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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Janney Girls Basketball is a good program with many positive results for the kids past and present.  The kids practice and play hard and the volunteer coaches are great.  I would rather a team respect my kids' team enough to play basketball rather than to play keep away or some other garbage because they are way better.  There is a difference of opinion where you respect the team and keep playing or you pull up and run out the clock to appear like you are not embarrassing the other team.  I have been on both sides and trust me I rather my kid's team be beaten by the better team in basketball than the other team play keep away and the crowd is laughing because that is more embarrassing in my opinion.  It is a show of respect for the game and competition, but I acknowledge the other opinion.  Each their own.   [/quote]

I am not sure anyone is expecting a team to convert to "monkey in the middle" to run out the clock.  But if you are up 20-0, maybe have your players use their weak hand and develop an ability to dribble with their left hand (for most)?  Maybe try a different defense (example: man-to-man) instead of pressing the other team and trapping at half court to the point where they can't even get a shot off?  Maybe put your bench in earlier?  Maybe practice a new play.   There are dozens of ways to improve your players in lopsided games without humiliating another team 44-0.   If those coaches DON'T know how to do these things to develop their players while being respectful , then they are in fact not "great coaches".  I have coached ES, Middle School and High School for 22 years and it is absurd this is even a conversation at the ES level.  We are talking 9-11 year olds.  I agree with your "to each their own" comment as I think once you get to Middle and High School, this becomes harder to prevent (I guess also there are higher scoring games too).  But for ES, I don't think its the same......[/quote]

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