Been a While...But I'm still here...
Basketball season pretty much makes me disappear as far as my family and friends are concerned. It's always been a difficult balance for me. We have about 3 weeks left, and it's not that I am looking forward to it being over--I have truly enjoyed this group of girls--it is that it has been a particularly frustrating season.
We are in a league we don't belong in and as a result, our girls have been used as the whipping post for other teams looking to pad their stats or redeem themselves after a loss to someone else.
Seriously...WHY would you still trap my girls as soon as they cross half court, steal the ball, and go down and score a layup...in the fourth quarter when you are up by 50+ and you still have your starting point guard only to take her out when she scored her career high. OR...why would you allow your guard with 3 seconds left--your team is up by 40+--to shoot another 3? HOLD THE BLEEPING BALL!
Frustrating. Coaches who allow their 16 year old girls to humiliate and embarrass other 16 year old girls--??? I can tell you I will never be one of those coaches and if Mads is ever on a team with a coach like that...we will have some issues.
Come on people...win with class.
posted by Rebecca at
7:26 AM
1 Comments:
i don't mind blow outs, if the winning team has subbed out all the starters. it seems like horseshit if you leave in starters when you're comfortably ahead (like, +20 in basketball) or if you leave in people just so they can achieve personal goals/glory. that latter thing really seems to go against the entire idea of team sports.
i mean, if the starters are subbed out and you're still getting whipped, it sucks, but that's life. i remember hs football games where we were outplayed by 2nd & 3rd stringers. it sucked to get our rears kicked, but it also showed us that we needed to improve. of course, it really sucked because it had to be a clovis school, as they are the only ones big enough to have full 2nd team squads and 3rd stringers. some years my hs team had like 30 guys on varsity. with suspensions and quits i think we ended with 26 or 27 players one year.
12:46 PM
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