A rare positive experience with a coach...

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Around here, the boys season is nearing playoffs... the coaches are getting yappier as the games have more meaning but tonight I wanted to share a story of a coach who seems to "get it"


JV/V boys DH, 2 person crew.

my partner and I compared notes during a timeout ( we stood together, don't tell IAABO!!) about how green 10 had been questioning every single call. Any way, a few minutes later my partner whistles green for a foul again. Green 10 is again asking an unnecessary and poorly timed question.

I go over to the coach who is a true "basketball guy" (actually there for the love of the game, likes to see his players develop etc etc) and explain that 10 is toeing a fine line and my partner and I have answered his last question. Coach then says " gimme a 30" and proceeds to use the entire timeout to educate his PG on when, where, and how to get an explanation from an official.

It was a refreshing change. All too often you go to a coach with a concern about poor behaviour and end up whacking the coach too.