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Video: The most heartbreaking play in basketball history?
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Posted on 03/09/2013 7:03:59 AM PST by chessplayer

With a one-point lead, 2.9 seconds to play and possession of the ball, all Hugo High School had to do was inbound the basketball and run out the clock to advance in the Oklahoma state boys’ basketball tournament.

But what followed stunned everyone.

Hugo guard Trey Johnson got confused after he received the inbounds pass and laid the ball into the wrong basket just before time expired, giving the opposing team, Millwood High, a 38-37 win Thursday night and a place in the Class 3A semifinals.


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1 posted on 03/09/2013 7:03:59 AM PST by chessplayer
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If your side has the ball and is leading with two seconds left, why would you even try to shoot? You hold the ball and run out the clock. Maybe you would get fouled and go to the line. BUT, you don’t try to take a shot. The boy tried to do a little showboating and got his team eliminated.


2 posted on 03/09/2013 7:08:46 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (Soon the "invisible hand" will press the economic "reset" button.)
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3 posted on 03/09/2013 7:08:59 AM PST by fso301
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He had 5 large riding on the loss. It truly was an act of desperation.


4 posted on 03/09/2013 7:11:28 AM PST by onona (KCCO, and mind the gap)
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I’m glad I never made any embarrassing mistakes when I was a teenager.


5 posted on 03/09/2013 7:13:19 AM PST by Pan_Yan
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Ohhh - One second left - Dennis Johnson steps in front of the inbounds pass and dishes to Bird for the layup - CELTICS WIN!


6 posted on 03/09/2013 7:15:17 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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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...


7 posted on 03/09/2013 7:15:55 AM PST by Moltke ("I am Dr. Sonderborg," he said, "and I don't want any nonsense.")
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The class reunions will be fun for this classic goat.


8 posted on 03/09/2013 7:18:26 AM PST by metesky (Brethren, leave us go amongst them! - Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond, The Searchers)
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Dumb plays happen. But scoring the winning basket for the opponent? How the hell is he going to live that down. If that was me I would transfer out of that school. The coach said all the PC crap about it only being a game and it didn’t really matter, but I bet he, and the rest of the team, and the student body, would really like to stomp the crap out of him.


9 posted on 03/09/2013 7:28:26 AM PST by chessplayer
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Give him the Senator John McCain award for screwing over his own team above and beyond the call of duty.


10 posted on 03/09/2013 7:31:08 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Choose one: the yellow and black flag of the Tea Party or the white flag of the Republican Party.)
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“Without a doubt, that’s the toughest locker room I’ve ever had to talk to,” Shanklin said.


I believe that.


11 posted on 03/09/2013 7:34:53 AM PST by chessplayer
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Not even close, the most heartbreaking was the Gold Medal game in the 72 Olympics.


12 posted on 03/09/2013 7:39:24 AM PST by dfwgator
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"...nice going bonehead,see ya down at Booger King"

13 posted on 03/09/2013 7:39:47 AM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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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.)


14 posted on 03/09/2013 7:57:59 AM PST by TomGuy
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Lotsa talk around here about this yesterday.

All the local media were quickly in agreement with one another to not publish the young man's name on the grounds that he's not a professional or college athlete, and that he's really still a kid.

One guy in particular, Dave Sittler with the Tulsa World, recalled precedent set in a state football championship when a player for Tulsa McClain high school caught a long pass, crossed the line, then stopped, celebrated, and spiked the ball... problem was "the line" was the 5 yard line, costing McClain the state championship.

I wish the national media had the same sense of decency as Mr. Sittler and the rest of our local media.

He's just a kid, and he lives in a small town in Oklahoma...

Why publish his name?

15 posted on 03/09/2013 7:58:08 AM PST by OKSooner (Godspeed, 3-D Danny.)
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Also yesterday afternoon on a certain sports radio show run by a well-known local guy with a "very" Jersey accent, it came to light that a timeout had been called just before play started, indicating that the coach had NOT given specific instructions saying "don't shoot, just dribble for a couplea seconds and we win."

No one taking any cruelty out on him today, at least not in the media. I hope he does a press conference, maybe today, and tells everyone it was really his fault for not coaching properly and to lay off the young man.

16 posted on 03/09/2013 8:02:58 AM PST by OKSooner (Godspeed, 3-D Danny.)
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It’s a public school. Cut the kid a break.


17 posted on 03/09/2013 8:10:37 AM PST by onedoug
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This is why teams (especially football) should not be allowed
to run out the clock. Ever notice when the expected winners
kill the game 1 or 2 min. left on the clock hanging on for
dear life.


18 posted on 03/09/2013 8:15:59 AM PST by urtax$@work (The only kind of memorial is a Burning memorial !)
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How would an enforceable rule be written to prevent it? I don’t think doing that would be possible.


19 posted on 03/09/2013 8:24:23 AM PST by Bob
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Chris Webber calls timeout in the NCAA championship final...
Ruh Ro.


20 posted on 03/09/2013 8:31:01 AM PST by Palio di Siena
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