Where do you have the captains stand for captains meeting
 

When the captains are called for the pregame meeting at center court, do you have the players switch sides and face their first half basket, or do you let them stay of the side of the court where they are warming up?

I know its a minor detail, but I've seen some partners have the players switch sides and face their basket and others not. Now that I'm being assigned the "R" role a lot more this year, I have to decide whether to tell the players to "switch sides and face your basket" or to let them stay on their side of the court.

I was just curious to see what others did ... perhaps there is some logic or reason that I'm not aware of that would make one way preferable to the other.

Thanks.

"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."

We aren't told one way or another in SC, but almost everyone has the players face their basket.

The next time I have them "switch sides" would be the first, for me. Seems silly for a meeting that won't last more than 30 seconds.

Agreed.

Here, though, the meeting is with captains and coaches, so the players switch to stand next to their coaches.

In front of the scorers table with their coaches on their bench side

On each others shoulders?

When I am the R, I tell my partner in the pre-game we are going to do this.http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w...SizeRender.jpg

I do not make them stand anywhere. I shake their hands and they go where they want to be.

Peace

The local custom here is to have them stand next to their coaches, which is on their bench side. It doesn't really matter though.

Ours are done at the center circle and only involve players. I guess it depends what kind of a meeting you hold in your local area.

This is what we do. I figured it really didn't matter. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something.

It's mandatory for the coaches to attend the captains meeting in my state

The teams warm-up at the end they are going towards in the first half, so facing that way in the pre-game meeting seems like overkill. Not to mention that, at least in central Ohio, our captains' meetings happen around the 18:00 mark, so they may forget anyway.

Oh, and we have our meetings in the center circle.

Same here and that is the case across all sports I am aware of if there is such a practice.

And the meetings have to take place in front of the scorer's table. One of the reasons to my understanding is someone, somewhere said something inappropriate to a player and now coaches had to be involved and they wanted them near the table. I guess so what is said could be observed more closely.

Peace

In my old association I was told that the players should face their own basket, "just because." In my new association this year I'm told that they stay on the end that they're warming up on so they don't have to shoulder past each other. Okay :rolleyes: The second scenario does make more sense to me as it goes along with the philosophy that each team's warmup is conducted entirely on its own end of the court.

I only make sure they're in the gym.

But, seriously, somewhere near the center court. I don't really care where they stand but I have never seem them anywhere but standing on the side of the court where their team is warming up.

Depends what state I am working in. Wisconsin is at center court without coaches; Minnesota and Iowa are in front of the scorer's table with coaches.

They don't even put 18 minutes on the clock in my neck of the woods...JV ends, 15 on the clock (if being generous), we aren't usually back out until 10.

I'm in the commonwealth as well.

When I first started getting R assignments a few years ago I had the players switch sides and face the basket simply b/c that is what other guys did.

Now I just have them come to the center circle as they are. I've also shortened what I say considerably and view the whole deal as more of a ritual than anything else.

It doesnt really matter where they stand or what we say to them. They are teenagers and will forget whatever we said as soon as they walk away. And that's if they were even paying attention to begin with.