Agree---wonder if they have a mercy rule. I know PA is now 30 in the 2nd half. Here are scores from a single A team that 2 years ago was a district runner up- 61-, 48-6, 48-5,51-6.... all losses---oh they beat someone 42-9. Its hard to tell kids to stop playing. And when a JV squad is still beating another varsity that bad what can you do. I mean if you are still pressing you need to be fired but other then that what can you do. Hold the ball?
Its a good point. However, i will say that a lot of teams are scrambling for opponents with the outbreak of COVID. I know my daughter's teams have been moving opponents in and out of their schedule due to cancellations. Secondly, it could be the league. These teams play each other once a year and this year represents a huge imbalance. Finally, it takes two to tango. If approached about a game, nobody has to take that game.
I agree. When you are winning 80-0 at halftime, you've got to check yourself. No need to run a full-court press. Just dribble the ball until the shot clock is running out and take a shot.
Why even play the game. It does no good for anyone doing that except playing bench players. Game should never be scheduled.
In SEPA a number of years ago we had a very successful basketball program that had a very successful coach who decided to go to Nolan Richardson's "40 minutes of hell" style. He played his core rotation as much as he could for the full game to "get them in shape" for the state tourney. They were leading our team by 40 points in the 4th quarter and we had our end of the bench scrubs in. One of their top players- who would end up playing both football and basketball at a PSAC school- went in for a dunk and their team/ crowd and his parents especially were cheering like mad. If I were our 6'5 baseball pitcher/ back up to the back up center who saw him coming down the lane I would've flattened his ass for being such a show off prick- if not on the dunk- certainly on the next opportunity. Luckily our player had more sense than me.
There was a time long ago I refereed. There were times where if a coach was pressing with starters in up a lot in the 4th qtr my whistle went crazy.
He actually wasn't getting his boys ready he was doing them more harm than good. I coached basketball for almost 20 years and won a lot of games and when you get to the Elite 8 final four or whatever all of those teams are good enough to rip through your press no matter how good you are. I had a team that made it to the state championship game a few years back and we were full court pressing for the first half of just about every game in the regular season but we always played at least some part of the game where are we played a zone or just solid half court man-to-man because when you get far enough in the playoffs that's what you have to do.
