Comments on: Video: The shot

By: MSGTAS

MSGTAS — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:41:33 +0000

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.

By: badpenguin

badpenguin — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:58:05 +0000

That’ll never beat a Lemieux, Gretzky or Crosby shot.

By: mylegsareswollen

mylegsareswollen — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:30:04 +0000

That entire back and forth was incredible.

Total effort on both sides of the ball.

By: Why I Still Love Basketball | D.C. Thornton

Why I Still Love Basketball | D.C. Thornton — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:12:02 +0000

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By: WaltDakota

WaltDakota — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:26:32 +0000

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.

By: Aronne

Aronne — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:11:28 +0000

Allah, why do you try to force metaphors?

blink on December 4, 2008 at 1:49 PM

Because they’re really allegories.

By: Andrew D

Andrew D — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:43:09 +0000

Well-played, but it isn't nearly as amazing as this shot.

By: Wyznowski

Wyznowski — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:17:38 +0000

When saved by divine intervention, we always say “I’d rather be lucky than good…”

By: pt

pt — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:06:09 +0000

Final thought: Why is it that awesome basketball stories from upstate NY are always captured via amateur video?

By: pt

pt — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:56:02 +0000

News story here. Had this game been in Oswego, it would have been buried in snow for at least a month.

By: pt

pt — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:49:17 +0000

Does it matter that it was an overtime win? Kind of like Chambliss?

By: Jaibones

Jaibones — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:44:45 +0000

B.S. That’s not Podunk Elementary’s Mewling Moonbats.

hillbillyjim on December 4, 2008 at 2:21 PM

Heh.

By: Jaibones

Jaibones — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:43:50 +0000

Oops. Small college New York.

By: DrSteve

DrSteve — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:40:22 +0000

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.

By: Danny B

Danny B — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:39:32 +0000

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!

By: Jaibones

Jaibones — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:29:38 +0000

Geneseo and Oswego – two little country towns in north-central Illinois. Too funny.

By: hillbillyjim

hillbillyjim — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:21:15 +0000

My alma matter!

B.S. That’s not Podunk Elementary’s Mewling Moonbats.

By: Rocks

Rocks — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:11:52 +0000

This would have been more impressive if it didn’t take someone missing a layup to make it possible.

By: crr6

crr6 — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:11:32 +0000

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.

By: 29Victor

29Victor — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:10:02 +0000

If all else fails, there’s always dumb luck.

By: warrenmr

warrenmr — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:09:20 +0000

This is why I love sports.

By: whitetop

whitetop — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:07:51 +0000

They practice that play every day. It’s called the fast- break, desperation blind shot drill.

By: Wino

Wino — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:01:51 +0000

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

By: dakine

dakine — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:59:40 +0000

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.

By: Mandrake

Mandrake — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:52:39 +0000

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.