They do not seem to share Coach Haskin’s belief that the player who can help you achieve a victory through hard work and passion is the player that should be put on the court no matter the skin color. Haskins refused to give into the pressure and added the 7 recruits to the team of all white players. He continues coaching them on how to play fundamental basketball instead of the street style that they are used to playing. They begin their season and are very successful and continue to rack up …show more content…
Anything more than this was asking for trouble. When he questions this, he is told that black players do not respond well under pressure and that they are not calm enough, or intelligent enough to play without white direction. This is a perfect example of racial stacking. Whites were the players that were expected to respond under pressure and play the positions that demanded thinking. However, let it be noted that if the team is losing, more African American players are called in and this was accepted because they were expected to pull the team out of a deficit. This is very contradictory because basically what was being said was that African American players could not handle pressure but if you are losing you should play more, and that it was unfair to use more than a certain