Video: The shot
posted at 1:30 pm on December 4, 2008 by Allahpundit
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I’d call it the metaphor of the day but nothing seems to fit. GM convincing Congress to give it an eleventh-hour loan, maybe? Hillary somehow salvaging a cabinet position from a crushing primary defeat?
In the YouTube age, immortality is but one closed-eyes, one-in-a-million lucky shot away.
Via Breitbart.
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The pass was awesome, too. Kudos to the kids.
jgapinoy on December 4, 2008 at 1:34 PM
Fox News Alert: Opposing team seeks government bailout for lost revenue from lost game.
jake-the-goose on December 4, 2008 at 1:37 PM
How about Chambliss & Coleman last-second saving US from a Dem supermajority?
jgapinoy on December 4, 2008 at 1:39 PM
cool
brak on December 4, 2008 at 1:40 PM
That’s like Al Bundy’s four touchdowns in a single game. His life will be all downhill from here. When he’s married with children working his shoe store, he will reminisce nostalgically about his game winning shot while slipping his hands into his waist band.
keep the change on December 4, 2008 at 1:40 PM
I come from a hoops family and have seen literally thousands of youth, high school, college and pro games, and that was the most amazing game winning shot I’ve ever seen. Crazy.
dakine on December 4, 2008 at 1:41 PM
Gotta play from start to finish. The Republicans could learn something from watching this game.
Tommy_G on December 4, 2008 at 1:45 PM
If I followed this right, he was the player at the start of the tape who tried to draw the charge before the basket was made.
He then gets up, races down the court and then while falling flips in this wild over the head shot.
Geez, looney-tunes time.
SteveMG on December 4, 2008 at 1:48 PM
Allah, why do you try to force metaphors?
blink on December 4, 2008 at 1:49 PM
I absolutely LOVE watching sports clips like that. Love it.
Oink on December 4, 2008 at 1:49 PM
I’d say that was a metaphor for winning a basketball game at the last second.
Bishop on December 4, 2008 at 1:50 PM
Nice shot. Crowd noise makes it even better.
Spirit of 1776 on December 4, 2008 at 1:51 PM
Couldn’t he have just turned and done a lay-up?
blink on December 4, 2008 at 1:51 PM
You should see the last few series up and down the floor. That last shot was remarkable but there were several wild plays preceding it.
JammieWearingFool on December 4, 2008 at 1:51 PM
Just think, we won’t have to show such things anymore when the One cancels competition in order to bring change and equality.
Whew.
Darksean on December 4, 2008 at 1:52 PM
Meh…looks like your average day at a “horse” tourney in my neighborhood. Good shot, though. No doubt about it.
But not an earth-shaker.
A clip of that same shot by humping robots? Epic.
Mike D. on December 4, 2008 at 1:52 PM
That kid will have something to talk about the rest of his life. And it’s saved on video for posterity’s sake. Good for him.
Mandrake on December 4, 2008 at 1:52 PM
Darksean, I realize you were weakly attempting humor, but Obama is a pretty serious baller and likes to compete. He won a state ship in high school. BTW, his brother in law is the head coach at Oregon State. That was sort of a lame post brah.
dakine on December 4, 2008 at 1:59 PM
I don’t know why you are praising this. One team won, sure, but that means another team had to LOSE. Congress is going to institute a program to take points from other teams in the league and distribute them to the loser here and in other games to make things “fair”.
Next thing you’ll know, you folks will be praising capitalism, competition, abiding by the rules, and all those other out-dated conservative (it’s hard to type with a sneer, but imagine it as you read the word “conservative”) values.
HopeChangeAndBubblegum
Wino on December 4, 2008 at 2:01 PM
They practice that play every day. It’s called the fast- break, desperation blind shot drill.
whitetop on December 4, 2008 at 2:07 PM
This is why I love sports.
warrenmr on December 4, 2008 at 2:09 PM
If all else fails, there’s always dumb luck.
29Victor on December 4, 2008 at 2:10 PM
My alma matter! I’ve met the guy who shot the game winner a couple times (Scott Morton), all this media attention couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. Good for him.
crr6 on December 4, 2008 at 2:11 PM
This would have been more impressive if it didn’t take someone missing a layup to make it possible.
Rocks on December 4, 2008 at 2:11 PM
B.S. That’s not Podunk Elementary’s Mewling Moonbats.
hillbillyjim on December 4, 2008 at 2:21 PM
Geneseo and Oswego - two little country towns in north-central Illinois. Too funny.
Jaibones on December 4, 2008 at 2:29 PM
Watch the very beginning of the video and you’ll see the Geneseo dude totally take an uncalled charge, get knocked down on his back, then get up and hustle to be in position for the game winning shot – great job!
Danny B on December 4, 2008 at 2:39 PM
Reminds me of some of the shots from the ‘88 conference semis between Boston and Atlanta. Bird and Wilkins were on fire, both of them. Bird staggers into the lane, falling forward, flips one back over his shoulder and it goes in. I think Wilkins was 19 of 24, something insane like that.
DrSteve on December 4, 2008 at 2:40 PM
Oops. Small college New York.
Jaibones on December 4, 2008 at 2:43 PM
Heh.
Jaibones on December 4, 2008 at 2:44 PM
Does it matter that it was an overtime win? Kind of like Chambliss?
pt on December 4, 2008 at 2:49 PM
News story here.
Had this game been in Oswego, it would have been buried in snow for at least a month.
pt on December 4, 2008 at 2:56 PM
Final thought: Why is it that awesome basketball stories from upstate NY are always captured via amateur video?
pt on December 4, 2008 at 3:06 PM
When saved by divine intervention, we always say “I’d rather be lucky than good…”
Wyznowski on December 4, 2008 at 3:17 PM
Well-played, but it isn’t nearly as amazing as this shot.
Andrew D on December 4, 2008 at 3:43 PM
Because they’re really allegories.
Aronne on December 4, 2008 at 5:11 PM
Ed should know this one, but this shot is truly the best shot to win a game ever. I remember seeing it live on TV and absolutely could not believe it.
Then he goes to college in Minnesota and does this.
WaltDakota on December 4, 2008 at 5:26 PM
That entire back and forth was incredible.
Total effort on both sides of the ball.
mylegsareswollen on December 4, 2008 at 6:30 PM
That’ll never beat a Lemieux, Gretzky or Crosby shot.
badpenguin on December 4, 2008 at 11:58 PM
I would immediately have the ball checked for being doped. I must have been injected with iron dust that is drawn to the hoop which is an electric magnet.
MSGTAS on December 5, 2008 at 8:41 AM