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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The effects of Daddy Ball extend beyond playing time.  Some other signs include:  not calling fouls for kids or permitting dangerous play (besides their kid of course), permitting their kid to foul aggressively in practice, running plays that don't involve other kids, limited concept of the game, losing badly or not particularly concerned with winning, cutting players that are better than their kid.  Not letting kids play different positions.  Managing the team down to their kid's level.

My daughter is really good the on coach eventually had the club bump her up to an older age group, they have multiple coaches, so the play isn't so overtly Daddy ball, but it is still there.  The thing is you can still see the effects of how the coach was coaching, in the way she doesn't challenge players like she used to.  I wished the elementary schools had team sports.

If I were a coach (I've thought about it, but there aren't that many girls that want to play), in the games I would try to figure out who the coach's kid is, then put my best defender on her, make sure she doesn't get the ball.  We had a game like that this weekend.  The team ran a press they kept double teaming the ball handler (coach's kid) stripping the ball and shooting layups, over and over again they ran that same play.  The team had a whole extra squad they put in that kept doing the same thing, double team strip, layup.

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My kid got cut from several teams last year and made teams this year. My kid was really frustrated last year because there were kids who were previously on the team who were worse. We learned the coaches won’t replace a bench with a better bench and that you need to be a standout.

Now that my kid is actually on a team, many of the kids are not good at all. My kid should have made the team last year! At least he is on a team.

I was told tryouts are only held to scout out stars. The team is pretty much set before the tryouts.[/quote]

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