Look, the players on the team that lost have learned that they have no future in hoop, so they can begin the search for some other activity better suited to their skills and abilities, and they've had some good exercise At least that's the way it used to be before everybody was supposed to be the same, and merit was replaced by affirmative action, etc. Liberalism is a disease.
No way. I have kids who play basketball; my husband coaches. Like clock management, bench management (getting your backups in the game in a blow out) is a coaching skill. Teaching your kids a zone defense when the score is up is a coaching skill. Man to man defense and repetitively getting the ball at half court and making easy layups from an obviously weak point guard...when the score had to 40-50-60 nothing, is not achievement...its plain ugly play.
What???? Teaching kids that if you win because you intentionally beat up on an opponent that was vastly inferior you have achieved excellence??? The coach should be fired and banned from coaching kids again for life. He taught these kids only that they can think they have achieved excellence when they run up the score on a greatly inferior team. This team achieved absolutely nothing. The coach taught these kids a very bad lesson on how to compete not to even mention teaching these kids about things like honor and integrity. The coach has no honor, he has no integrity and until the apology, neither did the entire team. But the article doesn't say if the winning team players had any remorse so I can only assume the kids have learned some incredibly unacceptable behavior.
The only team that learned something was the losing team who learned a good lesson about competition and adversity. If my daughter would have been a player on the winning team, I would have walked out on the court, stopped the game and taken my daughter out of the game and taken her home. I teach my kids honor, integrity and respect. The coach has none of these.