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.