Brain of J
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So tonight I went to cover a prep boys' basketball game.
Going in, the clear storyline was hometown hero coach coming back to face his former school.
His dad is also an ashistant coach for the girls team.
I talked to his dad at halftime, was going to try and find his 90 year old grandma and ask her about having a son and grandson that are coaches....standard kind of small-town bullship I hate but people here eat up.
So anyway, that was the plan until the game got interesting.
Down 10 with 5:13 left, hometown team comes back to tie it as time expires, with current hometown hero making the shot to send it to overtime.
Now home-team ends up losing by 3 points after johhny sophomore turns the ball over with time expiring in OT.
My first reaction was to make the game the story, it was the team's first OT game of the year and if they would've won it would've been against a much bigger school.
They lost, however, so I'm still leaning toward making the come-from-behind to take it to overtime angle, but I don't want to abandon the coach coming home angle either.
What would be a better lead?
Now the daily is going to publish it tomorrow morning, I'll have it in the afternoon, but it's not like a saturday game where it's 4 days old by the time we publish.
Also, cause it was such a close game, the coaches weren't too thrilled about taking a shot together after the game. It would've been a posed shot, which I hate taking anyway but people like seeing here, so I didn't get the shot. Which really I don't blame the losing coach, "hey lets pretend to be all happy glory together after getting your heart ripped out in overtime."
Any advice?
Like I said I'm leaning toward the game angle and making the coaching angle a big part of the story but not the lead.
Going in, the clear storyline was hometown hero coach coming back to face his former school.
His dad is also an ashistant coach for the girls team.
I talked to his dad at halftime, was going to try and find his 90 year old grandma and ask her about having a son and grandson that are coaches....standard kind of small-town bullship I hate but people here eat up.
So anyway, that was the plan until the game got interesting.
Down 10 with 5:13 left, hometown team comes back to tie it as time expires, with current hometown hero making the shot to send it to overtime.
Now home-team ends up losing by 3 points after johhny sophomore turns the ball over with time expiring in OT.
My first reaction was to make the game the story, it was the team's first OT game of the year and if they would've won it would've been against a much bigger school.
They lost, however, so I'm still leaning toward making the come-from-behind to take it to overtime angle, but I don't want to abandon the coach coming home angle either.
What would be a better lead?
Now the daily is going to publish it tomorrow morning, I'll have it in the afternoon, but it's not like a saturday game where it's 4 days old by the time we publish.
Also, cause it was such a close game, the coaches weren't too thrilled about taking a shot together after the game. It would've been a posed shot, which I hate taking anyway but people like seeing here, so I didn't get the shot. Which really I don't blame the losing coach, "hey lets pretend to be all happy glory together after getting your heart ripped out in overtime."
Any advice?
Like I said I'm leaning toward the game angle and making the coaching angle a big part of the story but not the lead.
