Acc Champs!

luxlibertas
Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:44:38 +0000

ok… I’ve both played and watched a lot of basketball and known plenty of coaches and high-level players myself.

That isn’t the way it works. In fact, this disagreement just illustrates that there really ISN’T any widely accepted or understood protocol on this issue.

Yes, we are talking about blowouts, because you kept implying that there was some widely accepted protocol for removing starters in a blowout, which is just not true, and especially not in the way you described… I already stated that in the Duke game there was no obligation for EITHER coach to remove starters because the game was within 10 points or so. Anything can still happen within that margin. See: the Duke-Maryland game a few years ago, or the game Roy referred to in the press conference.

If Coach K ran up the score and beat some tiny school by 60 while leaving his starters in the entire game and justified it by saying the other team never waved the white flag, do you honestly think people would say “oh, ok then, that’s fine”?