http://www.wkyc.com/sports/high-school/gilmour-girls-basketball-defeats-neo-prep-108-1/46795423

Unsportsmanlike or respecting their opponent by playing hard the entire time?

What say you?

Plenty of lopsided girls tourney games.

Tri-Village 82
Springfield 8

Hiland 93
Toronto 9

Fairfield Christian 80
Gahanna Christian 9

Africentric 75
Mt Gilead 5

Ursuline 107
E Palestine 30

Tipp City 85
Greenon 14

Carroll 80
Belmont 8

Alter 85
Dunbar 15

Revere 70
MLK 7

McKinley 84
Garfield 6

Twinsburg 91
Gar Heights 13

Whitmer 87
Waite 11

Lots more in the 50-60 point victory margin.

Not justifying 108-1.....but there's a huge disparity between the really good and really bad, especially in girls basketball in D3 and D4 it seems

I wanna automatically say why?!?!?! And say it's wrong, BUT, I coached in a girls soccer game this last fall where we only let our starters play 20 minutes and we were up 12-0. In that 20 minutes we had pass rules, only shots off headers, only shots off volleys.. we were mixing it up. Playing defensive players on offense. Then we let the jv finish the game with the same rules. Won 16-0. After the game as we are shaking hands, their coach said we were disrespectful..
So I understand both sides... it's so hard sometimes to do the right thing and play the right way. And sometimes there is no right way.


If I were coaching basketball and up say 40 or 50 to 1, I'd tell them only 1 shot per minute. Pass it around, run the offense, maybe so many passes before a shot. The types of things.


As a player I was part of 16, 14, 14, 12, 10-0 losses. I never once remember thinking though that the other team was wrong. I still played hard and just tried to score. Maybe parents had a problem with it, but I never personally did.

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Crap, I forgot to add this, lost my train of thought. Later on the year we played a first year team. This time we scored less and made even more rules. AND in the line shaking hands, we were again told we were wrong.... because we went easy. Then their coach snubbed our kids in District voting.

Soooo, really it can be said there is no wrong or right way to do it

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Saw discussion on Yappi about this game and a couple comments from people that were there. Other team is a charter school in first year and players were terrible- could not even dribble, did not know where to line up, most shot attempts did not even hit rim, played zone and did not move or play defense, etc. They said starters only played first qtr. So from their prespective, coach did not try to run it up.

I officiate basketball now in NC and they use a running clock rule in the second half if lead is > 40 pts. I think OH should institute this rule and it would cut down a little on these blowout scores.

arnie palmer;1782183 wrote:...
I officiate basketball now in NC and they use a running clock rule in the second half if lead is > 40 pts. I think OH should institute this rule and it would cut down a little on these blowout scores.

The OHSAA does it in football. Games like this seems like would influence them to consider doing the same inbasketball.

Midstate01;1782173 wrote:Crap, I forgot to add this, lost my train of thought. Later on the year we played a first year team. This time we scored less and made even more rules. AND in the line shaking hands, we were again told we were wrong.... because we went easy. Then their coach snubbed our kids in District voting.

Soooo, really it can be said there is no wrong or right way to do it

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arnie palmer;1782183 wrote:Saw discussion on Yappi about this game and a couple comments from people that were there. Other team is a charter school in first year and players were terrible- could not even dribble, did not know where to line up, most shot attempts did not even hit rim, played zone and did not move or play defense, etc. They said starters only played first qtr. So from their prespective, coach did not try to run it up.

I officiate basketball now in NC and they use a running clock rule in the second half if lead is > 40 pts. I think OH should institute this rule and it would cut down a little on these blowout scores.

I was just reading that Yappi thread. To tie it in to what Midstate is saying, I think what a lot of people there don't seem to understand is that, in the minds of people trying to compete in a sport, not trying because you don't have to is just insulting as heck. To my perspective, if you're against an outmatched team and you (a) aren't pressing, (b) aren't going pure run-and-gun and (c) are playing everyone who is suited while giving your back-of-the-bench kids all the time you can, you have nothing to answer for, regardless of what the final score is.

If you're doing things to intentionally run up the score, you're not showing sportsmanship, but on the other hand, if you're going out of your way to not score by making up "hold the ball this long" or "pass this many times before shooting" rules, you're essentially patronizing the other team by telling them they aren't good enough for you to actually try against.