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Old Sat Feb 16, 2008, 09:16pm
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Its honestly reality. Not that I have anything against girls games. I probably do more girls games than boys and I enjoy them. In fact I recognize a lot of the girls players from over the years and thats kinda nice. I am just saying the reality of it is that comparing girls basketball to boys basketball is apples to oranges when it comes to the level of skill afforded each side. Not saying that I have a higher utility for one or the other its just that it takes much more on the teams parts to make a girls game REALLY EXCITING simply because they are not as quick, agile, skillfull, fast, physical, strong, etc. as boys. That is just fact, not opinion.

J - I am not bashing girls, I am just stating that one is a higher degree of ability and skill than the other when it comes to basketball.
Only true for some teams around here. But the top teams are just that, tops.

Last week did two JV games from same school. One boys game, one girls game. The girls was the better game of the two. It really isn't a true overall statement for either. Some teams are better than others.

A good matchup, whatever the sex of the players, is a good game.

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Old Fri Feb 15, 2008, 12:46pm
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except that the girls games are slower, less physical (athletically that is not the girl type of pushing), not as challenging. Just my opinion. And I can exert half the sweat doing a girls game than a boys game. Not that I work any less -- its just not at the same pace or level.
I don't know, Juulie, what deecee wrote that isn't true:

(1) Games ARE slower
(2) Games ARE less physical
(3) It's just his opinion
(4) Officials run much harder in a typical boys game

Which of these do you disagree with? How much boys varsity do you actually work?
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Old Fri Feb 15, 2008, 01:03pm
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I don't know, Juulie, what deecee wrote that isn't true:

(1) Games ARE slower
(2) Games ARE less physical
(3) It's just his opinion
(4) Officials run much harder in a typical boys game

Which of these do you disagree with? How much boys varsity do you actually work?
Games are less physical?? Are you kidding? I would submit that you are missing a whole lot of crap going on in your girl's games if you really believe that...

Boy's games are faster (usually) and require more running, but they are also much easier to call - the fouls require very little judgement/thinking. Most female games require a whole lot more judgement, working to get better angles to see the play better, etc...
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Old Fri Feb 15, 2008, 01:08pm
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Games are less physical?? Are you kidding? I would submit that you are missing a whole lot of crap going on in your girl's games if you really believe that...

Boy's games are faster (usually) and require more running, but they are also much easier to call - the fouls require very little judgement/thinking. Most female games require a whole lot more judgement, working to get better angles to see the play better, etc...
Legal physical play is what I was talking about.

And I would submit that your second paragraph is not accurate, at least not in my experience. Boys can work through contact and that makes the advantage/disadvantage decision harder. Girls: Bump, down, foul. Anyone can call those.

That said, a good girls game played by two top teams is a treat. The 91-19 game is not a treat (and it's almost never that the boys games are blowouts to this degree).
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Old Fri Feb 15, 2008, 02:35pm
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I don't know, Juulie, what deecee wrote that isn't true:

(1) Games ARE slower
(2) Games ARE less physical
(3) It's just his opinion
(4) Officials run much harder in a typical boys game

Which of these do you disagree with? How much boys varsity do you actually work?
I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with any of it, except that it's his opinion. I just said that we've had this argument repeatedly over the years, and it's passe. The current, trendy topic is pet peeves, which kim expressed.

How much boys' varsity I work is completely irrelevant to any of it.
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Old Fri Feb 15, 2008, 02:39pm
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I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with any of it, except that it's his opinion. I just said that we've had this argument repeatedly over the years, and it's passe. The current, trendy topic is pet peeves, which kim expressed.

How much boys' varsity I work is completely irrelevant to any of it.
I agree. Arguing this is passe.

I love working girls games when they are competitive. No different than boys games, in that respect.
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Old Fri Feb 15, 2008, 04:21pm
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Working a Girls contest and having my partner tell me that they only reason they are working the girls side is cuz there is no boys games going on. OR hearing an official say that they are going to scale back their season next year for health reasons and just do Girls.... MAKES ME WANT TO SCREAM...
Just tell him instead of looking at the bad side of working a girls' game to look at the good side, such as the foxy female coaches.
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Old Fri Feb 15, 2008, 04:42pm
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Just tell him instead of looking at the bad side of working a girls' game to look at the good side, such as the foxy female coaches.
I'll never forget the time I was working with someone who felt the need to schmooze everyone. I had never met him and was already looking to getting away from him as soon as the game was over.

He walked up to the female head coach of the visiting team and wished her a Happy Valentine's Day (it was February 14). Picture a woman that looked quite a bit like Jabba the Hut grunting at my partner and turning her back to him without shaking his hand.

Great start, I ended up whacking her before the end of the first quarter.
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Old Fri Feb 15, 2008, 01:37pm
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Short list of peeves:

Partners who do not communicate/make eye contact with you.

Players who do not pick up the ball.

Scorekeepers who don't care or are sloppy.

Dirty floors.

Know it all fans, who don't know basketball from jai-lai

Meek whistles

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