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...game’s aftermath, many have attempted to blame the winning coach for allowing it to happen, the athletic director and league officers for scheduling these teams to play, and even the parents and fans for egging on the Covenant School players with each successive made basket. While these are of course plausible sources for problems surrounding the game, the single most fundamental part of this game has gone untouched in the blame game: the players. Unless there is a fundamental change in the way our high-school athletes understand and are held accountable for their examples of sportsmanship...
...players of the Covenant girls’ basketball team, not the coach or the league staff, that continued to take three-pointers once the game was clearly out of reach, that continued to steal the ball on defense from an obviously inferior opponent, and that made the basket that marked the 100th point. This simple aspect has yet to be recognized as even apart of the problem...
...games sophomore year, he constantly beat his defenders to the basket for lay-ups and there was more of the same this time, twice beating speedy opponent Doug Davis to the hoop and laying...
...When the ball came in again, it was batted around several times before Quaker guard Kevin Egee found it along with a straight pass to the basket. Lin fouled him intentionally with 17 seconds left and Egee hit both shots as his team toughed out a wild...
...other end with a tough jumper, but Miller quickly responded with two on a turnaround fall-away on the baseline. By that point, Miller’s teammates knew he was hot—on the next time down the floor, Lin found his center open under the basket for an easy lay-up.“Doug is a hard-nosed player and he’s going to come ready to play every day,” Lin said. “We’re not surprised, but we’re very thankful for that...