PortageCountySports
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Gilmour won last night 108-1. I heard 92.3 the Fan talking about it this morning. It was something like 98-0 at the start of the fourth quarter. This is at least what they were saying.
Sorry, I just don't buy into all of the justification for 108 points. If you have the option and are that good, take a first round bye. If that was not an option, there are only 32 minutes in a game and why not instruct whomever is on the court to hold the ball for 1 minute or even 2 minutes before a shot goes up. If you lose the ball, big deal. You know you will be getting it back shortly for another 1 or 2 minutes before the next shot. What possible things can a team work on with a disparity between 2 teams. If a coach wants more work, hold an intense practice after the game. If that were my school, I would call for the coach's resignation and a disciplinary action for the AD for not pulling the coach aside at halftime and give the above instructions.
Sorry, I just don't buy into all of the justification for 108 points. If you have the option and are that good, take a first round bye. If that was not an option, there are only 32 minutes in a game and why not instruct whomever is on the court to hold the ball for 1 minute or even 2 minutes before a shot goes up. If you lose the ball, big deal. You know you will be getting it back shortly for another 1 or 2 minutes before the next shot. What possible things can a team work on with a disparity between 2 teams. If a coach wants more work, hold an intense practice after the game. If that were my school, I would call for the coach's resignation and a disciplinary action for the AD for not pulling the coach aside at halftime and give the above instructions.
I agree. How about the Gilmour players miss their shots on purpose? There is nothing to prove at this point. If the other team was that bad, then hit the backboard with every shot. Or air balls. Anything except to keep making baskets. Shameful.
So, your kids study really hard and did their homework every day. Their teacher gives a surprise quiz. do you encourage them to miss some questions on purpose when they find out some of their classmates were not prepared for the suprise quiz?
Not even close to being a good analogy.
My point is why is it the responsibility of the winning team to "miss shots on purpose and throw up some air balls".
My guess is Gilmour was not pressing or playing aggressive defense. Why didn't the other team cross over mid court and just hold the ball for the quarter and run out the clock themselves.
Why do they get to be the victims and Gilmour be the villains. I don't have a dog in this fight, but I did have a chance to meet the Gilmour team while we shared a hotel with them in Berlin for the Classic. I was impressed with how well mannered and polite these young women were. For them to be degraded for playing hard is insulting.
Because it would have been the respectable and sportsmanlike thing to do. Whether the score was 20-1 or 50-1 or 108-1, Gilmour still would have won the game. It simply was not necessary.
I'm not saying it was the athletes faults. Quite the contrary. They do what their coach tells them to do. And, if this wasn't such an outrageous thing to have happen, why is it on the national airwaves? Because everyone knows it was just plain wrong.
I can't believe some of you are defending that score. You can as the winning coach control the score. Stop with the "it's their job to stop us" nonsense. Slow the game down, no running in transition, run sets for 10 passes or more. There is no need EVER imho to get to 100 points. How are you getting better? The problem as others stated is not the 1 pt... the problem is scoring 108.
Youngstown Ursuline beat East Palestine 107-30. A freshman had 51.
Amen!!!"Hey girls... we are going to show up today and I prohibit you from being competitors or even really truly trying to win beyond scoring one more bucket than the other team scores. I don't want any of you to even think about being more than basically a point or two better than your competitors because this team is so bad." - What some of you all are saying should have been the Gilmour Academies Head Coaches message.
Stop and re-read how ridiculous that sounds. And its actually even far more disrespectful than the final score.
I guess I just don't understand how the mentality of Gilmour having to account for the other team's poor performance or low talent level to make everyone feel better makes sense. Based on comments in this thread, it seems like the other team's head coach had an opportunity as early as the second quarter to stall and hold this score down without Gilmour forcing the issue. Clearly the Prep coach did not take that tactic and was okay exposing his team to this margin of loss.
Salem is so lucky to have you supporting them!When you read some of these posts you start to understand how radical liberals and socialists can get elected. When feelings trump thought, reason and rationality, we are in trouble. We have been gifted with equal opportunity, not equal outcomes. The sooner many folks get a grip on that, the better we will ALL be.
But if it makes any of liberal crowd on here FEEL better, they should take solace in the fact that the score could probably have been 170 - 1, but the winners took it easy.
Another poor rationalization eib. It is not a system breakdown. You are always going to have mismatches. Call it sportsmanship, life lessons being taught to 15-18 year old young women, appreciation and empathy (yes empathy) for the other team as well as their parents and fans. I can't believe all the fans of the winning team felt comfortable with the final score.I'd really be on poor sports bandwagen if this was a scheduled game, regardless some dick in his hand without a chance against me wants to call me a "radical liberal" or whatever but this was a play-off game?
This seems to me more a problem with the system than with the schools that played. A match-up system more dynamic than enrollment might be reasonable in sports that are struggling to grow, which would apply to many girl's sports which do not have the talent and coach vetting of boy's sports.