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Originally Posted by TC Dale
Sorry Syd, if I am an owner, I don't want any of my players or coaching staff giving up on a blowout or a close game. If you can't play hard all the time, then that sends the wrong signal.
If you stop trying, you start dying. Giving up isn't an option. Especially for a coach.
And with the NBA rules like they are, nothing is finished till the horn sounds to end the game. Like Jax said, has happened before, and can happen again.
But that isn't to say a team will not be blown out of a game, I just don't want them going thru the motions and not playing hard. That to me is unforgivable.
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If "giving up isn't an option", why is there such a thing as garbage time? And just because you say it's happened before doesn't mean it has. Down by 20 points with a couple minutes to play is pretty extreme. Maybe it's been done in college at the low levels or the pre-NBA pros, but for all intents and purposes it's an impossible feat to achieve. That doesn't mean teams should tank an entire season or that being down by 20 even going into the 4th is cause for giving up, but this was the very end of the game and things were out of hand. Frankly, Karl showed a real lack of class by keeping his starters in that long, and I hope it comes around to bite him on the rear in the sense of injuries to his front line.
Again, I don't want to take anything away from Isiah's stupidity.