Gentlemen, Welcome to the 2020 Spring Season of Men’s 50+ Basketball at the Plaistow YMCA. ** Important Information Below Please Read.**
Attached are the rules for the league play this season. Please read them over. Note any player receiving a Technical foul must sit for ten minutes. In our first week three T’s were given out and they probably dictated the outcome of the games. The Refs we have are assigned by the YMCA. They are not trying to dictate the outcome of the game nor do they want to hand out Technical fouls to anyone. But it gets frustrating for them getting yelled at all night long on every call. They are trying to get it right but only see what they see. If you feel like the call is wrong, deal with it like an adult as mistakes will happen. Disrespect them and you most likely will find yourself out of the game. The league is tracking T’s this season and repeat offenders can face additional punishment such as mandatory anger management classes taught by Dave Loffredo (just kidding). Seriously the Refs do not get paid enough to take constant berating from the players. Please treat them with respect and we should not have any more issues. If anyone has a serious complaint about the refereeing you should bring it up to your coach and he will take it up with the other coaches to discuss what actions the league should take to the extent of removing a particular referee from our pool.
Games will be every Monday night 6:30 and 7:45 on the red and blue courts. We will have four ten minute stop time quarters with 30 second shot clock format. Please do you best to be out of the gym by 9:30pm if we get complaints from the Staff that we are running late we risk moving back to 8 minute quarters or starting at 6:00pm.
The schedule has been posted to the new website. Moving forward all game times, news, scores, player stats will be available at the this link
https://www.recleague.net/leagues/ymca50legendsleague2020spring
If you told me or your coach you needed a game shirt it has been order and will be available by March 2nd games. You can pay the $20 at the front desk when they come in and see me to get your shirt. You should plan to wear something else blue/white with a number for the next week. As a reminder the Home team is white and the Away team is Blue.
Thanks and looking forward to another fun season.