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Old Sat Mar 03, 2012, 03:55am
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Girls basketballs should be pink.
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Old Sat Mar 03, 2012, 07:54am
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Girls basketballs should be pink.

Bet that will make the Jr high boys teams happy.
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Girls basketballs should be pink.
I'd be happy if there was a distinguishing characteristic. Too many stories of boys games being played with girls balls and vice versa.

When I'm the R, it's the first thing I check. I can palm a girls ball -- I can't palm a boys ball.
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I'd be happy if there was a distinguishing characteristic. Too many stories of boys games being played with girls balls and vice versa.

When I'm the R, it's the first thing I check. I can palm a girls ball -- I can't palm a boys ball.
Don't most girl's balls have a size listed on the ball?

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Don't most girl's balls have a size listed on the ball?

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They all do. Doesn't mean people look.
Well I would understand if you are a boys/men's official and never noticed this, but if you work girls/women's basketball then you should know or look I would think. Heck they could change the ball and I would not care for sure, but it just seems like there is a way to verify already.

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Well I would understand if you are a boys/men's official and never noticed this, but if you work girls/women's basketball then you should know or look I would think. Heck they could change the ball and I would not care for sure, but it just seems like there is a way to verify already.

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You might have an issue once every three or four seasons. It's very easy to forget to look for the 28.5, so a feature more obvious than the 8 font fine print would be helpful even though it's not necessary.
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Don't most girl's balls have a size listed on the ball?
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I'd be happy if there was a distinguishing characteristic. Too many stories of boys games being played with girls balls and vice versa.

When I'm the R, it's the first thing I check. I can palm a girls ball -- I can't palm a boys ball.

I can't either ball which suprised Sally Bell when we were discussing the difference between the two one time years ago.

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If they really want us to ask for captains in the pregame meeting and note that in the book, apparently establishing this as a means of identification in case communication is necessary during the game (as if we won't communicate with anyone else, but that's another topic), and ask them before the jump ball if their team is ready then do what they do in soccer and have them wear an identifiable armband up above the elbow. Otherwise, get rid of this "captain" thing and allieviate us of this "eight captains at the pregame meeting" (I wouldn't mind if they all came) and the "that guy" thing of having to distinguish between the somewhat ceremonial captains versus the "speaking captains".
(OK, there is a nice objective fulfilled by a coach vesting responsibility as captain(s) in the current system, but that would survive and be even more illustrative with the armband thing).
If it's to be implemented, give it some relevance, significance, and practical use.
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get rid of this "captain" thing and allieviate us of this "eight captains at the pregame meeting"
The proliferation of captains in girls basketball is becoming absurd. A third of the team is a captain? Being a senior is an automatic captain?

Hank Rockwell would have allowed no such foolishness.

PS I too check for a girls ball by seeing if I can palm it.
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The proliferation of captains in girls basketball is becoming absurd. A third of the team is a captain? Being a senior is an automatic captain?

Hank Rockwell would have allowed no such foolishness.

PS I too check for a girls ball by seeing if I can palm it.
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Girls basketballs should be pink.
I know that they do make pink colored basketballs. There is a AAA team in the area here that uses them during their warmups. They play some good ball too. They've made the Region semis, State quarters, State semis, & State quarters the last 4 seasons.
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