Now that basketball season is here, I remember one game very well from high school.
In the locker room before the game, the coach came in and announced we would lose. We were better than the other team, he explained, but we weren’t going to play well. He didn’t really say why.
And this was the extent of his pre-game preparation, to tell us that we were going to lose.
He was right. We lost.
Obviously, he’s not the coach anymore (he only lasted one more season). And what he thought he was accomplishing that night will always be a mystery to me.
