Unsporting? Delay of Game?

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Originally Posted by Toren

Why are you letting a player tip the ball? Is that because you're giving that team the benefit of the doubt? That this behavior is not advantageous.

You could easily stop that behavior by saying, leave the ball alone. Now if they continue to do it, you know it's a tactic that needs penalizing. If they stop, then you know it was just one player who probably didn't realize this action has consequences.

A simple tip of the ball is not something that is usually going to delay the game. Like I said, I think most kids do it without realizing they're even doing it. Therefore I'm either going to ignore it, or just tell the player to leave the ball alone.

But a player who consciously walks the ball over to me or to my partner, or who intentionally bats the ball away from the opponent or sets the ball down on the ground is, by definition, causing a delay in the game.

By rule, it should be handled not with an informal warning, but with an official DOG warning. I'm simply wondering why some don't want to follow the procedure that's laid out in the rules for an act that delays the game.