Why it's wrong to beat your opponent 161-2
It's not.
Unless you're part of the PC crowd.
If you can't coach a basketball team of the same age of youngsters any better than this, you should resign. It's a sporting competition: my best against your best. If your best is only two points and mine is 100+, what that says is that you've got some improving to do. But whining about what I did right is no way to improve your game.
Unless you're part of the PC crowd.
If you can't coach a basketball team of the same age of youngsters any better than this, you should resign. It's a sporting competition: my best against your best. If your best is only two points and mine is 100+, what that says is that you've got some improving to do. But whining about what I did right is no way to improve your game.
AS non fiction.
I don't think this is the way:
the Britsh thought in defeating the Spanish Armada or stopping the French at Trafalgar,
the US Navy commanders thought after they crushed the Japanese at Midway (likely saving Australia from invasion.)
From the article, the winning coach told his players to take their time and even put bench players in, who themselves scored. The fact that the losing coach feels that they were "wronged" tells more about their team and coach than anything. Good sportsmanship means to lose with honor and grace as well. If you're not good enough, then practice and do things to get better, don't blame those who are good enough for being so.
But the mismatch isn't the coach's fault. Once the leagues are set, then every team is supposed to do the best it can for itself, which typically includes giving the non-starters experience.
One of the worst lines in the article was:
"Anderson said he is excited to get back to work, and will not to make the same mistake again. 'It wasn’t a good feeling,' he told the Orange County Register. 'It’s not something I’m proud of. It’s not something I would put on a mantel'.”
If there wasn't much to be proud of in such a mismatch, that was still no way to describe it. What was his "mistake"? It sounds like he's pandering to weakness.
In some comments above I saw people draw analogies between sport and warfare. I think that such reasoning is mistaken and out of place. Just my opinion.
Yes, it has nothing to do with war.
Why do you think that competition must be "fair" or "even?" Where in life (at least those areas that are still free) are things "fair?"
As I tell my children, "Life's not fair, get over it, and excel where you are best."
That losing basketball team needs a better coach. surely one of us is qualified? It's an obvious job opening, whether the team's sponsoring organization knows it or not.
This is an incredible article. It highlights a lot of what is wrong with our culture.
If you are in a competition where the stated purpose is sportsmanship and elegant behavior, then winning is not important and behaving well is. If you are in a competition where 'winning' is the stated goal, then doing so whilst abiding by the rules of the game is nothing but commendable.
Jan
these are kids and letting one team just score at will as happened is a disgrace.
Not supporting letting loosing team win just supporting good sportsmanship :)
(2) The losing teams coach should have been the one suspended, for taking his or her team to such a rousing defeat. The winning coach - did his job. By punishing him for winning... teaches the whole team they better not produce.
If I were on the winning team and a coach had the audacity to suggest we "tone it down", throw the game, whatever, I would have sat down in the middle of the court (and encouraged my teammates to do the same)... you want us to throw the game, then we'll do it right. And if the media takes pix, c'est la vie.
You join a team to do your best and WIN, not to allow others to kick your butt becuse "it's only fair..." Unless you live in a socialist country, you are taught to EXCEL, not to MEDIOCRE...
Where's the "mercy rule" in business competition?
You're getting too much market share, so what should you do? Have the government reset your selling prices higher to 'level the playing field for your competition'? Oh, wait... they already do that...
At some point, the "winning coach" should have realized the PR hazard he was chipping into and changed the entire tone of the game. They were going to win. Doubt was gone.
He could have had his team literally coach and help the inept team to develop their skills. That might have turned it into a source for better PR and maybe a sappy Hollywood flick, too, but that apparently doesn't cross the mind of coaches or players.
Ah, well, the media will figure some way to reward the incompetents for having 'stuck it out to the bitter end,' rather than acknowledging their limitations compared to the other team.
Everyone (should/must) go home with a trophy, right?
Real real-world teaching moment for everyone.
Feh!
Instead of best effort against best effort (no matter how mismatched) the winning team for all intents and purposes hopped on one foot for the last part of the game. That’s rude and a bit insulting to the opposing team.
I think a two-game suspension is a bit harsh, but hopefully he’s learned his lesson and won’t try to hold his team back next time.
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