Grinnell kid scores 138 points in a game

I'd love to watch some of this game on video.

Incidentally, Sweden's Mats Wermelin says no big deal.

 

Mile High, Not sure about the Smith connection, but I think Grinnell's been running this for close to 20 years, ever since the coach took over.

Predictably, there's the backlash, running it up, not the right way to play, whatever. Some D3 coach was tweeting that Grinnell hasn't won playoff games. Okay. Well, check out the records of the coaches before Arsenault took over. It's a style that's been quite successful if you have some perspective. And is, also, shockingly, a different way to play the game. The horror.

http://www.grinnell.edu/files/downloads/Head%20Coach%20Career%20Records_17.pdf

 

video and abysmally horrible hip-hop background music:

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THIS is what a lot of people simply do not get -- just because a team plays a "different" way doesn't mean they're playing the "wrong" way.

I think one thing that has happened over the last 30-40 years which is probably the result of nationwide overexposure (on cable teevee and the Internet) of every sport, has been the complete homogenization of styles of play.

In the 60s, 70s and up into the Nineties, you used to have real differences -- dramatic differences -- in styles of play in teams from different regions and even within conferences. This was far less prevalent in the professional leagues of every sport but there were still much more significant differences in how teams actually played.

In basketball particularly you used to have run-and-gun fastbreak teams like UNLV going up against Al McGuire's iceball teams at Marquette.

Now, everybody runs the same plays, everybody runs the same defenses, some teams have better players so they win and some teams have worse players so they lose but pretty much every damn game looks the same.

 

Catch the excitement all over again!

http://client.stretchinternet.com/client/grinnell.portal?mode=link&eventId=79617&broadcastType=video#

 

108 shots.

When you're on, shoot.

When you're off, shoot til you're on.

 

He attempted 71 3's last night.

Westhead is beating off reading the boxscore.

 

If you're Faith Baptist Bible, how do you not double-team him? He took 108 of 136 shots. Ya think they're focusing the offense on him?

 

138 points in 35 minutes is roughly two baskets every 60 seconds.

And the reason they probably didn't double-team him is they most likely never had a chance to. Grinnell's philosophy is to launch a shot within seven seconds of taking possession.

 

Yeah, this team isn't exactly the one from Hoosiers...