Another pet peeve
 

High level feeder tourney, two 8th grade great teams from long successful programs.

B1 strips ball from A1 by reaching across A1's body in best matador defense clearly fouling A1. Six feet from me, I see the whole play. Coach whines and moans and yells to his player "GREAT DEFENSE".

It wasn't..........too many times coaches miss a teaching opportunity by applauding an obviously sloppy defensive play just to give a ref a dig.

This kid was now praised by his coach, thinking he had played lock down D and I'm sure will repeat it.

Just me.......

Not to worry.

IF (that's a big if btw) he continues to move up GREAT DEFENSE will become DON'T REACH then WHY ARE YOU DOING THAT!!?? and finally a silent move to his left to get his sub to the table during the dead ball.

Just me....but I have cleanly stripped point guards many-a-time by "reaching across A1's body" and not making any contact at all with the ball-handler. If may have been a foul in your particular situation, but it doesn't make it sloppy defense.

BTW, what does "reaching across A1's body" mean?

U of Tenn vs Ga. Girls game yesterday - Tenn up by ~6 with 30 or so seconds left in the game. Easy win.

Tenn girl gets "overly aggressive" in the backcourt and fouls the Ga. guard in a bonehead move - cut to TV shot of Pat Summit, who as you read her lips says to the girl - "How could you do something that stupid?"

Ah, the other way to handle the situation.......

Disagree, anytime you reach whether it be clean or contact you are risking having a foul called. Defense 101 involves moving your feet, not reaching across dribbler's body.

Sure there are clean steals, but it's not how you teach defense.

Kinda like the difference between a bad pass and a dangerous pass.
Throwing a pass across the lane that gets stolen is a bad pass. Throwing a pass across the lane that doesn't get stolen is a dangerous pass.

:D

It's similar to when a kid smacks the shooter's arm and the coach yells, "GREAT BLOCK". :(

There\'s no risk if the reach is clean and the official is a good position to see between the ball-handler and the defender.

My feet are slow, but my hands are fast. Me attempting to beat a quick offensive player to a given spot often resulted in a blocking foul. But I was very successful in "taking someone\'s cookies" and for blocking shots from behind.

Don\'t agree at all. Any action that is NOT illegal is just fine.

If you are calling fouls simply because you don\'t like the way that the player attempts to play defense, then you are seriously in error.

REACHING is not a foul.

Ha...I was waiting for someone to comment on that. I put that in to reference the level of coaching which for the most part is is terrific.

High level..........feeder, kind of a contradiction in terms:o

Where did I say reaching was a foul?


Put down your whistle, and put on your coaching shirt if that\'s possible, I\'m speaking from a coaching perspective.

If you are calling fouls simply because you don\'t like the way that the player attempts to play defense, then you are seriously in error.

Why in heaven\'s sake would you assume that?


This thread is not about what is or isn\'t a foul, if you can\'t comprehend the discourse, follow along and it will make sense you, I promise.

Use your imagination..........

Somebody gets it..........:D

Watch for Badnewsref to ask what "A bonehead move is ?"............:rolleyes: