100-0 basketball game -- wrong or not?

[Antitrust32]

Originally Posted by ddthetide

all excellent points! sounds like the game should never have been played. to me it's more insulting to the bad team to have YOUR team clown around, then it is to crush them.

thats is just totally incorrect in this case. The team that lost is a school for kids with learning disabilities. What the winning coach did was just wrong.


As for King's points about maybe 100-0 was taking it easy on them is complete BS. Its high school, they play short quarters. This team was shooting 3's and running the full court press after they were already up 59-0 at halftime.

It was a disgrace to high school athletics.

[Antitrust32]

nobody should be taking the winning coach's side in this matter.

If he wasnt in the wrong, this wouldnt be a national story and the coach would still have his job.

[ddthetide]

Originally Posted by Antitrust32

thats is just totally incorrect in this case. The team that lost is a school for kids with learning disabilities. What the winning coach did was just wrong.


As for King's points about maybe 100-0 was taking it easy on them is complete BS. Its high school, they play short quarters. This team was shooting 3's and running the full court press after they were already up 59-0 at halftime.

It was a disgrace to high school athletics.

then the 2 teams had NO business playing each other!

shooting 3's was better than lay-up drill. 3's lowers the shooting percentage.

i don't know what kind of high school you went to but the league we play in was as cut-throat as it got. 8 teams in the league and 5 teams would make the playoffs at 2 different classes in 2 states. we only lost 10 games in 4 years and 2 of those losses were the state semi's.

from what i've read there are differing accounts of the game, to call it a disgrace.

[MaTH716]

It just seems that there are many guilty parties here.

1. The head coach of the losing team. For having them in a division or a leauge that they are not capable of competing in (I could be wrong here, I'm not sure of their record but just attempting 7 shots all game tell me they have no one to dribble the ball).

2. Leauge director or commish. For either letting the team play in the division. Not briefing other teams coaches about the nature of the team with the special needs. Maybe adapt some sort of mercy rules so game like this don't get out of hand again.

3. Obviously the other teams coach, for not calling the dogs off. At some point just have your guys stand in a stationary position andlet them score a few points.

4. Referees: when it's starting to get out of hand, call some fouls (even if they are phantom) to keep the other team from pressing. Also to get the other team to the line and maybe get a few points on the board.

It's easy just to blame the coach (he is the biggest culprit), but there are other people here that let these kids down too.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

I see nothing wrong with it.

In fact, now that I'm in Florida, I stopped by a senior citizen village yesterday and totally ABUSED a couple old bags at some hoops.

I guess I might have been called for a charge or six if a ref was present with some of my power moves.

I still got it - threw down a nice one hand dunk in the face of some old lady I thought I recognized from an old Colonial Penn Insurance commerical.

[Danzig]

did you see wilford brimley or robert wagner?

[GBBob]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

I see nothing wrong with it.

In fact, now that I'm in Florida, I stopped by a senior citizen village yesterday and totally ABUSED a couple old bags at some hoops.

I guess I might have been called for a charge or six if a ref was present with some of my power moves.

I still got it - threw down a nice one hand dunk in the face of some old lady I thought I recognized from an old Colonial Penn Insurance commerical.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCru-0-mIC4