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A 100-0 win isn't christ like?

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  • FyreWulffFyreWulff YouRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited January 2009
    I know it's in some high school football leagues. edit: Mercy rule, that is.

    I want to know how long this team's quarters are though, so I can use math to see how often they were scoring points.

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  • Nova_CNova_C I have the need The need for speedRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    FyreWulff wrote: »
    See, this is my issue. There's running up the score. And then there's intentionally sucking, which is always very obvious and would make the other kids feel like shit.

    They were up 59-0 at half time. So in half the game the other team hadn't scored a single basket. They went back and nearly doubled their score. That doesn't sound like they backed off at all. Isn't there a middle ground between running up the score and giving up?

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  • HamHamJHamHamJ Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Nova_C wrote: »
    HamHamJ wrote: »
    Nova_C wrote: »
    That's correct - the school was for learning disabilities, not physical (As far as I know).

    However, the total pool of female students was 20. Many of the players were playing in their first (And now only) game.

    If you quite something just because you lose one game, no matter how badly, you probably shouldn't be playing in the first place.

    They didn't quit - they were pulled from the league.

    I didn't see that in the OP?

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  • DevoutlyApatheticDevoutlyApathetic Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    gundam470 wrote: »
    Based on what I've heard they scored 12 points in the fourth quarter. That's not exactly running it up. Not sure about the press.

    The coach got fired only after he spoke out against the apology. It wasn't the action but his opinion he got fired for. The real person at fault is the person responsible for scheduling this game.

    12 points in the 4th quarter means it was 88-0 after three and from the versions of the story i read, they didn't back off until they reached 100. It was running up the score pure and simple.

    --

    Ok, seriously I'm out.

    ....12 points in 8 minutes is really rather low, especially the last 8 minutes of a basketball game.

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  • FyreWulffFyreWulff YouRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited January 2009
    Yes, it's called putting in your third stringers, and if his third stringers were still scoring like that, well, there's not anything you can really do.

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  • Nova_CNova_C I have the need The need for speedRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    HamHamJ wrote: »
    Nova_C wrote: »
    HamHamJ wrote: »
    Nova_C wrote: »
    That's correct - the school was for learning disabilities, not physical (As far as I know).

    However, the total pool of female students was 20. Many of the players were playing in their first (And now only) game.

    If you quite something just because you lose one game, no matter how badly, you probably shouldn't be playing in the first place.

    They didn't quit - they were pulled from the league.

    I didn't see that in the OP?

    There are other sources of information than the OP. I didn't see the OP saying any of the girls quit either, but you were happy to leap to that assumption.

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  • DevoutlyApatheticDevoutlyApathetic Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Nova_C wrote: »
    FyreWulff wrote: »
    See, this is my issue. There's running up the score. And then there's intentionally sucking, which is always very obvious and would make the other kids feel like shit.

    They were up 59-0 at half time. So in half the game the other team hadn't scored a single basket. They went back and nearly doubled their score. That doesn't sound like they backed off at all. Isn't there a middle ground between running up the score and giving up?

    Typically it's aggression level. I'd agree that if they were doing the intentionally fouls if another player got near the basket and all that clock management shit it's a bit much.

    However you seem to be assuming that the gross mismatch in skills wasn't apparent very early on. 59 points might have been 2 minutes of hard play followed by 14 of "What the fuck are we doing here?"

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  • RentRent I'm always right Fuckin' deal with itRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Quid wrote: »
    Whoo Dallas!

    This made me laugh and laugh and laugh

    In response to the OP: Eh. Game shouldn't have happened. I personally don't believe that my opponents should play easier just to make me feel better, that's more humiliating than just running up the score

    But that's just me
    Qingu wrote: »
    I disagree that the win was not Christlike.

    We are talking about a man who, instead of just politely and inconspicuously exorcizing a demon, has to show off by sending it into a bunch of pigs and then sending the pigs over a fucking cliff.

    Jesus Christ ran up the pig-off-the-cliff score in his battle against Legion. Why shouldn't these girls run up the score against some retarded basketball players?
    I should be offended but goddamn this is funny

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  • HamHamJHamHamJ Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Nova_C wrote: »
    HamHamJ wrote: »
    Nova_C wrote: »
    HamHamJ wrote: »
    Nova_C wrote: »
    That's correct - the school was for learning disabilities, not physical (As far as I know).

    However, the total pool of female students was 20. Many of the players were playing in their first (And now only) game.

    If you quite something just because you lose one game, no matter how badly, you probably shouldn't be playing in the first place.

    They didn't quit - they were pulled from the league.

    I didn't see that in the OP?

    There are other sources of information than the OP. I didn't see the OP saying any of the girls quit either, but you were happy to leap to that assumption.

    It seemed like the logical implication of your statement.

    Sports aren't really my thing. I don't even know how leagues work.

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  • BubbaTBubbaT Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    FyreWulff wrote: »
    Well it's basically a no win situation, and we're missing information. Was he playing first stringers til the end of the game, or did he let everyone on the team play?

    If he had asked to end the game early, you can bet that people would have seen it as an insult, too. "Oh, you just want to end it because you feel the special kids should just go home"

    No, the bench was emptied. And they did call off the dogs, they only scored 12 points in the 4th quarter.

    As someone who's been on the wrong end of some blowouts before (losing a basketball 72-12) - as long as you're on the floor, you compete. The idea that an opponent's going to start dogging out of pity is insulting to the game and the losing team, just as much as if the winning team were showboating.

    It's basically the winning team saying "Hey, you losers aren't worth our full effort. We don't even have to try in order to beat you, so we won't."

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  • OptimusZedOptimusZed Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    FyreWulff wrote: »
    Yes, it's called putting in your third stringers, and if his third stringers were still scoring like that, well, there's not anything you can really do.
    I've seen it elsewhere that this guy was running a press nearly the entire game.

    If that's at all accurate, he's a dick beyond my level of comprehension.

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  • mcdermottmcdermott Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Nova_C wrote: »
    FyreWulff wrote: »
    See, this is my issue. There's running up the score. And then there's intentionally sucking, which is always very obvious and would make the other kids feel like shit.

    They were up 59-0 at half time. So in half the game the other team hadn't scored a single basket. They went back and nearly doubled their score. That doesn't sound like they backed off at all. Isn't there a middle ground between running up the score and giving up?

    Like, for instance, not going for any more 3-pointers? Hasn't anybody heard of point-shaving? It's perfectly possible to subtly reduce the margin of victory without "throwing" the game or intentionally "sucking." Sure, it'd still be a blowout but perhaps not 100-0.



    This reminds me of my high school's first season playing football (it was a new school)...for whatever reason we were playing 5A varsity football despite having something like 100 seniors, and not that many more juniors (students who had begun at another school in the district were given the option to remain...our freshman class was more like 500).

    So we had sophomores and maybe some freshmen composing a lot of our team.

    It was ugly.

    Most of our losses were of the 50+ to <10 variety, and after a few games half our team was on crutches. They dropped us to JV. The cool part? The school that had chosen us for an easy homecoming win was all pissed off that now they didn't get to play a varsity game, so they found some way to drop half their varsity players down for homecoming or some shit. That wasn't pretty either.

    Then there was a friend's brother, who basically told us before his school played ours that he was going to see how many of our players he could hurt in a single game. High school sports can be pretty fucked up.

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  • MedopineMedopine __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2009
    Medopine wrote: »
    kdrudy wrote: »
    I've heard about this but I honestly want more information on how the game was played. It makes a difference if the players were playing aggresively the whole game or not, if all his players played in the game, what type of shots his players were taking during the game. You can just completely outclass the team you are playing against and end up with a lopsided score. If they were playing respectful and ended up with that score, fair enough, if they weren't then I don't feel bad about the guy being let go for it.

    Lots of three pointers, apparently.

    I'm rather confused what you would have the team do. Do the absolute minimum required to avoid the time based penalties then pass the ball to the other team? That's more disrespectful to the other team than simply treating them like real opposition.

    I don't understand why the game happened in the first place but if it was going to happen treating your opponent with kid gloves is a fuck ton more discriminatory than engaging them like real competition.
    It's possible to go at 80% or 50% of your normal aggressiveness on offense and how hard you are playing defense without just standing aside and letting them shoot layups. I think it's pretty disrespectful to run up the score and act like you're doing something amazing when you're really just obviously outclassing the other side.

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  • Nova_CNova_C I have the need The need for speedRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Nova_C wrote: »
    FyreWulff wrote: »
    See, this is my issue. There's running up the score. And then there's intentionally sucking, which is always very obvious and would make the other kids feel like shit.

    They were up 59-0 at half time. So in half the game the other team hadn't scored a single basket. They went back and nearly doubled their score. That doesn't sound like they backed off at all. Isn't there a middle ground between running up the score and giving up?

    Typically it's aggression level. I'd agree that if they were doing the intentionally fouls if another player got near the basket and all that clock management shit it's a bit much.

    However you seem to be assuming that the gross mismatch in skills wasn't apparent very early on. 59 points might have been 2 minutes of hard play followed by 14 of "What the fuck are we doing here?"

    Is it just me, or are people not reading this thread?

    The crowd and the assistant coach were driving them to score 100 points in a single game. That doesn't sound at all like what you suggest.

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  • FyreWulffFyreWulff YouRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited January 2009
    Which is why it'd be great if we had more information on the game. It all really depends on how the game was played, not the final score.

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  • MedopineMedopine __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2009
    OptimusZed wrote: »
    FyreWulff wrote: »
    Yes, it's called putting in your third stringers, and if his third stringers were still scoring like that, well, there's not anything you can really do.
    I've seen it elsewhere that this guy was running a press nearly the entire game.

    If that's at all accurate, he's a dick beyond my level of comprehension.

    Wow, that's fucking terrible.

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  • matisyahumatisyahu Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Medopine wrote: »
    kdrudy wrote: »
    I've heard about this but I honestly want more information on how the game was played. It makes a difference if the players were playing aggresively the whole game or not, if all his players played in the game, what type of shots his players were taking during the game. You can just completely outclass the team you are playing against and end up with a lopsided score. If they were playing respectful and ended up with that score, fair enough, if they weren't then I don't feel bad about the guy being let go for it.

    Lots of three pointers, apparently.

    I'm rather confused what you would have the team do. Do the absolute minimum required to avoid the time based penalties then pass the ball to the other team? That's more disrespectful to the other team than simply treating them like real opposition.

    I don't understand why the game happened in the first place but if it was going to happen treating your opponent with kid gloves is a fuck ton more discriminatory than engaging them like real competition.

    Well they were playing a full court press for most of the game, which is #1 indication that this was a major dick move. Playing half court D (which is what most teams do for most of most games) would have been nice. Also, raining down trey balls like an angry god when you're up by 60 might be in poor taste. Slow down the fast break, run some plays and get some layups. It's hard not to score when you're playing people that bad, but it's also hard to be any MORE of a dick than this team was.

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  • MedopineMedopine __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2009
    BubbaT wrote: »
    FyreWulff wrote: »
    Well it's basically a no win situation, and we're missing information. Was he playing first stringers til the end of the game, or did he let everyone on the team play?

    If he had asked to end the game early, you can bet that people would have seen it as an insult, too. "Oh, you just want to end it because you feel the special kids should just go home"

    No, the bench was emptied. And they did call off the dogs, they only scored 12 points in the 4th quarter.

    As someone who's been on the wrong end of some blowouts before (losing a basketball 72-12) - as long as you're on the floor, you compete. The idea that an opponent's going to start dogging out of pity is insulting to the game and the losing team, just as much as if the winning team were showboating.

    It's basically the winning team saying "Hey, you losers aren't worth our full effort. We don't even have to try in order to beat you, so we won't."

    Or saying "hey this might be more fun for your side if the competition level was a bit less inequitable. maybe we won't run our full court press on every possession"

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  • DevoutlyApatheticDevoutlyApathetic Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Medopine wrote: »
    It's possible to go at 80% or 50% of your normal aggressiveness on offense and how hard you are playing defense without just standing aside and letting them shoot layups. I think it's pretty disrespectful to run up the score and act like you're doing something amazing when you're really just obviously outclassing the other side.

    I agree with you on the "Amazing" part but you run a fine line with not giving your all between being polite and being patronizing. Assuming these other kids are stupid (unperceptive of others emotional states) because they're handicapped is pretty insulting.
    Nova_C wrote: »
    Is it just me, or are people not reading this thread?

    The crowd and the assistant coach were driving them to score 100 points in a single game. That doesn't sound at all like what you suggest.

    Groups of people are stupid assholes. I'd be kinda shocked if the crowd didn't.

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  • Nova_CNova_C I have the need The need for speedRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    BubbaT wrote: »
    FyreWulff wrote: »
    Well it's basically a no win situation, and we're missing information. Was he playing first stringers til the end of the game, or did he let everyone on the team play?

    If he had asked to end the game early, you can bet that people would have seen it as an insult, too. "Oh, you just want to end it because you feel the special kids should just go home"

    No, the bench was emptied. And they did call off the dogs, they only scored 12 points in the 4th quarter.

    As someone who's been on the wrong end of some blowouts before (losing a basketball 72-12) - as long as you're on the floor, you compete. The idea that an opponent's going to start dogging out of pity is insulting to the game and the losing team, just as much as if the winning team were showboating.

    It's basically the winning team saying "Hey, you losers aren't worth our full effort. We don't even have to try in order to beat you, so we won't."

    They called off the dogs, as you say, after reaching the goal of scoring 100 points in a single game. I'd call that showboating, but whatever. It seems like there isn't a middle ground between continuing to demolish an already beaten opponent and giving up altogether.

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  • saint2esaint2e Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    On the actual issue, if they were running up the score, that's horrible. They should be teaching hard work, fair play and sportsmanship stuff to the players as well as basketball skills.

    I would've thought at a Christian school there would be even more emphasis on the sportsmanship stuff, but apparently that's not the case.

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  • VariableVariable Mouth Congress Stroke Me Lady FameRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Nova_C wrote: »
    Variable wrote: »
    since the matchup did happen, the point where it becomes wrong wrong wrong wrong is the running up of the score, which they did. you play to win, but it's not like this is a professional...

    Usually when there are blowouts in NHL games, you can see the winning team back off and stop pressing for scoring chances, only scoring when they'd have to deliberately not score. And that's professional sports.

    hockey you can hold the puck and be winning by not letting the other team score. in basketball you can onlu hold the ball for so long (assuming regular rules)

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  • QinguQingu Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    saint2e wrote: »
    Qingu wrote: »
    I disagree that the win was not Christlike.

    We are talking about a man who, instead of just politely and inconspicuously exorcizing a demon, has to show off by sending it into a bunch of pigs and then sending the pigs over a fucking cliff.

    Jesus Christ ran up the pig-off-the-cliff score in his battle against Legion. Why shouldn't these girls run up the score against some retarded basketball players?

    I literally laughed out loud at this post because this is so Qingu.

    BTW, the demons asked Jesus to have mercy on them and put them into the pigs. Also, Jesus asked his disciples, folks he healed, etc. to not spread it around that he was the "S-O-N" of "G-O-D" *wink wink, nudge nudge*

    Thanks for the laugh, though.
    He tricked the fucking demons though! You think the demons WANTED to get their pig-possessing asses ran off the cliff? The whole point of the story is how badass Jesus is for totally fucking over this annoying multidemon.

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  • RentRent I'm always right Fuckin' deal with itRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Qingu wrote: »
    He tricked the fucking demons though! You think the demons WANTED to get their pig-possessing asses ran off the cliff? The whole point of the story is how badass Jesus is for totally fucking over this annoying multidemon.
    We already new Jesus was a badass
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWuji6TADXM

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  • SentrySentry Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    The winning school didn't even pull their starters unil they were like, 88 points ahead.

    So, like 3/4ths of the way through the game. This seemed incredibly deliberate. They were clearly stat running.

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  • QinguQingu Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I hope that's not "Jesus Christ: Vampire Slayer."

    Shit was, not exaggerating, the most disappointing movie I've ever seen in my entire life.

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  • mcdermottmcdermott Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    They called off the dogs, as you say, after reaching the goal of scoring 100 points in a single game. I'd call that showboating, but whatever. It seems like there isn't a middle ground between continuing to demolish an already beaten opponent and giving up altogether.

    Seriously, think about it for a second...what are the odds that they'd manage to score exactly 100 points (I presume that was the actual score, from the OP) if they weren't intentionally running the score to that point?

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  • RentRent I'm always right Fuckin' deal with itRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Qingu wrote: »
    I hope that's not "Jesus Christ: Vampire Slayer."

    Shit was, not exaggerating, the most disappointing movie I've ever seen in my entire life.

    It's the Passion of the Christ 2
    You should watch it dude it's pretty friggin' hilarious

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  • saint2esaint2e Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Rent wrote: »
    Qingu wrote: »
    I hope that's not "Jesus Christ: Vampire Slayer."

    Shit was, not exaggerating, the most disappointing movie I've ever seen in my entire life.

    It's the Passion of the Christ 2
    You should watch it dude it's pretty friggin' hilarious

    Let he who is without sin kick the first ass

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  • BubbaTBubbaT Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Nova_C wrote: »
    mcdermott wrote: »
    Don't teams with huge leads in professional sports generally back off just to avoid the risk of pointless injuries, though? Doesn't seem like it'd be an issue here.

    I hadn't thought of that.

    Part of it's also because pro players have idiotic notions of machismo that somehow equate losing by 30 to insulting each other's manhood, which leads to fights and cheap shots.

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  • MedopineMedopine __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2009
    Medopine wrote: »
    It's possible to go at 80% or 50% of your normal aggressiveness on offense and how hard you are playing defense without just standing aside and letting them shoot layups. I think it's pretty disrespectful to run up the score and act like you're doing something amazing when you're really just obviously outclassing the other side.

    I agree with you on the "Amazing" part but you run a fine line with not giving your all between being polite and being patronizing. Assuming these other kids are stupid (unperceptive of others emotional states) because they're handicapped is pretty insulting.

    What? Who said that?

    I'm talking about basketball ability here. The fact that the other side had learning disabilities probably doesn't have much to do with why they weren't a very good basketball team, and it's kinda irrelevant to me.

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  • mcdermottmcdermott Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Medopine wrote: »
    Medopine wrote: »
    It's possible to go at 80% or 50% of your normal aggressiveness on offense and how hard you are playing defense without just standing aside and letting them shoot layups. I think it's pretty disrespectful to run up the score and act like you're doing something amazing when you're really just obviously outclassing the other side.

    I agree with you on the "Amazing" part but you run a fine line with not giving your all between being polite and being patronizing. Assuming these other kids are stupid (unperceptive of others emotional states) because they're handicapped is pretty insulting.

    What? Who said that?

    I'm talking about basketball ability here. The fact that the other side had learning disabilities probably doesn't have much to do with why they weren't a very good basketball team, and it's kinda irrelevant to me.

    He's saying that you're implying that the other team wouldn't realize that the winning team was going easy on them.

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  • MedopineMedopine __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2009
    Yeah uh okay, I wasn't implying that.

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  • kdrudykdrudy Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    You can still play the game when you are up that much, you just don't play it like you are rubbing it in and have something to prove. Blowouts will always happen, but you can play respectfully when blowing out another team.

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  • BurtletoyBurtletoy Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Variable wrote: »
    Nova_C wrote: »
    Variable wrote: »
    since the matchup did happen, the point where it becomes wrong wrong wrong wrong is the running up of the score, which they did. you play to win, but it's not like this is a professional...

    Usually when there are blowouts in NHL games, you can see the winning team back off and stop pressing for scoring chances, only scoring when they'd have to deliberately not score. And that's professional sports.

    hockey you can hold the puck and be winning by not letting the other team score. in basketball you can onlu hold the ball for so long (assuming regular rules)

    Delay of Game is actually a penalty in Hockey. And IIRC High School and under don't have shot clocks.

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  • SentrySentry Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    kdrudy wrote: »
    You can still play the game when you are up that much, you just don't play it like you are rubbing it in and have something to prove. Blowouts will always happen, but you can play respectfully when blowing out another team.

    Well, the winning coach could have given his second and third stringers some game time. Seriously, keeping your first string in for that long is unconscionable.

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  • ProPatriaMoriProPatriaMori Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Quid wrote: »
    Nova_C wrote: »
    Note: The losing team has never once complained - the controversy has entirely come from the media.

    So wait, if the losing team doesn't care and the winning team doesn't care, why do we care?

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  • saint2esaint2e Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Burtletoy wrote: »
    Variable wrote: »
    Nova_C wrote: »
    Variable wrote: »
    since the matchup did happen, the point where it becomes wrong wrong wrong wrong is the running up of the score, which they did. you play to win, but it's not like this is a professional...

    Usually when there are blowouts in NHL games, you can see the winning team back off and stop pressing for scoring chances, only scoring when they'd have to deliberately not score. And that's professional sports.

    hockey you can hold the puck and be winning by not letting the other team score. in basketball you can onlu hold the ball for so long (assuming regular rules)

    Delay of Game is actually a penalty in Hockey. And IIRC High School and under don't have shot clocks.

    Side note: Delay of Game in hockey is if you shoot the puck over the glass into the stands, without there being some sort of deflection or a shot on goal involved.

    </Canadian>

    But I agree, there are ways to play the game without scoring all the time.

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  • DevoutlyApatheticDevoutlyApathetic Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Medopine wrote: »
    Yeah uh okay, I wasn't implying that.
    I think we're running into a clash of values then.

    I'd be more upset that somebody pulled their punches so to speak than ended up whooping my ass.

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  • BurtletoyBurtletoy Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    saint2e wrote: »
    Burtletoy wrote: »
    Variable wrote: »
    Nova_C wrote: »
    Variable wrote: »
    since the matchup did happen, the point where it becomes wrong wrong wrong wrong is the running up of the score, which they did. you play to win, but it's not like this is a professional...

    Usually when there are blowouts in NHL games, you can see the winning team back off and stop pressing for scoring chances, only scoring when they'd have to deliberately not score. And that's professional sports.

    hockey you can hold the puck and be winning by not letting the other team score. in basketball you can onlu hold the ball for so long (assuming regular rules)

    Delay of Game is actually a penalty in Hockey. And IIRC High School and under don't have shot clocks.

    Side note: Delay of Game in hockey is if you shoot the puck over the glass into the stands, without there being some sort of deflection or a shot on goal involved.

    </Canadian>

    But I agree, there are ways to play the game without scoring all the time.

    You can also get a delay of game from other things. Falling on a puck in the crease as a non-goaliee. Playing the puck outside of the crease/behind the crease area as a goaliee. And the one I was referencing in that post, not moving the puck if an official tells you to move the puck.

    </Michigander>

    Burtletoy on
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