Due Date: Wednesday, June 8th
For your final blog I want to know how I can be a better teacher. Please answer the following questions for your final blog.
1. What did you like most about the class?
2. What did you like least about the class?
3. How did you like the use of the blog in class?
4. What would you change to make your experience in physical education better?
5. Will you take a physical education class again?
Your response will have no implications for your final grade other than if you fail to do it, so please be honest as your responses help form what we do in the future. It has been a pleasure working with each of you this past semester. Stop in and say hi when your travels bring you by the gym.
Friday, May 20, 2016
Period 2 -Team Games
Due Date: Wednesday, June 8th
For your final blog I want to know how I can be a better teacher. Please answer the following questions for your final blog.
1. What did you like most about the class?
2. What did you like least about the class?
3. How did you like the use of the blog in class?
4. What would you change to make your experience in physical education better?
5. Will you take a physical education class again?
Your response will have no implications for your final grade other than if you fail to do it, so please be honest as your responses help form what we do in the future. It has been a pleasure working with each of you this past semester. Stop in and say hi when your travels bring you by the gym.
For your final blog I want to know how I can be a better teacher. Please answer the following questions for your final blog.
1. What did you like most about the class?
2. What did you like least about the class?
3. How did you like the use of the blog in class?
4. What would you change to make your experience in physical education better?
5. Will you take a physical education class again?
Your response will have no implications for your final grade other than if you fail to do it, so please be honest as your responses help form what we do in the future. It has been a pleasure working with each of you this past semester. Stop in and say hi when your travels bring you by the gym.
Period 3 -Basketball
Due Date: Wednesday, June 8th
For your final blog I want to know how I can be a better teacher. Please answer the following questions for your final blog.
1. What did you like most about the class?
2. What did you like least about the class?
3. How did you like the use of the blog in class?
4. What would you change to make your experience in physical education better?
5. Will you take a physical education class again?
Your response will have no implications for your final grade other than if you fail to do it, so please be honest as your responses help form what we do in the future. It has been a pleasure working with each of you this past semester. Stop in and say hi when your travels bring you by the gym.
For your final blog I want to know how I can be a better teacher. Please answer the following questions for your final blog.
1. What did you like most about the class?
2. What did you like least about the class?
3. How did you like the use of the blog in class?
4. What would you change to make your experience in physical education better?
5. Will you take a physical education class again?
Your response will have no implications for your final grade other than if you fail to do it, so please be honest as your responses help form what we do in the future. It has been a pleasure working with each of you this past semester. Stop in and say hi when your travels bring you by the gym.
Period 6 -Basketball
Due Date: Wednesday, June 8th
For your final blog I want to know how I can be a better teacher. Please answer the following questions for your final blog.
1. What did you like most about the class?
2. What did you like least about the class?
3. How did you like the use of the blog in class?
4. What would you change to make your experience in physical education better?
5. Will you take a physical education class again?
Your response will have no implications for your final grade other than if you fail to do it, so please be honest as your responses help form what we do in the future. It has been a pleasure working with each of you this past semester. Stop in and say hi when your travels bring you by the gym.
For your final blog I want to know how I can be a better teacher. Please answer the following questions for your final blog.
1. What did you like most about the class?
2. What did you like least about the class?
3. How did you like the use of the blog in class?
4. What would you change to make your experience in physical education better?
5. Will you take a physical education class again?
Your response will have no implications for your final grade other than if you fail to do it, so please be honest as your responses help form what we do in the future. It has been a pleasure working with each of you this past semester. Stop in and say hi when your travels bring you by the gym.
Period 7- Team Games
Due Date: Wednesday, June 8th
For your final blog I want to know how I can be a better teacher. Please answer the following questions for your final blog.
1. What did you like most about the class?
2. What did you like least about the class?
3. How did you like the use of the blog in class?
4. What would you change to make your experience in physical education better?
5. Will you take a physical education class again?
Your response will have no implications for your final grade other than if you fail to do it, so please be honest as your responses help form what we do in the future. It has been a pleasure working with each of you this past semester. Stop in and say hi when your travels bring you by the gym.
For your final blog I want to know how I can be a better teacher. Please answer the following questions for your final blog.
1. What did you like most about the class?
2. What did you like least about the class?
3. How did you like the use of the blog in class?
4. What would you change to make your experience in physical education better?
5. Will you take a physical education class again?
Your response will have no implications for your final grade other than if you fail to do it, so please be honest as your responses help form what we do in the future. It has been a pleasure working with each of you this past semester. Stop in and say hi when your travels bring you by the gym.
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
Period 1 -Basketball
Due Date: Wednesday, May 18th
As we are wrapping up and 3 on 3 unit, I thought it would be a good idea to start taking a look the NBA play-offs, since 5 on 5 will be our next unit. As a player and Coach, I often question officiating. Please read the article below and answer the following questions.
SAN ANTONIO – Game 2 of the Western Conference semifinal series between the San Antonio Spurs and Oklahoma City Thunder was possibly the best game so far during the NBA playoffs – with the Thunder emerging with a 98-97 win Monday night to even the series at a game apiece – but the only thing anyone will be talking about Tuesday is the wild final 13.5 seconds.
It was a memorable sequence for a variety of reasons – one that included several possible violations and fouls, none of which were called. And, in a strange twist that basically didn’t matter, San Antonio got a chance to take the lead in the final moments.
Here’s how those final seconds played out, including thoughts from virtually everyone involved in the play, which you can see in its entirety below:
13.5 seconds left
After LaMarcus Aldridge was fouled by Serge Ibaka on a three-pointer and made all three free throws to pull San Antonio within 98-97, the Thunder called its final timeout. Coach Billy Donovan had Dion Waiters inbound the ball on the sideline.
As referee Marc Davis handed Waiters the ball and began counting off five seconds, Waiters knew, with no timeouts left, that he had to get the ball inbounds.
“Man, to be honest with you, I was caught up in the game,” Waiters said. “I don’t really know what happened, to be honest with you.
“My whole thing was trying to get the ball in there with no timeouts.”
As Waiters moved perilously close to committing a five-second infraction, he appeared to panic. First, he used his arm to push Manu Ginobili, who was defending him on the play, away from him to create enough space to inbound the ball.
“I was trying to rip the ball, and he kind of created room with his elbow,” Ginobili said. “But things happen. It’s a very awkward play, doesn’t happen very often, so I guess they didn’t see it.
“I don’t know what it is, to tell you the truth, what type of violation it is. It had to be something.”
It turned out to be something, as crew chief Ken Mauer said to a pool reporter after Monday’s game that Waiters had committed an offensive foul on the play, and the ball should’ve been given to San Antonio.
“On the floor we did not see a foul on the play,” Mauer said. “However, upon review, we realize and we agree we should have [called] an offensive foul on the play. It’s a play we’ve never seen before, ever. We should have had an offensive foul on the play.”
Waiters then committed a second violation – he jumped in the air to make the pass, which an inbounder is not allowed to do.
Waiters contended that Ginobili had committed his own violation: stepping over the out-of-bounds line.
“I didn’t really get a look at it,” Waiters said. “But hopefully they’re going to look at it and they’ll see he stepped out and it should’ve been a tech, too, but it’s not up to me.
“If you go look at it, you’ll see. It should’ve been a tech and the ball back. But when they go look at it and they’ll figure it out, and they’ll see the truth, it’s a play on.”
What was unclear was whether Ginobili stepped over the line (he appeared to step on it, which is apparently allowed, but not over it, which is not). And it’s also unclear if Ginobili gave Waiters enough room to inbound the ball.
12.9 seconds left
Waiters eventually lobbed the ball into Kevin Durant at center court – where he was being guarded by Spurs guard Danny Green. For some reason, though, the game clock started before anyone touched the ball, meaning an extra half-second went off before Durant’s hands got on it.
“I thought maybe they would call something [on Waiters],” Green said. “I wasn’t sure. I was trying to see where he was going, I tried to deny. [Then] I thought maybe he would call timeout, and I was just at that one point, once you deny, I was trying to play safety.
“I could see where [Waiters] was looking, and I thought maybe we would’ve got a call, but we didn’t. But he threw it up, and I just went to try to go get it.”
As Durant fell to the ground, it appeared Green may have gotten a piece of him as he poked the ball away. But after Green hesitated for a moment — only to realize nothing was going to be called — he immediately began to seek an opportunity to press his advantage.
10 seconds left
Once Green had the ball, he saw two people ahead of him — Thunder center Steven Adams and Spurs guard Patty Mills. Green tried to loop the ball over Adams’s head to Mills, but his pass was long, forcing Mills to almost go under the basket to catch it. On top of that, Green had missed Ginobili streaking past him on his right. If he had seen him, it would’ve resulted in a simple 2-on-1 and a likely layup for the Spurs.
“I saw Adams in front of me. I didn’t know if they called [a foul] or not, but I wanted to make sure I got the ball first,” Green said. “But I saw Adams in front of me, I saw Patty, and [Adams] is a big body so I just tried to throw it over top of him.
“It was a lofty pass, it wasn’t a good one, and it took some time to get there, but I didn’t have a chance to see who was to the right of me, and it was Manu.”
Eight seconds left
After Mills wound up with the ball under the basket, he swung it over to Ginobili, who had run past Green and back into the play. From there, Ginobili dribbled into the lane — where Adams was there again, standing between Ginobili and the basket.
“We were just trying to inbound it and then it was just a scramble, mate,” Adams said. “I just tried to do the best I could.
“The team did, scrambling, and contest everything. We got lucky. We got really lucky.”
So Ginobili, in typical dramatic fashion, flipped a pass over his head right to Mills, who had hustled to the corner, for what appeared to be a wide-open three-pointer.
“[Patty] threw it to me, and I didn’t think I had an open look, so I just tried to bait towards the middle to let Patty get to the corner,” Ginobili said.
But Adams, making yet another absolutely spectacular play, raced across the court, leaped in the air and contested Mills’s shot — causing it to fall well short of the hoop.
“I don’t know, man,” Adams said when asked if he affected Mills’s shot. “I saw the pass and did my best to contest it. I don’t know if I influenced his shot, but I’ll take it.”
Three seconds left
This is where the real insanity begins.
As Mills’s shot fell short, a battle broke out under the basket, with players from both teams descending on the rim to get their hands on the ball. Thunder forward Serge Ibaka found himself between both Kawhi Leonard and LaMarcus Aldridge, and was doing whatever he could to keep either one of them from grabbing a loose ball for a potential game-winning offensive rebound and putback.
“I knew it was the last minute, and I had to give everything I had,” Ibaka said. “I had to give everything I had for my team, you know?
“I knew it was very important, so I got up against Leonard. .. I had to choose which one and so I bumped him a little bit, and when I saw Leonard had the ball, I tried to tip the ball and go Aldridge’s way.”
What Ibaka actually did, as the above picture shows, was grab Aldridge’s jersey and nearly rip it off his body. He basically never let go, as Aldridge tried to corral the ball and go back up with it, ensuring Aldridge — who finished with 41 points — never had a real chance to make a game-winning basket.
“I thought I had the ball,” Aldridge said. “I thought [Ibaka] had a good chunk of my jersey. I thought there were some things happening that maybe shouldn’t have happened.
“But it’s over now. You can’t keep harping on it.”
“Those are the kind of plays, you have to make them nasty,” Ibaka said. “You have to make them nasty, to do whatever it takes to get a win.”
Meanwhile, Adams found himself in another situation when, after barreling past Mills to contest his three-point attempt, he had his arm held by a fan as he tried to climb back onto the court and potentially get back into the action.
To be fair, it looked like a woman Adams ran over as he contested the shot was simply trying to get back on her feet. But it wound up being a fitting final moment to what was an insane final 13.5 seconds of Game 2.
For all of the potential controversy about the result, however, one thing isn’t changing: the Thunder came away with the victory, and despite the no-calls on both sides, the Spurs still had their chances to win the game.
“It’s not the play that decided anything,” Ginobili said, “because we got the steal, we got the shot, we got an offensive rebound.
“It doesn’t matter, and it’s over. I’m not going to be able to change it. Nobody’s going to change it. We’ve got to try to go to [Oklahoma City] and try to win a game.”
That may be true. But it won’t stop the next three days from being an endless debate about the merits of these final seconds of Game 2, and how everything on all sides — from the way both teams played it to how the referees called it — was handled from start to finish.
1. After watching the video. What do you think the call should have been? Violation on the inbounder or the defense?
As we are wrapping up and 3 on 3 unit, I thought it would be a good idea to start taking a look the NBA play-offs, since 5 on 5 will be our next unit. As a player and Coach, I often question officiating. Please read the article below and answer the following questions.
The insane details of the best 13.5 seconds of the NBA playoffs
It was a memorable sequence for a variety of reasons – one that included several possible violations and fouls, none of which were called. And, in a strange twist that basically didn’t matter, San Antonio got a chance to take the lead in the final moments.
Here’s how those final seconds played out, including thoughts from virtually everyone involved in the play, which you can see in its entirety below:
After LaMarcus Aldridge was fouled by Serge Ibaka on a three-pointer and made all three free throws to pull San Antonio within 98-97, the Thunder called its final timeout. Coach Billy Donovan had Dion Waiters inbound the ball on the sideline.
“Man, to be honest with you, I was caught up in the game,” Waiters said. “I don’t really know what happened, to be honest with you.
“My whole thing was trying to get the ball in there with no timeouts.”
As Waiters moved perilously close to committing a five-second infraction, he appeared to panic. First, he used his arm to push Manu Ginobili, who was defending him on the play, away from him to create enough space to inbound the ball.
“I don’t know what it is, to tell you the truth, what type of violation it is. It had to be something.”
It turned out to be something, as crew chief Ken Mauer said to a pool reporter after Monday’s game that Waiters had committed an offensive foul on the play, and the ball should’ve been given to San Antonio.
Waiters then committed a second violation – he jumped in the air to make the pass, which an inbounder is not allowed to do.
“I didn’t really get a look at it,” Waiters said. “But hopefully they’re going to look at it and they’ll see he stepped out and it should’ve been a tech, too, but it’s not up to me.
“If you go look at it, you’ll see. It should’ve been a tech and the ball back. But when they go look at it and they’ll figure it out, and they’ll see the truth, it’s a play on.”
What was unclear was whether Ginobili stepped over the line (he appeared to step on it, which is apparently allowed, but not over it, which is not). And it’s also unclear if Ginobili gave Waiters enough room to inbound the ball.
12.9 seconds left
Waiters eventually lobbed the ball into Kevin Durant at center court – where he was being guarded by Spurs guard Danny Green. For some reason, though, the game clock started before anyone touched the ball, meaning an extra half-second went off before Durant’s hands got on it.
“I thought maybe they would call something [on Waiters],” Green said. “I wasn’t sure. I was trying to see where he was going, I tried to deny. [Then] I thought maybe he would call timeout, and I was just at that one point, once you deny, I was trying to play safety.
“I could see where [Waiters] was looking, and I thought maybe we would’ve got a call, but we didn’t. But he threw it up, and I just went to try to go get it.”
As Durant fell to the ground, it appeared Green may have gotten a piece of him as he poked the ball away. But after Green hesitated for a moment — only to realize nothing was going to be called — he immediately began to seek an opportunity to press his advantage.
Once Green had the ball, he saw two people ahead of him — Thunder center Steven Adams and Spurs guard Patty Mills. Green tried to loop the ball over Adams’s head to Mills, but his pass was long, forcing Mills to almost go under the basket to catch it. On top of that, Green had missed Ginobili streaking past him on his right. If he had seen him, it would’ve resulted in a simple 2-on-1 and a likely layup for the Spurs.
“I saw Adams in front of me. I didn’t know if they called [a foul] or not, but I wanted to make sure I got the ball first,” Green said. “But I saw Adams in front of me, I saw Patty, and [Adams] is a big body so I just tried to throw it over top of him.
“It was a lofty pass, it wasn’t a good one, and it took some time to get there, but I didn’t have a chance to see who was to the right of me, and it was Manu.”
Eight seconds left
After Mills wound up with the ball under the basket, he swung it over to Ginobili, who had run past Green and back into the play. From there, Ginobili dribbled into the lane — where Adams was there again, standing between Ginobili and the basket.
“We were just trying to inbound it and then it was just a scramble, mate,” Adams said. “I just tried to do the best I could.
“The team did, scrambling, and contest everything. We got lucky. We got really lucky.”
So Ginobili, in typical dramatic fashion, flipped a pass over his head right to Mills, who had hustled to the corner, for what appeared to be a wide-open three-pointer.
But Adams, making yet another absolutely spectacular play, raced across the court, leaped in the air and contested Mills’s shot — causing it to fall well short of the hoop.
“I don’t know, man,” Adams said when asked if he affected Mills’s shot. “I saw the pass and did my best to contest it. I don’t know if I influenced his shot, but I’ll take it.”
Three seconds left
This is where the real insanity begins.
“I knew it was the last minute, and I had to give everything I had,” Ibaka said. “I had to give everything I had for my team, you know?
“I knew it was very important, so I got up against Leonard. .. I had to choose which one and so I bumped him a little bit, and when I saw Leonard had the ball, I tried to tip the ball and go Aldridge’s way.”
“I thought I had the ball,” Aldridge said. “I thought [Ibaka] had a good chunk of my jersey. I thought there were some things happening that maybe shouldn’t have happened.
“But it’s over now. You can’t keep harping on it.”
“Those are the kind of plays, you have to make them nasty,” Ibaka said. “You have to make them nasty, to do whatever it takes to get a win.”
Meanwhile, Adams found himself in another situation when, after barreling past Mills to contest his three-point attempt, he had his arm held by a fan as he tried to climb back onto the court and potentially get back into the action.
“It’s not the play that decided anything,” Ginobili said, “because we got the steal, we got the shot, we got an offensive rebound.
That may be true. But it won’t stop the next three days from being an endless debate about the merits of these final seconds of Game 2, and how everything on all sides — from the way both teams played it to how the referees called it — was handled from start to finish.
2. Why?
3. Do you think officiating alone causes team to win or loss? Why?
4. Which team won the game?
Period 2 - Team Games
Our next unit will be ultimate Frisbee. Please watch the video below and answer the questions. Please make sure to put your name on the Blog.
1. How many players are on the field for one team at a time when playing ultimate Frisbee?
2. How many feet must be in the end zone for a goal to be scored?
3. How many seconds do you have to release the Frisbee?
4. In NCAA ultimate Frisbee how many goals need to be scored to win?
5. Is ultimate Frisbee a contact sport?
Period 3- Basketball
Due Date: Wednesday, May 18th
As we are wrapping up and 3 on 3 unit, I thought it would be a good idea to start taking a look the NBA play-offs, since 5 on 5 will be our next unit. As a player and Coach, I often question officiating. Please read the article below and answer the following questions.
SAN ANTONIO – Game 2 of the Western Conference semifinal series between the San Antonio Spurs and Oklahoma City Thunder was possibly the best game so far during the NBA playoffs – with the Thunder emerging with a 98-97 win Monday night to even the series at a game apiece – but the only thing anyone will be talking about Tuesday is the wild final 13.5 seconds.
It was a memorable sequence for a variety of reasons – one that included several possible violations and fouls, none of which were called. And, in a strange twist that basically didn’t matter, San Antonio got a chance to take the lead in the final moments.
Here’s how those final seconds played out, including thoughts from virtually everyone involved in the play, which you can see in its entirety below:
13.5 seconds left
After LaMarcus Aldridge was fouled by Serge Ibaka on a three-pointer and made all three free throws to pull San Antonio within 98-97, the Thunder called its final timeout. Coach Billy Donovan had Dion Waiters inbound the ball on the sideline.
As referee Marc Davis handed Waiters the ball and began counting off five seconds, Waiters knew, with no timeouts left, that he had to get the ball inbounds.
“Man, to be honest with you, I was caught up in the game,” Waiters said. “I don’t really know what happened, to be honest with you.
“My whole thing was trying to get the ball in there with no timeouts.”
As Waiters moved perilously close to committing a five-second infraction, he appeared to panic. First, he used his arm to push Manu Ginobili, who was defending him on the play, away from him to create enough space to inbound the ball.
“I was trying to rip the ball, and he kind of created room with his elbow,” Ginobili said. “But things happen. It’s a very awkward play, doesn’t happen very often, so I guess they didn’t see it.
“I don’t know what it is, to tell you the truth, what type of violation it is. It had to be something.”
It turned out to be something, as crew chief Ken Mauer said to a pool reporter after Monday’s game that Waiters had committed an offensive foul on the play, and the ball should’ve been given to San Antonio.
“On the floor we did not see a foul on the play,” Mauer said. “However, upon review, we realize and we agree we should have [called] an offensive foul on the play. It’s a play we’ve never seen before, ever. We should have had an offensive foul on the play.”
Waiters then committed a second violation – he jumped in the air to make the pass, which an inbounder is not allowed to do.
Waiters contended that Ginobili had committed his own violation: stepping over the out-of-bounds line.
“I didn’t really get a look at it,” Waiters said. “But hopefully they’re going to look at it and they’ll see he stepped out and it should’ve been a tech, too, but it’s not up to me.
“If you go look at it, you’ll see. It should’ve been a tech and the ball back. But when they go look at it and they’ll figure it out, and they’ll see the truth, it’s a play on.”
What was unclear was whether Ginobili stepped over the line (he appeared to step on it, which is apparently allowed, but not over it, which is not). And it’s also unclear if Ginobili gave Waiters enough room to inbound the ball.
12.9 seconds left
Waiters eventually lobbed the ball into Kevin Durant at center court – where he was being guarded by Spurs guard Danny Green. For some reason, though, the game clock started before anyone touched the ball, meaning an extra half-second went off before Durant’s hands got on it.
“I thought maybe they would call something [on Waiters],” Green said. “I wasn’t sure. I was trying to see where he was going, I tried to deny. [Then] I thought maybe he would call timeout, and I was just at that one point, once you deny, I was trying to play safety.
“I could see where [Waiters] was looking, and I thought maybe we would’ve got a call, but we didn’t. But he threw it up, and I just went to try to go get it.”
As Durant fell to the ground, it appeared Green may have gotten a piece of him as he poked the ball away. But after Green hesitated for a moment — only to realize nothing was going to be called — he immediately began to seek an opportunity to press his advantage.
10 seconds left
Once Green had the ball, he saw two people ahead of him — Thunder center Steven Adams and Spurs guard Patty Mills. Green tried to loop the ball over Adams’s head to Mills, but his pass was long, forcing Mills to almost go under the basket to catch it. On top of that, Green had missed Ginobili streaking past him on his right. If he had seen him, it would’ve resulted in a simple 2-on-1 and a likely layup for the Spurs.
“I saw Adams in front of me. I didn’t know if they called [a foul] or not, but I wanted to make sure I got the ball first,” Green said. “But I saw Adams in front of me, I saw Patty, and [Adams] is a big body so I just tried to throw it over top of him.
“It was a lofty pass, it wasn’t a good one, and it took some time to get there, but I didn’t have a chance to see who was to the right of me, and it was Manu.”
Eight seconds left
After Mills wound up with the ball under the basket, he swung it over to Ginobili, who had run past Green and back into the play. From there, Ginobili dribbled into the lane — where Adams was there again, standing between Ginobili and the basket.
“We were just trying to inbound it and then it was just a scramble, mate,” Adams said. “I just tried to do the best I could.
“The team did, scrambling, and contest everything. We got lucky. We got really lucky.”
So Ginobili, in typical dramatic fashion, flipped a pass over his head right to Mills, who had hustled to the corner, for what appeared to be a wide-open three-pointer.
“[Patty] threw it to me, and I didn’t think I had an open look, so I just tried to bait towards the middle to let Patty get to the corner,” Ginobili said.
But Adams, making yet another absolutely spectacular play, raced across the court, leaped in the air and contested Mills’s shot — causing it to fall well short of the hoop.
“I don’t know, man,” Adams said when asked if he affected Mills’s shot. “I saw the pass and did my best to contest it. I don’t know if I influenced his shot, but I’ll take it.”
Three seconds left
This is where the real insanity begins.
As Mills’s shot fell short, a battle broke out under the basket, with players from both teams descending on the rim to get their hands on the ball. Thunder forward Serge Ibaka found himself between both Kawhi Leonard and LaMarcus Aldridge, and was doing whatever he could to keep either one of them from grabbing a loose ball for a potential game-winning offensive rebound and putback.
“I knew it was the last minute, and I had to give everything I had,” Ibaka said. “I had to give everything I had for my team, you know?
“I knew it was very important, so I got up against Leonard. .. I had to choose which one and so I bumped him a little bit, and when I saw Leonard had the ball, I tried to tip the ball and go Aldridge’s way.”
What Ibaka actually did, as the above picture shows, was grab Aldridge’s jersey and nearly rip it off his body. He basically never let go, as Aldridge tried to corral the ball and go back up with it, ensuring Aldridge — who finished with 41 points — never had a real chance to make a game-winning basket.
“I thought I had the ball,” Aldridge said. “I thought [Ibaka] had a good chunk of my jersey. I thought there were some things happening that maybe shouldn’t have happened.
“But it’s over now. You can’t keep harping on it.”
“Those are the kind of plays, you have to make them nasty,” Ibaka said. “You have to make them nasty, to do whatever it takes to get a win.”
Meanwhile, Adams found himself in another situation when, after barreling past Mills to contest his three-point attempt, he had his arm held by a fan as he tried to climb back onto the court and potentially get back into the action.
To be fair, it looked like a woman Adams ran over as he contested the shot was simply trying to get back on her feet. But it wound up being a fitting final moment to what was an insane final 13.5 seconds of Game 2.
For all of the potential controversy about the result, however, one thing isn’t changing: the Thunder came away with the victory, and despite the no-calls on both sides, the Spurs still had their chances to win the game.
“It’s not the play that decided anything,” Ginobili said, “because we got the steal, we got the shot, we got an offensive rebound.
“It doesn’t matter, and it’s over. I’m not going to be able to change it. Nobody’s going to change it. We’ve got to try to go to [Oklahoma City] and try to win a game.”
That may be true. But it won’t stop the next three days from being an endless debate about the merits of these final seconds of Game 2, and how everything on all sides — from the way both teams played it to how the referees called it — was handled from start to finish.
1. After watching the video. What do you think the call should have been? Violation on the inbounder or the defense?
As we are wrapping up and 3 on 3 unit, I thought it would be a good idea to start taking a look the NBA play-offs, since 5 on 5 will be our next unit. As a player and Coach, I often question officiating. Please read the article below and answer the following questions.
The insane details of the best 13.5 seconds of the NBA playoffs
It was a memorable sequence for a variety of reasons – one that included several possible violations and fouls, none of which were called. And, in a strange twist that basically didn’t matter, San Antonio got a chance to take the lead in the final moments.
Here’s how those final seconds played out, including thoughts from virtually everyone involved in the play, which you can see in its entirety below:
After LaMarcus Aldridge was fouled by Serge Ibaka on a three-pointer and made all three free throws to pull San Antonio within 98-97, the Thunder called its final timeout. Coach Billy Donovan had Dion Waiters inbound the ball on the sideline.
“Man, to be honest with you, I was caught up in the game,” Waiters said. “I don’t really know what happened, to be honest with you.
“My whole thing was trying to get the ball in there with no timeouts.”
As Waiters moved perilously close to committing a five-second infraction, he appeared to panic. First, he used his arm to push Manu Ginobili, who was defending him on the play, away from him to create enough space to inbound the ball.
“I don’t know what it is, to tell you the truth, what type of violation it is. It had to be something.”
It turned out to be something, as crew chief Ken Mauer said to a pool reporter after Monday’s game that Waiters had committed an offensive foul on the play, and the ball should’ve been given to San Antonio.
Waiters then committed a second violation – he jumped in the air to make the pass, which an inbounder is not allowed to do.
“I didn’t really get a look at it,” Waiters said. “But hopefully they’re going to look at it and they’ll see he stepped out and it should’ve been a tech, too, but it’s not up to me.
“If you go look at it, you’ll see. It should’ve been a tech and the ball back. But when they go look at it and they’ll figure it out, and they’ll see the truth, it’s a play on.”
What was unclear was whether Ginobili stepped over the line (he appeared to step on it, which is apparently allowed, but not over it, which is not). And it’s also unclear if Ginobili gave Waiters enough room to inbound the ball.
12.9 seconds left
Waiters eventually lobbed the ball into Kevin Durant at center court – where he was being guarded by Spurs guard Danny Green. For some reason, though, the game clock started before anyone touched the ball, meaning an extra half-second went off before Durant’s hands got on it.
“I thought maybe they would call something [on Waiters],” Green said. “I wasn’t sure. I was trying to see where he was going, I tried to deny. [Then] I thought maybe he would call timeout, and I was just at that one point, once you deny, I was trying to play safety.
“I could see where [Waiters] was looking, and I thought maybe we would’ve got a call, but we didn’t. But he threw it up, and I just went to try to go get it.”
As Durant fell to the ground, it appeared Green may have gotten a piece of him as he poked the ball away. But after Green hesitated for a moment — only to realize nothing was going to be called — he immediately began to seek an opportunity to press his advantage.
Once Green had the ball, he saw two people ahead of him — Thunder center Steven Adams and Spurs guard Patty Mills. Green tried to loop the ball over Adams’s head to Mills, but his pass was long, forcing Mills to almost go under the basket to catch it. On top of that, Green had missed Ginobili streaking past him on his right. If he had seen him, it would’ve resulted in a simple 2-on-1 and a likely layup for the Spurs.
“I saw Adams in front of me. I didn’t know if they called [a foul] or not, but I wanted to make sure I got the ball first,” Green said. “But I saw Adams in front of me, I saw Patty, and [Adams] is a big body so I just tried to throw it over top of him.
“It was a lofty pass, it wasn’t a good one, and it took some time to get there, but I didn’t have a chance to see who was to the right of me, and it was Manu.”
Eight seconds left
After Mills wound up with the ball under the basket, he swung it over to Ginobili, who had run past Green and back into the play. From there, Ginobili dribbled into the lane — where Adams was there again, standing between Ginobili and the basket.
“We were just trying to inbound it and then it was just a scramble, mate,” Adams said. “I just tried to do the best I could.
“The team did, scrambling, and contest everything. We got lucky. We got really lucky.”
So Ginobili, in typical dramatic fashion, flipped a pass over his head right to Mills, who had hustled to the corner, for what appeared to be a wide-open three-pointer.
But Adams, making yet another absolutely spectacular play, raced across the court, leaped in the air and contested Mills’s shot — causing it to fall well short of the hoop.
“I don’t know, man,” Adams said when asked if he affected Mills’s shot. “I saw the pass and did my best to contest it. I don’t know if I influenced his shot, but I’ll take it.”
Three seconds left
This is where the real insanity begins.
“I knew it was the last minute, and I had to give everything I had,” Ibaka said. “I had to give everything I had for my team, you know?
“I knew it was very important, so I got up against Leonard. .. I had to choose which one and so I bumped him a little bit, and when I saw Leonard had the ball, I tried to tip the ball and go Aldridge’s way.”
“I thought I had the ball,” Aldridge said. “I thought [Ibaka] had a good chunk of my jersey. I thought there were some things happening that maybe shouldn’t have happened.
“But it’s over now. You can’t keep harping on it.”
“Those are the kind of plays, you have to make them nasty,” Ibaka said. “You have to make them nasty, to do whatever it takes to get a win.”
Meanwhile, Adams found himself in another situation when, after barreling past Mills to contest his three-point attempt, he had his arm held by a fan as he tried to climb back onto the court and potentially get back into the action.
“It’s not the play that decided anything,” Ginobili said, “because we got the steal, we got the shot, we got an offensive rebound.
That may be true. But it won’t stop the next three days from being an endless debate about the merits of these final seconds of Game 2, and how everything on all sides — from the way both teams played it to how the referees called it — was handled from start to finish.
2. Why?
3. Do you think officiating alone causes team to win or loss? Why?
4. Which team won the game?
Period 6 - Basketball
Due Date, Wednesday, May 18th
As we are wrapping up and 3 on 3 unit, I thought it would be a good idea to start taking a look the NBA play-offs, since 5 on 5 will be our next unit. As a player and Coach, I often question officiating. Please read the article below and answer the following questions.
SAN ANTONIO – Game 2 of the Western Conference semifinal series between the San Antonio Spurs and Oklahoma City Thunder was possibly the best game so far during the NBA playoffs – with the Thunder emerging with a 98-97 win Monday night to even the series at a game apiece – but the only thing anyone will be talking about Tuesday is the wild final 13.5 seconds.
It was a memorable sequence for a variety of reasons – one that included several possible violations and fouls, none of which were called. And, in a strange twist that basically didn’t matter, San Antonio got a chance to take the lead in the final moments.
Here’s how those final seconds played out, including thoughts from virtually everyone involved in the play, which you can see in its entirety below:
13.5 seconds left
After LaMarcus Aldridge was fouled by Serge Ibaka on a three-pointer and made all three free throws to pull San Antonio within 98-97, the Thunder called its final timeout. Coach Billy Donovan had Dion Waiters inbound the ball on the sideline.
As referee Marc Davis handed Waiters the ball and began counting off five seconds, Waiters knew, with no timeouts left, that he had to get the ball inbounds.
“Man, to be honest with you, I was caught up in the game,” Waiters said. “I don’t really know what happened, to be honest with you.
“My whole thing was trying to get the ball in there with no timeouts.”
As Waiters moved perilously close to committing a five-second infraction, he appeared to panic. First, he used his arm to push Manu Ginobili, who was defending him on the play, away from him to create enough space to inbound the ball.
“I was trying to rip the ball, and he kind of created room with his elbow,” Ginobili said. “But things happen. It’s a very awkward play, doesn’t happen very often, so I guess they didn’t see it.
“I don’t know what it is, to tell you the truth, what type of violation it is. It had to be something.”
It turned out to be something, as crew chief Ken Mauer said to a pool reporter after Monday’s game that Waiters had committed an offensive foul on the play, and the ball should’ve been given to San Antonio.
“On the floor we did not see a foul on the play,” Mauer said. “However, upon review, we realize and we agree we should have [called] an offensive foul on the play. It’s a play we’ve never seen before, ever. We should have had an offensive foul on the play.”
Waiters then committed a second violation – he jumped in the air to make the pass, which an inbounder is not allowed to do.
Waiters contended that Ginobili had committed his own violation: stepping over the out-of-bounds line.
“I didn’t really get a look at it,” Waiters said. “But hopefully they’re going to look at it and they’ll see he stepped out and it should’ve been a tech, too, but it’s not up to me.
“If you go look at it, you’ll see. It should’ve been a tech and the ball back. But when they go look at it and they’ll figure it out, and they’ll see the truth, it’s a play on.”
What was unclear was whether Ginobili stepped over the line (he appeared to step on it, which is apparently allowed, but not over it, which is not). And it’s also unclear if Ginobili gave Waiters enough room to inbound the ball.
12.9 seconds left
Waiters eventually lobbed the ball into Kevin Durant at center court – where he was being guarded by Spurs guard Danny Green. For some reason, though, the game clock started before anyone touched the ball, meaning an extra half-second went off before Durant’s hands got on it.
“I thought maybe they would call something [on Waiters],” Green said. “I wasn’t sure. I was trying to see where he was going, I tried to deny. [Then] I thought maybe he would call timeout, and I was just at that one point, once you deny, I was trying to play safety.
“I could see where [Waiters] was looking, and I thought maybe we would’ve got a call, but we didn’t. But he threw it up, and I just went to try to go get it.”
As Durant fell to the ground, it appeared Green may have gotten a piece of him as he poked the ball away. But after Green hesitated for a moment — only to realize nothing was going to be called — he immediately began to seek an opportunity to press his advantage.
10 seconds left
Once Green had the ball, he saw two people ahead of him — Thunder center Steven Adams and Spurs guard Patty Mills. Green tried to loop the ball over Adams’s head to Mills, but his pass was long, forcing Mills to almost go under the basket to catch it. On top of that, Green had missed Ginobili streaking past him on his right. If he had seen him, it would’ve resulted in a simple 2-on-1 and a likely layup for the Spurs.
“I saw Adams in front of me. I didn’t know if they called [a foul] or not, but I wanted to make sure I got the ball first,” Green said. “But I saw Adams in front of me, I saw Patty, and [Adams] is a big body so I just tried to throw it over top of him.
“It was a lofty pass, it wasn’t a good one, and it took some time to get there, but I didn’t have a chance to see who was to the right of me, and it was Manu.”
Eight seconds left
After Mills wound up with the ball under the basket, he swung it over to Ginobili, who had run past Green and back into the play. From there, Ginobili dribbled into the lane — where Adams was there again, standing between Ginobili and the basket.
“We were just trying to inbound it and then it was just a scramble, mate,” Adams said. “I just tried to do the best I could.
“The team did, scrambling, and contest everything. We got lucky. We got really lucky.”
So Ginobili, in typical dramatic fashion, flipped a pass over his head right to Mills, who had hustled to the corner, for what appeared to be a wide-open three-pointer.
“[Patty] threw it to me, and I didn’t think I had an open look, so I just tried to bait towards the middle to let Patty get to the corner,” Ginobili said.
But Adams, making yet another absolutely spectacular play, raced across the court, leaped in the air and contested Mills’s shot — causing it to fall well short of the hoop.
“I don’t know, man,” Adams said when asked if he affected Mills’s shot. “I saw the pass and did my best to contest it. I don’t know if I influenced his shot, but I’ll take it.”
Three seconds left
This is where the real insanity begins.
As Mills’s shot fell short, a battle broke out under the basket, with players from both teams descending on the rim to get their hands on the ball. Thunder forward Serge Ibaka found himself between both Kawhi Leonard and LaMarcus Aldridge, and was doing whatever he could to keep either one of them from grabbing a loose ball for a potential game-winning offensive rebound and putback.
“I knew it was the last minute, and I had to give everything I had,” Ibaka said. “I had to give everything I had for my team, you know?
“I knew it was very important, so I got up against Leonard. .. I had to choose which one and so I bumped him a little bit, and when I saw Leonard had the ball, I tried to tip the ball and go Aldridge’s way.”
What Ibaka actually did, as the above picture shows, was grab Aldridge’s jersey and nearly rip it off his body. He basically never let go, as Aldridge tried to corral the ball and go back up with it, ensuring Aldridge — who finished with 41 points — never had a real chance to make a game-winning basket.
“I thought I had the ball,” Aldridge said. “I thought [Ibaka] had a good chunk of my jersey. I thought there were some things happening that maybe shouldn’t have happened.
“But it’s over now. You can’t keep harping on it.”
“Those are the kind of plays, you have to make them nasty,” Ibaka said. “You have to make them nasty, to do whatever it takes to get a win.”
Meanwhile, Adams found himself in another situation when, after barreling past Mills to contest his three-point attempt, he had his arm held by a fan as he tried to climb back onto the court and potentially get back into the action.
To be fair, it looked like a woman Adams ran over as he contested the shot was simply trying to get back on her feet. But it wound up being a fitting final moment to what was an insane final 13.5 seconds of Game 2.
For all of the potential controversy about the result, however, one thing isn’t changing: the Thunder came away with the victory, and despite the no-calls on both sides, the Spurs still had their chances to win the game.
“It’s not the play that decided anything,” Ginobili said, “because we got the steal, we got the shot, we got an offensive rebound.
“It doesn’t matter, and it’s over. I’m not going to be able to change it. Nobody’s going to change it. We’ve got to try to go to [Oklahoma City] and try to win a game.”
That may be true. But it won’t stop the next three days from being an endless debate about the merits of these final seconds of Game 2, and how everything on all sides — from the way both teams played it to how the referees called it — was handled from start to finish.
1. After watching the video. What do you think the call should have been? Violation on the inbounder or the defense?
As we are wrapping up and 3 on 3 unit, I thought it would be a good idea to start taking a look the NBA play-offs, since 5 on 5 will be our next unit. As a player and Coach, I often question officiating. Please read the article below and answer the following questions.
The insane details of the best 13.5 seconds of the NBA playoffs
It was a memorable sequence for a variety of reasons – one that included several possible violations and fouls, none of which were called. And, in a strange twist that basically didn’t matter, San Antonio got a chance to take the lead in the final moments.
Here’s how those final seconds played out, including thoughts from virtually everyone involved in the play, which you can see in its entirety below:
After LaMarcus Aldridge was fouled by Serge Ibaka on a three-pointer and made all three free throws to pull San Antonio within 98-97, the Thunder called its final timeout. Coach Billy Donovan had Dion Waiters inbound the ball on the sideline.
“Man, to be honest with you, I was caught up in the game,” Waiters said. “I don’t really know what happened, to be honest with you.
“My whole thing was trying to get the ball in there with no timeouts.”
As Waiters moved perilously close to committing a five-second infraction, he appeared to panic. First, he used his arm to push Manu Ginobili, who was defending him on the play, away from him to create enough space to inbound the ball.
“I don’t know what it is, to tell you the truth, what type of violation it is. It had to be something.”
It turned out to be something, as crew chief Ken Mauer said to a pool reporter after Monday’s game that Waiters had committed an offensive foul on the play, and the ball should’ve been given to San Antonio.
Waiters then committed a second violation – he jumped in the air to make the pass, which an inbounder is not allowed to do.
“I didn’t really get a look at it,” Waiters said. “But hopefully they’re going to look at it and they’ll see he stepped out and it should’ve been a tech, too, but it’s not up to me.
“If you go look at it, you’ll see. It should’ve been a tech and the ball back. But when they go look at it and they’ll figure it out, and they’ll see the truth, it’s a play on.”
What was unclear was whether Ginobili stepped over the line (he appeared to step on it, which is apparently allowed, but not over it, which is not). And it’s also unclear if Ginobili gave Waiters enough room to inbound the ball.
12.9 seconds left
Waiters eventually lobbed the ball into Kevin Durant at center court – where he was being guarded by Spurs guard Danny Green. For some reason, though, the game clock started before anyone touched the ball, meaning an extra half-second went off before Durant’s hands got on it.
“I thought maybe they would call something [on Waiters],” Green said. “I wasn’t sure. I was trying to see where he was going, I tried to deny. [Then] I thought maybe he would call timeout, and I was just at that one point, once you deny, I was trying to play safety.
“I could see where [Waiters] was looking, and I thought maybe we would’ve got a call, but we didn’t. But he threw it up, and I just went to try to go get it.”
As Durant fell to the ground, it appeared Green may have gotten a piece of him as he poked the ball away. But after Green hesitated for a moment — only to realize nothing was going to be called — he immediately began to seek an opportunity to press his advantage.
Once Green had the ball, he saw two people ahead of him — Thunder center Steven Adams and Spurs guard Patty Mills. Green tried to loop the ball over Adams’s head to Mills, but his pass was long, forcing Mills to almost go under the basket to catch it. On top of that, Green had missed Ginobili streaking past him on his right. If he had seen him, it would’ve resulted in a simple 2-on-1 and a likely layup for the Spurs.
“I saw Adams in front of me. I didn’t know if they called [a foul] or not, but I wanted to make sure I got the ball first,” Green said. “But I saw Adams in front of me, I saw Patty, and [Adams] is a big body so I just tried to throw it over top of him.
“It was a lofty pass, it wasn’t a good one, and it took some time to get there, but I didn’t have a chance to see who was to the right of me, and it was Manu.”
Eight seconds left
After Mills wound up with the ball under the basket, he swung it over to Ginobili, who had run past Green and back into the play. From there, Ginobili dribbled into the lane — where Adams was there again, standing between Ginobili and the basket.
“We were just trying to inbound it and then it was just a scramble, mate,” Adams said. “I just tried to do the best I could.
“The team did, scrambling, and contest everything. We got lucky. We got really lucky.”
So Ginobili, in typical dramatic fashion, flipped a pass over his head right to Mills, who had hustled to the corner, for what appeared to be a wide-open three-pointer.
But Adams, making yet another absolutely spectacular play, raced across the court, leaped in the air and contested Mills’s shot — causing it to fall well short of the hoop.
“I don’t know, man,” Adams said when asked if he affected Mills’s shot. “I saw the pass and did my best to contest it. I don’t know if I influenced his shot, but I’ll take it.”
Three seconds left
This is where the real insanity begins.
“I knew it was the last minute, and I had to give everything I had,” Ibaka said. “I had to give everything I had for my team, you know?
“I knew it was very important, so I got up against Leonard. .. I had to choose which one and so I bumped him a little bit, and when I saw Leonard had the ball, I tried to tip the ball and go Aldridge’s way.”
“I thought I had the ball,” Aldridge said. “I thought [Ibaka] had a good chunk of my jersey. I thought there were some things happening that maybe shouldn’t have happened.
“But it’s over now. You can’t keep harping on it.”
“Those are the kind of plays, you have to make them nasty,” Ibaka said. “You have to make them nasty, to do whatever it takes to get a win.”
Meanwhile, Adams found himself in another situation when, after barreling past Mills to contest his three-point attempt, he had his arm held by a fan as he tried to climb back onto the court and potentially get back into the action.
“It’s not the play that decided anything,” Ginobili said, “because we got the steal, we got the shot, we got an offensive rebound.
That may be true. But it won’t stop the next three days from being an endless debate about the merits of these final seconds of Game 2, and how everything on all sides — from the way both teams played it to how the referees called it — was handled from start to finish.
2. Why?
3. Do you think officiating alone causes team to win or loss? Why?
4. Which team won the game?
5.
Period 7- Team Sports
Our next unit will be ultimate Frisbee. Please watch the video below and answer the questions. Please make sure to put your name on the Blog.
1. How many players are on the field for one team at a time when playing ultimate Frisbee?
2. How many feet must be in the end zone for a goal to be scored?
3. How many seconds do you have to release the Frisbee?
4. In NCAA ultimate Frisbee how many goals need to be scored to win?
5. Is ultimate Frisbee a contact sport?
Friday, April 22, 2016
Period 1- Basketball
Due Date: Wednesday, May 4th
In class we have been working on setting screens and discussing reading the defense in our 3 on 3 unit. Please watch the video below and answer the following questions. Each question is worth 2 points. Please make sure to write your name on your Blog.
1. When you set a screen, do you set the screen on a person or an area?
2. What are 3 things the offensive player can do when they are being screened?
3. When should you curl off of a screen?
4. What is the most important thing to do when coming off a screen?
5. How frequently is your team using screens during your game play? Have they been effective for your team?
In class we have been working on setting screens and discussing reading the defense in our 3 on 3 unit. Please watch the video below and answer the following questions. Each question is worth 2 points. Please make sure to write your name on your Blog.
1. When you set a screen, do you set the screen on a person or an area?
2. What are 3 things the offensive player can do when they are being screened?
3. When should you curl off of a screen?
4. What is the most important thing to do when coming off a screen?
5. How frequently is your team using screens during your game play? Have they been effective for your team?
Period 2 - Team Games
Due Date: Wednesday, May 4th
Football terminology and rules quiz Please answer the following questions to the best of your ability. Each question is worth 2 points.
Please don't forget to put your name on the Blog, so you can receive credit.
1. What is the line of scrimmage?
2. Name and explain a pass pattern we ran in class. What does the running backs and wide receivers do?
3. What position on the field snaps the ball to the quarterback?
True of False
4. In flag football, a fumble, or a ball that is dropped to the ground, is ruled a dead ball and not able to be advanced.
5. It is legal for every player on offense to catch a pass.
Football terminology and rules quiz Please answer the following questions to the best of your ability. Each question is worth 2 points.
Please don't forget to put your name on the Blog, so you can receive credit.
1. What is the line of scrimmage?
2. Name and explain a pass pattern we ran in class. What does the running backs and wide receivers do?
3. What position on the field snaps the ball to the quarterback?
True of False
4. In flag football, a fumble, or a ball that is dropped to the ground, is ruled a dead ball and not able to be advanced.
5. It is legal for every player on offense to catch a pass.
Period 3 -Basketball
Due Date: Wednesday, May 4th In class we have been working on setting screens and discussing reading the defense in our 3 on 3 unit. Please watch the video below and answer the following questions. Each question is worth 2 points. Please make sure to write your name on your Blog.
1. When you set a screen, do you set the screen on a person or an area?
2. What are 3 things the offensive player can do when they are being screened?
3. When should you curl off of a screen?
4. What is the most important thing to do when coming off a screen?
5. How frequently is your team using screens during your game play? Have they been effective for your team?
1. When you set a screen, do you set the screen on a person or an area?
2. What are 3 things the offensive player can do when they are being screened?
3. When should you curl off of a screen?
4. What is the most important thing to do when coming off a screen?
5. How frequently is your team using screens during your game play? Have they been effective for your team?
Period 6 - Basketball
Due Date: Wednesday, May 4th
In class we have been working on setting screens and discussing reading the defense in our 3 on 3 unit. Please watch the video below and answer the following questions. Each question is worth 2 points. Please make sure to write your name on your Blog.
1. When you set a screen, do you set the screen on a person or an area?
2. What are 3 things the offensive player can do when they are being screened?
3. When should you curl off of a screen?
4. What is the most important thing to do when coming off a screen?
5. How frequently is your team using screens during your game play? Have they been effective for your team?
In class we have been working on setting screens and discussing reading the defense in our 3 on 3 unit. Please watch the video below and answer the following questions. Each question is worth 2 points. Please make sure to write your name on your Blog.
1. When you set a screen, do you set the screen on a person or an area?
2. What are 3 things the offensive player can do when they are being screened?
3. When should you curl off of a screen?
4. What is the most important thing to do when coming off a screen?
5. How frequently is your team using screens during your game play? Have they been effective for your team?
Period 7 -Team Games
Due Date: Wednesday, May 4th
Football terminology and rules quiz Please answer the following questions to the best of your ability. Each question is worth 2 points.
Please don't forget to put your name on the Blog, so you can receive credit.
1. What is the line of scrimmage?
2. Name and explain a pass pattern we ran in class. What does the running backs and wide receivers do?
3. What position on the field snaps the ball to the quarterback?
True of False
4. In flag football, a fumble, or a ball that is dropped to the ground, is ruled a dead ball and not able to be advanced.
5. It is legal for every player on offense to catch a pass.
Football terminology and rules quiz Please answer the following questions to the best of your ability. Each question is worth 2 points.
Please don't forget to put your name on the Blog, so you can receive credit.
1. What is the line of scrimmage?
2. Name and explain a pass pattern we ran in class. What does the running backs and wide receivers do?
3. What position on the field snaps the ball to the quarterback?
True of False
4. In flag football, a fumble, or a ball that is dropped to the ground, is ruled a dead ball and not able to be advanced.
5. It is legal for every player on offense to catch a pass.
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Period 1-Basketball
Due Date: Wednesday, April 20th
Because college basketball just wrapped up this week, I thought this would be a good assignment that would keep one of the most incredible National Championship games ever in your mind.
The article below is about the history of the Villanova basketball program Please remember to put your name on your Blog so that I can give you credit.
Kris Jenkins's buzzer-beating three gives Villanova another perfect ending
Because college basketball just wrapped up this week, I thought this would be a good assignment that would keep one of the most incredible National Championship games ever in your mind.
The article below is about the history of the Villanova basketball program Please remember to put your name on your Blog so that I can give you credit.
Kris Jenkins's buzzer-beating three gives Villanova another perfect ending
Villanova sinks buzzer beater to claim NCAA title
Sports Illustrated's David Gardner and Seth Davis discuss the epic finish to the NCAA national championship game, where the Villanova Wildcats Kris Jenkins hit a buzzer-beating three-pointer to defeat the North Carolina Tar Heels.
HOUSTON — Ryan Arcidiacono streaked over to Rollie Massimino, wrapped his arms around the former Villanova coach’s waist and delivered a hug as violent as it was beautiful. Arcidiacono, a senior guard, pulled the 81-year-old coach more than a foot off the ground, kissed him atop his commemorative NCAA championship hat and whispered into his ear: “I love you, coach.” The moment encapsulated a collision of the ages, the Perfect Game of 1985 meeting the Perfect Ending of 2016. Villanova’s 77–74 victory over North Carolina in the national championship game on Monday night will be prominently featured in countless bar debates for years to come. Was it the best title game ever? Was it the best championship game finish? Was it the greatest buzzer-beater in college basketball history? At the very least, it’s in the conversation for all of those things.
But at the tight-knit Philadelphia school where basketball defines the university’s image and athletic culture, Monday night’s improbable ending will forever be paired with the incredible upset by the 1985 team, a No. 8 seed which toppled No. 1 Georgetown. Thirty-one years later, on Monday night, the No. 2 seeded Wildcats one-upped No. 1 North Carolina’s late-game theatrics to deliver this new Perfect Ending.
Junior forward Kris Jenkins delivered one of the NCAA tournament's definitive Shining Moments when he took a shovel pass from Arcidiacono and nailed a 26-foot buzzer beater that left his hand with .4 seconds remaining. It goes down as the first buzzer-beating three-pointer in NCAA championship game history. That will put Jenkins in the rare clutch air of North Carolina State’s Lorenzo Charles, who dunked home Dereck Whittenburg's 30-foot air ball to win the 1983 NCAA title.
• WATCH: Villanova students on campus celebrate national championship
“In a national championship game, to hit a shot at the buzzer, I mean, I haven’t seen many better than that,” Villanova Coach Jay Wright said of Jenkins.
What made Jenkins’s shot so remarkable is that it somehow managed to top the double-clutch shot from North Carolina guard Marcus Paige, who tied the game with 4.7 seconds remaining. Paige’s three-pointer will redefine the standards of difficulty for late-game heroics. He leapt in the air on the right wing, moved the ball around in the air to avoid an onrushing Arcidiacono, scissored his legs and shot the ball over Villanova’s Mikal Bridges while falling down. The shot going in was so remarkable that dozens of fans hurled orange seat cushions in the air, as if the basketball gods were crying from the heavens in disbelief.
That set up the heroics of Jenkins, the junior forward who North Carolina inexplicably left open. Jenkins inbounded the ball on the opposite baseline and no Tar Heel ever picked him up. No one knew it better than Jenkins, who trailed Arcidiacono up the floor screaming, “Arch! Arch! Arch!” Jenkins’s shot led to another cascade of orange seat cushions and perhaps changed the world order of historic Villanova victories. “This one is No. 1,” Massimino said. “We’re No. 2.”
Massimino, of course, was the coach when Villanova pulled off the seminal title-game upset in NCAA tourney history over Georgetown. It’s remembered as the Perfect Game because the Wildcats shot 78%, and they still remain the lowest seed to ever win the tournament.
The current Villanova players know all about the '85 team. In the foyer of their practice facility there’s a screen where anyone can push a button and see highlights from that fateful night. The song “One Shining Moment” plays in the background as Ed Pinckney runs the floor, Harold Jensen doesn't miss a shot and Dwayne McClain slashes the lane. “Coach is adamant guys understand the history of Villanova basketball,” Wildcats assistant coach Baker Dunleavy said. “They’ve seen those highlights a bunch. They know the guys who played in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. That’s something we take a ton of pride in.”
That pride became reciprocal on Monday night. Nine of the members from that 1985 Villanova team sat in Section 109. They cheered on improbable hero Phil Booth, a reserve guard who scored 20 points off the bench. They witnessed Arcidiacono join Pinckney as the Final Four's Most Outstanding Player. And they hugged and hollered when Jenkins’s shot went in. “I almost jumped through the roof,” Massimino said.
• WATCH: "One Shining Moment" from 2016 NCAA tourney
The 1985 Wildcats joined the party on the floor after Jenkins’s heroics, two sun-kissed teams exchanging hugs as they waded through confetti. Pinckney wrapped his arms around his old coach, putting to life the trendy Nova T-Shirt spotted around Houston all week: “I Wanna Party Like It’s 1985.” Pinckney smiled at history repeating itself. “This is a beautiful thing to be a part of,” he said. “When we get to the Royal Sonesta Hotel, we’re all going to go crazy.”
It didn’t take long for Wright to find Massimino in the postgame celebration. They walked together on the court to do an interview with former Georgetown coach John Thompson on Westwood One, a fitting nod to the past. Wright then walked Massimino back across the court, one arm of a tailored pin-striped suit plastered over the shoulder of another tailored pin-striped suit. Wright escorted Massimino to the party at the base of the ladder where the Wildcats gathered to wait their turn to cut down the nets. “Somebody has to give you the opportunity,” Wright said of his former boss. “Then they have to spend the time with you to reach you. He did that for me. To share this with him, our Villanova people love him. He’s a magical figure.”
This victory now gives Wright the same status. One historic shot now gives Villanova two shining moments. The biggest upset on Monday night may be that Villanova managed to match its own resplendent history.
1. What was the final school of the NCAA National Championship game?
2. What happened in the 1985 NCAA Championship game that made that game so remarkable to the history of the Villanova's Men's Basketball program?
3. Who was the coach of Villanova's 1985 team?
4. Has there ever been another championship game in the history of the NCAA to have a buzzer beater?
5. Which player from North Carolina hit a three-pointer with 4.7 seconds to go?
6. Do you think this game will be remembered as the greatest NCAA Championship game of all time? Why?
• WATCH: Villanova students on campus celebrate national championship
“In a national championship game, to hit a shot at the buzzer, I mean, I haven’t seen many better than that,” Villanova Coach Jay Wright said of Jenkins.
What made Jenkins’s shot so remarkable is that it somehow managed to top the double-clutch shot from North Carolina guard Marcus Paige, who tied the game with 4.7 seconds remaining. Paige’s three-pointer will redefine the standards of difficulty for late-game heroics. He leapt in the air on the right wing, moved the ball around in the air to avoid an onrushing Arcidiacono, scissored his legs and shot the ball over Villanova’s Mikal Bridges while falling down. The shot going in was so remarkable that dozens of fans hurled orange seat cushions in the air, as if the basketball gods were crying from the heavens in disbelief.
That set up the heroics of Jenkins, the junior forward who North Carolina inexplicably left open. Jenkins inbounded the ball on the opposite baseline and no Tar Heel ever picked him up. No one knew it better than Jenkins, who trailed Arcidiacono up the floor screaming, “Arch! Arch! Arch!” Jenkins’s shot led to another cascade of orange seat cushions and perhaps changed the world order of historic Villanova victories. “This one is No. 1,” Massimino said. “We’re No. 2.”
Massimino, of course, was the coach when Villanova pulled off the seminal title-game upset in NCAA tourney history over Georgetown. It’s remembered as the Perfect Game because the Wildcats shot 78%, and they still remain the lowest seed to ever win the tournament.
That pride became reciprocal on Monday night. Nine of the members from that 1985 Villanova team sat in Section 109. They cheered on improbable hero Phil Booth, a reserve guard who scored 20 points off the bench. They witnessed Arcidiacono join Pinckney as the Final Four's Most Outstanding Player. And they hugged and hollered when Jenkins’s shot went in. “I almost jumped through the roof,” Massimino said.
• WATCH: "One Shining Moment" from 2016 NCAA tourney
The 1985 Wildcats joined the party on the floor after Jenkins’s heroics, two sun-kissed teams exchanging hugs as they waded through confetti. Pinckney wrapped his arms around his old coach, putting to life the trendy Nova T-Shirt spotted around Houston all week: “I Wanna Party Like It’s 1985.” Pinckney smiled at history repeating itself. “This is a beautiful thing to be a part of,” he said. “When we get to the Royal Sonesta Hotel, we’re all going to go crazy.”
1. What was the final school of the NCAA National Championship game?
2. What happened in the 1985 NCAA Championship game that made that game so remarkable to the history of the Villanova's Men's Basketball program?
3. Who was the coach of Villanova's 1985 team?
4. Has there ever been another championship game in the history of the NCAA to have a buzzer beater?
5. Which player from North Carolina hit a three-pointer with 4.7 seconds to go?
6. Do you think this game will be remembered as the greatest NCAA Championship game of all time? Why?
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