I sort of agree with you' but if you are obviously that superior to a team, you can sub quicker than that. Someone said moss only played three quarters. in a blowout like that it seems to be alot. also someone said she was coaching them to get ready for districts. A team can't learn anything in a game like this that will help them against a team like Ryle. Games like this cause players to start bad habits, because against quality opponents the same balls that they force into steals and easy baskets because they can take chances will end up being layups for quality teams like Ryle. Bad habits can become contagious when you get to use to dominating your competition. leaving starters in a games like this is just to allow your girls to pad there stats and players of Moss's caliber don't need to do that. last year when my daughter played at NCC half of there games were blowouts and Ron pulled the girls as soon as he felt they had a comfortable lead. Usually by half time and occassionally after the first quarter ( Holmes 25 pt lead after 1st quarter.approximately) as a parent I sometimes got frustrated with that., but Ron was also teaching more than basketball he was teaching sportsmanship and class.

I sort of agree with you' but if you are obviously that superior to a team, you can sub quicker than that. Someone said moss only played three quarters. in a blowout like that it seems to be alot. also someone said she was coaching them to get ready for districts. A team can't learn anything in a game like this that will help them against a team like Ryle. Games like this cause players to start bad habits, because against quality opponents the same balls that they force into steals and easy baskets because they can take chances will end up being layups for quality teams like Ryle. Bad habits can become contagious when you get to use to dominating your competition. leaving starters in a games like this is just to allow your girls to pad there stats and players of Moss's caliber don't need to do that. last year when my daughter played at NCC half of there games were blowouts and Ron pulled the girls as soon as he felt they had a comfortable lead. Usually by half time and occassionally after the first quarter ( Holmes 25 pt lead after 1st quarter.approximately) as a parent I sometimes got frustrated with that., but Ron was also teaching more than basketball he was teaching sportsmanship and class.

 

Moss played less than three quarters, but that really isn't new. That's about what she averaged last season. And if Coach Fookes had wanted to leave Moss in "to pad her stats" she certainly could have done that by not taking her out in the second quarter. I wasn't at the game but have been told by several people who were that Moss was on a mission and could have had 35 at the half if Fookes had wanted that. One of these days I suspect she will do that and let the chips fall where they may.

 

I wouldn't worry too much about Boone forming "bad habits" from games they win big simply because Coach Fookes won't let that happen. She abhors sloppy play and lack of effort and "bonehead" plays. Players who do such things generally get a quick trip to the bench.

 

Winning by a big margin early is a tough situation for a coach. I coached girls basketball a number of years ago and went through that on occasion. You can't simply pull all your starters quickly because they generally work harder and the most of all your players so they deserve to play. They need to play enough, even in blowouts, to keep sharp and to execute new stuff they have been practicing. You can't tell them to back off because that creates issues.

 

Sometimes when you do go with reserves they are still superior to the other team. So the same problems remain. I was not about to put reserves in who had worked hard and hadn't had the same opportunities to play as the starters and tell them to back off. Once a score got out of hand I would not press as much and would sometimes work on plays and defenses that we hadn't used much, but I let my team play. It's a tough situation I know and I didn't want to embarrass another team. If the situation was really bad sometimes my players themselves would find ways to "take it easy". I had no problem with that.

I sort of agree with you' but if you are obviously that superior to a team, you can sub quicker than that. Someone said moss only played three quarters. in a blowout like that it seems to be alot. also someone said she was coaching them to get ready for districts. A team can't learn anything in a game like this that will help them against a team like Ryle. Games like this cause players to start bad habits, because against quality opponents the same balls that they force into steals and easy baskets because they can take chances will end up being layups for quality teams like Ryle. Bad habits can become contagious when you get to use to dominating your competition. leaving starters in a games like this is just to allow your girls to pad there stats and players of Moss's caliber don't need to do that. last year when my daughter played at NCC half of there games were blowouts and Ron pulled the girls as soon as he felt they had a comfortable lead. Usually by half time and occassionally after the first quarter ( Holmes 25 pt lead after 1st quarter.approximately) as a parent I sometimes got frustrated with that., but Ron was also teaching more than basketball he was teaching sportsmanship and class.

 

If a team can't learn anything during blowout's then the coaching is subpar. I always figured blowouts are a great time to teach and work on perfecting multiple fullcourt & halfcourt defenses & offenses as well as developing young players.

 

This is not her first rodeo so I assume she has it figured out. She's the best at what she does and I highly doubt Ron will agree with your comment that "appears" to indicate she teaches bad sportsmanship and has no class.

 

Lastly, it seems that neither of us were at the game so we really are both speculating anyway.

I think people should stop whining that Coach Fookes ran up the score. If you don't like getting beat that bad don't schedule a team that you know will kill you.

Moss played less than three quarters, but that really isn't new. That's about what she averaged last season. And if Coach Fookes had wanted to leave Moss in "to pad her stats" she certainly could have done that by not taking her out in the second quarter. I wasn't at the game but have been told by several people who were that Moss was on a mission and could have had 35 at the half if Fookes had wanted that. One of these days I suspect she will do that and let the chips fall where they may.

 

I wouldn't worry too much about Boone forming "bad habits" from games they win big simply because Coach Fookes won't let that happen. She abhors sloppy play and lack of effort and "bonehead" plays. Players who do such things generally get a quick trip to the bench.

 

Winning by a big margin early is a tough situation for a coach. I coached girls basketball a number of years ago and went through that on occasion. You can't simply pull all your starters quickly because they generally work harder and the most of all your players so they deserve to play. They need to play enough, even in blowouts, to keep sharp and to execute new stuff they have been practicing. You can't tell them to back off because that creates issues.

 

Sometimes when you do go with reserves they are still superior to the other team. So the same problems remain. I was not about to put reserves in who had worked hard and hadn't had the same opportunities to play as the starters and tell them to back off. Once a score got out of hand I would not press as much and would sometimes work on plays and defenses that we hadn't used much, but I let my team play. It's a tough situation I know and I didn't want to embarrass another team. If the situation was really bad sometimes my players themselves would find ways to "take it easy". I had no problem with that.

 

Well said and as a coach I totally agree.