I’m terribly confused.
In my youth, which is a very distant memory I played on school teams, and community teams, primarily baseball, some football (NOT Soccer), but never basketball (wasn’t interested in it). The objective was to play and win (by the rules of course) in all cases.
Is there some objective other than winning associated with basketball. As I said, I never played it.
We have all been told that the objective in school sports is to build character, learn sportsmanship, etc. But, hey, clearly some do think the objective is to simply win games.