A 10-MINUTE GAME
Short AND Tall Demo

1. Click Rules and Wall Marks. Select a table for age-gender. Following the Wall Marking guideline, mark distances for the four height levels from the floor so that the TOPS of marks define Units.

2. For practice squads, assemble about 20 players of random heights. While the standard squad format is 10, this demonstration will illustrate handling of an uneven total. Valid "under-sized" squads of eight and nine players will be created.

3. Most people are ordinary height. By glancing, you classify a majority of the recruits as zero tallness Units. Each is foreseen likely to stand BELOW the lowest mark, so a visit to the wall for these recruits is unnecessary.

4. Judge at the wall the other players, shoeless. They will be NEAR OR ABOVE the top of the lowest wall mark. .The Regis tool may assist your recording.

5. The random players are your Availability to create two squads. In this illustration, you will allot recruits with their Units of 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4 to one nine-player squad and the rest to a rival squad of eight .

6. Always begin by inserting tall players within the allowance of five Units per squad. Then add enough zero-unit "ordinaries" to complete the "The Eights"and "The Nines."

7. When set to play, the rival squads form lines of tallness facing tallness. "Coaches" affirm the validity of their Units and tallness, or exchange Game Lists..

8. The Eights oppose fhe Nines for about five minutes of regular basketball. The Eights shoot two free throws (at halftinme), collecting from the Nines for their one reduction from the 10-player format, and the Nines shoot four free throws for the Eights reduction of two players from 10.

9. Each second-half starting lineup automatically includes the game non-starters. The game starters re-enter no sooner than one substitution at a time.

10. After a few minutes of play, discuss the demonstration.

This 10-minute review stresses only technical aspects. Meanwhile, consolidation from two practice squads to a star squad representing the club or school demonstrates a key benefit of Short AND Tall: The selection of ability other than height (hoopability) at every height (Units)

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