No, no, no! 🙅♂️ pic.twitter.com/H28Pwy2SIm
— ScoutsFocus (@scoutsfocus) March 2, 2017
Everyone is going to kill this coach. Not me. He’s a hero. When a player on his team was about to score on his own basket, he did what every coach should do — storm the court and reject that shot right back into that kid’s face. Think about what, I assume, are the repercussions of this decision:
1. No basket, saved his team two points
2. A technical foul, for running on the court
3. That means two free throws, but come on
4. No kid on that floor is making two free throws
5. Instead of the kid being embarrassed, now it’s the coach that’s in the spotlight.
Like I said, hero.
Now, consider what this could mean at the higher levels of basketball.
Remember when Louisville tricked Duke into guarding the wrong basket and got a free layup to start the second half?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwuwlz7Xb4Y
It would have required a running head start, since it was at the other end of the court, but what if the coach ran on the court to steal in the inbound pass or block the shot? One, it would be hilarious, and two, maybe she misses the free throws for the technical foul.
I don’t know about you, but I want to live in a world where Roy Williams might run on the court and block a Grayson Allen shot. Send this youth coach to the Hall of Fame immediately. He has changed the game forever.
