Thursday, April 23, 2020

Did we play well?

It always disgusts me to see the Kentuckys of the world wildly celebrating after they beat the SWAC teams of the world. It just seems out of place. Really good teams ought to have more class than to carry on after they barely beat a team they ought to have drawn and quartered by halftime.

Did we win? That is what goes into the record book, but that really is the wrong question to be asking. If you win by playing poorly to beat a bad team, big deal! If you play an excellent ballgame, but still get beat because the other team had a once-in-a-lifetime shooting night, then there is nothing to be ashamed of.

"Did we win?" is the wrong question. The right question is, "Did we play well?" Get the right answer to that question, and the other one will take care of itself.

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