NCAA Sanctioned HS Tourney

[ref3808]

You may find that the rules for the tournament will allow six fouls until disqualification or that other rule mods might be in place to ensure players have the opportunity to be seen. And of course all of the parents in the place will be aware that there are college scouts watching which tends to increase the extraneous commentary from the stands.

Those tournaments do tend to attract higher quality teams so you may have an opportunity to work some good games. If you do a lot of youth or sub varsity HS games you don't see much play above the rim and you may see some of that here. Good chance to sharpen your awareness of basket interference and goal tending. I missed a basket interference call in one of those tournaments this year. Just didn't react fast enough to what I thought I saw.

Have fun and work on your skills.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by ref3808

Those tournaments do tend to attract higher quality teams so you may have an opportunity to work some good games. If you do a lot of youth or sub varsity HS games you don't see much play above the rim and you may see some of that here. Good chance to sharpen your awareness of basket interference and goal tending. I missed a basket interference call in one of those tournaments this year. Just didn't react fast enough to what I thought I saw.

Have fun and work on your skills.

I do not think he said what gender was playing these games.

I just say this because there is a shoe sponsored tournament going on right now in my area but it is girls. No above the rim play in these games for sure.

Peace

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

No above the rim play in these games for sure.

[Adam]

Open court, undefended slam dunks are not the same as "above the rim play."

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Open court, undefended slam dunks are not the same as "above the rim play."

Yep. I have yet to see a dunk in a game yet.

Peace

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Open court, undefended slam dunks are not the same as "above the rim play."

Especially when they are dunking on eight foot baskets.

[APG]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Especially when they are dunking on eight foot baskets.

Why even bring up the video?

[Adam]

Originally Posted by AllPurposeGamer

Why even bring up the video?

It's pathological.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by OrStBballRef

As the previous posters said it's a NCAA sanctioned tournament so coaches can be there in person to scout out potential players. Usually they all wear their school gear so you can tell who the coaches are.

I am working the Nike Cup here in the western suburbs this weekend and just about every program you can imagine and ever conference has been represented at this tournament.

Originally Posted by OrStBballRef

Most of the teams in this tournament were AAU types and they brought the AAU coaches with them. For the most part they behaved but you still run into the types of AAU coaches who can make life fairly difficult if you don't put a stop to it early and often.

I wish that was the case this weekend. At least today we have had the dumbest coaches I think I have ever come in contact with. One coach could not understand why we would not grant timeouts as she never would raise her voice and when she was heard, her players did not have the ball. It got to the point where I had to yell at the top of my lungs to suggest, "If you want a time out, you need to do more than talk under your breathe. It is not "time out" it is TIME OUT!!" The the stupid people were so dumb, that she had the assistant coach yell timeout and when I asked the head coach whether she wanted a timeout (during a dead ball before a FT) she got upset when I asked her for her clarification as she was clearly the head coach.

Then we have a guy (another coach) that I had a run in with last year (long story) and lied when my partner granted a timeout. My partner was near the bench and he called a timeout. Then my partner proceeded to go into the huddle and not 5 feet away say to the coach, "What kind of timeout do you want?" Coach did not respond at all. He repeated himself 2 more times. Then when no response he walks to the table and says, "Full timeout." Then about 20 seconds later, the coach comes to us and says, "I wanted a 30 second timeout." And that was just the beginning. There was much more in this game that made what was actually a very enjoyable game into a very dreadful experience.

Originally Posted by OrStBballRef

Here's a tip. You can tell what type of game you are going to have based on the numbers and types of coaches in the stands. If you have a game with a lot of coaches (from big name schools) you will likely have a very, very good game with high caliber types of players.

We had that all day today. Only one of the games was not competitive. Every game was back and forth and many D1 players on the floor. Fun to work except for the stupid azz coaches.

Peace

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by AllPurposeGamer

Why even bring up the video?

The video is a sociological comment on the differences, despite forty years of equal funding under Title IX, between boys and girls, and mens and womens, basketball. The fact that the girls in the dunking contest have to dunk on an eight foot basket may be viewed by some as demeaning to the sport of girls, or womens, basketball. It would have been very simple to post a video of Brittney Griner dunking in a high school, or NCAA game, but that would be the exception, not the rule. Title IX does not effect levels of testosterone in the blood, and its effect on musculature in the human body, and thus JRutledge's comment that, "No above the rim play in these games for sure", should not be viewed as a derogatory statement, and it is as true today as it was forty years ago, and will be true in the foreseeable future.

My daughter played girls high school basketball, I officiate girls high school basketball, we have a top notch womens NCAA team here in Connecticut, we have a successful professional womens team here in Connecticut, yet it still girls, or womens basketball, and it will always be girls, or womens basketball. I like it, I enjoy officiating it, I enjoy watching it, but it's not the same as boys, or mens basketball, and I don't think that it will ever be the same, it certainly will never be the same in my lifetime.

The video that I posted can be viewed on many different levels, with many implications, which is why I posted it.

[APG]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

The video that I posted can be viewed on many different levels, with many implications, which is why I posted it.

Or, you could have just said you posted it because bob isn't a mod anymore, and you could get away with it.