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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		Decades Later, Coach, Community Remember Peculiar Crandon Basketball Game
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:04:04
	Publish Date:		2020-01-03 06:27:00
	Description:		Harry Resch still remembers every play of basketball games from more than 40 years ago. Resch was Crandon’s boys basketball coach for 15 years in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. He can still tell you how one of his guards drove into the lane, what kind of defense an opponent played, or his team’s scoring average for a given year. He remembers packed gyms and conference championships, having won five in a seven-year stretch. Resch’s teams were high-pressure and hot-shooting, averaging 88 points per game during one title season. “We liked to press, we liked to score,” he said. “We liked to keep things going.” But despite that style, and despite that success, sometimes it seems like people only want to talk about one game, on January 21, 1977. In 1976, Crandon had beaten Florence 95-78, but Florence’s Bill Counter scored 39 points in the loss. Resch had no intention of letting Counter’s shooting, or Florence’s size and stingy zone defense, beat Crandon in 1977. He figured his best strategy
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