High school boys basketball powerhouses collide in Okahoma. Final score: 4-2.

Our Salmen High School Girls team did that to beat Covington High School by the same score. 4-2

Incredibly dumb.

Dean Smith and his four corners offense, alive and well at the HS level.

An event where there are 3 or 4 shots the entire contest is not a basketball game. I don't know what it is, but it is not a basketball game. Of course they need to institute the shot clock, duh.......

Wow, lotta whining on here, “I’m not entertained by this game strategy, ChAnGe ThE GaaaaaaammmmmE!” from a bunch of sit-and-kickers.

Still higher scoring than most soccer games!

Having watched some of the video, it is absolutely asinine. Nobody is pressing, and holding the ball the whole game is so cowardly. It's like tackling your opponent in a track race and then getting up to try and still get to the line before him. It's not the sport

Troll, but ok. What happened in this game is like the "sit and kickers" in a 1500m literally walking around the track for 3 laps and then jogging with 100m to go and sprinting the last 10m.

It's called a soccer match.

but coach, what about my streak of double doubles?

Just win baby, go for the assist and the rebound!t

I love this. Strategy at its best. My high school used to do this same thing. It is very exciting to see in person. They should do away with the shot clock at the collegiate level as well.

Can’t believe the kids’ parents let the coaches get away with this BS. You’re teaching the kids what?

P ussy way to try to win a game. So the team that won wasn't the one initiating the stalling and has a record of 19-1? Why weren't they fouling and forcing the issue? Just letting the other team pass the ball back and forth seems ridiculous to me, especially if you are, presumably, the top ranked team in the state.

This happened repeatedly to Wilt Chamberlain's Kansas team. Frank McGuire's UNC team beat them in the NCAA Finals with the strategy, winning by one point in triple overtime. Teams would triple-team him in the post and foul constantly, but they'd also slow it down. They had been preparing for him for a long time already by the time he got to the varsity, because he was considered the greatest ever before he played a single official game. Freshmen weren't allowed to play varsity, and he had gone 42 and 29 with 4 blocks in his first scrimmage as a freshman against the varsity on campus. He went on to average 29.6 pts and 18.9 rebounds in his first year on the varsity and 30/17 as a senior, despite the many slowed down, low scoring games. Interestingly, this 1957 SI article says that he really struggled with the pressure from the national attention.

https://vault.si.com/vault/1957/02/11/jubilation-on-the-kaw

I would imagine that the hardest part for the team slowing it down would have been the coach getting the players to buy into the strategy. It can be hard to get buy-in when the nature of the strategy essentially admits inferiority. I'm guessing the coach emphasized the importance of excellent defense the few times they didn't have the ball, the importance to staying in control with the ball and making yourself available for a pass when necessary, managing the clock well at the end of each quarter to try to get a quality shot, and taking advantage of having the last shot (when it comes).

The more I think about it, the more I appreciate it as an implementation of the idea that underdogs give themselves the best chance to win when they adopt unconventional tactics - they're usually underdogs in the first place because their opponents are clearly superior using "conventional" tactics, so why use conventional tactics? It reminded me of this article:

newyorker.com

How David Beats Goliath

Malcolm Gladwell

When underdogs choose not to play by the rules, they can win, even when everything we think we know about power says they shouldn’t.

Open link

Usually trying to hold the Ball does not work, The First Time I saw this was at a High School Game Miami Jackson which was regularly one of the Top teams in Florida was playing American High School who were an Average team, American tried to hold the ball, they did for the First 4 Minutes (Quarters were 8 Minutes, Then Jackson started playing tight defense which forced American into turnovers, It was 14-0 Jackson at the end of the First Quarter and the Jackson Players were Laughing. Eventually The American High School started playing the Regular way It did NOT Matter, Jackson was just better.

I guess I don't understand how the other team couldn't get the ball away from them when they have the same number of players, so can each try to guard one of them. (The TikTok video is too sped up for me to see what the hell is going on). You're telling me the stalling team never made any errant passes, or couldn't be pressured into a mistake allowing the other team to steal?