New rule

Hawks Coach · #1 (**permalink**) Fri May 16, 2003, 08:14am

Have you ever heard the phrase "can't buy a bucket?" Regional qualifier medal round game last night. We forced 35 turnovers, took 72 shots, all but 5 were in the paint, missed 52 (and 21 of 31 FTs), lost 55-50. In the second half, we forced over 20 turnovers and had only 3 team fouls with 3 minutes to play.

I propose a new rule where you can buy a bucket,one per foul up to 6 team fouls. That would have given us the 6 points we needed to win.

This is a capitalist society, so why can't you buy a bucket?

mick · #2 (**permalink**) Fri May 16, 2003, 08:30am

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Originally posted by Hawks Coach
Have you ever heard the phrase "can't buy a bucket?" Regional qualifier medal round game last night. We forced 35 turnovers, took 72 shots, all but 5 were in the paint, missed 52 (and 21 of 31 FTs), lost 55-50. In the second half, we forced over 20 turnovers and had only 3 team fouls with 3 minutes to play.

I propose a new rule where you can buy a bucket,one per foul up to 6 team fouls. That would have given us the 6 points we needed to win.

This is a capitalist society, so why can't you buy a bucket?

It always works, for the teams that cannot buy that bucket, to get a layup. Fight, claw, charge, push... get that layup and the cellophane disappears.

Hawks Coach · #3 (**permalink**) Fri May 16, 2003, 09:41am

We did plently of clawing, scratching and everything else to get all of our shots next to the basket. Many missed layups,putbacks,drop step lay-ins, etc. We really only had about 5 shots beyond 8 feet. Starting power forward had everything inside the blocks and went 0-8. Normally scores 15 a game for me. Starting point guard missed three uncontested layups, two of which resulted in missed putbacks! Just one of those nights.

Mark Padgett · #4 (**permalink**) Fri May 16, 2003, 09:59am

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Originally posted by Hawks Coach

This is a capitalist society, so why can't you buy a bucket?

I always ask coaches before a game if they want to buy foul insurance.

rainmaker · #5 (**permalink**) Fri May 16, 2003, 10:07pm

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Originally posted by Hawks Coach
We did plently of clawing, scratching and everything else to get all of our shots next to the basket. Many missed layups,putbacks,drop step lay-ins, etc. We really only had about 5 shots beyond 8 feet. Starting power forward had everything inside the blocks and went 0-8. Normally scores 15 a game for me. Starting point guard missed three uncontested layups, two of which resulted in missed putbacks! Just one of those nights.

Coach, at the risk of sounding fulsome, I have to give a few little snaps here. This is really such a remarkably mature attitude, that it's hard to believe. This is the sort of thing that convinces me that Karma is not a true doctrine. If anyone deserves to win, you do, and yet you don't win. So I guess what goes around, doesn't really come around.

(And then I think about the Lakers losing, and I have second thoughts...)