10U Boys

[Yakivegas]

My daughter's team has been on the end of blowouts like that. They played up in a tournament against a 6th grade team last fall, and the opponents did the press/fast break thing all game long. Not pretty.

It can be hard to hold the score down sometimes. In my daughter's 2 tournament games yesterday, they won by a combined 106-11 (58-5 and 48-6). By local rule, no press when up by more than 15. Coach had them fall back to a loose zone, no fast break, swing the ball multiple times on offense, only take perimeter shots. Even with that the score kept climbing, since they were hitting the longer shots (of course, those are the shots that won't drop when you need them )

You could see the girls consciously fighting the urge to fast break on a steal (hard habit to break).

[grunewar]

Not unusual I suppose.

I did five B13U Rec games this weekend. Last games of the season for this league. While the league doesn't have a "Championship Game", they do have two division and they do 1st vs 1st, 2nd vs 2nd, etc. the last weekend of the season.

Game one was 3rd vs 3rd and an absolute blowout. The one team only had five players (one was injured and the other was at a funeral). Unfortunately, the five remaining players weren’t the right five. None were shooters and only one was a ball handler. Tough game. Score was 21-0 before the other team scored. I kept thinking of our thread on the 100-0 game and thought I might have something like that.

To his credit, the winning coach pulled off the press and went into a light 2-1-2 defense. Final score was 62-5.

That was just the first game! I also had:

- One forfeit.
- Did one game by myself
- I got to call the infamous violation for the player being intentionally out of bounds (never thought i'd call it). He was running out of bounds on the side of the court on a fast break trying to avoid defnders.
- I also go to call out of bounds when the players hair (long corn rows) touched out of bounds when he was inbounds.
- Lastly, in the 2nd vs 2nd final game, I T'd up a coach for calling a timeout he didn't have.....and I had told him moments before he was out of timeouts. His team was down by one with 7 seconds remaining.....and ended up losing by two.

Thanks to the Forum, I knew what to do in all cases.... Crazy final weekend that's for sure!

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by grunewar

Not unusual I suppose.

I did five B13U Rec games this weekend. Last games of the season for this league. While the league doesn't have a "Championship Game", they do have two division and they do 1st vs 1st, 2nd vs 2nd, etc. the last weekend of the season.

Game one was 3rd vs 3rd and an absolute blowout. The one team only had five players (one was injured and the other was at a funeral). Unfortunately, the five remaining players weren’t the right five. None were shooters and only one was a ball handler. Tough game. Score was 21-0 before the other team scored. I kept thinking of our thread on the 100-0 game and thought I might have something like that.

To his credit, the winning coach pulled off the press and went into a light 2-1-2 defense. Final score was 62-5.

That was just the first game! I also had:

- One forfeit.
- Did one game by myself
- I got to call the infamous violation for the player being intentionally out of bounds (never thought i'd call it). He was running out of bounds on the side of the court on a fast break trying to avoid defnders.
- I also go to call out of bounds when the players hair (long corn rows) touched out of bounds when he was inbounds.
- Lastly, in the 2nd vs 2nd final game, I T'd up a coach for calling a timeout he didn't have.....and I had told him moments before he was out of timeouts. His team was down by one with 7 seconds remaining.....and ended up losing by two.

Thanks to the Forum, I knew what to do in all cases.... Crazy final weekend that's for sure!

I hope that you charged the T to his TEAM and not the HC directly.

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by Yakivegas

By local rule, no press when up by more than 15.

We have this same rule in our local kids rec league (HS level is 20 points). A few weeks ago, in an 8th grade boys game, one team got up by 13. I reminded the coach who was ahead that if it got to 15, then no back court guarding. He nodded. Then I told him that if the lead got to 25, no front court guarding either. He said, "OK - huh, what? How do we do that?" He turned to his assistant for help. The assistant was just laughing and said, "Hey - it's Mark. Get it?" The head coach then said, "Oh yeah."