A high school basketball player known to practice half-court shots for fun proved practice makes perfect Friday when he made a buzzer-beater for the ages—an incredible one-handed heave while falling out of bounds.
With time winding down in the first quarter, Storm Jipson of Edward Little High in Maine chased down a loose ball at half court, grabbed the ball with one hand and tossed a high-arcing shot that hit nothing but net.
The crowd went wild.
Bridget Shea told For The Win that she videotapes each of Edward Little High’s games so the assistant coach can do stats. So that’s how she happened to capture the magical moment that helped spark the team to a 55-35 victory at Windham High School after a slow start.
“I wish I had panned to the bench,” Shea told For The Win. “They went crazy. The fans directly in front of me were Edward Little students. The fans that go crazy in the bottom rows were the Windham student section.
“No one could believe it. It was crazy.”
Jipson, a senior captain, doesn’t typically score a lot as the team relies on him for defense (he finished with 5 points in this game), but Shea said, “apparently him and the assistant coach compete in practice on half-court shots for fun.”
That fun paid off with serious dividends in this game, though one wonders how often he might have practiced this crazy shot.
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