75-74 Walton after 3.

Defense optional

80-76 Birds with 5:30 left.

Barth doing his best Sam Vinson impersonation!!!

90-89 Walton 1:58 left 

95-94 Walton, Highlands ball in front court, 9 seconds left. Timeout Birds.

What a game

Final

Walton 97 Birds 94

Heck of a game and shoutout to @859Radio for broadcasting the game for us! Not sure the forced Herald 3 was drawn up in the timeout. Both teams have a lot to work on defensively.

Just now, Bucketgetter said:

Heck of a game and shoutout to @859Radio for broadcasting the game for us! Not sure the forced Herald 3 was drawn up in the timeout. Both teams have a lot to work on defensively.

I can guarantee it wasn’t. They took Barth away on the stagger screen.  He had to get it, but needed to attack rim.  

1 minute ago, throwback32 said:

I can guarantee it wasn’t. They took Barth away on the stagger screen.  He had to get it, but needed to attack rim.  

There was plenty of time on the clock... Not sure why he was in such a hurry to get up a shot. Pretty sure Highlands had 2 timeouts left also if they absolutely needed them... I will never understand why players of all ages go to an ISO up top and end up shooting (usually a terrible) three instead of getting to the rim in end of clock situations. This game definitely gives the Birds some things to learn from. 

Great job Walton Verona!