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Old Mon Feb 28, 2022, 12:05pm
BillyMac BillyMac is offline
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Stall Game ...

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Originally Posted by Pantherdreams View Post
... if I can get to that point with the score close.
... The point of any "stall game" without a shot clock. Many hate stall games. I'm a fan of an occasional "stall game". It's like chess on a basketball court.

Just had a discussion with the father of a player (his granddaughter was playing in my middle school game) who participated in a famous "stall game" that happened over thirty-five years ago (I had stuck around to watch after officiating the junior varsity game). As we discussed it we both remembered it in detail as if it had happened last week. His son's team, the very, very highly favored team (with a few Division I prospects) won, but just barely. "How did that coach get teenage boys to not shoot, but to pass and dribble without violating or somehow turning the ball over for almost the entire game?"
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