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Old Mon Feb 23, 2009, 10:20am
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We had an varsity girls game in our league a few years ago that finished 11-5. Visiting coach played only 2-3 zone all the time. Home team had no good shooters and decided they had enough ball-handling and patience. It was 2-0 home late in the third quarter when a home player, after holding for 7:50ish, drove in, scored, and was fouled. She made the FT and home went into the fourth up 5-0. After some more stalling, visitors finally had to come out of the zone with a couple minutes left and couldn't make up the difference.

I always thought it was one of the greatest pieces of high school coaching I had ever seen. He had to get his players to buy in, make sure they had the ball-handling and the poise to get through any surprise defensive efforts, and deal with anybody (like the visiting coach) who would be unhappy about it.
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