Second look at 100-0 basketball game

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bcosu

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I wanted to post this last night but i ran out of time. I watched E60 the espn version of 60 minutes and they interviewed the coach who's dallas high school girls basketball team won 100-0. while i agree the score may be a little extreme, the footage they showed of the actual game was very interesting. my previous view was that it was a very conceited thing to do and i still believe the score was excessive. However, after watching i realized that the winning team wasn't trying to run up the score because they probably could have put up 200 points.

does it make it right, probably not but the way they scored in the second half was almost all layups. they were practically fast breaks with no defensive pressure at all. there were several fast breaks that they showed where they would pass the ball 3-4 times trying to let someone else score since there was no defense.

I lost a few basketball games very lopsidedly growing up. i do remember one game in 3rd grade the first year i played when we lost 46-6. I remember feeling upset that we lost but knew that we lost to a far superior team.

It appeared to me that the team who won couldn't miss a shot and the other team just had a bad game and couldn't make one. it's not like the losing team was smothered on defense because they were given several uncontested shots.

It's unfortunate that it had to be such a large win but at least i know now that they were not trying to embarass the other team. It would have been nice though to have seen some clock stalling.
 

farmboy

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i did the clock for Jr high games out here and our 7th and 8th grade girls used to get beat consistently by 60 points every game. i recall a town 5 miles down the road one 76 - 2 and that was with 3rd string players and a running clock. sometimes you can't help but to put the smack down on a team
 

farwest

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I thought I was told the losing team was a special mentally or physically challenged school, if that is true the game should have never been scheduled by the AD.
 

OH Breeder

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farwest said:
I thought I was told the losing team was a special mentally or physically challenged school, if that is true the game should have never been scheduled by the AD.

the team that was beat direct quote from Dallas Paper,
Dallas Academy has eight girls on its varsity team and about 20 girls in its high school. The team remains winless during the last four seasons. The academy boasts of its small class sizes and specializes in teaching students struggling with "learning differences," such as short attention spans or dyslexia.

why was the team scheduled to play one another if the losing team was "handicapped". Short Attentions spans and dyslexia is a far cry from mentally handicapped. Children that are "slow" or have lowered IQ's to me means handicapped. But why would you schedule these two teams if the losing team was "out of their league"?
 
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