[BballRookie]

I stayed to observe a varsity game a few weeks back. At halftime the score was 58-5. The thing that stunned me, more than the fast break dunks and centers hitting threes(pretty small schools), was that the losing coach was still running and gunning. I felt like somebody had dared him to run Mike D'Antoni's "seven second or less" offense.

He knew going into the game that he was totally outmatched. The stronger team is a favorite to win state. When I was in high school we weren't good, but we played one of the better teams in the state and only lost 36-26. Part of the reason why we weren't smashed by 70 points was our coach had the brains to realize we were hopeless in a shoot out, so we took forever on each possession and it put the other team in a funk. Not that we run some 8 minute four corners style offense, but we took a long time to take a shot, and didn't rush anything.

All that to say, sometimes I want to walk over to the bench and give some advice like "coach, when they are in a zone you may want to stop setting on ball screens" or "don't yell at me coach, my advice is to find a point guard who can dribble past half court without turning the ball over"