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To: RobRoy
The hard work of the winning team can be fully appreciated and the losing team can “learn from their failures

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Sorry, but your attitude only works when there is a level playing field. The coach of the winning team just ran up the score because... he's an A-hole, IMO.

33 posted on 01/26/2009 12:32:23 PM PST by Nonstatist
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To: Nonstatist

>>Sorry, but your attitude only works when there is a level playing field.<<

The court was level or they would not have both been on it. Either that or it was a “Harlem Globetrotters” type opportunity for the winning team.

But somehow I think actively making fun of the incompetence of the other team on the court would have been worse.

If it is a serious game, play it like a serious game. If he brought out the bench and changed tactics to “help” the other team, he already did more than a lot of coaches would.

My daughter played varsity basketball on a team that won less than half it’s games. The ONLY time I was upset in games was when I didn’t think her team was doing their best or I felt they were playing against unfair refs (which was comically obvious only on a few occasions). Other than that, the score was irrelevant. It would have been insulting if the other team just stopped really trying. Trial by fire is a good thing.

Like I said in a previous post, this game was “tough love in action”.


38 posted on 01/26/2009 12:37:44 PM PST by RobRoy (Islam is a greater threat to the world today than Nazism was in the 1930's.)
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