Time for weirdness

[reffish]

Reffing MS girls, fast break and then turnover, I am new trail and then become lead, as I turn, a toddler comes on court t about three point line. I grab the kid a la SF Giant playoff game a couple of years ago. Hold the kid, fast break scores and then I look toward fans. No one has yet claimed kid. Finally, a parent realizes their kid is being held by ref.

[CoachP]

Originally Posted by reffish

Reffing MS girls, fast break and then turnover, I am new trail and then become lead, as I turn, a toddler comes on court t about three point line. I grab the kid a la SF Giant playoff game a couple of years ago. Hold the kid, fast break scores and then I look toward fans. No one has yet claimed kid. Finally, a parent realizes their kid is being held by ref.

Similar.... Boys Varsity - 3 year old jumps out of stands and heads across the gym. As he is about halfway across, the teams start to go fast breaking the other way not knowing he was there. He makes it across without an incident.

But.

When he was at the halfway point, mom started to give chase. She made it STRAIGHT thru UNTOUCHED thru a boys varsity fast break. Funniest thing I ever saw as mom AND fast break were not affected.....

[jeffpea]

Ever seen a team purposely try to lose a game by only by a specific number of points or less?????

Several years ago, the top two HS teams in a conference were playing each other in a game to determine the champion. If green (visitior) wins, they would tie white (home). The tie-breaker was point differential: if white loses by 6pts or less they are champs; if white loses by 7pts or more, they finish second.

Sure enough, w/ 1:30 left in game white is losing by 5 and HOLDING the ball (think stalling, "four corners", "keep away", etc). Green, the team that is winning, is trapping and trying to steal the ball. No matter how open the losing team was, they didn't want to shoot the ball. Ultimately, Green gets a steal and misses a wide-open break-a-way dunk (that would have put them up by 7) and the kid on white who grabbed the rebound races down the floor and jacks up a 3 (while his teammates and coaches are yelling for him to "pull it out!"). The 3 misses and another player in white - in an effort to get the long rebound - fouls green (which then made both free throws).

Since white is down 7pts, they have to "change gears" and go from "stalling" while down 5, to jacking 3's and fouling to try and lose by less.

Eventually, White lost by 8 (which means Green won the conference championship). They were so deflated after that loss that they promptly went out and got blown out in the first round of the state playoffs.....

Never seen anything like it before or since!

[GoodwillRef]

I was working a tournament down at Disney and I was watching the game before mine and a dog, the dog belong to one of the workers who was in a wheelchair, walks on the court and takes a dump at the free throw line in the backcourt...way too funny!!!