I kinna felt bad but you know

[A Pennsylvania Coach]

Originally posted by ace
He's got wayyyyyy too much excitemnet for 7-10 year old girls in my opinon but oh well.

Understand what you are there for. These are 7-10 year old girls. This is supposed to be fun and a learning experience for them. Every player on both teams will have forgotten about the game an hour after it's over--some of them sooner! If the coach needs more time to explain something to start halftime, so be it. (If he was just testing you by delaying, then yes, you should've called the T, not the resuming play procedure.)

All in all, at this level, you really have to throw out the book a lot of times. I filled in for my JH coach at our JH summer league one Saturday this summer. At least three or four times I went right out on the court after a ball went OOB or before some foul shots to explain something. I spent the first five minutes of the second half standing under the opponent's basket because some of them weren't in the proper position on defense in the first half and I wanted to instruct them.

All games are different. From the NCAA Final Four to the 7-10 year old girls.