In our own words: The Journey to a 100-0 victory (The winning, now fired, coach has his say)

Flightbasketball.com ^ | 1-25-2009 | Coach Micah Grimes

[GeronL]

Competition builds character, and teaches us to value selflessness, hard work, and perseverance yup. thats what liberals hate

[jeffc]

When the lead hits 30 points, you put your 5 worst players in and you leave them there. By the fourth quarter, you tell them to stop playing defense. There can be nothing good out of shutting out the opposing team. Absolutely nothing.

Games are meant to be played and won. If you can't compete, get out. If the other team can't score baskets, it's not my problem.
And I severely disagree with "you put in your 5 worst players and leave them there."

Hey, I have an idea! Let's just not keep score! That way, everybody gets to feel all good and wonderful, like nice little comrades should. What do you say? Wouldn't want the little comrades to feel bad about losing, now, would you?

[GeronL]

So the media was making something of nothing and got the man fired. What a shock that the liberal media would do that.

[HamiltonJay]

Sorry, no excuses, this score was run up because of this guys need to see 3 digits on the scoreboard. He can spin all he wants. You can get through a 1/2 of High School basketball without putting 60 points on a scoreboard, let alone another 40+ on top of it, if you have proven you completely outclass the other team.

This display was shameful. A coach is meant to teach, what lesson did he teach his players or his opponents that night? Not a damn thing.

HS basketball has a 20 minute half, assuming they payed with a 45 second shot clock, and never ever missed a single shot attempt, and that the opponents spent not one second actually handling the ball, the maximum score per half would be 52 points if all 2 point shots were taken, and the 45 seconds was wound down. His second half performance fell 11 points below that... don’t give me you have nothing to be ashamed of.

I however do not just blame this coach, I blame the parents of these kids for not calling him for it during the game, I would pull my kid from a game like this and dress down the coach publicly. There was absolutely no honor in this.

[GeronL]

Thats about a basket every 2 minutes. Thats a very very slow game.

[Nonstatist]

My son went to a school like Dallas Academy; for learning disabled kids, about 140 students. Some sports they were not too bad in, like soccer. Others they stunk in, like basketball. Schools like that are very expensive and they dont get a normal cross section of kids to pick from. You get those with disabilities who can afford it. You get what you get, and usually theyre not particularly sports minded.

Their basketball team was so atrocious, they once lost 65-11. The other team only scored 12 points in the second half, because the coach wasn't an A-hole, like the coach of this womens team.

Sheesh, its unbelievable that people think this is a life lesson for anything except bad sportsmanship.

[HamiltonJay]

Sorry bad math, 21 points shy of that maximum, not 11.

However letting it get to 59 to 0 at the half, rediculous.

[Ajnin]

If they ran up the score, so what?

Not only is it good to know you suck, it’s important to know how much you suck.

[HamiltonJay]

Exactly, this coach did little to teach his players a fundamental of Sports.

Grace in winning and losing.

You run up the score 60 to 0 by halftime, you are just an ass, pure and simple.

[grateful]

If he, in fact, changed tactics to benefit the other team and not run up the score, then I commend him.

When I was in high school, our basketball team was in the same league with Morningside. Lisa Leslie was their star player. They routinely routed teams, including ours, and we were a fairly good team. She had a 100 point game against one of the lesser teams one year. It was definitely a case of running up the score and made the local papers, but I don’t think the coach was fired.

[HamiltonJay]

Um, are you nuts?

HS basketball has 4 8 minute halves.

That means the second half’s 31 points on top of the first half’s 59 points was a bucket every minute in the second half and 2 buckets per minute in the first.

Not remotely a VERY VERY slow game.

[GeronL]

why should they condescend to the other team?? Will that make them feel better??

[Badeye]

Not for a girls basketball game.

[HamiltonJay]

Um, are you nuts?

HS basketball has 4 8 minute quarters.

That means the second half’s 31 points on top of the first half’s 59 points was a bucket every minute in the second half and 2 buckets per minute in the first.

Not remotely a VERY VERY slow game.

[HamiltonJay]

halves should read QUARTERS.

[Bob J]

Agreed. The objective is to win, not pile on. In football that will get you a 15 yard penalty for bad sportsmanship.

[Tennessee_Bob]

There can be nothing good out of shutting out the opposing team. Absolutely nothing.

So, are you saying that there is good in slowing down and letting the other guy catch up?

[Bob J]

As mentioned, it’s the 100 and 0 points that bother me. I can almost let the 100 go but no matter how poor the opposing team was, if they let them put up a few shots here and there you’d have to assume a couple would go in, even by chance.

It looks to me like a full on defensive press, blocking shots, total control of the boards, etc. If the coach really asked them to let up some there would be a few points scored.

I just don’t see what the coah OR the players get out of it by humiliating the other team so. This is girls high school basketball, not a war.

[GeronL]

4 halves?

[Colonel Kangaroo]

A high school game is 32 minutes. Grimes said the he called off the press after 3 minutes with a 25-0 lead. That leaves 29 minutes to score 75 points. Other accounts say the scoring stopped at four minutes left when 100 was reached. So 75 points in 25 minutes. That means a point every 20 seconds. Discounting free throws and 3 pointers, that's roughly a basket every 40 seconds. Assuming it took Dallas Academy 10 seconds to bring up the ball before contacting the zone, and presumably quickly having the ball stolen, it would then take roughly nearly 30 seconds for Covenant to put a shot up. The math doesn't suggest a trap at midcourt or a backcourt press. Maybe Grimes has received a little undue heat. And if he was in a zone, the Dallas academy girls needed to cooperate by passing the ball around before they attacked the zone.

We really need to see a video. I think the real story would soon be obvious one way or the other.