[gsf23]

For all of you that say don't quit, keep the kids on the floor. Personally I feel that there are times when nothing can be gained from keeping the kids on the floor and letting them get thorougly humiliated by another team.

Example a couple of years ago, I am watching a girl's JV game. Final score of the game was 102 - 10. The winning teams coach was pissed because his girls didn't win by one hundred. This team was playing juniors and sophmores against a team of freshman and some 8th graders. They full court pressed the entire first half. I think the losing team only got the ball passed half court 3 times all half. Score at half was 53-3. Second half starts and it is the same five starters, still pressing full court. I guess the visiting coach started to feel sorry for them because in the 4th he pulled the press and went with a 1-3-1 half court trap.

Just judging by the way the girls responded after been humiliated like that, two of them quit playing and the rest have absolutely no cinfidence in themselves anymore, I think the coach could have done more good than harm by pulling the girls off the court.