Quite the oddness

[Judtech]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

Scoring IS what a team is supposed to do. Continuing to score is generally expected.

Being down big and holding the ball could be an attempt at a secondary goal of holding their opponents to under a certain number of points.


Deliberately turning the ball over has no valid purpose.

Your first and second point sort of contradict each other. If you are SUPPOSED to score then why stall? In fact, if you pass the ball to the other team then THEY are scoring, so it falls under your first point. Giving the ball to the other team CAN serve a purpose. It could embarass the pressing coach and thus they called the press off. Why isn't that a valid reason? Who knows, the coach who was pressing may get fed up and take THEIR team off the floor forfiet? Far fetched maybe, but who is to say?
To JUR's point, if pressing is a coaches decision, the OP said that the coach wanted his team to pass to the other team. THAT is a coach's decision as well. I still don't see much of a difference between what that coach did and coaches who deliberately press clearly inferior teams. The pressing coach is making a travesty of the game similar to the OP coach, just in a different way and one we see too often, IMO. It the coach wants to forfiet, they can call a TO and/or take their team off the floor, they don't need any help from me.