I am a high school basketball coach and do find it disgraceful that a coach would keep full-court pressing in that situation. Heck, I once beat a team 66-6 and we stopped pressing in the 1st quarter ahead 20-0. I had to tell my girls to make 5 passes before shooting and to let the other girl’s team shoot so that we could work on our rebounding and outlets (but no fast break). I still got yelled at by the administration. So, it can go both ways. But there is no need to humiliate and to press when way ahead like that.
I hear ya...and if you’d made you’re player play off their knees you’d gotten hell over that, too!
I used to be a Defensive Coordinator for a high school team.
My prep was meticulous and we played a team that beat us the previous year but had a coaching change. The coach was not prepared for the beginning of the season. He basically ran the same three plays over and over. It was a route my kids were very physical.
We knocked the snot out of them forcing 4 fumbles in the first half. Our OC was young and was passing late first half. I put the entire 2nd team D in after one series in 3rd quarter. JV/Fresh in 4th quarter...and I put two freshman at DB that wayed about as much as my 12 yr old son and went about 125 lbs.
We still almost got the shutout, They scored on a long pass play over my midgets late in the game...the opposing team went wild, that was an accomplishment for them. For a second I regretted the shoutout being gone, but that was just my pride.
I slept well that night. We dominated them and all of our young kids got huge playing time in a Friday night game. OUr older kids wanted to stay in but got caught up in watching our bench kids and freshman out there fighting to keep our shutout.