Defender verbal during play.

[Johnny Ringo]

Not sure ... but, found it quite odd that someone had never seen this or heard of it before. It's one of the first things you are taught as a player.

[tomegun]

Originally Posted by Johnny Ringo

Not sure ... but, found it quite odd that someone had never seen this or heard of it before. It's one of the first things you are taught as a player.

Until recently, I've never heard of anything but girls' teams doing it. Is that odd? I have heard about communication on defense that may require an occasional, "Ball" now and then.

[Johnny Ringo]

That is odd ... did you play basketball growing up (fair question)? If so, you surely would have encountered this somewhere along the way.

[tomegun]

Originally Posted by Johnny Ringo

That is odd ... did you play basketball growing up (fair question)? If so, you surely would have encountered this somewhere along the way.

I'm from Indiana, any other questions?

[Johnny Ringo]

Originally Posted by tomegun

I'm from Indiana, any other questions?

You must have been from Northern Indiana.

[tomegun]

Originally Posted by Johnny Ringo

You must have been from Northern Indiana.

Northern, Southern it doesn't matter - I'm from Indiana and that is the only thing that matters concerning your question. Did you play growing up and where are you from?

[mick]

Originally Posted by tomegun

Northern, Southern it doesn't matter - I'm from Indiana and that is the only thing that matters concerning your question. Did you play growing up and where are you from?

We generally played baseball, football and basketball in Michigan.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Johnny Ringo

That is odd ... did you play basketball growing up (fair question)? If so, you surely would have encountered this somewhere along the way.

I saw it a few times in Iowa. Here in Colorado, I haven't seen it at all. So, a player/ref growing up in this particular area could easily go without seeing it, even over a period of years. I have a feeling this particular tactic is falling out of favor with coaches because it's not really effective and wastes a lot of wind on the defensive end.

[Chess Ref]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

I saw it a few times in Iowa. Here in Colorado, I haven't seen it at all. So, a player/ref growing up in this particular area could easily go without seeing it, even over a period of years. I have a feeling this particular tactic is falling out of favor with coaches because it's not really effective and wastes a lot of wind on the defensive end.

When I first started, 3 years ago, the ladies did it ALOT. So far this year only one girl did it for about 10 seconds. Her teammate told her to be quiet cause she missed the coach yelling out a defensive scheme .

[Scrapper1]

Originally Posted by Johnny Ringo

That is odd ... did you play basketball growing up (fair question)? If so, you surely would have encountered this somewhere along the way.

I played HS ball in the '80s. The "ball ball ball" thing was non-existent then, even on the girls side. I've been reffing since the early '90s and it wasn't even used very much at that point. It's really only become prevalent over the last 10 years around here.

[kbilla]

Originally Posted by Johnny Ringo

That is odd ... did you play basketball growing up (fair question)? If so, you surely would have encountered this somewhere along the way.

I played from 4th grade through hs and was never taught to constantly yell "ball, ball ball!" for the whole time that somebody had the ball...we were told to yell "ball" once when the player we were defending received the ball so everyone knew we were on the ball...although we were taught to yell "UP UP UP UP" once a dribble was picked up....but to yell something CONSTANTLY, no we were never taught that...it's not like this is a universally accepted method of teaching defense, I'm not all that suprised if OP had never seen it....

[FrankHtown]

I'm from NJ were we were taught to play defense with our feet, not our mouths.

[Johnny Ringo]

I guess I might have misunderstood the OP a bit. The word constantly throws a wrench in things. Of coursenot constantly, but initially ... surprised to hear if nobody has never heard this concept at all.

[mick]

Originally Posted by tomegun

Until recently, I've never heard of anything but girls' teams doing it. Is that odd? I have heard about communication on defense that may require an occasional, "Ball" now and then.

Just for the record, I talked (though, not yelling) to my guy through the entire game in the mid-60s. It felt necessary for me to advise him what to do with the ball and when he he was getting into some deep doo-doo.

[tomegun]

Originally Posted by mick

Just for the record, I talked (though, not yelling) to my guy through the entire game in the mid-60s. It felt necessary for me to advise him what to do with the ball and when he he was getting into some deep doo-doo.

Yeah, you talked, but did you constantly say, "Ball, ball, ball?" I talked too (much) when I played. I'm still willing to tell anyone who will listen that on most nights I'm the best 3-point shooter in the gym. No, seriously!