Video: Portland State player fakes handshake, steals ball, dunks it.

[BleedGopher]

per ESPN:

In the closing seconds of Portland State’s 83-71 loss to Portland, Vikings player Bryce White faked as though he was shaking the hand of a Portland player in the closing seconds, but instead stole the ball and converted a garbage time dunk.


Go Gophers!!

 

[gopher1more]

That is pretty bush league.

 

[bleedsmaroonandgold]

This is exactly why sports need fighting and enforcers. There should be consequences, and player enforcement would be a great lesson for this idiot.

You have to wonder, how lame is a guy's career when logging an extra 2 points and showing off in front of the 17 fans at that game is worth being such a tool?

 

[Dr.Don]

I think it is funny as hell.

 

[Ski U Mah Gopher]

The amazing thing is, in the ESPN and Facebook comments, people are actually defending the a-hole. They are saying "He played to the whistle."

There was 1.4 seconds left after the dunk. If I were the U of Portland player, I would have inbounded the ball, as hard as I could, at that PSU player's nuts.

 

[Dr.Don]

The amazing thing is, in the ESPN and Facebook comments, people are actually defending the a-hole. They are saying "He played to the whistle."

There was 1.4 seconds left after the dunk. If I were the U of Portland player, I would have inbounded the ball, as hard as I could, at that PSU player's nuts.

What the jerk did is hilarious. What you are suggesting could incite a riot in downtown Brooten, MN.

 

[bleedsmaroonandgold]

The amazing thing is, in the ESPN and Facebook comments, people are actually defending the a-hole. They are saying "He played to the whistle."

There was 1.4 seconds left after the dunk. If I were the U of Portland player, I would have inbounded the ball, as hard as I could, at that PSU player's nuts.

If one of the Portland players had just leveled him, I think justice would have been to call a flagrant, give PSU 2 meaningless free throws, and eject the Portland player for the remaining 1.4 seconds with no supplemental discipline for future games.

 

[golfing18now]

This is exactly why sports need fighting and enforcers. There should be consequences, and player enforcement would be a great lesson for this idiot.

You have to wonder, how lame is a guy's career when logging an extra 2 points and showing off in front of the 17 fans at that game is worth being such a tool?

What he did was idiotic, but this isolated incident and you call for "enforcers" in college basketball?

 

[bleedsmaroonandgold]

What he did was idiotic, but this isolated incident and you call for "enforcers" in college basketball?

It wasn't a serious suggestion. I just would really like for guys that do stupid stuff to have to pay the piper every now and again.

 

[EliteOpinionGuy]

I doubt ANYONE who actually plays basketball has an issue with what happened. Trolling online gives judgers of absolute personal/professional/athletic/moral ethics a chance to weigh in but I know for a fact no one in the game cared, no one in the locker room cared after the game and the player who did it will likely not even bother to again because it simply resulted in two additonal points during a loss. Not a big deal in the grand scheme of things other than offering the morally high out there in the world a chance to scold a 18-22 year old student about "how things need to be done with class"... Pretty funny as I am sure there is something in life worth your attention beyond the last two points scored in a college basketball game. But he the fact he wanted to steal a ball and score prior to the whistle shows how much of an A--Hole he is and that must never changed due to it came straight from the posting on GH!

 

[tikited]

What he did was idiotic, but this isolated incident and you call for "enforcers" in college basketball?

I'd settle for tripping him on the way back up court.

 

[Gopherphile]

I doubt ANYONE who actually plays basketball has an issue with what happened. Trolling online gives judgers of absolute personal/professional/athletic/moral ethics a chance to weigh in but I know for a fact no one in the game cared, no one in the locker room cared after the game and the player who did it will likely not even bother to again because it simply resulted in two additonal points during a loss. Not a big deal in the grand scheme of things other than offering the morally high out there in the world a chance to scold a 18-22 year old student about "how things need to be done with class"... Pretty funny as I am sure there is something in life worth your attention beyond the last two points scored in a college basketball game. But he the fact he wanted to steal a ball and score prior to the whistle shows how much of an A--Hole he is and that must never changed due to it came straight from the posting on GH!

this is not an elite opinion....players and coaches are constantly talking about how teams run up scores and finish games, etc., and i'm sure this got stuck in a few craws.

it is pretty funny, though.

 

[MinneStoa]

This is exactly why sports need fighting and enforcers. There should be consequences, and player enforcement would be a great lesson for this idiot.

You have to wonder, how lame is a guy's career when logging an extra 2 points and showing off in front of the 17 fans at that game is worth being such a tool?

Let's not sell him too short, here. He also recorded a steal.

 

[bleedsmaroonandgold]

The plot thickens. I was listening to one of those weird ESPN talk shows at the gym, and according to them, this was a 14 point game before the bucket which made it a 12 point game to beat the 12.5 spread by half a point

 

[Atl Gopher]

The plot thickens. I was listening to one of those weird ESPN talk shows at the gym, and according to them, this was a 14 point game before the bucket which made it a 12 point game to beat the 12.5 spread by half a point

I watched the ESPN 30 30 segment on the Boston College point shaving scandle this morning. Are you suggesting that kid that stole and dunked the ball knew what he was doing or perhaps the kid that gave up the steal teasd him into doing it in some way to beat the spread? Hmmmmm