GP Basketball: Win at the Buzzer.

Hi everyone! I thought I would write a quick post about how we won a school basketball game against Scottsdale Prep this week! This was the most difficult game we have had this whole season, and we could not really sub anyone out for too long or else the other team would start scoring more points.

 We played them Wednesday night at home and we tipped off at 4. It was a really even game, but we got some momentum and were going to finish the half 11-6. But then we pulled out our best point guard, and another kid had to take his spot. Every time that we got the ball, they would double team us and our players kept trying to dribble past them, which they are not exactly capable of.

 Our new point would either try to dribble past them or chuck it to somebody from half-court. He turned the ball over six times in a row, and they got an easy six points and the lead going into the second half. Our coach was not pleased. Not only with the points, but he had put in a second string player in the last minute that had no idea what he was doing and did not play defense.

 Coach gave him a very quick lecture before the second half about paying attention during practice, and then sat him out the rest of the game. The whole half  was low scoring, but the other team was pulling away with the game. With about five minutes left, they were up by eight. Then we made a couple of shots and with two minutes left, we were down by four. Then our tallest player had two free throws that could have helped us win the game a lot easier, but he missed both of them.

 Immediately after those two, he got two more. and guess what? He misses both of them. We stopped them from making any more shots except for one free throw, and with about forty seconds left, a player named Max threw the ball up and it actually went in! We were down by one and on their second-to-last drive they did not get it.

 So then with fifteen seconds left, we ran up the court and the same kid flung it up and it went in again! None of us could believe it, and there was only 0.4 seconds on the clock. The crowd was going crazy, and we won the game by ONE point!

 So thanks for reading and tune in next week on TBB! There is one problem though. We have to play them in Scottsdale next week!