RJM:
..."But when it got anti-Semitic it wasn't hard to tell. It wasn't coming from friends. It ticked me off when coaches used criticizing my religion to anger and motivate me. I looked at them like they were out of their minds.
We had some real issues in basketball. I'm guessing the coach was on the side of the anti-Semites since he told another Jewish kid and I to deal with the insults."
StandBallDad, as RJM pointed out in the above partial quote, in a perfect world your suggestion may be effective. Unfortunately, we do not live in a perfect world...