David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

a foul! That’s a foul!’ But we weren’t
fouling. We were just playing aggressive
defense.”
“One time, we were playing this team
from East San Jose,” Ranadivé said.
“They had been playing for years. These
were born-with-a-basketball girls. We
were just crushing them. We were up
something like twenty to zero. We
wouldn’t even let them inbound the ball,
and the coach got so mad that he took a
chair and threw it. He started screaming
at his girls, and of course the more you
scream at girls that age, the more
nervous they get.” Ranadivé shook his
head. You should never, ever raise your
voice. “Finally, the ref physically threw