A Relaxing Two Points at the Buzzer
Hoffarber takes the miracle shot
You may remember back in early February when I posted about the 87-foot full-court shot with .06 seconds remaining that blew my mind. While we're focused on college-level basketball during March Madness, high school basketball continues to come up with all the truly amazing footage.
Here's how startribune.com describes the circumstances:
It was an absurd shot. Taken out of desperation. Yet Hopkins sophomore Blake Hoffarber swished it, lying on his back on the three-point line late Saturday night at Target Center with his legs and arms up, looking a lot like an upside-down turtle. The shot, taken just before the buzzer sounded to end the first overtime of the Class 4A boys' basketball championship game, merely tied the score at 58. Yet it proved every bit as devastating as a game-winner.
Like I said with the other basketball video, even if you don't care about basketball, you still must take a moment to watch the video of the shot.
Regarding this video: Sorry, you have to suffer through a commercial. Also, the video uses the Windows Media Player ActiveX plugin, so it's not friendly with Firefox. Those hellbent on never using IE again might be interested in reading instructions on enabling ActiveX within Firefox, but I still couldn't get it to work.
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March 24th, 2005 at 21:34
I used Firefox for a while, but it wasn't SOOO much better than IE for me to make it worthwhile….at least for me.
March 25th, 2005 at 08:22
What are you, crazy?
Am I seriously going to have to post something about why Firefox is so much better?
*sigh* . . . I guess so.
March 25th, 2005 at 10:01
Yes, I am serious. Please, explain to me what I was missing…
July 14th, 2005 at 13:21
…Not to mention Mac users who are likely surfing with Safari as their browser. While Macs can download and use the Windows Media Player, it is clunky, stutters, and is a very Windows-like experience to use (ugh).
It seems only reasonable (maybe even smart) to save video files as .mpeg so that everyone, with every video player, can play them!