was for making that kids season and that their display was one of true sportsmanship and that is what youth sports should be about.......The look in these kids' eyes told me that they all realized that this one basket was more important than their own points and that they really made a difference in another player's life on this day.....They went on to win their next two games and won the rec league Championship....A fitting end IMHO...... Am I fan...hell yes! :) |
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