Lowest scoring game?

[no-look]

Huntington beat Woodville 5-3 about six or seven years ago....

[GrayDog]

That was in baseball, right????

[no-look]

basketball....

[FanintheStands]

That was the average score of a Buna game in the 60's when they won their state titles.  Seems to me that watching paint dry would be more interesting.... at least you get to inhale the fumes!

[east texas bb]

Im not trying to start anything, but it takes a basketball purist to enjoy and really understand the Buna games or the Huntington game.  I heard alot of things from different people after the Huntington game on both sides, but I found out that the people that KNEW the game enjoyed it and really relished it. 
And it was not Huntington intentions for the game to be that low in score, the coaches felt the best opportunity to win was to pull Woodville out and make them guard them in a whole half court.  Woodville did not come out and guard them so they held the ball. If Woodville would have come out and guarding them they could have tried to score.
I do the same thing with my Youth League team and my son, they sit back in a zone at 8 years old and want us to shoot 3 pointers.  Not many 2nd graders can shoot a 3 with correct form, so when we get a 6-8 point lead I tell my son to hold the ball and make them come guard him.  It opens up the whole game when they have to guard you in the entire halfcourt. 
It is more of a strategy thing, no coach is going to hold the ball and pass up uncontested layups.  If the defense will come out and guard them then coaches will play the game and try to get the best scoring opportunities. 

[BADSANTA]

Sounds boring

[FanintheStands]

[quote name="east texas bb" post="940135" timestamp="1293769647"]
Im not trying to start anything, but it takes a basketball purist to enjoy and really understand the Buna games or the Huntington game.  I heard alot of things from different people after the Huntington game on both sides, but I found out that the people that KNEW the game enjoyed it and really relished it. 
And it was not Huntington intentions for the game to be that low in score, the coaches felt the best opportunity to win was to pull Woodville out and make them guard them in a whole half court.  Woodville did not come out and guard them so they held the ball. If Woodville would have come out and guarding them they could have tried to score.
I do the same thing with my Youth League team and my son, they sit back in a zone at 8 years old and want us to shoot 3 pointers.  Not many 2nd graders can shoot a 3 with correct form, so when we get a 6-8 point lead I tell my son to hold the ball and make them come guard him.  It opens up the whole game when they have to guard you in the entire halfcourt. 
It is more of a strategy thing, no coach is going to hold the ball and pass up uncontested layups.  If the defense will come out and guard them then coaches will play the game and try to get the best scoring opportunities. 
[/quote]Being a Buna alumni, I gotta admit, I'm proud of those guys.  But alas, it was before my time, so I didn't get to see any of it.  But they said that Buna would beat all the 4A (which was the max classification back then) schools.  It was weird looking at 8-6 and 12-8 scores.

I don't know, but it doesn't make for a gym-packer of a game.  I'd get more out of watching a good game of curling or what-not.

But then again, I played two years of full court pressure/run and gun style basketball at Buna and we never made the play-offs.  Unfortunately, we were in the same district as those damn HJ Hawks (well, at least I thought they were damned back then!).

[AggiesAreWe]

Just a note from the talk of Buna and their low scoring:


Buna's Don Stanley still hold's the record for most points scored in a game at the state tournament with 51 back in 1957. (actually share's the record with Tommy Jones of Crane 1969)

Doesn't look to low scoring to me. ;)

[east texas bb]

There was a good article about Tommy Jones in a magazine recently.  Bonewitz nearly got the combined record, I believe he had 42 the first game and 36 the second.  Have heard alot of good stuff about Don Stanley.

[no-look]

When did the "Buna offense" originate?

[whsalum]

Woodville had a very good club that year and the Huntington coach knew that was the only way to keep the game close.You gotta take your hat off to the Huntington kids for being disciplined enough to pull it off.

[bigbasketballfan]

Using the whole court reminds me of UNC's Dean Smith's Four Corners offense. Reason for the current shot clock. Having watched UNC do this, as a fan, it was frustrating. We are accustomed to seeing scoring and then not to have it is like taking the pacifier from a baby. If a high school team felt that this was their best way to be competitive with a much more superior team, then go for it. Puts the pressure on the other team to come out of their comfort zone and play the whole half court.

[east texas bb]

Buna offense originated in the East Texas area with Cotton Robinson.  I have read somewhere though that he got this offense from a fairly famous coach.