A Venting about unsportsmanlike behavior

[LarryS]

Originally posted by TXMATTHEW05
I can understand when a team has a demanding lead, and they are still pressing and such - they may use that as practice. That's what we did sometimes when I played - the coach couldn't care less about the score, but how we played. We didn't get cocky, we didn't get arrogant, and we didn't rub it in. And - we played normal. That's how we played with everyone; it was just a REALLY bad team. The score ment nothing to the coach. He didn't even glance at it.

Not sure the quality of that kind of practice. I never played basketball at a significant level, but did play baseball. When we have a game in control (like the 20+ leads we had on several occassions) we "practiced" doing specific things when at bat. You know; switch hitting, putting certain pitches in play in a specific area (the HIT portion of the hit and run), etc.. Not sure how much of that can be done in basketball but there are ways to keep the score down to a certain extent. If nothing else, work on passing.

Team Z would never see a game called closer on them.

I hate coaches like that.