Posted on 01/26/2009 12:03:59 PM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
See 55.
Which doesn’t include missed shots. You rarely see a girls high school game in which the shot % is greater than 50%. I’d like to know how many shots each team put up.
You can shoot fish in a barrel, but it’s not very sporting nor fun to watch.
“Other accounts say the scoring stopped at four minutes left when 100 was reached. So 75 points in 25 minutes.”
Which only proves the coach was intent on hitting that 100 mark (plus unverified reports he was yelling “100” from the sidelines). He infers it would have been the wrong message to send to his players if he told them to ease up but it was perfectly reasonable once he hit 100 at the 4 minute mark.
This guy seemed intent on avenging the previous blowout from another season.
Sounds about right to me. Assuming that they used the entire shot clock, and scored more or less every time (not at all a ridiculous assumption, assuming that the team likely rebounded at will, as well). I don't know what the shot clock is for HS....figure 35-45 sec...actually, this score sounds about right if the game was total mismatch.
Actually, throwing out the first 3 minutes where the team put up a 25-zip lead, figures out to 75 points in 29 minutes, or just slightly better than a basket a minute.
My advice to Dallas Academy...get better.
Agreed - he even said the previous loss “changed him”. I guess 1 a-hole creates another.
Suffering a bad loss is one thing. Skunking your opponent 100 - 0 is childish, humiliating, and disrespectful.
Paying it forward...heheh.
"They are really good," Civello said. "Their point guard is terrific. This is what it came down to in the second half: steal at half court and layup. Steal and layup. Steal and layup. It was a layup drill. They finally eased up when they got to 100 with about four minutes left." Covenant's point guard had 48 points.
2-3 zone or attacking at midcourt? A video would be nice.
>>Sheesh, its unbelievable that people think this is a life lesson for anything except bad sportsmanship.<<
I get the feeling the definition of the word “sportsmanship” depends on the person.
If teams have that much of a disparity in their quality than any matchup is a “charity case” game for the better team. They are not their to play basketball. They are there as free therapy. That, frankly, sucks.
Maybe they SHOULD get the Harlem Globetrotters to play them.
The idea of REAL sports is that you do the best you can.
When I was playing girls HS basketball, 18 years ago, there were four 15 minute quarters and the shot clock was 24 seconds.
If you try to run up the score in an NFL game you just might get get clipped from behind and maybe end up a paraplegic. I saw one game like that this year with the Bengals where this hotdog with an interception with 30 seconds left tried to score even though his team was leading by 3 touchdowns. He ended up with a crossface from Hell, and almost had o be carried off the field. Sometimes it REALLY doesent pay to be an A-hole.
Also, the losing coach knows the ability of his team (or lack thereof). Why did he allow his girls to play this team?
Plenty of blame to go around here.
“How does one score 31 points while ‘running down the clock’ anyway?”
It would have been insulting to the losing team if Covenant hadn’t even attempted a shot when they had the ball. Even with a large lead you can’t ‘stop’ playing.
Having been in such a situation as this as a player (winning side as well) I can tell you its uncomfortable, at least for me being in that situation it was.
JB
I don’t consider professional sports to be sports. I consider it to be raw business.
It is why I can’t bring myself to watch it. It’s all rollerball to me.
Assuming a 24 second shot clock, and 12 or 15 minute quarters (assuming the teams played 4 quarters and not two half's) I'd say they certainly ran down the shot clock and under-scored on the other school. Look at it this way:
- 24 second shot clock
- 12 minute quarters (typical for high school)
That's 30 posessions per quarter
It appears to me they under-scored, scoring on only every other posession.
I agree this was probably about a desire to score 100 points.
I see you're a public high school student and don't know the difference between halves and quarters, so let me try and explain this to you.
High School Basketball has four (4) twelve (12) minute quarters, at least where I live and went to school. Given a 12 minute quarter and a 24 second shot clock, each team has a minimum of 1 posession per minute available to them, with time left over in that minute.
Do the math, 12*60=720 (that's the number of seconds per quarter.) Divide 720 seconds by 24 (the number of seconds on the shot clock) to obtain the minimum number of posessions available. The answer is 30. Assuming each team used up the 24 second clock on each posession, each team would have 15 posessions per quarter.
Now, given the fact the team scored 31 points in the second half on perhaps 30 posessions using the math above, this would mean mathematically that they only scored on every other posession across 2 quarters.
Gee, it sure looks to me like they gave the other team every opportunity to score, and probably did in fact do a good job of running out the clock. If they hadn't, the score would've likely been 200 - 0 at the rate they were going.
With all due respect, youre missing the point. In the NFL, grown men dont put up with the bad (and rude) "sportsmanship" of running up the score, and they do it in a very unambiguous way.... Its just bad form to let your team win 100-0. No bout adout it.
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