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Message: [QUOTE="M.S.G., post: 4838782, member: 10660"] Coaching this winter has been an unmitigated disaster... In MA, if numbers are low at the high school, they are allowed to take 8th graders. So, my 2 best 8th graders were taken (one of which is 6'2" / 6'3"ish and dunks with ease)... Leaving me with... Not much.... Now, my 2 best 8th graders are about as good as everyone else's 5th or 6th best... We have lost 2 games by 50, including last night when the coach put his starters back out on the floor with 2 minutes to go and they proceeded to hit a 3 with about 10 seconds left to get it to 50... We can't run an offense, I put in the simplest motion that I used to use like 15 years ago - mess it up every time. Defense is a bit better, but no matter how long we do shell drill, kids still turn their backs on the ball, no help side, no pinching lanes closed. ...all I can do is sit there and take it... A younger me would have refused to shake the guy's hand last night, or given him the ol' hard handshake and lean in, "never do that to my again my man...." I'm older and wiser, but god this is brutal. The parents don't complain at all, the 7th grade group is quite talented, but they're just so little. Every team we play is faster, bigger, and stronger. All I can really do is treat it like rec, run hockey shifts and just make sure everyone gets fair time out there. My basketball ego is nearly completely deflated at this point. I've won conference championships in CT, coached a game at Mohegan Sun, coached D-1s, 2s, and 3s.. This was supposed to be my chance to make my resume current again, then go for HS varsity jobs this summer - but god, I don't even enjoy coaching that much anymore after this. [/QUOTE]

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