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If I was Pat Riley and I read this paragraph, I'd be on the phone first to the article's author and second to the commissioner, to find out why an official, before the game, is talking about the fact that my team "had no chance of winning" to win.
In the normal midday meeting at the hotel, Crawford cautioned the crew that Riley might turn the game into an ugly scrum, knowing that his young road-weary team had no chance of winning and had been pummeled the night before in Portland.
Imagine if all HS officials could get the benefit of this:
...the 59-page rule book, the 76-page case book and 71-page official's manual, of course, which is tested with weekly quizzes and regular videotape you-make-the-call tests online.
All one guy got Saturday was about two minutes of me vociferously explaining the backcourt rule to him from my bench!
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Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
-- John Wooden
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