MACCABI NSW BASKETBALL CODE OF CONDUCT 2024

                            PARENTS & PLAYERS

Preamble: In addition to adopting “Active Australia’s Aussie Sport Code of Behaviour”

NSW Maccabi has an extension to this code tailored to the needs of our organisation and

membership. This can be found on the Maccabi NSW website. These combined Codes of

Behaviour provide a basis for both responsibilities and fair play and identify a series of key

principles on which all players, parents, coaches, administrators, officials and spectators

should base their sporting involvement.

Below are a few aspects that we have tailored specifically to the

NSW Maccabi Basketball Club.

MACCABI BASKETBALL PARENTS

Approaching Coaches: Maccabi Basketball asks that parents do NOT discuss the game or

make complaints or suggestions to the coach during training sessions and especially not

during the course of a game. This is simply a disruption and a distraction.

If you have any issues regarding the team, your child or the coach’s strategies, please speak to your team manager as your first point of contact. Parents are not permitted to be in direct contact with the coach in the first instance. If parents are not willing to reach out to the manager or unsatisfied with the actions of the team manager, they can be in touch with the club administrator which is Nikki Lloyd at sports.nsw@maccabi.com.au.

Of course parents are not completely cut off from speaking to their child’s coach, but we would like you to go through the correct channels, manager first or an email to the sports officer

Seating at Game Time: Parents are not to sit on the player’s bench during game time.

Sideline Support:

Parent are reminded to please not coach your child from the sideline.

Parents are of course welcomed and encouraged to cheer and support

their teams and children in a positive, encouraging way. Derogatory, deriding or negative

comments from the side (about either team or a referee) during a game, are never

appropriate. Never ridicule or abuse a child for making a mistake or losing a match.

Disputing Referee’s Decisions: Parents are NEVER permitted to audibly dispute a

referee’s calls during a match. Maccabi Basketball Club can be disciplined for failing to

ensure parents behave appropriately from the sidelines. Parents should never approach a

referee or a coach during the course of the match (including at half time or during timeouts).

Approaching Your Child During the Game: Under normal circumstances, parents should

not approach their child (apart from an injury or other exceptional circumstances) during

the game, to deliver individual parent coaching. This is confusing and distracting and

often not in line with the coach / team strategy.

Losing Streaks: At some stage during their time with the Maccabi Basketball Club, it is

likely that your child will be in a team that suffers a (at times prolonged) losing streak. You

will find most players have been in this situation. While this is often unpleasant and can

be dis-heartening, it is part of life and helps build resilience. We ask parents to play their

role in supporting their children, rather than laying blame with players, coaches or the

Club. If it appears that a team has been placed in the wrong grade, we will do our utmost

to get that rectified, where possible, at the end of a competition. Again, parents are

welcome to raise these issues with the Junior Coordinator or Committee.

Training: Parents should ensure that their children attend official training sessions.

Parents or the players themselves must notify the manager and coach if they cannot

attend. Failure to attend training without explanation or excuse may result in players

spending more time than usual on the bench in the next game. It is not fair that players

who constantly miss trainings are given the same amount of game time as players who do

attend.

Parents are not permitted at the weekly training sessions. 

This applies to all age groups as parents presence acts as a distraction and detterance to both the players and coaches. 

For younger players, parents may escort their children to and from the venue but must then leave the session. 

The club will speak to the managers and often one parent is permitted to supervise for the younger teams.

Please ensure you drop off your child 10 minutes before the training and not earlier to ensure minimum distruption to the team that will be currently training. 

For the safety of your child, please ensure you pick your child up from the training on time. Coaches do have other trainings to get to and can not wait long periods of time for parents who arrive late. 

Parents Scoring Duty: Parents are asked to take turns doing the weekly scoring. This

should never be the role of only one or two parents. The Team Manager should roster

parents to do this role. If you do not know how to do the scoring, simply spend one game

sitting with a parent (or child) who does and they will teach you. It is very simple. Sharing

this duty is simply the most equitable way of us fulfilling our duty to the competition.

Teams gets penalised (points deducted) if a parent is not ready and available to do this

role at the start of each game.

COMPLAINTS 

v  As mentioned above, any problem or concerns you feel that may affect your child or

your child’s team should be calmly discussed privately with your coach, manager or

officials away from the team and ideally not on game day.

v  Please remember that club officials and many coaches are volunteers who freely give

up their time and effort to help children other than their own.

v  We ask you to remember that your child’s circumstances are not in isolation. Maccabi

Basketball Club has several hundred members, whose needs and team situations also

need to be met. Moving one child into another team can have an impact on many

other players and teams. We simply ask parents to keep this in mind when raising

complaints.

v  Refunds are not given unless a player no longer has a team to play or if a player is injured within the 1st 2 weeks of the season startg. This is done as your child has accepted the spot in the team and figures for the season would be completed. The club can not operate while making a loss. 

Please take this into consideration when you register for the season.  

v  We genuinely welcome parents to raise concerns or to become involved and

committed by being a volunteer team manager, age coordinator or committee

member, rather than complain from the side lines if you have a problem.

MACCABI BASKETBALL PLAYERS

v  Please always play by the rules

v  Never argue or talk back to an official. The referee’s decision is final. Referees are

human and make mistakes, sometimes in the opposition’s favour, sometimes in your

favour. They are doing their best. In basketball, rarely will a referee’s decisions impact

significantly on the final result of the game. If you disagree with a referee’s decisions,

have your coach approach the official after the game.

v  Control your temper. Verbal abuse of officials, coaches, referees and other players,

deliberately distracting or provoking an opponent are not acceptable or permitted

behaviours at any time.

v  If you disagree with a coach’s decision, strategy, court-time decisions etc, discuss this

privately with your coach AFTER the game. Arguing with a coach or complaining about

the amount of court time you are receiving during a game is never acceptable.

               Be a good sport. Applaud all good plays whether they are made by your team or the

opposition.

v  Don’t berate or criticize a team-mate on court. Leave the coaching to the coach.

v  Always shake your opposition’s hand after the game as well as the referee’s.

v  Take pride in yourself and your team, ensure you are dressed in correct Maccabi

uniform and have the necessary equipment.

v  When you commit yourself to a team for a season, honour that commitment. Attend

all training sessions and games each week until the end of the season, with the

exception of illness or the inevitable family or school conflict. If you are unable to

attend, simply inform your coach and manager as soon as possible. Please try to avoid

leaving this to the last minute. Clashes because of barmitzvahs or holidays etc are

known long in advance and so should be advised well in advance.

v  Be punctual and arrive at games suitably early.