heimer wrote:Message or not, there's a right way and a wrong way. This was the wrong way, pure and simple. We tell kids to lose with humility. Learn to win with it also.
Coaching needs to account for this. Unfortunately, in the B world, winning is all that matters.
Unbelievably offensive generalization, yet again, on Class B and its people. Can't say I'm surprised anymore.
Back to the topic. I will go off personal experience from my HS days in a small Class B school involving a blowout. It was early in the year and we didn't know how good or bad the opponent really was. Well by halftime we had a large lead, probably 30 points. The best scorers sat midway through the 2nd quarter. 2nd half starters are in and quickly benched early in the 3rd. In come some very young players who are crazy excited to see their first varsity action, and even more excited some seniors who are relegated to the end of the bench and may not see the minutes they are about the get for the rest of the year combined. We're talking about seniors that aren't even good enough to contribute to JV but get a spot of varsity because our school didn't cut anybody.
It was incredible: they played just as well if not better than the starters hitting shots and making plays you would never expect. We rolled the team by almost 70 which looks bad, but it wasn't. The other team knew the deep bench was in and it was just a bad night to forget. On our side it was really a magical night for those bench players and especially the seniors who got a chance to feel like all-state studs making plays in front of a raucous crowd.
I've also been apart of a large upset where we were expected to win by 30 and lost. You just never know.
I will agree with you on a certain team the last couple years where I felt they played like greedy children in blowouts, simply running up the score with pressure defense and fast break layups. But don't make that generalization towards all Class B top tier teams. Like others have said, you have to be at the game to see how it went down.