I think you did the right thing in offering the ‘other side’.
Now that we’ve met the moral imperative....
How does one score 31 points while ‘running down the clock’ anyway?
Just askin....
They play with a shot clock, so they are forced to shoot a certain number of times, unless they just give them the ball, which isn't sportsmanlike.
“How does one score 31 points while ‘running down the clock’ anyway?”
If A professional team were playing a jr. high team this could happen. There may have been a HUGE disparity in quality/effort between the teams.
The girls are not gonna just stop playing, after all.
Shot clock?
Shot clocks.. You can't just sit there and dribble the ball, you have a certain period of time in which to shot before you get a penalty. His girls where just that darn good that when they did take the shot, they made it. I would love to know the score if he instructed his girls to wipe the floor with the other team instead of run it out.
It’s worse than that. They were up 25 3 minutes into the game. That means they scored 34 in the following 21 minutes up to the half then 41 in the following 24.
There was no let up in the second half. Also, getting 100 points meant something to the coach. The fact that the other team didn’t score a single point is also disturbing.
This wasn’t about “being the best” it was about vengeance for an earlier lopsided loss and humiliating the other teams players.
Not very Christian.
Thats about a basket every 2 minutes. Thats a very very slow game.
“How does one score 31 points while ‘running down the clock’ anyway?”
It would have been insulting to the losing team if Covenant hadn’t even attempted a shot when they had the ball. Even with a large lead you can’t ‘stop’ playing.
Having been in such a situation as this as a player (winning side as well) I can tell you its uncomfortable, at least for me being in that situation it was.
JB
Assuming a 24 second shot clock, and 12 or 15 minute quarters (assuming the teams played 4 quarters and not two half's) I'd say they certainly ran down the shot clock and under-scored on the other school. Look at it this way:
- 24 second shot clock
- 12 minute quarters (typical for high school)
That's 30 posessions per quarter
It appears to me they under-scored, scoring on only every other posession.