Final

 

The Birds' 6'6 Freshman Nick True had a big

game. Nice win against a very good Cougar team

 

Can a mod fix the header this is a JV Final. .

Well, I guess you didn't see Clyde's thread either. :lol:

 

Highlands 41 Connor 38

Final

 

The Birds' 6'6 Freshman Nick True had a big

game. Nice win against a very good Cougar team

 

Can a mod fix the header this is a JV Final. .

Edited January 29, 201115 yr by SportsGuy41017

Well, I guess you didn't see Clyde's thread either. :lol:

 

My guy Q made me shake my head.

Conner's JV is in a funk. I think they won their first 16 games. Now I know of at least 3 losses.

My bad autospell on this phone stinks.

another mis-spelling of Conner! The varsity game was 59-45 Conner.

Blatant scoring error changed this game. Conner FG was not credited in the first half. Changed everything at the end of the game. Oh well.

Not sure what you are talking about but they still would have been a point short.

Blatant scoring error changed this game. Conner FG was not credited in the first half. Changed everything at the end of the game. Oh well.

 

Did the Conner coach nor scorekeeper notice?

My bad autospell on this phone stinks.

 

The auto spell excuse is running as rampant as "I didn't know my supplement contained DHEA" on this site. lol

Not sure what you are talking about but they still would have been a point short.

 

Let me ask you this. If you are coaching and you have the ball down 1 with 25 seconds to play, what do you do? Or if you are down 3 with 25 seconds to play, what do you do? You can honestly sit here and say that they would have still been a point short? Give me a break. Two totally different scenarios imo. The score should have been 41-40, but the error made it 41-38. Big difference my friend. Conner should of had the ball down one and a FG would have given them the win. Many different options down 1 vs. 3. No comparison. By the way, I am talking about a FG that was not credited to a Conner player in the first half. Very correctable error, but the official scorer took the position of "this is my job, and I keep the official book, leave me alone". Terrible. Video tape will support my claim.

 

Did the Conner coach nor scorekeeper notice?

 

Everyone noticed, but the two people keeping score (the books) both missed the FG by a Conner player. He had 6 points at halftime, and they only credited him with 4. The Conner coaches were aware of the mistake. Major blunder on the score board keeper. Points went up, then were taken back down and never put back up.

If it happened which I doubt, it still was early in the game and numerous thibgs could have happened throughout the game after that point. It may have been a ten point lead with Conner up at the end and then this would be a moot point. Bottom line is Highlands outhustled the Cougars and made some big shots down the stretch to preserve the win.

 

What I don't get is why Conner didn't call a timeout when they had the ball down 3 with 15 seconds left to set up a good look to tie. Or why Highlands who had 3 fouls to give didn't use them up to force Conner to have to inbound the ball wasting more clock. Instead they kept passing it back and forth around the perimeter hoping for an open look which they didn't get due to the excellent defensive pressure by Highlands.

 

It was a great game to watch and my point about coming up short anyway was in jest. I'm not that big of a moron to not realize the coaching and play would have been different if the score were 2 pts closer at the end.

 

The scorekeeper at Highlands has been keeping the book for 25+

Yrs, ID say the chances of him screwing up are possible but not likely. Send him the tape I guess.

Here's what happened. The scoreboard operator mistakenly gave Conner two points when the basket should have been credited to Highlands. Both scorekeepers realized the error and it was fixed correctly (the 2 pts came off Conner's score and was credited to Highlands on the scoreboard). HOWEVER, while they were both conferring with each other they missed another Conner FG. Neither scorekeeper saw the basket which resulted in both of the scorebooks reporting the same thing, which was 2 pts less than the actual score Conner had. The coaches were aware of it. I saw the coach go to the scorers table at the end of the 1st half and once again before the 2nd half started. There wasn't anything he could do however, since both books had recorded the same results. And the 2 pts was huge because it totally changed the way Conner approached the game at the end. They would have been down only 1 pt which gives them alot more options on offense.

 

The coached did NOT call a timeout when down 3 with only 10 seconds left for a very good reason. Highlands only had 2 team fouls (don't get me started on the officiating). They would have just kept fouling after every inbounds pass and Conner never would have gotten a 3 pt shot off. Credit the coaches for realizing this. That is exactly how they lost to Ryle last week, so they recognized the situation and gave their team the best chance to get a 3 pt shot off by not calling a timeout. You could hear the Highlands bench screaming to foul the last 10 seconds of the game, so I'm pretty confident that's what their plan would have been if Conner would have taken a final timeout.

Ok that makes sense I was walking by the scorers table when they were conferring about it and game action was going on. However we don't know what the score would have been at the end based on a fg not credited in the first half. The Birds may have coached differently also down the stretch.

Ok that makes sense I was walking by the scorers table when they were conferring about it and game action was going on. However we don't know what the score would have been at the end based on a fg not credited in the first half. The Birds may have coached differently also down the stretch.

 

I agree that both teams could have and probably would have done some things differently at the end. But that type of error at a high school game is inexcusable. I wonder how these posts would sound if Conner would have lost by 2 or 1? BTW Highlands played very well. Conner JV has lost some games recently, but they have all been to 3 very good teams.