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Originally Posted by fireftr18
I read the article and have a feeling there's more to the story. From a sports medicine point of view, the coach could have done one thing different.
Don't play the starting players, instead, play the ones who don't get much time. That way, you don't risk the starters getting injured and they get some rest. The other players get some much needed game time and experience.
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He replaced the first lineup with the reserve players in the beginning of second half/third quarter. What else should he do? Bind his players' hands on their backs or sending three players less onto the playing field?
You worry about the loosing players and their psyche. I worry as well about what is being taught to the obviously superior players if they were not allowed to play (and you do not know before the match how it will go anyway): are you getting banned now when you are "too good"? Now that is a message being taught!
And if the difference between both teams was so obviously to be known in advance -. then why even having a organization of matches that allow for such harshly different teams to play in the same league/tournament level? There is a reason why usually such things get organised in hierarchical playing classes that consider rankings, and in the youth sports: age as well.
Obviously here meet two teams that are so much apart that they should/must not meet in the same playing class.
I do not like this common
Zeitgeist today.