Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for March 16, 2024

61 points each team and time left in the 2nd?!?!? Is this the NBA All-Star Game?

P1: ToBe releases a balloon and hits the overhead light.

Ah, the sound of a dunk…even before it is through the hoop.

Backboard shatter tomorrow?

Budget includes POPped 60 Watters.

P4, Inma says Marty, I’m against war.

There is no “9-minute mark” in HS basketball.

P3 – Whigham must have flunked “Perspective” in Art class. That player is either a “little person” or sixth-grader.

Shoot, I thought we were in Lob City. I’m gonna miss my bus.

Honey, I shrunk the power forward

POP + DUNK = EES

How’s Inma’s state championship match going?

Google Jalen Green’s recent dunk over Anfernee Simons of Portland. Ferocious.

P1- … where there’s nothing more satisfying than an alien probe.

P2- Send-it in Jerome, err Hot Rod!

P3- The Vape Sales Kid was a friend of mine

The Vape Sales Kid was a friend of mine

Gil drink whiskey, Beth drink the wine

Gil drink whiskey, Beth drink the winej

P 4: “…and Milford is being whistled for a technical foul for hanging on the rim…”

is marty using his x ray vision to see if rod has any vape on him

tobes head is almost touching the ceiling but rod raises the ceiling 10 feet when he wants to dunk MAGIC

rod your dunk doesn’t count when the valley high players are on the bench for a timeout

Once again, is HB or RW the bigger dunce here :

HB—-“These kids are going to war!” over a dunk ???? I’m thinking we need something more like the melee at end of USC-LSU women’s basketball game to qualify as “war”.

RW —-Dr. J or MJ in their prime could not dunk straight at basket and hang in the air long enough to do a 180 and hang(illegally) on the rim. Then again, why would they ?

At least we don’t have the usual Saturday “cliffhanger”. Still waiting to se if Gilpa did the nasty with Beth from last Saturday.

Far as I can tell, this is the first Milford boys basketball playoff game since a first-round loss to the Hamilton HS Big Blue, 82-81, way back in 2013. (The “playdowns” stopped being a thing in the mid-2000s, apparently.)

So both teams agreed before the game, “Nobody plays defense, so nobody gets hurt!”

Prediction: Final score Milford 147…VT 146 thanks to a Hail Mary TD at the end.

P-4: An official TO, so his Daddy can get a ladder and help him down.

Game decided by the first foul call for hanging on the rim with 3 seconds left. (Even though Rod did it 20 times earlier in the game). He can dunk now.

Since when is “Pop!” a basketball sound?

Wait, ignoring the fact that it’s impossible to have a 9-minute mark in HS ball, that would mean there was still 9 minutes left IN THE HALF. At this rate, both teams will break 80 points by halftime. Have we ever seen a 157-154 high school game?

In P2, that’s not a sound, that is Gilbot-9000 yelling out helpful instructions to the player who’s about to dunk. Something the real Gil would probably do. And speaking of doing, what you should be doing is heading over to Mopped Up Thorp.

https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.Com/2024/03/16/hang-time/

Wait, we’re in Lob City?

Get up! / Rod’s gonna move his feet / Get down! / Fistpump Man’s gonna leave his seat / You gotta lose your mind in Milford Lob City

P3: Marty having a 60s flashback

Happy Saint Patrick’s day from Mopped Up Thorp.

https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.Com/2024/03/17/st-pattys-day-highlights/

No where in high school basketball do they play 20 minute halves.