earthworm
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A W is a W. I see no point in running up a score simply because it is doable.
The alternative? Pull your starters one at a time and substitute. Give the other members of the team/squad some playing time and experience.What is the alternative? To tell kids to stop doing their best when they are winning? Maybe to hand the ball over to the other team and say "Hey, you suck so bad that were are going to give you a pity point."
The alternative? Pull your starters one at a time and substitute. Give the other members of the team/squad some playing time and experience.
Towards the end of the season and playoff time, it won't matter a whit if you beat a terrible team by 10 or 100 points. What will matter is having your starters healthy with plenty of gas remaining in the tank and your bench players having some game experience and confidence.
This is the approach that the best coaches/managers take. Running up a score is unproductive on many different levels.
Assume that a youth sports team so completely outclasses its opposet that it can score at will, and while doing so, completely shut its opponent out..
Is it good or poor sportsmanship for the superior team to hold back and not run up the score?
Because of someting that happend over the weekend...
Assume that a youth sports team so completely outclasses its opposet that it can score at will, and while doing so, completely shut its opponent out..
Is it good or poor sportsmanship for the superior team to hold back and not run up the score?
Please 'splain your answer.
What is the alternative? To tell kids to stop doing their best when they are winning?
Maybe to hand the ball over to the other team and say "Hey, you suck so bad that were are going to give you a pity point."
Maybe some effort should be made to make the teams more even in the first place.
Maybe some effort should be made to make the teams more even in the first place.
Huh? If our school has a better pool of talent, you are saying what? That we should give the other team some of our players so that they can compete evenly?
Should the NBA have every team be equal? How does that even happen? There are only so many good players and coaches out there, in reality.
The NBA are not kiddo leagues
Huh? If our school has a better pool of talent, you are saying what? That we should give the other team some of our players so that they can compete evenly?
Should the NBA have every team be equal? How does that even happen? There are only so many good players and coaches out there, in reality.
There are owners/coaches/managers of professional sports franchises who have agreed that evening out talent among the teams is better for the sport.
Which, of course, is partially business-driven, but the principle still works the same way.
how would you arrange that?
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