[Texas State Record] Yates annihilates Lee High School 170-35

There are other aspects to basketball besides the press, so why not focus on the parts of the game you aren't as good at? It's going to help them prepare for tougher opponents. That doesn't mean you stop playing hard, it means you use the time to make your team better. NBA teams don't bring in the 3rd string at the end of blowouts because of sportsmanship. They do it to rest and prevent injury to starters, as well as give their bench some needed experience. That doesn't completely apply as well here since the bench was playing much of the game, but I think the thought of using the time to improve your tean is still valid.

Seriously, if these guys are destined to play college ball, you're giving them tools they're going to need. At that level, winning is very important, but the coach should be a teacher first.

And no, I don't care for the way it looks like the losing coach handled things either. You don't quit, and you get on your players for not playing tough despite the score and/or being poor losers.

 

unlrelated but related to Lee High School....

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/hotstories/6801520.html

sounds like a crappy place.

 

There were no sports lessons here. The only lesson we all learned is the Yates coach is a jerk.

Seriously. You're up by 100 points. Just tell your kids to run the clock down. Even professionals do that. Why is it crazy to tell your high school kids to mimic the pro's in this regard?

Why? Cause the coach is a jerk. Simple as that.

 

If the coach at Yates wants to impress people then he should let us know the SAT scores for his basketball players. Let's see what kind of student athletes he's developed here.

 

bad coaching on Lee side... learn to break the press. those players didnt even play defense, in that video.

on yates side... doesnt it make sense to work on weak areas of your game even against scrubs? like half court sets and telling your players 4-5 passes before even shooting.

 

The Yates team goal was to score 200 points. It's damn obvious you only do that by running up the score against a bad team.

Greg Wise should be ashamed of himself for running the score up. He could have used that game as an opportunity to run offensive sets instead of getting dunks off steals from a press defense.

 

[to Kevin] You're such a racist .

+Rep, though.

 

Yes, game > practice.

 

SAT scores are parents', teachers' and administrators' responsibility, not the coaches. Coaches make the best of a bad situation: giving young, aggressive men something to focus on other than unprotected sex, cheap drugs or teh vi-o-lence. And that's irrespective of class or race (just watch Cruel Intentions 2, Swimfan or Less Than Zero).

 

not when the players on the other team are vastly inferior in size and talent. that's like saying the rockets would get more out of playing a game against rice instead of practicing with other nba players.

i think some of you are confused about the talent level of these teams or assume since they are playing each other, the teams should be somewhat equitable. it's not. i keep hearing people complaining about the coaching. you can't coach talent or size.

you people would root for shaq to dunk on corky. you people suck.

 

Just caught Lee's coach on the radio this morning. He was whining about Yates not allowing his team to use Yates' basketballs during warm-ups and his boys being forced to sit higher in the stands following the fracas than the JY boys. The host said that his statements could be perceived as whining or sour grapes. He then tried to backtrack with the classic line, "I'm not sayin, I'm just sayin".

He sounded like a total clown.

 

We've already heard that the principal has been talking about how they're going to be running the score up on people this year (btw, if you have a problem with that, you're a wuss).

Something tells me the SAT scores wouldn't be all that impressive, going by the school's priorities.

 

Wait, why didn't Corky's coach train him better on preventing dunks?

 

IMO the extreme analogies weaken the point being made by those who think Yates is in the wrong.

This wasn't the Rockets vs. UH or Rice. This wasn't Shaq vs. Corky. This even wasn't the Dallas area girls game in which the opponent was a school for the learning disabled.

This was two 4A varsity squads who on paper "should" be equal. Now you can bash Yates for running up the score.

 

the fact that you have to put "should" in quotes should tell you something. just because they have the same enrollment doesn't mean they're anywhere close to the same in talent level. lee doesn't even field a football team which should tell you something.

 

I just want to know, why aren't people going for hard fouls, especially for high flying team like that, a couple of scary moments goes a long way in keeping things tempered.

 

Actually Judo not Karate.

For me when one of my players are facing a significantly weaker oponent the most advice I've given them is to not get hurt and don't hurt the other guy. Judo doesn't quite work like basketball where you have a clock since you can win at anytime with a full point throw (equivalent of a TKO), pin, or submission. I did chew out one of my players though who appeared to be showboating on a much weaker player though once.

The main thing though that I do is as much as I can I don't allow my better players to compete against much weaker competition.

When I was competing in college my previous coach would tell me when sparring with weaker opponents to work on a particular weakness, such as sparring only left handed, although he never told me to do this during competition.

 

If the other team is that bad, running sets is pointless. Why can't people just accept the fact that the losing team had no business playing bball. Go play against girls if they want their level of competition because the effort I saw in the video was pathetic. They handle the ball worse than Ariza.

 

Exactly.
One turn of Bad Sportsmanship
Deserves another

Weaping and Sewing et al

Rocket River

 

The state should just institute a mercy rule....something like if you are 40 or more points down in the 4th quarter, the game is ended.

DD