OT:Grinnell's Jack Taylor scores 138pts. Breaks NCAA record

I mean yeah that's amazing.  But he shot 108 times and shot 71 threes.  I have no idea how it's possible to get that many shots, but I'm not really sure it takes that much skill to go 52/108 to be honest.

Anything over 130 is just showboating.

That's nothing.

According to North Koreans, Kim Jong-il once scored 200 points in one game. And had a dunk leaping from half court. 

I be like dang.

The dude took one shot every 19.4 seconds.

I am not celebrating this.

"Coach Arseneault said recently that he worries when a player dwells too much on winning; he wants them to enjoy playing with abandon and piling up weird statistics."

Grinnell was a D3 doormat for years, so one year the coach called the team together before the season and said "guys, we're going to try something different and drastic and I'm going to let you decide what it is. Either we're going to slow the game down, or we're going to speed it up."

They voted to speed it up.

Here are his statistical goals for each game (taken from a book he wrote on the system he developed after that meeting):

1. Make at least 150 trips up and down the court for the game;
2. Grinnell takes at least 94 shots in the game;
3. At least half of these shots are three-point attempts;
4. Grinnell rebounds at least 33% of its missed shots;
5. Grinnell forces the opponent into at least 32 turnovers.

#1 was hard to chart, statistically, so he replaced it with "Grinnell should attempt at least 25 more shots than its opponent."

They play 15 players; he divides them into three groups of five and there's a fresh group waiting at the scorer's table at each dead ball. I've seen them play--in D3, where there aren't any media timeouts, they've got the other team grabbing their shorts midway through the first half. ESPN showed one of their games a few years ago and the system wasn't effective at all--all the commercial stoppages let the other team recover.

Here's a short video he did explaining it all--a bit of googling will probably turn up much better material and maybe I'll look around later if anyone's interested.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub-i1uKVtXw

This probably all seems more than a little weird from the perspective of a B1G fan, but Grinnell's the Iowa equivalent of Reed or Oberlin--athletics aren't taken seriously, it's hard to get kids to commit the time to stay on the team for four years. Doing something unusual like this has helped him recruit and helped him generate some interest on campus in the sport. And it has the added benefit, at a school where everyone's a walk-on, of giving 12-15 minutes of playing time every night to everyone on his team.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/writers/stewart_mandel/01/31/grin…

This would be a much better story if his team lost.

Can we get an 'every offensive possesion' ?

this guy sounds like a bit of a chucker.

He'll kill himself to one up this kid.  On second thought, somebody tell Kobe Bryant about this.

"Yeah go ahead, shoot it whenever you want. But ONLY you Jack! Nobody else!" - Coach

Congrats?  I guess it is a cool stat, and shooting 48% is impressive, but if you leave a decent college kid open (which I have to assume happened most of the time here), he should be able to hit a good number of those shots.  

Though, my Faith Baptist College 76-point line hit, so good for me.

I want to see Stauskas in this type of system...

Whats really impressive is a player on the opposite team scored 70 points without making a three.

Immediately after the game on GrinnellGoBlog, complaining and insane speculation was to be had:

Jack Taylor is going pro today, right now this second!

We're top 5?  No way, no one can beat us! We're #1!

We're top 5?  No way, we gots no defenses! We're #200!

We won! WOOOOO

We won! But not by enough BOOOO

Their opponent has 330 students enrolled. It is a theology school as well... Might as well play the local HS Junior Varsity team...

That was just awful to watch. More defense is played on court 2 at the CCRB and that's saying something.

If anyone's curious what a more typical Grinnell game looks like, here's some video. I wish I could find a game where they're playing a better opponent (this team's maybe a little better than Faith Baptist but they aren't D3-quality), but most of the videos on youtube are offense-only highlights and don't really give a feel for what it's like. This one shows how kamikaze their defense is--it's turnover or bust.

They do this for 40 minutes a game, every game, and remember there are no media timeouts, just the ones called by the teams.

You'll notice that whenever the other team scores there's always someone there to get the ball from the net to start the offense. They practice taking the ball from the net, chest high, so they can make the inbounds pass as quickly as possible.

"OK, let's work on our defense. We'll start with the take-the-ball-from-the-basket-after-we-give-up-a-layup drill."

They play William Penn on Sunday, a top-25 NAIA II school and probably the best team they'll play in the regular season. We'll see how that goes.

Grinnel is notorious for their "gimmick offense," and the competition wasn't much.  It's a great achievement, but it shouldn't be seen as an "NCAA record."  There are probably at least 5 high school teams in any major city that could beat either of these teams.  

I followed the link and then followed another one to a video replay.  It really does remind me of Michigan Class B or C HS ball.  138 points is a nice night anywhere, though.  

Congrats to Jack Taylor, but I'm not going to attach a lot of meaning to his "NCAA record."

They call it hardwood hockey.  I watched them play Drake University (D1 in basketball) in Des Moines a number of years ago.  They rotate 5 guys every whistle.  They full court press the entire game, if they can't force a turnover in the press, they concede a layup and go.  The coach's goal is a shot every 10 seconds.  They are the epitome of chuckers.  It is crazy to watch.