Big 10 conference WBB covid protocol, they just wave and no handshake walk.
Caitlin Clark
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Big 10 conference WBB covid protocol, they just wave and no handshake walk.
I coached & reffed & I can confirm that parents of girls can be over the edge. IMO it is due to their crowning of princess on their daughter at an early age. The father of the princess who is on the end of the bench with little talent can be especially hard to deal with. In his eyes, she is perfect & being treated unfairly by the coach. This can be carried over to the refs too as their princess can do no wrong.
I would go a little further and say that while reffing boys and girls soccer games the boys generally have worse behavior toward the refs than the girls and the girls' parents generally have worse behavior toward the refs than the boys' parents. Generally.
Sometimes it's just the middle finger that they wave...
I remember seeing some grandparents at one of my daughter's volleyball tourneys years ago who were as bad as any parents. Screaming profanities at the ref, line judges (who were players from other teams), scorekeepers. Their granddaughter looked mortified out on the court. Won't say which school they were from, but it starts with "J" and rhymes with "rohnston".
I guess it really depends on the context. Years ago Jake Sullivan and to a lesser extent Kantrail Horton and Mike Nurse used to sometimes get on a roll. You would see Jake hit a couple on the arc. The next time or two it would be a step or two behind the arc. If he kept hitting pretty soon he was jacking one from the chicken, but that was more being so hot you can feel it. Generally when he did this there was a pretty good chance it was going in despite the distance. If you are having one of those games, make them come out and guard you way beyond the arc. It shouldn't just be because I have the green light from wherever and I am randomly going to jack one.
Probably the same ones that I dealt with a few weeks ago for a girls rec league basketball game.
Can't find it now on Big 10 site (the conferences have one thing in common, a lack of clarity other than for what constitutes a forfeit) but pretty sure I'd read that on the Gopher board.
Edit: Ah, Undersizedpost shared this Big 10 news in another thread a short time back.
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This was probably 6-7 years ago. They looked like nice, normal, quiet grandparents just sitting there smiling during warmups. Then when the match started they went off. Weird.
Perhaps not, but it's what is best for the program to win right now. The best opportunity for Iowa to win is when the ball is in Clark's hands.
I wouldn't mind those shots at all if I'm an Iowa fan or the coach for two reasons:
A) It was late in the game and they were desperate. They weren't winning unless Iowa poured in a bunch of 3s in a row
B) I think so much of Clark's game is predicated on her being a threat to shoot for anywhere. It makes her very difficult to guard when you cannot sag at all anywhere within 25 feet. A combination of deep range and a great handle is nearly unstoppable.
A) It was late in the game and they were desperate. They weren't winning unless Iowa poured in a bunch of 3s in a row
B) I think so much of Clark's game is predicated on her being a threat to shoot for anywhere. It makes her very difficult to guard when you cannot sag at all anywhere within 25 feet. A combination of deep range and a great handle is nearly unstoppable.
Or leaving it. I must say that the final couple she heaved up missed the mark, widely. And that did not make me sad.
She's shooting 30% from 3 for the year, maybe some of the shot's she's taking aren't the right ones.
My team was in a tournament with two Johnston teams recently. Between our two matches with them (one of which was in the championship match), we won with a combined score of 100-42 during the 4 sets. Didn't hear much from the fans during the games lol.
Clarke's shot selection might be bad, but her range is incredible. Making 30+ foot jumpers off the dribble is phenomenal.
As much as I hate the Hawks and would love to view her as a selfish gunner, she is a fun player to watch. She shoots over 50% from 2, rebounds, assists and gets to the line about 8x a game.
As much as I hate the Hawks and would love to view her as a selfish gunner, she is a fun player to watch. She shoots over 50% from 2, rebounds, assists and gets to the line about 8x a game.
She's also averaging 28 ppg/ 8 apg while shooting 47% from the floor, which is higher than Ashley Joens. You can't discount how her range and shooting ability frees things up for her on the drive. Having to play up on someone in areas that you normally are willing to give space makes her very, very hard to defend when she drives.
Yeah, they should be way better for the $75 they make to do multiple games in a night.
I did HS softball for 13 years and small town parents and a select few coaches are the reason I'm not getting recertified. When you're waiting for us at our cars after a 16-1, 13-0 doubleheader sweep you've lost your damn mind and I don't need the aggravation.
There's balance too. I'm not saying don't run offense through her, I'm saying that she can't be the offense. FWIW BF learned his lesson on this last year with Ashley Joens. When games were close we had a tendency to run everything through Ashley and it cost us more games than we won.