Devotions & Responsibilities
- Please be ready for devotions at either 6:15 or 8:00 (depending on your time slot)
- You will not be allowed to play if you do not attend devotions without contacting one of your captains ahead of time.
- If you are in the 6:15 time slot, and miss devotions, you may make them up at 8:00. Please do not make this a regular practice, unless your work or school schedule forces you to.
Set Up & Clean Up
- If you are in the 6:15 time slot, please arrive early if possible to set up. This includes bringing the ball rack out, setting up the scoreboard and table, sweeping the gym floor, and getting water out of the kitchen. The big gym wall should already be opened for you. Chairs should also be ready for devotions.
- If you are in the 8:00 time slot, please stick around after basketball to help clean up. This includes closing the gym wall, dumping the water out, and putting everything else away.If you’re not sure what to do, please ask your captain for instructions.
Conduct
Please be prepared to abide by these rules, otherwise you will not be playing much this year.
- NO swearing or taking the Lord’s name in vain – if you have questions about what this includes, please ask
- NO arguing with the other team or your own teammates
- NO fighting – any form of this will result in immediate expulsion from the league, and you will not be allowed to play next year
- NO malicious trash talk
- NO intentional or flagrant fouls – you will be asked to sit or leave immediately if a flagrant foul occurs
- Don’t be a ball hog – spread the ball around
- Be considerate of others and cooperate with the captains to make sure everyone is getting equal playing time
NOTE: Captains have the authority to ask you to sit, switch teams or even leave the gym if there are issues. Anything major will go through me for further action. If we do not get proper cooperation, you will be asked to leave the league.
Shirts
- Please bring a dark and white shirt with you each Thursday. Teams will be constantly changing, so you will need to switch between the two throughout the night. Please keep extra shirts in the youth room area, and not in the gym area.
Game Play Rules
Please do everything you can to cooperate with the captains as they have been asked to facilitate setting up teams and games each night.
- Captains will facilitate forming teams and games
- 4 on 4 format
- Play straight up to 15 or to 8 minutes running clock (whichever comes first) – captains may alter this based on attendance
- Play by 1's and 2's. There are no 2's along the sideline that runs tight to the wall.
- Walls on the sides are out. Black baselines are out.
- Ball hitting top of the backboard is out. Sides are in.
- Ball hitting any of the backboard fixtures, or the back of the backboard, is out.
- If the ball goes out of bounds on the sidelines, or on your scoring end, check the ball at half-court.
- If the ball goes out of bounds on the baseline that you are defending, you can pass the ball in from that baseline.
- There is no backcourt violation
- If fouled, check the ball up at half-court
- Player with ball must be behind the half-court (or baseline) when inbounding the ball. The defender may not cross either line with any part of his body (giving the inbounder space to make a pass)
- No time outs – clock will stop on injuries