Watch This High School Basketball Player Bounce In A Full Court Heave

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By Mack Rawden
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A high percentage of basketball games feature at least one desperate heave from half court or further while time is running down in one of the four quarters. Now and again, one of those crazy prayers actually goes in and gets a few airings on SportsCenter. To my knowledge, however, none of those miracle shots ever looked quite like this.

With time running down in the third quarter, Lewis-Palmer High School’s Anna Olson took a pass at her own free thrown line, turned and threw a one-handed fastball toward the basket. Fortunately or unfortunately, it didn’t make it all the way there, but thanks to a miracle bounce, it wound up going in the basket anyway. Check out footage of the crazy incident below…

More than two hundred thousand people have watched that clip in the last few days, and if my own reaction plus the comment section is any indication, an overwhelming majority of viewers were left with the same question: wait…does that count as a two-pointer or a three-pointer? The officials reportedly scored it as a three ball, but many are convinced because the bounce occurred within the arc, it should have only been worth two. Luckily, Olson and her teammates wound up winning by eight; so, the scoring concern really wasn’t important.

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Mack Rawden is the Editor-In-Chief of CinemaBlend. He first started working at the publication as a writer back in 2007 and has held various jobs at the site in the time since including Managing Editor, Pop Culture Editor and Staff Writer. He now splits his time between working on CinemaBlend’s user experience, helping to plan the site’s editorial direction and writing passionate articles about niche entertainment topics he’s into. He graduated from Indiana University with a degree in English (go Hoosiers!) and has been interviewed and quoted in a variety of publications including Digiday. Enthusiastic about Clue, case-of-the-week mysteries, a great wrestling promo and cookies at Disney World. Less enthusiastic about the pricing structure of cable, loud noises and Tuesdays.