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

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Could not have said it any better House. If that coach didn't like it he had every right to forfeit the game. What could Coach Wise do other than put in the 3rd stringers?
As a proud alumni of Mighty Jack Yates, "GO LIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Continue to bust em wide open!"

 

Story about the game from Ch 13. Fight broke out.

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/video?id=7203129

 

I don't think it is so clear cut. While yes you want to give your third stringers a chance to play hard at the sametime you want to win with class. If I was Yates' coach I probably wouldn't have told them to full court press so they could still play hard on their offense without going to the point of humiliating the other team on D.

 

I have to agree with this. Would I be upset if I was on or affiliated with the losing team? Sure. Is it the other coaches job to make me happy? Not in the least.

 

I don't think its so much a matter of making the other coach and team happy but it is a matter of teaching your players to win with class. IMO if the kids can't win with class they likely aren't going to be able to handle losing with class either. As much as highschool sports is about wins and losses we have to remember these are kids and part of a coach's job should be teaching them character.

 

the coach also has a responisbility to teach these kids some lessons in life. lets call a spade a spade, he took the opportunity to put his team in the record books. fine, that was his priority, but lets not act like he needed to get some third stringers ready for the playoffs

 

Would you be ok with the winning team being told to "Not score?"

 

Exactly. If you tell your kids to stop scoring, there's really no point of playing, what else can they do? Dribble around? Throw the other team the ball? Shoot a full court shot? I think they did everything right (playing hard) except the full court press. Watching the video, after every shot they full court press, is that necessary? i don't think so when you have a HUGE scoreboard on the other team. And the other team needs to start practicing how to PLAY DEFENSE! Worse defense ever. They were getting their ass kicked so hard that they didn't even want to try to play D anymore. The coach needs to be fired.

 

I liked the pregame interview when one kid said we goin for 200 tonight. Close. :grin:

Lets cut the BS they were going for it whether they be using 2nd or 3rd string or JV.

 

Great ass kicking, Yates.

 

Third stringers do get to play if any first or second stringers get hurt, which could happen in the playoffs.

In this game, the end of the bench should have seen big minutes in the first half. The Yates coach should have had his team dribble out the clock on each offensive possesion in the second half. The Lee coach should have done this as well.

 

Not scoring is not the issue...They pressed up 100-12 at Halftime. Run a normal offense and a normal defense and we are not having this discussion. The fact that the coach and principal came out before the season and "put everyone on notice" that they were looking to run up the score on everyone speaks pretty poorly to the administration. I know the coach and I think he is a good coach. He did not pull this crap at Hightower and he had the players to do it. Lanny Smith, Nic Wise, Michael Umeh all played big time D-1 ball but you didn't see them trying to pile on 150 points on Clements.

There is no doubt in my mind that the coach is feeling pressure from the fans and the neighborhood to stick it to everyone they play, but the coach has to be bigger than that and tell them to STFU. There's a right way to win, teach, and coach and I just don't think this game was a good example of that. Again let me repeat, Greg Wise is a good coach and I personally like him. I just don't think this was his finest hour.

 

Robert E. Lee? If that's the school that got rompt then they really had no business being out there. My middle school used to use their pool for swimming and what not and that place is ghetto.

Not to be racist but when I was growing up around that hood it used to be Mexican/Hispanic majority wise.

Probably still is and probably why they lost so bad...

Hate to be any of those players going back to class after that loss.

 

lol.. yeah.. so they were definitely running up the score... it is what it is

 

So you think pressing a team you're beating by 135 points is more likely to get them 'ready when it really matters' than playing against their own players in practice? Maybe the Rockets can schedule a game against UH so guys like Jermaine Taylor can get more p.t. in the second half and be ready when it really matters.

 

We had a really good team in 8th grade. Really good. After we beat a team by about 35, substituting freely, the opposing coach questioned the age of one of our players and demanded to see a birth certificate. This enraged our coach who took this as a slap at his integrity and basketball team. The next time we faced them, we played the top 8 players the entire game (I was about #12), ran a full court press the whole game, the player who had been the subject of the inquiry had 50 points, and we won 132-27. That's my only experience with something like this and we had to work very hard to get a 100 point cushion. (Of course, we did it without 3-pointers, which might have added a few points.)

After the game, our coach apologized to our team and said it would never happen again.

 

Sounds like the principal has his priorities straight. I wonder how Yates stacks up academically against other schools in Houston.

 

If I was the coach I would not have had them pressing at that point but I think this story is overblown. I'm sick of the sportsmanship talk in sports when teams get the score ran up on them.

 

I'm going to ask because I really want to know, and I'm not trying to be a smart ass. Have you ever seen this Yates team play? I haven't watched them at all this year so things may have changed, but in the past two seasons their trapping defense has been their offense. When they went to half court sets and slowed the game down they didn't look as good (better wings than bigs). They run-n-gun and create defensive havoc to score. So telling them not to press is essentially saying don't do anything we practice. And again, if your 3rd stringers are in what better way is there to prepare them to execute what you practice in a real game than by doing it in a real game? At some point those kids will be the starters, or God forbid a kid get hurt and one of them suddenly has to step up to the plate. It's also not fair to those kids (the benchwarmers) to have them bust their butts all throughout practice, only to get into a game and be told not to give it their all. Why should the Yates coach penalize his hardworking kids just because they are better?