Play weak, stay weak. laugh:!

I've always believed that if you believe you have a superior team - a state title contender - you should schedule out-of-region using some or all of the following guidelines:

 

1. One or more holiday tournaments against good competition. Gives an early indication of how a team responds to multiple games in a short span of time.

2. Schedule teams that play varying styles. Run and gun, pressure defense, patient half-court game, etc.

3. Rivalry games against OOR opponents.

4. Be willing to take on good competition on the road. Face time in some of the bigger venues will get you noticed.

5. Schedule a game, if possible, on the court where your regional tourney will be held. Minimizes the dreaded home court advantage that I hear so much about.

 

 

Again, not every game has to be versus a state-ranked squad. I'm not advocating a cupcake city schedule, but one that features variety, rivalry games, the willingness to travel and play excellent competition. But ultimately, the idea is to get to the big dance, and each program needs to determine how that gets accomplished given the team they have.

To me you have to balance it. Schedule some tough games, but the better the team, the more tough games I think you should schedule. You don't get better rolling over patsies week in and week out.

 

The only area a tough schedule can hurt you IMO is confidence. This isn't like CovCath a few years back in football, scheduling these monster games in such a physical sport like that where they got beat up and injured and were a shell of a team by the end of the year. In basketball if you can handle a tough schedule, go out there and do it. I flatly reject the notion that a tough schedule is only to prepare the players for college rather than to prepare them for a possible run at the end. Teams like Ballard, Trinity, or really anyone who comes out of the 7th may have a heck of a time just making it, but you can bet they'll be battle tested and ready for whatever comes their way. Will Shelby Valley be able to say the same thing when they finally run into a team capable of giving them a game?

I guess the only way to find out is come tournament time. They have been very focused as of late especially since the Ryle loss. For everyone who wants to see them get out and run, their scores have reflected it, no matter the oppponent.

Play weak, stay weak. laugh:!

 

Play strong and remain weak?:laugh::ylsuper:

Play strong and remain weak?:laugh::ylsuper:

 

You're implying a team is already weak to "stay weak." Your point was being a good team and scheduling tough and losing something by doing such.

 

No pain, no gain.