Arroyo Valley girls high school basketball defeats Bloomington 161-2 and has sportsmanship questioned.
What an incredibly bad beating happened recently out in California; there are so many different problems with a game like this. You really have to take a minute and take a look at it from both angles. It makes you wonder if this is a game that ever should have been played.
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When Arroyo Valley and Bloomington met this past week in a non-league game at Arroyo Valley’s court, the score wound up 161-2 when all was said and done. This is a score that has prompted many to say that the Arroyo Valley coach crossed the line in regards to bad sportsmanship.
Bloomington coach Dale Chung said, “People shouldn’t feel sorry for my team. They should feel sorry for his team, which isn’t learning the game the right way.”
Chung, who had plenty of critique for Arroyo Valley coach Michael Anderson, was not bashful in his words for the coach after the game and said his team only got the ball past Arroyo Valley’s half-court press and advanced past half court four or five times in the first half.
Arroyo Valley head coach Michael Anderson was hit pretty hard about the blowout, but it does seem that he tried to take his foot off the gas some in the game:
"The fourth quarter was played with a running clock. Anderson said he tried to implement a running clock in the third quarter, but officials declined. Anderson said in the second half he also instructed his team not to take a shot until seven seconds remained on the shot clock.“I didn’t play any starters in the second half,” said Anderson, who guided Rialto to the Division II state finals in 2011 before coming to Arroyo Valley before the 2013-14 season. “I didn’t expect them (Bloomington) to be that bad, I’m not trying to embarrass anybody. And I didn’t expect my bench to play that well. I had one (bench) player make eight of nine 3s.”"
Anderson said that he had a meeting about the game and expected to be reprimanded, but should continue to coach the team.
So what can you do in a game like this where one team is obviously far superior to the other? How do you from Anderson’s viewpoint teach your team to give your all in every game and yet ask them to take their foot off the gas at the same time?
I mean, I see both sides of this, but I do not think the answer is as easy as one might think. Maybe we should look at implementing some different rules that would call a game off at halftime if a team is losing 104-1 at the break, as this game was.
We have created a system in most sports where unless you are good, your job is on the line, and then yet at the same time we expect this team to not be so good. Is this a fair thing to even ask? I know it stinks to get beat by 159 points, or at least I can only imagine that it would, but we have to allow teams to do their thing.
h/t The Big Lead
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