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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rec basketball will never be perfect.  Despite the best efforts to balance the teams (pre-draft evaluations, requiring parents to note practice day conflicts, etc) you will always have kids who have game conflicts (especially when the league won't tell you before the season what days games are). Our 5GG team got destroyed this year b/c our 2 best players had conflicts for between half and 3/4 of the games.[/quote]

Rec games are on Saturdays or Sundays. If your kid has conflicts for most Saturdays or Sundays, its unfair to the other players and coach to sign your kid up to play.[/quote]

Please, we are talking about rec basketball. Most kids have all kinds of priorities weekends that create conflicts. Most kids are happy just having the opportunity to play with their friends and if some of their friends don't make all the games...well, welcome to life when you have to balance priorities.

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If you're committing to a team, you should commit to a team. Just because it's "just rec basketball" doesn't mean that the kids don't rely on their teammates being there. It's the worst when you have a team where five people don't show up and the five kids who did show up don't get any rest. It's not fun.[/quote]

I've coached for 10 years, I've never had a kid complain about playing too much. I've had kids ask for a timeout to rest when there was only 5 players but I've never heard them say a word about playing the entire game. So your point is silly and not reflective of the real world.[/quote]

The kids aren't going to complain to you, dummy, but they're tired and they tell us how tough it was on the ride home. They would NEVER complain to the coach.[/quote]

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