FrozenLVFan
"Time for Nine"
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When we played at church youth group (we met in the "Boy's Club" LOL) we girls played full court with no mishaps.
I did not know Pat was inVOLved in getting the change made, but I was in high school in Alabama (graduated 1970) when girls were still forced to play this way, and there were no state tournaments for them. In fact, I don't believe high school girl' teams even existed, never mind played against each other! At the time, I thought it was a crazy way to play the game. When we played at church youth group (we met in the "Boy's Club" LOL) we girls played full court with no mishaps. I loved playing full court, especially against the guys, one of whom was a high school basketball center. It seemed to disconcert him to be guarded closely by someone with a female shape!
When my high school boys' team went to the state championship in Tuscaloosa my junior year of high school, some of us girls went to the dorm of one of the girls' sisters. Her "dorm mother" made a comment we all thought was so funny--she said she loved watching girls' teams play basketball. It was funny because we knew of NO girls high school teams!
.... I think the game women play now is more nearly "basketball" as I know it than the men's game. Watching the current Olympic men's basketball it seems nearly as rough as football, do they ever call walking or carrying the ball?
If our men sent the best of the best and they played hard, it would be nothing but blowouts. But when we send our 2nd or 3rd team players, the rest of the world's men's programs have developed enough good players to make it competitive.
On the women's side, the rest of the world is far behind in development. Countries will have an occasional one or two really good players but not enough to field a team to compete with our best women. Not even our 2nd or 3rd teams. If other countries continue to work to develop the game, they will eventually be competitive.
Don't know if anybody was following, but her home is almost sold and for whatever reason, her Will is now public. I didn't know where she lived, but I figured as famous and wealthy as she was, she lived in a gated community with security. Yet another example of how down to earth she really was.
Pat Summitt's will leaves 'personal property' to Tyler Summitt
Legendary Lakefront Home
If our men sent the best of the best and they played hard, it would be nothing but blowouts. But when we send our 2nd or 3rd team players, the rest of the world's men's programs have developed enough good players to make it competitive.
On the women's side, the rest of the world is far behind in development. Countries will have an occasional one or two really good players but not enough to field a team to compete with our best women. Not even our 2nd or 3rd teams. If other countries continue to work to develop the game, they will eventually be competitive.
It is the rarest of circumstance for me in coaching females, for one to not play hard and give her best.
But when you put them on the floor, you get their best if you request it.