Maybe Stansbury should try this out tonight against Vandy

[DerHntr]

http://rivals.yahoo.com/h...31?urn=highschool-312968

<span style="font-weight: bold;">Talk about boring to watch though.</span>

A nationally ranked team and three overtimes usually produce a score
well into the 100s. That wasn't the case Tuesday near Dallas, where RivalsHigh 100 No. 12 Flower Mound (Texas) Marcus High eked out a 38-31, triple-overtime district win against Plano (Texas) West High, which resorted to outright stalling as a way to remain competitive with a team that had already blown it out once this year.

"We were convinced they were going to do something drastically
different," Marcus coach Danny Henderson told the Dallas Morning News.
"What they did was one of about three things we thought they might do."</p>

Was
the stall effective? Despite the eventual loss, it's hard to consider
West's tactics anything but a fabulous success. The Wolves held Marcus
superstars Phil Forte and Marcus Smart to just 19 points combined,
and twice had chances to win the game. Unfortunately for West, they
failed to connect on buzzer beaters both at the end of regulation and
the first overtime. </p>

"It'd be nice to trade punches," West coach
Anthony Morgan told the News. "But we did that at our place [in a
double-digit West loss]. "[West decided] Let's just limit their
possessions and be very deliberate and patient on offense and work it
into our bigs."</p>

The strategy resulted in all kinds of statistical
oddities. West's possessions averaged more than a minute in length, and
included the final 2:30 of regulation. The first overtime finished without either team scoring a point. </p>

While
the stall may have been most frustrating for Marcus' high-scoring star
duo, the Marcus fans in attendance were just as upset with the tactic.
Forced to watch constant ball possession drills in real time, the Marcus
crowd resorted to chants of "shoot-the-ball" and "bo-ring," according to the Morning News. </p><a rel="nofollow" name="remaining-content"></a>

Yet all that acrimony didn't reach Henderson, who had surprising praise for Morgan's game plan.</p>

"That
was a lot of courage because that's not a popular thing to do that
coach Morgan did," Henderson told the Morning News. "I really respect
him for doing it."</p>

 

[patdog]

and North Carolina was a little bit down. Dean Smith tried the same thing and the halftime score was Duke - 7, UNC - 0. He ditched the strategy in the 2nd half and wound up losing 47-40.

 

[tenureplan]

We are good at neither

 

[DerHntr]

also, if we did it, i would be frustrated at first but would be laughing like hell if it worked. this would be particularly funny if you did it during an away game. the home team fans would be going absolutely bonkers.

 

[patdog]

From Wikipedia:
<span class="mw-headline" id="February_24.2C_1979:_.236_Duke_47.2C_.234_North_Carolina_40"></span></p>

<span class="mw-headline" id="February_24.2C_1979:_.236_Duke_47.2C_.234_North_Carolina_40">February 24, 1979: #6 Duke 47, #4 North Carolina 40</span></p>

<font color="#0645ad">Jim Spanarkel</font>’s Senior Day game turned into one of the strangest afternoons in ACC basketball history as Duke held North Carolina scoreless for a half before knocking off the No. 4-ranked Tar Heels 47-40. Dean Smith resorted to the <font color="#0645ad">four corners offense</font> and the Tar Heels held the ball throughout the first half, but Duke led 7-0 as Spanarkel forced two turnovers, assisted on a basket to <font color="#0645ad">Mike Gminski</font> and scored the last bucket of the half on a short jumper. (Smith later said, "It should have been 2-0, or something like that, at the half.") North Carolina's only two shots of the first half were air balls, that resulted in the first-ever chants of "Air ball . . . Air ball!" from the Cameron Crazies. Sparnakel added 15 points in the second half and finished with a game-high 17, hitting 8-of-9 field goal attempts. The win allowed Duke to tie North Carolina for the ACC regular season title.</p>

Duke coach <font color="#0645ad">Bill Foster</font> wasn't amused by Smith's tactics in the first half and the next day said, "I've been doing this a long time, but during the first half last night I began to think maybe I've been doing it for too long." He then added this infamous dig: "I thought <font color="#0645ad">Naismith</font> invented basketball, not Deansmith."</p>

Link

Link</p>

 

[DawgatAuburn]

That was 80 or 81. But Carolina wasn't down. They were both good that year which made that game all the more strange.

 

[futaba.79]

did it a few times. Losing to Wilkins and UGA 26-20, and beating somebody 33-31. Or did we lose that one too? Can't remember.

 

[GroveHard]

Considering the + 6.

 

[RaiderDawg24]

My Uncle was there and always talks about this game. He said it was the most boring sporting event he ever saw.

UT scored 96 the night before and Temple was scared.

 

[formerdog]

employed by former HC Bob Boyd in his first year in Starkville (1980-81). He would hold the ball for most of the game. I remember one game against Georgia, played in a half-empty Hump (due to a snowstorm) that finished 28-24. Boyd said he had to do it because he did not have the talent to run with Durham's crew. Craziest game I ever saw -- I never thought basketball scores could compare to football scores...

 

[17thebears]

Can you actually imagine if we didn't have a shot clock and Stansbury told these three to hold the ball and not shoot for minutes? They would laugh in his face, spit in his face, flip him off, and then proceed to throw up the ball within 5 sec on each possession. There is no doubt in my mind.