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[rainmaker]

Originally posted by Mark Padgett

Make the call. It's the only way they learn to do things correctly and learn they will be penalized if they don't.

Mark, as you know, generally I agree with you. But I've had teams where the girls just DIDN"T learn. I did one game where the score was oh, 82 -15 or some such. I called the point guard (losing team) for carrying the ball at least 10 times, I'm not exaggerating. In the last five minutes the winning coach finally called me over, and said, "Don't call it any more on MY account!"

Incidentally, I'd had him two other games that season which were all blow-outs in his favor. At the end of this third game, he told me he thought I'd done a very good job. Two weeks later when he lost, I wasn't doing quite so well!!