Here is the danger of high school sports teams running up the score against inferior opponents:
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Ed Graney
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The competitive games were late at night, sometimes not until 1 or 2 a.m., when the older guys showed. The older, bigger, stronger, more athletic guys.
You can’t be Wink Adams and second-guess a 3-pointer or jab step to the baseline or pull-up jumper going to your left. Confidence to a basketball player like Adams is radar to a pilot. Its importance is immeasurable.
The message surrounding Lance Armstrong has always been more important than the suspicion. The objective has rightly always carried more weight than the gossip.
If the loss at Texas Christian and the debacle at Colorado State proved anything, it’s that the separation from upper to lower tier in Mountain West Conference basketball isn’t as obvious this season.
You can find their names and statistics inside the UNLV basketball media guide, but numbers aren’t what set them apart. An edge did. A rare quality.
A close friend of Max Good was surveying the carnage this week, reflecting on the ridiculously huge challenge now facing the veteran college basketball coach, and offered this trace of hope: