📡 Parker downs Carver 6-4 in a basketball game reminiscent of yesteryear

[Bama News]

Parker downs Carver 6-4 in a basketball game reminiscent of yesteryear

Both teams held the ball much of the game in Parker's 6-4 victory over Carver-Birmingham.

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In a throwback high school basketball game that should have taken place in a cracker-box gym with players wearing off-white Chuck Taylor hightops, Parker beat Carver-Birmingham 6-4 Wednesday night.

Parker’s Keith Body scored the game-winner with 1:10 left after the Thundering Herd led 4-2 heading into the fourth quarter.

“We came out in a zone (defense) and they held it out,” said Parker coach Reginald McGary. “Sometimes you do that to make sure the other team comes out of the zone, but we came out of the zone and they still held it.”

Parker missed some early shots in the lane — “they were contested shots, but we should have made them,” McGary said — and with a lead, the veteran Parker coach figured he would play the slowdown game, too.

Carver’s Levente Woodside tied the game 4-all in the final quarter then Parker held the ball outside the Carver zone several minutes before Body scored the winning points.

Parker takes on Class 5A top-ranked Ramsay in the Area 10 final on Saturday. Both teams will advance to subregional play.

 

[OldPlayer]

Who was the high scorer?

 

[sean]

6-4?
Basketball?
WTF?!
Was the game only 2 minutes long?

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

6-4?
Basketball?
WTF?!
Was the game only 2 minutes long?

No shot clock, which is ridiculous.

 

[Tidestalker]

No shot clock, which is ridiculous.

It is too bad that some states just won't make the jump. It really impacts the quality of the game.

 

[BamaFan334]

No shot clock? I had zero clue that was even an option.

 

[OldPlayer]

The old Dean Smith four-corners offense

 

[footballer]

Dale Brown's LSU teams used to be the master of slow down play before the shot clock was implemented.

 

[Elderfalsedemigod]

Like a Princeton score when Carril was coaching

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Actually it was North Carolina that played to win and not to play and enjoy...as
@OldPlayer pointed put...
Thats why we have a shot clock...
Its afriggin game...to play..to enjoy...
I would refuse to play for a HC that implemented such stupidity...

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