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Originally posted by stan-MI
Coaches, how often do you find yourself in a 40-point game? These are extreme mismatches, and no one, including the winning team and substitutes, enjoys the fourth quarter of these games.
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I would say that you don't have these often, and therefore the players that get to play in these games usually don't get to play often. Have you asked the 12th guy on the bench whether he enjoys the 3-4 games a year when he actually gets on the court?
My guess is he feels like my son in varsity lacrosse, who was really happy about finally getting to play. He watched about 8 games before he saw the field. That's a lot of practice time and ball fetching during games for very little run - you really want the run that you get. He hoped for blowouts and once he was in, didn't care what the score was. He played his butt off like it was 0-0, as did every other sophomore who had waited all year to play. They knew the teams that were likely to be blowout games and just wanted it to get ugly early so he could get more time!