How can you get confused when there are only two baskets on the playing field? It’s not like there are two dozen baskets to choose from.
Kid better find a new school...
Happened to a player when I was in hs in the mid 60s.
IIRC, our school lost the game, but I don’t recall by how many points.
The player was (and probably continued to be) razzed about that wrong-goal basket most of his life during and after high school. (IIRC, he died a few years ago.)
It’s a public school. Cut the kid a break.