[jfredmuggs]

During my second year at Stanford  Law, I was on a team of fellow 2Ls (as its weakest member, by far) that made it to the championship  game of the law school basketball tournament, at Maples. The opposing team was a 3L team. Unfortunately, so were the  "officials." 

Somehow we hung in with them, despite lots of fouls on our team. With a couple minutes to go, another one of our guys (i.e., the latest of three or four) fouled out, so I went into the game.

We were still hanging around, so another guy fouled out, taking us down to four, with about a minute to go.

Then we had the audacity to go up by one, iirc, with about a half minute to go. We (not me, to be sure) blocked a shot with ten or so seconds left. But, of course, a foul was called. So we were down to three on the floor. To their credit, the 3Ls hit both free throws to go up by one.

You would think that five could smother three, especially when one of them was me, but we actually got a decent shot off. We missed, though, thereby sparing the officials the unpleasantness of having to call an offensive foul. 

At least, that's the way I remember it.

Since then, I've taken a special interest in games where one team has less than five. Quite often, it seems, the shorthanded team does better than you would expect. But they almost never win.

Mizzou Card was a classmate of mine at SLS, and I’m here to say that he is being too modest about his prowess as a basketball player. He was not the weakest player on that team. He was merely below average.

[jfredmuggs]

During my second year at Stanford  Law, I was on a team of fellow 2Ls (as its weakest member, by far) that made it to the championship  game of the law school basketball tournament, at Maples. The opposing team was a 3L team. Unfortunately, so were the  "officials." 

Somehow we hung in with them, despite lots of fouls on our team. With a couple minutes to go, another one of our guys (i.e., the latest of three or four) fouled out, so I went into the game.

We were still hanging around, so another guy fouled out, taking us down to four, with about a minute to go.

Then we had the audacity to go up by one, iirc, with about a half minute to go. We (not me, to be sure) blocked a shot with ten or so seconds left. But, of course, a foul was called. So we were down to three on the floor. To their credit, the 3Ls hit both free throws to go up by one.

You would think that five could smother three, especially when one of them was me, but we actually got a decent shot off. We missed, though, thereby sparing the officials the unpleasantness of having to call an offensive foul. 

At least, that's the way I remember it.

Since then, I've taken a special interest in games where one team has less than five. Quite often, it seems, the shorthanded team does better than you would expect. But they almost never win.

Mizzou Card was a classmate of mine at SLS, and I’m here to say that he is being too modest about his prowess as a basketball player. He was not the weakest player on that team. He was merely below average.