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To: Batman11
there are many ways to manage a game like this to make sure that doesn’t happen

In fairness to the coach, if there was a shot clock in this game, then he could have held the ball on the offensive end for only so long - as the shot clock was winding down, what should he have told his girls to do - refuse to put up a shot?

Obviously you would have to look at the game tape to get a sense of what his "strategy" was, but if there was a shot clock, then he would have had to have ordered his girls not to shoot as the shot clock was expiring, and that would be getting pretty deep into "soft bigotry of low expectations" territory.

I suppose he could have done that - it would be the equivalent of a football team taking repeated quarterback kneel-downs on first, second, and third downs, and then repeatedly punting after that, but I don't think I've ever witnessed such a spectacle on the football field.

It's certainly a tough call, and it was an obscure little game which probably never should have received any national attention.

85 posted on 01/27/2009 10:13:48 AM PST by KayEyeDoubleDee
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee

“In fairness to the coach, if there was a shot clock in this game, then he could have held the ball on the offensive end for only so long - as the shot clock was winding down, what should he have told his girls to do - refuse to put up a shot?”

He managed to hold up once they got to 100 why not before then? The guy was pushing for the century mark. Should the team forfeit? no but dont pretend its a coincidence it was 100 to nothing


93 posted on 01/27/2009 11:02:28 AM PST by N3WBI3 (Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you. -- Londo Mollari)
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