Watch: High School Player Shocks Gym with Wild Buzzer-Beater
If you like buzzer-beaters — and who doesn’t? — you’ll love this one.
A recent junior varsity boys basketball game between two Indiana high schools — Winamac and Rochester — had about as thrilling a finish as you can hope for.
After Winimac drained a 3-pointer with three seconds left to take a 40-38 lead, one would pretty much think it was over.
The clock kept running and Rochester quickly inbounded the ball to guard Quin Stesiak, who took three dribbles and was stopped by a defender.
The defender did the exact right thing, getting in front of Stesiak and sticking his arms straight up in the air.
Stesiak had no option at this point other than to just to step back, chuck it up in the air from about three-quarter court, and hope for the best.
The ball soared some 60 feet and landed in the bottom of the net, giving Rochester a 41-40 victory.
I watch a lot of basketball, but I have never seen anything quite like this. Quin Stesiak ladies and gents. @QStes2 #SCtop10 @SportsCenter pic.twitter.com/4Wbq5e8cDJ
— Grant McCarter (@gmms_13) December 1, 2018
If you stop the video on his release, you can see the ball was in the air with about 0.3 seconds left, so it counted.
Rochester’s coach was gesturing wildly the whole time for a timeout after the Winamac 3-pointer. Good thing for Rochester that the refs didn’t see him.
In the process, the coach didn’t even see the shot go in.
The team’s reaction afterward was priceless as Stesiak jumped up and down and was mobbed by his teammates.
The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat in one moment.
It doesn’t matter if it’s in the NBA, college ball, high school or even JV — few things in sports are better than a buzzer-beater.
And when its from three-quarter court, even better.
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