Girl scores 113 Points in High School Game

[erpowers]

What do DUers think of the New York girl who score 113 points in a high school basketball game? From what I heard on the new this morning the final score in the game was 126 or something to 26. So what do you think is this really cool or just plain bad?

[Ravenseye]

1. Sounds like an unfair contest

I played basketball at my school in junior high, even though I hated it, simply because they needed a 6th man just in case of injury. Our school was very small and had on average 7 kids per class. I went in on occasion and just tried to stay out of trouble while this person or that person rested. We would play teams that, gasp, had uniforms, and we'd get decimated. I can recall a few games of the 100+ to under 20 game varieties.

I'd have to know more about the teams involved. Generally I'd say that anyone who scores 113 points out of 126 points though is a ball hog. Once you go up by oh...50 points...you really should share the wealth.

[LisaM]

2. Once they are up by 50 points they should be playing the BENCH

(if they have one.) But with examples like Kobe Bryant out there - what do you expect?

[ProfessorGAC]

5. Playing The Bench?

They should have taken some kids out of the crowd to finish the game, with a 50 point lead!

And, come on. This is ridiculous. This had to be the mismatch of the century. There is no possible way that any team could let one person score 113 points.

Notice how after Kobe went off for 81, he started getting smacked around more? And, three games later didn't even go for 30. People are starting to wear him out. Nobody with any pride just let's someone score over 100 points on them.

The Professor

[jakefrep]

14. Kobe scoring 81 sets a bad example?

How?

[LisaM]

16. You're kidding, right? n/t

[jakefrep]

19. No...

I don't see how scoring 81 sets a bad example (not that Kobe doesn't have other issues).

[LisaM]

24. It's a team sport. But Kobe doesn't know it.

I watched the Pistons/Lakers on Sunday. They talked about LeBron and Kobe the whole time; that was it.

[northzax]

18. but actually Kobe hasn't gone off in a blowout

in fact earlier this season, he was benched in the 4th quarter with 70 points because the team was up by 25. When he scored 81, the team won by 15, and it was closer than that, since the Lakers scored (I think) 7 points in the last minute. different situation. And frankly, the talent level in the NBA is much more equal, team wise, than in high school.

[JVS]

3. Wow! What a smackdown!

[THUNDER HANDS]

4. i think its cool

DO you feel that much worse as an opposing player if you get beat by 30 or 70 or 100?

Plus all the other girls on the team and on the other team will be able to say they were there when this girl set her record.

Its not often one gets an opportunity to make, and/or witness history.

[northzax]

15. yes, actually, there is a difference between losing

losing bigtime and being humiliated. I remember two games from my JV basketball career, one was a 89-1 loss, where I wasn't even at the game (I was hospitalized with pneumonia) and it still smarts 17 years later. The other was a game won one a last second three pointer.

By the way, the bad sportsmanship of the 89-1 was returned, we beat their soccer team the next year 25-0. And that was varsity. We had the game won at 2-0, they didn't have a prayer, and, to my recurring shame, we pressed the advantage. We had a guy score 11 goals. And it wasn't any fun from our side either, more a matter of an eye for an eye.

[LisaM]

6. I've played in lopsided games (softball)

and it is awful. Even if the other team seems nice, you end up disliking them, when they just won't let up. There is a team in our (recreational) league that has about 18 players. They could winnow themselves down to about 12 and be the best team in the league. But they don't, they play everybody, and so they have one of the worst records, yet everyone loves playing them because of their sportsmanship. If our team gets way ahead, we'll switch pitchers or something.

[NJ Democrats]

7. It is cool

plus she is going to Rutgers!

[fishwax]

8. Lisa Leslie once scored over 100 points in one half

The other team forfeited rather than play the 2nd half, otherwise Leslie would most likely have the record ...

I hadn't heard about the 113 this week. Damn!

[erpowers]

9. Ball Hog-Good Coach

Now I think Lisa Leslie at that point can be called a ball hog. Yesterday I was thinking that the fact that the coach was able to get his team to come out for the second half showed that he was a least somewhat of a good coach.

[trotsky]

10. Extremely poor sports(person)ship.

It's a meaningless mark, since they were obviously playing against a woefully inferior opponent. This incident pretty much embodies all that is wrong with youth sports today.

[underpants]

12. Criticism follows in wake of record

http://www.newsday.com/sports/basketball/ny-sksamside034611655feb03,0,4826813.story?coll=ny-basketball-headlines


Christ the King coach Bob Mackey is an admirer of Epiphanny Prince.

He just isn't a fan of Prince being left in the game to score 113 points for Murry Bergtraum against a weak Brandeis team on Wednesday.

"It would never happen in my program," said Mackey, who coaches Tina Charles, the 6-4 Connecticut-bound center considered one of the nation's best high school players. "It's not what you do to an opponent. I was thoroughly disgusted."

[bigwillq]

13. She should've been taken out

at halftime, imo. Big deal, she scored 113 points against a team that takes five games to score that many points.
WOO HOO! Way to go! :eyes:

[northzax]

17. she should have been taken out by the other team

one good hard hit to remind her that there are other people on the court. Take the intentional foul and stand up for yourselves.

[jakefrep]

20. That's real sportsmanlike - NOT!

There is no justification for that sort of thuggery.

[northzax]

21. so I should let you show me up?

running up a useless score? nope. I have no desire to hurt someone, but sometimes a hard foul is called for. It happens in every sport, well except figure skating, of course and that's not really a sport. The thing that keeps sportsmanship in line is not the refferees, but the threat of getting knocked down. I would have made her shoot free throws non stop, no open shots, no driving to the basket without getting hit, no free anything.

[jakefrep]

22. Two wrongs don't make a right.

Trying to physically injure someone in retaliation for something like that is wrong.

[northzax]

23. who said physically injure?

I specifically said not to injure. You're making stuff up here. Good clean hard fouls. it's not tennis, people get hit in basketball, I've broken my collar bone and nose playing hoops, it's a contact sport, sometimes you need to remind the other team that you are there.

[erpowers]

25. Better Way

I think I have a better way. One of the other team's players is going to Conneticut next year or so. So that means she and Prince most likely will meet again. When they do the other kid should try to help Conneticut win the game and then try to win a championship. It might be better to become a college champion than score 113 points in a high school game.

[northzax]

26. wrong school

this was Brandeis High, the woman going to uConn goes to Christ the King. Believe me, if you give up 113 points in a high school game to one player, you aren't going to uConn to play for Auremma.

[erpowers]

27. Sorry My Mistake

I just went and reread the post about the UCONN kid and I had the wrong school.

[underpants]

11. NCAA record ---> Bevo Francis 113 Rio Grand College (Ohio)

http://espn.go.com/classic/biography/s/Francis_Bevo.html