is it bad sportsmanship to win by 161 to 2? basketball coach suspended

[stevenleser]

90. The other thing to remember here is this was an opportunity for the losing team.

There are few better/quicker ways to improve in most sports like playing against superior players/teams.

Of course if the winning team stops playing like they are capable of playing and starts playing a possession game or something like that, it detracts from that considerably.

I've played on strong and weak teams in a number of sports as a kid and adult and have been in blowout games in both directions. When you are on the losing side, you can try to see the techniques the other folks are using and try to learn how to do those things.

It all depends on how your coach is guiding you. 5 minutes in the losing side coach should have called a timeout and said to his/her players "Look, we aren't going to win this game, but what I want to do is get as much out of this as possible. Watch how X players on the other side do A thing. Watch how Y players on the other team to B thing. Concentrate on executing parts D and E of our game plan and see if we can get that done a few times.