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Originally Posted by rockyroad
As an official, I don't care and there is nothing to be done about it.
As a father, this type of thing p!sses me off. My sons play(ed) for a small private school who regularly gets beaten by the bigger schools in our league. Twice I have had to sit through classless examples of coaching like this one in Arizona. In one case, the Home team was up by 29 points at the start of the 4th quarter, and the coach put his starters in and kept the press on. They ended up winning by 42. The most vocal fans were from the Home school - yelling at their coach to knock it off.
Why this coach in Arizona thought it would be "cool" to keep that kid in and let him take 37 shots against what is essentially a JV team is beyond me as a parent and a fan.
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We used to play a school that was a perennial contender for the state title in our class. Let's just say we weren't. It wasn't uncommon for us to lose those games by 40-50 points. My sophomore year, their coach left his starters in at the beginning of the 4th quarter when they were leading by about 50 points.
Our coach had anticipated this and we walked off the court; he faced a two game suspension after that.