Dumb Player Halftime Show

[26 Year Gap]

Tonight, my partner and I came onto the floor with about three minutes to go in the half. Just in time to see #30 near the zenith of his jump, grab the rim with both hands and pull down the rim while swinging around before letting go. I go to the coach and ask, "Was that number 30 up there?" He replied in the affirmative. I let him know that we would be starting the 2nd half with FTs. And he had to sit down the rest of the night.

[Bernie Beckerman]

Here's an even better story! A friend was working a varsity HS boy's game and the players hated their coach. During the warm-up before the game they purposely sent 3 players in a row on the layup line to dunk, dunk, dunk. 3 Ts indirectly charged to the head coach. My friend had the pleasure of informing the coach that the game would start with 6 shots, posession to the opponents, and with him in the locker room. I would have loved to be a fly on the wall in the locker room at halftime!

[tjones1]

Dang... talk about making a statement. Did they do this more than once throughout the season?

[mrmotivation]

Originally Posted by tjones1

Dang... talk about making a statement. Did they do this more than once throughout the season?

Every game.


It was a great season.


HAHAHAHHAHAHA!

[26 Year Gap]

Originally Posted by Bernie Beckerman

Here's an even better story! A friend was working a varsity HS boy's game and the players hated their coach. During the warm-up before the game they purposely sent 3 players in a row on the layup line to dunk, dunk, dunk. 3 Ts indirectly charged to the head coach. My friend had the pleasure of informing the coach that the game would start with 6 shots, posession to the opponents, and with him in the locker room. I would have loved to be a fly on the wall in the locker room at halftime!

HC to Asst Coach on the way out of the gym: "Those three are on the bench for 32 minutes tonight."

[mplagrow]

Originally Posted by Bernie Beckerman

Here's an even better story! A friend was working a varsity HS boy's game and the players hated their coach. During the warm-up before the game they purposely sent 3 players in a row on the layup line to dunk, dunk, dunk. 3 Ts indirectly charged to the head coach. My friend had the pleasure of informing the coach that the game would start with 6 shots, posession to the opponents, and with him in the locker room. I would have loved to be a fly on the wall in the locker room at halftime!

Funny how this type of thing always happens to a "friend" at an undisclosed school. I'm calling the bluff. . . .sounds like an urban legend.

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by mplagrow

Funny how this type of thing always happens to a "friend" at an undisclosed school. I'm calling the bluff. . . .sounds like an urban legend.

Since I've heard this about 30 times supposedly at 30 different schools, I would agree. I'm waiting to hear it told about a girls team.

[26 Year Gap]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

Since I've heard this about 30 times supposedly at 30 different schools, I would agree. I'm waiting to hear it told about a girls team.

I'm sure that Bernie will be posting the link to the news article any day now.

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by mplagrow

Funny how this type of thing always happens to a "friend" at an undisclosed school. I'm calling the bluff. . . .sounds like an urban legend.

While some of the stories may be urban legends. It did happen here in Portland. It was not in a varsity but either a JV or Freshman game. I remember the league the school was from but can't remember the specific school. Yes...it did really happen. I heard about it 2-3 days after it occurred.

[mplagrow]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

While some of the stories may be urban legends. It did happen here in Portland. It was not in a varsity but either a JV or Freshman game. I remember the league the school was from but can't remember the specific school. Yes...it did really happen. I heard about it 2-3 days after it occurred.

Again, the vague general nature of this merely proves my point. Sure, no specific school, sure, hearing about it second hand 2-3 days later.

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by mplagrow

Again, the vague general nature of this merely proves my point. Sure, no specific school, sure, hearing about it second hand 2-3 days later.

Discount it if you want. If it were worth my time, I could dig up the details. It happened. IIRC, it was either Lakeridge HS, Lake Oswego HS, or West Linn HS. Can't remember which...too many years ago. Plus, the person I heard it from would have had 1st hand knowledge.


I did find this direct claim by devdog69 that he was the referee for such an event...

http://forum.officiating.com/showpos...99&postcount=1


Call him a liar if you like, but I think your point has been disproven.

[rainmaker]

I'm certain it has happened at least once or twice across the country. I know for sure at least one occurence was right here in Portalnd, as Camron claims. I could find out for sure what school it was, if you need to know for some reason.

It may have then grown into an urban legend. That can happen too. Just because something is an urban legend, doesn't mean it's not true.

[BillyMac]

Let's send this in to "Mythbusters" on the Discovery Channel.