[bball_fan]

No offense, did you even read it? He had them stop playing defense, scored 30 in the 2nd half, and had his starters out 2 minutes into the game. Think about that for a minute. What should he have done? Send one player out there and play 1 on 5? Playing NO defense the whole second half and all Kimper could do was score 2 points? Players should not be punished, I agree. Coach? I'm not sure if he should be, but if he is, perhaps a one or 2 game suspension. I really don't see what people wanted Pikeville to do, short of tell them they were not going to play the 2nd half. Really, most viable solution to this for future happenstance is to establish a running clock rule like football has, is about all I can think of right now.

And to the other posters, knock off the smart aleck remarks about the players, they are a good bunch of kids, know everyone of them. Just play very well together.

The players are very talented, but this falls on the coach. When you have a team with the talent to put up 100 points, thats great! But this isn't the first team to come through this region the last few years that could have done it. To be honest, it's probably no where near the teams Betsy Layne, Dorton (two years ago), Feds Creek (two years ago), Johnson Central and Virgie had but none of them ran up the score to 100! When you get up and you pull your starters, you back out of your press and play a very soft man to man and tell the players not to help off. On offense, you hold the ball! Kill the clock! I promise I could and a lot of other coaches could take the same team in that situation and not turn it into the story it has become. Get your lead, and slow the game way down!