Buzzer Beater 16
Lesser spotted buzzer beaters: Half court shot wins a championship
Time was running out in the Irish Colleges Division 1 final. IT Carlow and NUI Galway were all square at 72-72 and overtime loomed until Jimmy Ward said OH HELL NO and unleashed this monster from the halfway line to take the title for Carlow. Check it out. UPDATE: Now in HD via The Courtside […]
Kieron Achara made a buzzer beater for the ages
The Leicester Riders thought their defence of the BBL Cup was going to plan. Kieron Achara had other ideas. Watch the Glasgow Rocks and Great Britain star make a buzzer beater three to send the Scottish team through to the Final Four.
VIDEO: Watch Jamel McLean hit the buzzer beater as Alba Berlin beat the Spurs
Alba Berlin beat the San Antonio Spurs 94-94 tonight. Yes, the Bundesliga side is already playing regular season ball and it’s only a pre-season game for the NBA champions but…who the hell cares? Nobody in Berlin that’s for sure. Watch Jamel McClean hit the big shot to send the O2 World into a frenzy.
Just point out the bounce
A just beyond half-court buzzer beater is impressive enough in its own right but this video is all about the bounce. Nazareth High School JV point guard Zak Wegfahrt put up a heave and got a big time assist from the backboard.
Jaka Vladovic may have hit the buzzer beater of the year
It’s been a rough start to the season for Union Olimpija. The Slovenians were winless through six games in the ABA Liga and looked certain to go 0-7. Then this happened. The form? ugly. The chances that goes in? Close to non-existent. The final score? Union Olimpija wins 78-76 over Buducnost. Talk about team that […]
The cruellest buzzer beater of all
We need to give context here. The Irish Cup involves teams playing over two legs, home and away, in the first round. UCC Demons held a 31 point lead before heading up to UCD Marian for the return leg yesterday. Marian, in blue, managed to move into a 33 point lead on the night, putting […]
Monday Hangover: Žalgiris Kaunas impressive again; Saric’s 2012-13 debut; Goldsberry’s Bizarro Buzzer-Beater of the Week
Damn, BallinEurope watched a lotta sports this past 72 years: Euroleague games, highlights, quarters here and there, a VTB United game, three hours of late-Sunday night NFL football, two sports-related films for upcoming Taking The Charge podcasts … life is ball games … and especially basketball, but unfortunately BiE watches almost nothing live and compresses […]
Montenegro 73, Serbia 71: A star is born as Ivanovic hits buzzer-beater three
How do you quiet one of those notoriously airplane-loud crowds in Belgrade? Eighteen-year-old Nikola Ivanovic, showing poise beyond his years, had the answer to that riddle on Saturday in Team Montenegro’s Eurobasket 2013 qualifying round game against Serbia. To cap the stunning upset victory, Ivanovic calmly launched a near-halfcourt three, struck gold and instantly utterly […]
“What has happened here?” The best Euro-centric buzzer-beaters of 2011-12
In clearing out the virtual desk of 2011-12 basketball season stuff, BallinEurope today presents this compilation of the year’s top Euro-centric buzzer-beaters. The requirements to make the list were two: the primary player in the buzzer-beater most be of European nationality or the shot must take place in a game featuring European teams; and the […]
Incredibile! Back-to-back buzzer-beaters bring Banco Sardegna Sassari into semifinals
What’s that? You haven’t been watching the quarterfinal round of the Italian League’s playoffs? No problem: BallinEurope’s man in Italy, Enrico Cellini has – and he posts today about just what you’ve been missing, namely two cliffhanging, nail-biting finishes that finished off Virtus Bologna. (Ironically and mournfully, BiE notes Bologna’s elimination as dated the same […]
Chester Frazier and the buzzer-beater that didn’t count
A patented writeup on recent events is forthcoming from BallinEurope contributor David Hein soon, but in the meantime, the heinnews sports news bloodhound turned BiE onto this seemingly effortless, three-quarter court buzzer-beater popped by Chester Frazier for Würzburg’s s.Oliver Baskets against Ratiopharm Ulm in yesterday’s semifinal game one … too bad it was, you know, […]
Down goes Goliath: Bonn plays David, slays Bamberg in playoffs opener
Biggest shocker of European domestic-league basketball playoffs thus far? David Hein posts this brief report on German Bundesliga no. 8 seed snapping top dog Brose Baskets Bamberg’s 48-game winning streak in the first match of their quarterfinals meeting – there’s even a quality Luol Deng-like buzzer-beater to boot… Telekom Baskets Bonn squeaked into the German […]