State Semis

[Hawks Coach]

Some interesting occurrences at yesterday's double overtime state semifinal game:

1. Coming out for warm-ups at halftime, star guard for Team A goes to ref at center court and starts a short discussion, pointing to both ends of the court. Ref listens,then goes to talk to one of his partners, who nods her assent. Offense lines up on their defnsive end, with guard lining up in what appears to be their backcourt but is really their front court. Defense keys off offense and puts 5 at the A's defensive end, leaving A1 open for lay-up. As ball is made live, B1 and B2 run upcourt realizing belatedly what is occuring. Inbounds pass is made unobstructed, horn sounds, whistle blows, uncontested lay-up is made, and all is waved off. OOOOPS - forgot to set the clock to 8:00.

2. A is down 2, star guard getting doubled at every opportunity to get ball out of her hands. A1 dribbling f/c, B1 strips the ball in between circles in A's f/c, a1 touches in f/c, then recovers in b/c. After recovering ball, A1 pivots and puts on the floor for a dribble and gets knocked to floor. Call is a foul on B2. A1 goes to the line to shoot to tie the game (makes one of two, a2 later sinks tying FT to put game in OT). Maybe the owed A one from before

3. A gets ball under B's basket, game tied in double OT, 1.5 left. A subs with their designated baseball passer A1, gets a player wide open (i.e., 20 feet of space) at halfcourt, and A1 (the long pass specialist) puts ball several feet over her head and OOB untouched. OOOPS. B calls TO to set up play, and A subs A1 back out with A2 who A1 had replaced, because A2 isn't getting killed on D the way A1 had early in the game. But the clock never started on the inbounds play - the sub is illegal. B wins anyway, so no harm done!

Some think that what is discussed here falls into the trivia category, but lots of what I have seen discussed here happens, and you need to be prepared when you are on the floor for the big game.