Amazing ending ... 8 points in under 2 seconds (with video)

[Brad]

Oklahoma 2A Girls State Championship ...



Click here to watch the video on YouTube

[mick]

Hmmm.
Reminds me of the way I lose 90% of my bracket games.

[Indianaref]

I see the officials did not stay for the post game handshake.

[MikeK27]

Now that was a finish.

[JoeTheRef]

As I watched the beginning of that video after she made the 3pt shot I immediately thought "WHY THE HECK IS THAT TEAM COMING ON THE COURT LIKE THAT"?

Oh well.... They did it to themselves..

[jdw3018]

Originally Posted by JoeTheRef

As I watched the beginning of that video after she made the 3pt shot I immediately thought "WHY THE HECK IS THAT TEAM COMING ON THE COURT LIKE THAT"?

Oh well.... They did it to themselves..

I thought exactly the same thing. At first I thought - are the officials going to look the other way? And then more players came out and were still celebrating, and I thought - they can't ignore that!

They didn't.

[iowa_official]

We had something very similar happen in the Boys 3A final here in Iowa Saturday night.

Harlan down by 4 with about 10 secs left makes a lay up to pull with in 2. Dubuque Wahlert tries to inbound the ball and is it deflected right to a Harlan player and he scores another layup to tie it up. DW coach calls for time out but the in the process the time runs out. Officials get together and decide to put 2 secs on the clock. Harlan coach does not really put up a huge ***** about the the 2 secs being put back on the clock. DW inbounds the ball to half court and turns and hits a half court bomb to win the game.

It was a crazy ending to a game.

Here is a link to the video if anyone would like to see what happened.

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/app...DEO02/80308016

You my have to open it in IE if you use firefox.

[fullor30]

Originally Posted by Brad

Oklahoma 2A Girls State Championship ...



Click here to watch the video on YouTube

looking at the crowd size, Illinois really has to rethink having State Finals downstate, at least for the larger classes 3A, 4A. Looks like girls basketball is alive and well in Oklahoma.

[ace]

Brad,

did you just use the word amazing to describe a girls game?

[Mark Padgett]

OK - ya' gotta admit the announcer is no Dick Enberg. 9.2 seconds left is described as "under 30 seconds". Really? Plus, the announcer should learn that teams cannot "call" timeout. I know, Mr. Nit-picky rides again.

[vsivensports]

Hey Mark - Thanks for the help with my "announcing". No, I'm not Dick Enberg...don't try to be, but everything that I said in the package was accurate. The layup was made with 28 seconds to play to break the tie. Walters then missed a 3-point shot, Pocola got the rebound and dribbled down the court. Pocola turned the ball over and then Walters did the same so I left out 19 seconds of sloppy action because I only had 1:30 of TV time to use. Not for sure what you mean by "teams" cannot call timeout. What would have been accurate there ? Thanks for your help.

[Adam]

Mark is on a Quixotic crusade to get people to realize only officials can "call" timeouts. Coaches and players "request" timeouts.

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by vsivensports

Hey Mark - Thanks for the help with my "announcing". No, I'm not Dick Enberg...don't try to be, but everything that I said in the package was accurate. The layup was made with 28 seconds to play to break the tie. Walters then missed a 3-point shot, Pocola got the rebound and dribbled down the court. Pocola turned the ball over and then Walters did the same so I left out 19 seconds of sloppy action because I only had 1:30 of TV time to use. Not for sure what you mean by "teams" cannot call timeout. What would have been accurate there ? Thanks for your help.

Sorry - I thought it was a paid announcer. Having previously been a radio play-by-play guy (back in the olden days), I get overly critical of those guys. Actually, you did a pretty good job for the type of description you were trying to achieve. For the timeout comment, you can just say "after a timeout" or "after a (insert name of team here) timeout". As to the timing, when you said the layup was made with under 30 seconds to go, the video showed the clock with 9.2 seconds. That's where my comment came from.

Hey - just ignore me. Everyone else does.

[Brad]

Originally Posted by vsivensports

Not for sure what you mean by "teams" cannot call timeout. What would have been accurate there?

Glad to have you stop by ... Please be sure to come post whenever you have a rule question or anything related to officiating.

Some of us *ahem* get a little too tied up in wording in the rule book... The common terms used by coaches, fans, and commentators aren't always what the rule book says -- i.e. "charges" are actually "player control fouls", "over the backs" are "pushing" fouls, and, I suppose, that teams can't really "call" timeouts...

However, your job is to broadcast to the thousands of fans that understand "charge", "over the back", "call a timeout", etc. -- it's probably not unreasonable to use the terms that everyone is used to and understands .... However, that probably isn't going to stop Mark from being a nit-picker about it!

[canuckref]

Originally Posted by Brad

Oklahoma 2A Girls State Championship ...


Click here to watch the video on YouTube

...and they call soccer the beautiful game? I love high school and ncaa basketball for the underdogs and little people who make big plays, thanks for posting the video