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Trace Dimeff is a 6-foot freshman guard on the Central Arizona Junior College men’s basketball team. He’s also pretty freakin’ tough. That’s him above during last Saturday’s game against Arizona Western.
He told us over Twitter their trainer diagnosed him with a “mild concussion” after the hit you see him take at the beginning of the video below.
“It was in overtime, we were down five with about six seconds left when I made [the shot] to cut the lead to two” Trace told us. “I got subbed out right after and our team had a shot to tie the game as time expired but it didn’t go in.”
They ended up losing, 87-84, in OT as Trace said, but holy cow is that an impressive bit of shot making after a dangerous blow to the head.
When you lowkey got a mild concussion but ball is still life & you gotta hit the clutch corner three w 5 secs left pic.twitter.com/BqX3v6M70w
— Trace Dimeff (@TDimeff) November 23, 2015
That wasn’t Trace’s only triple on the game, though. The freshman scored a team-high 27 points on 6-of-12 from beyond the arc and 8-of-16 overall.
No shot was more impressive, and timely, than the one he connected on in the near corner after a concussion. Mild or not, you can see him barely able to stand on two legs, yet still knock down the bucket. That’s an otherworldly bit of muscle memory. He could barely stand, but his body took over when the ball was in his hands.
The fact that he’s got DIME in his last name, is just a fun coincidence.
