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Zurp
I have misplaced my pants.
It's the unwritten rules thing. Both coaches broke one. So what? *ichigan started with the full court press. Ha - "That's what we call 'cover 5'. That's what we call it." Or whatever he said. So effin' what? Your players were playing a tight coverage with 15 seconds left down 15. Personally, I see no problem here. If Wisconsin wants to cry about that, that's how I'll remember it - a team coached by a crybaby because *ichigan was playing 40 minutes, and he only wanted to play 39-1/2 minutes. But then the Wisconsin coach strategically called a time out. I still see no problem here. I guess it breaks a stupid unwritten rule, but, again, So fuckin' what? His team had 4 seconds to get it past mid-court or it's a turnover. Call the time out and get it reversed to 10.
So what was Howard's though process? "With 15 seconds left now, and down about 15, I can do a full court press against their back-ups, get enough steals and layups to win the game. Right? Aw shit - he called a time out. There's no way I can win, now! It's not fair!!"
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The cocktail of arrogance, stupidity, entitlement and a lack of self control just takes over and they act like M Men.
Howard isn't the first.
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So I would like to start out by saying unwritten rules are fucking stupid. That's point number 1 through 20 of this presentation. However....if we're going to acknowledge that unwritten rules are fucking stupid, we have to first acknowledge that they exist. And if they exist, there needs to be a structure. Let's look at the sport with the most and also dumbest unwritten rules....baseball:
Unwritten rule: Don't steal a base in the top of the 9th while winning by 15 runs.
Why it's a rule: You've already probably won. The other team just wants to get home. Don't be a dick.
So the rule isn't "Don't steal". And it's not even "Don't steal when you're winning by a lot". There are conditions. The game should be close to over. You aren't doing something on defense like throwing over to 1st three out of four throws to check the runner. Similarly....the stupid fucking unwritten rule Juwanna is crying about isn't "Don't call time outs at the end of games". It's "If we're conceding, don't call a time out to stretch it out even longer." There's a condition there. A condition that Juwanna didn't adhere to. So now the stupid fucking unwritten rule is null and void. You don't get to cry about it anymore. You don't even get to bring it up as justification for being upset.
My point is......saying "I guess it breaks a stupid unwritten rule" isn't even accurate. It didn't, because Wah Baby McGillicuddy voided the unwritten rule on his own.
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ORD_Buckeye
Wrong glass, Sir.
Please let Holtman call a timeout with 30 seconds left and up 20 on these fuckers.
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I’d be making 3-4 subs every dead ball too. Draw that shit out like the last 2 minutes of an NBA game.
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scarletmike
Researching the Magic!
Every coach from here on out facing scUM should call their remaining timeouts in the final minute regardless of if the situation calls for it or not. This goes double for the B1G Tourney. If Wiscy gets matched up with them, Gard should do it again regardless of if JuJu keeps a press on or not.
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Somewhere, Clint Hurdle just had his little league pitcher drill another kid.
Unwritten rules are serious bidness to some folks
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Zurp
I have misplaced my pants.
I agree. Or what about... didn't some guy hit a grand slam with a 3-0 count when his team was already up by a bunch in the 8th inning or something? Last year, I mean... I remember hearing that some people were unhappy about that. I say, "Good for him. Keep playing." But if you want to break these unwritten rules (or I guess his excuse, not that he needed on in my book, was that he was caught up in the game and not thinking about the overall thing about unwritten rules), then don't cry when the other team doesn't follow them back. So using your example, "Don't steal when you're winning by a lot late in the game," maybe another unwritten rule is not to try to bunt for a base hit when you're getting no-hit late in a game. So if my team is winning 7-0, and no hitting your team, and my dude steals 2nd in the top of the 9th, you can just point and laugh at me when I cry about your guy getting a bunt single to break up the no hitter. I agree that crying about breaking unwritten rules is dumb. If Howard wants to do a full court press at that point, fine. I think I said it here - if Wisconsin coach cries about that, then he looks like a crybaby. But he didn't cry about it. He retaliated by calling a time out. Howard retaliated by crying about it in the handshake line. Whatever.
I think someone on MGoPoop said something about how punches were glorified in hockey, so why should they be treated so badly here? First, this isn't hockey. This is basketball. A punch in a game gets suspensions, usually. Either kicked out of that game or maybe extending that to another game, depending on the situation. Second, do the hockey coaches hit each other? Asking for a friend. Would that be acceptable at the end of a hockey game? I have my doubts.
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