Question of the Day: March 11
Checking my email on yahoo to see if anybody sent me a private message on youtube, the featured news story caught my attention. The title of the hook?
Costly Dunk at H.S. Game
Basically, what happened was that a Montana basketball player was dunking during the warmups, which already is illegal in high school basketball games. If you think that’s ridiculous, you should hear about what I read on yahoo sports the other day: A college basketball team trailed 1 to 0 before the opening tip-off because of their players dunking during the pre-game warmups (if anybody is wondering, that one point didn’t make a difference in the game; the team that got the free point ended up winning the game by a score of 83 to 58).
But in this situation, a pre-game dunk went wrong when the backboard shattered into pieces. Usually, when basketball fans see something like this, we think of the words, “Send it in Jerome!” Unfortunately, for Harlem’s boys basketball team, they had to forfeit the game.
My question for you is this:
Should the outcomes of basketball games simply be affected by what happens during the pregame warmups?
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Well when you can’t replace the rim….yes.
the guy wasn’t that big so think they rigged the board to break for an easy forfeit win
That’s exactly what I was thinking Celtics! What if the school made one backboard less flexible than the other to allow for their team to win by default?
What kind of credible sports league would alter the score of a game based on something that transpired in a warmup? I’m not familiar with H.S basketball in the United States, but why can’t players dunk the ball? Sounds ridiculous to me.
It’s great that he can dunk or whatever, but there isn’t a need to dunk the ball during warm ups. I mean, what’s the point of dunking if the game hasn’t started yet?
He wanted to warm up his dunks apparently!