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.
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.