AAU fun!

[Dan_ref]

14U AAU game over the weekend, both teams pretty good, semi-decent coaching. Near the end of the game A1 has an endline throw-in under B's basket, B is pressing, I'm L. The play is a hail mary, A2 breaks downcourt & A1 heaves the ball as far & high as it will go...of course it goes clear over the heads of A2 and B1 who is in pursuit. I'm thinking "great, I ran all this way for nothing and now I gotta trot back to where I was" when the ball hits at about the FT line & bounces towards the basket. Now I'm thinking "geeze, that ball is going into the basket & I'm going to spend the next 10 minutes explaining to coach A why he doesn't get 2 points- maybe he'll even want 3 points! - and not only that he loses the ball and not only that his opponent gets the ball under their own basket." But the ball hits the backboard & bounces off missing the rim. By this time A2 & B1 (remember them?) have caught up with the play & they both take a running leap to grab the rebound...but of course the ball goes over their outstretched arms & starts bouncing back the other way as the 2 players both land about 5 feet OOB. And the rest of the players, who were all charging my way have to turn around & go the other way. Luckily A1 was not the first to touch it (that would have taken 20 minutes to explain!) but A did finally get the ball. And went on to win in OT.