Basketball - legal to yell in opponents' faces?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not basketball, but back in the early 90s while playing travel softball we used to whisper-chant “Hei-fer, Hei-fer” at the other team from the field when they were at bat. It was not nice. PP above is right that it’s a pathetic tactic.

This sounds like it’s out of a bad news bears movie! Softball version.

[Anonymous]

You better be really good if you do this. Ridicule will follow you otherwise. My daughter has been playing AAU for a long time, and the girls know which players do this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You better be really good if you do this. Ridicule will follow you otherwise. My daughter has been playing AAU for a long time, and the girls know which players do this.

Girls listen to coaches. They’re not doing it for ridicule. How mean spirited of you!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You better be really good if you do this. Ridicule will follow you otherwise. My daughter has been playing AAU for a long time, and the girls know which players do this.

Girls listen to coaches. They’re not doing it for ridicule. How mean spirited of you!

If your daughter is playing for a coach that tells them to squauk like a lunatic on the inbounds. Find another coach. Why are you acting like that’s a quality skill. It’s a gimmick that gets u laughed at by serious teams.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Makes me so thankful for CYO basketball. The refs are amazing and will tell the coaches to not let their players do that kind of stuff.

At a game on Sunday and witnessed it. The player was screaming and clapping in front of an opposing player. The ref looked at the coach, and the coach ignored the behavior. The ref blew a whistle walked over the coach and told him that he needs to correct his players.

The refs are so much better than the rec teams.

Hate to break it to you, but CYO is rec and that's a rec level rule the ref was enforcing

CYO is rec church basketball. I don't understand your point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not basketball, but back in the early 90s while playing travel softball we used to whisper-chant “Hei-fer, Hei-fer” at the other team from the field when they were at bat. It was not nice. PP above is right that it’s a pathetic tactic.

Softball coach here. If my players did this to opponents, they would be looking for a new team.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You better be really good if you do this. Ridicule will follow you otherwise. My daughter has been playing AAU for a long time, and the girls know which players do this.

Girls listen to coaches. They’re not doing it for ridicule. How mean spirited of you!

If your daughter is playing for a coach that tells them to squauk like a lunatic on the inbounds. Find another coach. Why are you acting like that’s a quality skill. It’s a gimmick that gets u laughed at by serious teams.

Exactly. The things that really frustrate/intimidate opponents involve skill in the game. My son had very long arms, so he used to love to poke the ball away from guys he was guarding, and also block shots - that’s demoralizing. There was a kid on their team who was an artist at stealing inbound passes —- he was very fast and had perfect timing, kind of like Jose Alvarado now. The more he did it, the more nervous the inbounders got, so the easier it was. That’s what I’d focus on as a coach. Any moron can yell — it’s kinda like the rinkydink tactic of faking throwing the ball into the defenders face in the inbound (OP might want to tell her daughter to try that if girls keep up the yelling).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not basketball, but back in the early 90s while playing travel softball we used to whisper-chant “Hei-fer, Hei-fer” at the other team from the field when they were at bat. It was not nice. PP above is right that it’s a pathetic tactic.

Softball coach here. If my players did this to opponents, they would be looking for a new team.

Also, that is different. If she were yelling "Beach! Beach!" [insert word that is blocked here] instead of "Ball! Ball!" she would likely get a technical foul called. It's up to the ref to decide when "aggressive" becomes "foul."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is a big diff. In saying ball and what Op is saying. They literally scream in a kids face. It’s dumb. Of course there is trash talk. Op isn’t talking about that. She or he is talking about the idiotic screaming in an unbounders face. It’s dumb and if your coach supports it they are dumb too. Talk all the junk. But screaming in an inbounders face makes your team look dumb

Exactly. It's bush league, unsportsmanlike crap. And if your coach is coaching it, find a new coach. I coached and didn't tolerate it among my players.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You better be really good if you do this. Ridicule will follow you otherwise. My daughter has been playing AAU for a long time, and the girls know which players do this.

Girls listen to coaches. They’re not doing it for ridicule. How mean spirited of you!

If your daughter is playing for a coach that tells them to squauk like a lunatic on the inbounds. Find another coach. Why are you acting like that’s a quality skill. It’s a gimmick that gets u laughed at by serious teams.

Exactly. The things that really frustrate/intimidate opponents involve skill in the game. My son had very long arms, so he used to love to poke the ball away from guys he was guarding, and also block shots - that’s demoralizing. There was a kid on their team who was an artist at stealing inbound passes —- he was very fast and had perfect timing, kind of like Jose Alvarado now. The more he did it, the more nervous the inbounders got, so the easier it was. That’s what I’d focus on as a coach. Any moron can yell — it’s kinda like the rinkydink tactic of faking throwing the ball into the defenders face in the inbound (OP might want to tell her daughter to try that if girls keep up the yelling).

It took all my patience NOT to tell my daughter to do exactly this when I was coaching her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You better be really good if you do this. Ridicule will follow you otherwise. My daughter has been playing AAU for a long time, and the girls know which players do this.

Girls listen to coaches. They’re not doing it for ridicule. How mean spirited of you!

If your daughter is playing for a coach that tells them to squauk like a lunatic on the inbounds. Find another coach. Why are you acting like that’s a quality skill. It’s a gimmick that gets u laughed at by serious teams.

Exactly. The things that really frustrate/intimidate opponents involve skill in the game. My son had very long arms, so he used to love to poke the ball away from guys he was guarding, and also block shots - that’s demoralizing. There was a kid on their team who was an artist at stealing inbound passes —- he was very fast and had perfect timing, kind of like Jose Alvarado now. The more he did it, the more nervous the inbounders got, so the easier it was. That’s what I’d focus on as a coach. Any moron can yell — it’s kinda like the rinkydink tactic of faking throwing the ball into the defenders face in the inbound (OP might want to tell her daughter to try that if girls keep up the yelling).

It took all my patience NOT to tell my daughter to do exactly this when I was coaching her.

If you get to 4 in your head and the defender isn't paying attention, off their gut and out of bounds is another 5 seconds to make the throw

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. Just like in lacrosse. Are you new to basketball?

HAHAHHAHAHA - the loud laughing from the stands when this happens in LAX.

Sure. While you’re also screaming “WHEELS!!!!”

Nope. Not a tool.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. Just like in lacrosse. Are you new to basketball?

HAHAHHAHAHA - the loud laughing from the stands when this happens in LAX.

Sure. While you’re also screaming “WHEELS!!!!”

Nope. Not a tool.

If you say so. lacrosse parents are absolutely the worst.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You better be really good if you do this. Ridicule will follow you otherwise. My daughter has been playing AAU for a long time, and the girls know which players do this.

Girls listen to coaches. They’re not doing it for ridicule. How mean spirited of you!

If your daughter is playing for a coach that tells them to squauk like a lunatic on the inbounds. Find another coach. Why are you acting like that’s a quality skill. It’s a gimmick that gets u laughed at by serious teams.

No. You sound like one of those crazy parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You better be really good if you do this. Ridicule will follow you otherwise. My daughter has been playing AAU for a long time, and the girls know which players do this.

Girls listen to coaches. They’re not doing it for ridicule. How mean spirited of you!

If your daughter is playing for a coach that tells them to squauk like a lunatic on the inbounds. Find another coach. Why are you acting like that’s a quality skill. It’s a gimmick that gets u laughed at by serious teams.

+1

ITA. On all the teams we have been on, only the weak players resort to the banshee thing. You look silly!