FairWarning Posted February 13 Report Share Posted February 13 9 hours ago, Blondie said: So Hoffa and I were chatting about a high school senior night game I recently covered and I’m curious about other communities l. its senior night and Billy is injured, has been almost all season. Billy is a senior. In our area Billy goes in for the tip off and the ball gets passed to Billy. Billy then takes a shot and immediately exits the game, to a standing ovation and clapping. the other team then takes the ball and scores two as well to even out the score. Is this a small town/midwest thing or is it done everywhere? Small town stuff, but I’ve seen it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WVU Posted February 13 Report Share Posted February 13 14 hours ago, Jimmy Hoffa said: That's how it should be. 100% disagree. Play hard every possession on offense and defense. This is high school ball, not a church league. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WVU Posted February 13 Report Share Posted February 13 12 hours ago, Chi_Archie said: learn that life ain't always fair. shit is random and you have to deal with it have it happens. Archie gets it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WVU Posted February 13 Report Share Posted February 13 10 hours ago, Blondie said: Most of the time it’s at the beginning of the game if it’s an injury shot. That way it can be evened out by the opposing team scoring. what do you mean decided? Aren’t we supposed to foul the other team for the last three minutes in a feeble attempt at trying to gain the lead that I have yet to ever see work?? evening out the score is dumb. If you want to score a point, do it the way everyone else does. Stats are important. Tainting them takes that importance away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FISHHEAD Posted February 13 Report Share Posted February 13 6 minutes ago, WVU said: 100% disagree. Play hard every possession on offense and defense. This is high school ball, not a church league. correct House post spot on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FairWarning Posted February 13 Report Share Posted February 13 2 hours ago, WVU said: evening out the score is dumb. If you want to score a point, do it the way everyone else does. Stats are important. Tainting them takes that importance away. Stat padding is important, let the hurt player get a chance at some NIL money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redstripe Posted February 13 Report Share Posted February 13 Coached both Basketball and Baseball for 20 years. Never ever seen that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blondie Posted February 13 Author Report Share Posted February 13 13 minutes ago, FairWarning said: Stat padding is important, let the hurt player get a chance at some NIL money. The majority of the time it's a career-ending injury. Best example: The girl was going for a layup, technical foul took her out at an ambulance ride level out resulting in several knee surgeries etc. No more sports at all for her she was a multisport athlete going to state in track the previous year for triple jump. Senior night she dressed one final time and shot the first basket. No records were damaged, the other team had a kid that usually doesn't score shoot the equalizer basket so no records hurt there either. It's a feel-good thing that our area does. As far as I can remember it's always been a season-ending injury that usually impacted at least part or all of their next sport as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WVU Posted February 13 Report Share Posted February 13 There is no room for feel goods in sports. Play by the rules and fight to the finish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FairWarning Posted February 13 Report Share Posted February 13 4 hours ago, Blondie said: The majority of the time it's a career-ending injury. Best example: The girl was going for a layup, technical foul took her out at an ambulance ride level out resulting in several knee surgeries etc. No more sports at all for her she was a multisport athlete going to state in track the previous year for triple jump. Senior night she dressed one final time and shot the first basket. No records were damaged, the other team had a kid that usually doesn't score shoot the equalizer basket so no records hurt there either. It's a feel-good thing that our area does. As far as I can remember it's always been a season-ending injury that usually impacted at least part or all of their next sport as well. That happened with a shirttail relative of mine. Basically he had a stroke at birth, ended up with little use of his left side, was the team manager. Well on senior night, he got to dress and they let him shoot a layup at the end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy Hoffa Posted February 13 Report Share Posted February 13 Just now, FairWarning said: That happened with a shirttail relative of mine. Basically he had a stroke at birth, ended up with little use of his left side, was the team manager. Well on senior night, he got to dress and they let him shoot a layup at the end. He's going to remember that night for the rest of his life. And may I add, no harm was done to the competitiveness of the contest. THIS is the best in what sports can do for our country, the Super Bowl is the worst... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinker Posted February 13 Report Share Posted February 13 out in the street props when a dude call his own and don't question shit. Older dudes keep that culture going, none of the damn line don't lie juvy shit. tradition Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TobyTyler Posted February 14 Report Share Posted February 14 My daughters team played game other day vs a bad team that didn't qualify for the states, was their last game. Had a girl who needed like 19 for 1k pts, (which means you go in trophy case, etc) Refs definitely knew about it, she was a post type player and took about 18 free throws, got ridiculous whistles. Nobody really cared but was painfully obvious to point little embarrassing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blondie Posted February 14 Author Report Share Posted February 14 24 minutes ago, TobyTyler said: My daughters team played game other day vs a bad team that didn't qualify for the states, was their last game. Had a girl who needed like 19 for 1k pts, (which means you go in trophy case, etc) Refs definitely knew about it, she was a post type player and took about 18 free throws, got ridiculous whistles. Nobody really cared but was painfully obvious to point little embarrassing. Yikes. That is definitely the hard side of it. There was a girl with 999 for the other team last week at the start of the game. I am confident if she had broken her ankle in the first two seconds our team would have found a way for her to get to 1k, but making it painfully obvious would be hard to watch and kind of sad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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