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I agree. They could have won 200-0 and play the game with sportsmanship, but running a full court press against such a weaker team is not elegant.
I also agree that this requesting the forfeit act compounds the mistake. Attention s.
In high school we were blowiing a team out by 30 at the half. When the other teams coach asked our coach to take it easy on them the next half because we were at their home and it was embarassing.... we ended up beating them by 52 hahahaha. By mid 4th qtr we were throwing up halfcourt shots and turnaround over the head three pointers lol.. ing pussies.
I agree. They could have won 200-0 and play the game with sportsmanship, but running a full court press against such a weaker team is not elegant.
I also agree that this requesting the forfeit act compounds the mistake. Attention s.
Since when is winning a bad thing? Secondly why is that school in main compe ion if their students are handicapped by "learning differences"?
these 2 teams shouldn't have ever played each other. ever.
-Mars
Agreed. This game shouldn't have occurred.
These aren't professional athletes being paid big money to perform for the masses, or even college kids with a paid education. In a school with only 20 girls, there's not a large group of talent to choose from, so they were obviously playing the game to have fun... rather than playing to compete in order to represent their school.
When you're up 60 and your opponent hasn't scored a basket yet, you don't play full-court press. Especially if it doesn't look like your opponent is going to score at all. That's bad sportsmanship, in my book.
Having a compe ive spirit can be an admirable thing. But there's a point where compe ion crosses over into willful embarrassment of your clearly inferior opponent. That shouldn't be valued in our society.
I hear Bonzi Wells had 55 in this game.....
Cheryl Miller hit the century mark once in HS...ironically about the same time that Reggie hit 42....he came home bragging all giddy and such, and then got hit with the century bomb.
As long as the players are not cheating or playing dirty, I have no issues with what they did. Full court press all game long if you want. Shoot 3s all game long if you want. BTW, I'd rather a team shoot 3s on me, than layups (a much higher percentage shot).
I get upset when pro teams call off the dogs. I understand why they do it, but sometimes I wish teams would try to get 150 a game when they are really rolling.
BTW.......the wussification is prompted by Liberals and Socialists...not trying to get political, but it is the truth.
Conservatives believe in survival of the fittest. It is ok to fail, cause it will make you stronger and more hungry to succeed the next go round. If you fall, well dust yourself off, get up and go at it again. (The NFL prior to the salary cap...the teams with the most resources ruled the day)
Liberals and Socialists want everything to be equal no matter if one has far more potential than the other. If you fall, we will catch you. You cant spank your children. It isnt your fault, it is societies fault. No grading in red ink, it destroys self esteem. No God or morals in schools today. You cant run up the score or you will have to forfeit.(The NFL since the salary cap....laden with parity and mediocrity).
BTW, in Connecticut they are way over the top with their views and stances. They actually do have that forfeit rule for blowouts. I find it all completely insane
The kids have dyslexia. Im not even sure if they know their team color or which basket they should be scoring on so the other team should've been more considerate.
Are they the first team to have this score? that's probably the MO for the night.
So did Lisa Leslie.
whaaaat???
im a freshman in college and i went to a school in the Dallas Fort Worth area last year played varsity, and AAU ball with a lot of kids at Boyd that were pretty good. and Jesuit isnt even good. im not gonna put out the names in public obviously. ill pm you some of the players names if you want
I think it has happened several times in girls HS basketball. I dont really ever hear about it happening on the boys side of things.
I remember a 3-2 game once, that was all kinds of fail ... I never heard of such a lopsided score, and not even a single point scored by the other team.
Running a full court press in the fourth quarter when you're up 89-0 is poor sportsmanship, and anyone should be embarassed to be involved in a game like that. Leave it to Mono not to understand a basketball team displaying class or dignity.
The objective of basketball is to score points and prevent your opponent from scoring. Where exactly did those girls screw up in the OBJECTIVES OF THE ENTIRE GAME OF BASKETBALL? Poor sportsmanship means NOT playing the game exactly how it's intended to be played. Poor sportsmanship is not caring enough to score ONE GODDAMN POINT and then crying about getting your ass kicked 100-0.
The only people who displayed poor sportsmanship were the girls who allowed that ass-kicking to take place. They obviously weren't good enough to win, but to go a whole game without having the heart to score ONE TIME shows a complete lack of respect for the game.
You gotta be a serious pussy to think it's okay for a team to show such poor sportsmanship that they aren't even going to compete. I'm guessing you're one of those pussies who cried when the Patriots "ran up the score" last year.
Oh, I can't wait for the "yeah then I laughed when karma kicked their ass".
i don't know why, but this is pretty damn funny.
they must have sucked...
This is no excuse at all for dogging it on the court. Short attention spans and dyslexia don't prevent you from playing basketball. Do you realize how many pro athletes could be considered to have "learning differences"? Dexter Manley was freakin illiterate.
I can name 20 NBA players who could be classified as having short attention spans or dyslexia. Well, 19. I was counting Tracy McGrady's lazy eye as a learning difference.
We live in a world where Antoine Walker has a championship ring and these girls couldn't just make one shot?
chris kaman, ADHD.
I'm a conservative. I see equality as an enemy of freedom and liberty - hence as a dangerous and toxic thing. More: as inhuman in its nature. I'm always impressed by the lack of inteliggence, culture and common sense of socialists of every brand. With that said conservatism is also (mostly?) about a sense of honor and decency; about the respect for the custom and for some unwritten laws. Even a conservative of social Darwinist inclinations would agree with that. But while you're correct in general terms, and the Connecticut regulations are indeed ridiculous, it doesn't apply to this particular case. Here, is a question of conduct, and the conservative way of doing things is to behave with courtesy and gentlemanship.
First of all, a school with 20 girls shouldn't be participating in a basketball league. There's no reason why they can't just play in their own school for fun.
Secondly, I'm not sure what motivates a team to play to a score of 100-0. You can argue it's poor sportsmanship, but puzzles me more is what motivates any team to play with full effort after say, 40-0? It's like like playing a two player game by yourself.
I don't even particularly feel sorry for the losing team, they're essentially wasting everyone's time, as evident by their 4 season losing streak.
Perhaps you're not being reasonable. I understand your point and I see its merits. In fact, a similar situation once happened to me - we played a much weaker team - and the first thing Coach said to us was exactly something like "the best way to respect them, and respect the game, it's to play as hard as in any other game; we're not taking plays off because we're so much better or we pity them".
However, he also instructed us to make it a half-court game. To stay with our man and not play happy-go-lucky defence, just contest the shots. And to run our half-court sets (instead of just driving to lay-ups and ac ulate steals, as we could have done). This way, the other kids also played. They were outscored by 80 points or so, they only made 4 or 5 shots, but it still looked like a game, with people bouncing and passing the rock.
Sportsmanship is made of unwritten rules. When you are so superior you don't mock your opponents just because you can. At this level, you respect them by playing your best but not by taking advantage of every single one of their flaws. That's just unnecessary and in very bad taste.
The problem is not the 100-0 score. IMO, the problem is running the full court press the entire game. That's ridiculous and that Coach should be ashamed of himself.
Also, about this: then crying about getting your ass kicked 100-0. Where exactly have they cried? To me it seems they're handling the situation very graciously.
I don't know exactly what the Patriots did - I don't follow that sport - but I see the situation in professional sports as different.
I agree with the OP. You shouldn't be "proud" that your team played hard. You should've told them to start tripping the PG on the other team and start fouling
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