Basketball Ontario Guidelines for Player Behaviour
Referees
Appropriate behaviour toward referees consists of doing as follows:
- Accepting every decision and showing no displeasure or disrespect in
either actions or words - Accepting referees’ intentions as honest
- Seeking help or clarification of rules only at appropriate times.
- Accepting that bad calls will occur, because referees
- like players and coaches! -makes mistakes - Realizing that referees have a different vantage point then players and may therefore see plays differently.
Team Mates
Interaction with team mates includes giving positive encouragement and offering congratulations (hand claps, hand slaps, “Good basket,” “Super pass,” etc.)
Inappropriate behaviour with team mates includes criticism, demonstrations of anger with a team mate’s error, and attempts to coach or correct team mates’ technique.
Opposing Players
Desirable behaviour with opposing players includes the following:
- Respecting an opponent’s efforts, regardless of the level of skill
- Seeking no advantage other than superior skill
- Congratulating or thanking opposing players at the end of the game
- Ignoring opponents whose conduct is unsportsmanlike.
