[Rick Reily] Someone Stop This Man (Yates' Greg Wise)

Who cares?

You want class, go back to school.

Never really been a guy that gave a damn about running up score unless it was completely against the rules (like Madden video game leagues that frown on it...and thats not real)...So you see my stance.

If you don't like it, stop em, or quit.

 

I have no exception to a fair and square beatdown, but when your team is up by more than 30 and you are fouling just to get a scoring record.

That is the definition of a douchebag move.

 

Rick Reilly:

 

Perhaps where class is defined as being an a-hole.

 

My view hasn't changed at all. The bench players practice hard and sacrifice just like the starters. When they get into the game, it's not fair to tell them not to do their best. If your kid was a 2nd or 3rd stringer would you not be pissed if he got in the game and the coach just told him to throw the ball around or don't do what he has been taught, etc? That's not fair to the Yates players, and they shouldn't be penalized for being better than other schools. If you want him to make his kids lollygag around on the court and not really "play", then forfeit your damn self.

And Reilly says the backups get to hone their skills in practice??? Is that a legit argument....I mean really. Practice is practice....a game is a game. Either come prepared to play the game or don't play.

Lastly, the last time Yates did let up it cost them a shot at the title (2 years ago against Wheatley, when they blew a near 10 point lead in the last minute of the game).

 

This is the first time EVER that I've rooted for the non-houston team. I hope Yates loses its a$$ to The Colony this weekend..if they've got NO respect for anybody else, then I have No respect for them. If the UTAH JAZZ were doing this, you'd all be talking smack about them. A win is a win...there is absolutely no reason to run up a score like they've been doing all year.

 

So you should have your backups play the full court press the entire game even though you are destroying your opponent?

I call b.s. on that

Also, the time out usage is bush league as well.

 

Doing crap like fouling, wasting timeouts, and full court press with a gigantic lead and your bench warmers in the game is seriously cheap and uncalled for. If that is happening, then f*** this guy.

 

So I should limit what I do because the other team is worse? My 2nd and 3rd stringers shouldn't try to execute what we practice because the other team is worse? What if a starter gets hurt? What if someone gets in foul trouble? What about when all of the seniors graduate....should I limit the development that my younger kids can get, playing a style that leads us to dominance, because the other team sucks?

Riddle me this....if you suck that bad, as to where we are playing the game but my players are really just exposing themselves to injury by playing around with you....then why even play the game. Why don't you just forfeit? Why is the onus on me to reign my kids back?

I agree the time out usage is bushleague if that truly happened. If so, that was an a-hole move. But having your backup players give it their all, doing what you practice, is not. Trying to set records is not. If so then don't have them. I don't see anyone blasting the UCONN women for winning so many games in a row. I don't believe we told Phelps or Bolt to not break any records in the Olympics. I actually recall Bolt catching hell for not "doing his best". Etc.

 

I get it...you're a prick

 

If you are so concerned about the backups getting quality time, bench the starters five minutes into the game after you are already up by 20. Every team I was on one of the first things we learned was the four corners.

I was on a team where, when the coach knew we were facing a crappy opponent, he started the scrubs. That's what you should do if you are so concerned about your third stringers. If you wait until you are up by fifty or seventy to put in the scrubs, arguments about their welfare are crap and nothing more than pretense.

 

Your post is awesome, because your thesis seems to be, "Greg Wise's son is a good basketball player and I know him and I'm a little star struck. Therefore Greg Wise is a superior human being and humble and honest coach."

The post is essentially nonsensical.

 

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Nic Wise went to my high school (Kingwood) when i was a freshman (he was a senior at the time). We were nationally ranked for three years and went to the state championship each of those years. We were the first Class 5A team to reach three consecutive state championship games. The team that won the state championship that year was ridiculously stacked. Nic was probably the best basketball player I have seen who is not in the NBA. Mike Singletary the forward on Texas Tech (scored 29 consecutive points in that game last year) was also on that team. They both have had pretty good college success. I would say that Nic's skill level plus basketball IQ is NBA level. Sadly, he's only about 5-10. If he was 5 inches taller, he'd be a lock for the NBA draft.

 

Have you ever seen Yates play? The starters are out of the game fairly early in some instances.

The problem is they play in a crap division, against schools (like Lee) that they just shouldn't be playing against. I say that to say in some games, the talent and coaching level is so wide that 20-0 can happen in a very short period of time.

By the way, pulling your starters early all the time doesn't exactly prepare them for when they have to play heavy minutes (for example, they didn't just blitz through the state tourney last year). Your solution still penalizes Yates for being better.

No one has answered my question. If you don't want Yates to play at their best because they are mopping you, then why not just forfiet? That is an option. Why put the onos on the better team to basically quit?

 

I wish I would have made it out to a game this year. Just how does a team lose by 100+ pts. In a 40 minute ame?

Sure it was bushleague but I wish I could have seen that.... Seriously how does that happen...

 

If by "penalizing" you mean, "teaching your players to act like good, humble human beings", then yes it is penalizing them. News flash - high schools have sports in the first place because it is supposed to teach important life lessons to the students. "F you, I'm getting mine." doesn't qualify as an important life lesson. If that is what it is about, Yeats should disband all athletics and have their students spend their time hitting the books so they don't end up being the greatest high school basketball players ever to work at McDonalds once they graduate.

Your ideology leads to players taking 'roids and growth hormone, coaches paying players to change schools, and people going Tonya Harding on each other. Win at all costs, baby!

And no team ever "learned" to play heavy minutes in the game. It comes from working hard every day in practice. That statement is a typical example of the sort of self-serving BS logic that narcissistic douche bags use to pretend they are acting from a noble place.

 

Yates should play 5A teams.

 

Leave out the wink, douche.
Apparently, you're one of those... "I don't mean to be a d1ck but... -proceeds to act like a d1ck-". If you're going to say it just say it. Don't p***y out by prefacing it or adding emoticons.